Democratic Convention Kicks Off Today
Posted by Michelle Moquin on September 4th, 2012
Good morning!
I HOPE everyone had a good long weekend and you heeded my advice and took the day off.
I woke up this morning and in still my sleepy state the Democratic convention was on my mind. Wha’at? Okay, there has to be something slightly wrong with me waking up and the first thing on my mind is politics. Oh…the ooze of it just doesn’t stop these days. If you had talked to me 5 years ago, waking up with politics on my mind, would’ve made me think I was still sleeping and having a nightmare. But today it makes me smile. Well…sort of.
And then as I do every morning, I slip out of bed, shimmy into something cozy, grab my computer and head to the kitchen where the sun graces a small round table, and I plop myself down to read. The headline of the Huff Po is: RYAN GOES REVISIONIST: I WASN’T BLAMING OBAMA FOR GM PLANT CLOSURE
Oh yes, the ol, “I didn’t say that, I didn’t mean that” lie. Unfortunately for Ryan, his tossing of word salads with fact-free dressing has caught up with him. His new name? Lyin’ Ryan. Perfect since he is a LSOS member.
You know what I am sick of is slippery writing. Writing that tries to make it easy for candidates to come back and lie, saying that what was said was not what was said or meant. It allows someone to come back and lie, and say that they meant to say this…blah blah blah, if necessary.
If you are so concerned about getting it right…if you are so worried that people will not misconstrue what you are saying…if you are so caring about getting your clear message out, then articulate yourself in a way that does that, or fire your speech writer, because he is doing a lousy job of writing your speech and doing just that. And guess what? With a clear intentional message you won’t have to come back and CYA (cover your ass) with more lies.
But of course that is not the intention of many of the candidates and people in office, and most especially the republican candidates etc., who will stoop to unknown depths to make sure that this November the White House is white washed. No, they build their speeches peppered with lies and slippery sentences, HOPEing and banking on that their listeners will hear what they intend for them to hear: Lies as truths.
Their motto is let’s just blame those not responsible and lie about all we can get away with. And hey, if someone calls them on it, well then, this is what you say to CYA. A good political speech writer knows this and carefully concocts speeches this way. I call it slippery writing because the way it is written allows you to slip your way to safety if it works, or slip your way into CYA with more lies.
Unfortunately for Ryan, he got busted…so you know which way he is slipping.
Enough about Ryan. I just realized Obama is speaking right now. Here it is live:
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Democratic Convention Kicks Off In Charlotte
By CALVIN WOODWARD AND JULIE PACE, ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four years later Democrats have gathered again, this time in support of a president who carries the power and the burden of incumbency, both in evidence as the opening gavel is struck at the Democratic National Convention.
President Barack Obama demonstrated the power Monday in a convention-eve visit to hurricane-stricken lands in Louisiana, offering aid and empathy. His burden is a ragged economy that is at the core of the hotly competitive contest with Republican Mitt Romney.
Michelle Obama’s speech Tuesday night is an early highlight of a three-day schedule that has drawn thousands of delegates to a state Obama narrowly carried in 2008. Although Obama no longer is the fresh-faced newbie who leveraged a short Senate career into an audacious run for the nation’s highest office, he still can excite partisans, and Democrats were counting on massive numbers to pack a stadium for his speech later in the week.
If hurricanes have no politics, the aftermath does. Obama’s visit to stricken St. John the Baptist Parish outside New Orleans after a spirited Labor Day rally in battleground Ohio demonstrated, if in muted form, the partisan divide that cleaves the presidential campaign.
Obama emphasized the government’s determination to lend a strong helping hand. Romney focused on neighbor helping neighbor in his visit days earlier, even though both support a mix of emergency aid from the taxpayer and volunteerism in response to natural disasters.
“We’re here to help,” Obama told residents during a brief tour Monday, going from lawn to lawn in a neighborhood of brick homes and front yards loaded with soggy but orderly piles of debris, the floodwaters receded. He told another family of the steps officials were taking to address the damage, adding, “I promise you that now that I’ve been here, they’re going to make sure that they do it right.”
On convention eve, Democrats released a party platform for ratification Tuesday that echoes Obama’s call for higher taxes on the wealthy and reflects his shift on gay marriage by supporting it explicitly.
In a nod to dissenters on gay marriage, the platform expresses support for “the freedom of churches and religious entities to decide how to administer marriage as a religious sacrament without government interference.”
As with the deeply conservative Republican platform, not all of which Romney endorses, nothing binds Obama to the specifics of the party’s manifesto.
The president rallies in Virginia on Tuesday before joining the convention a day later. With flourishes but no suspense, Democrats will march through the roll call of states renominating Obama for president and Joe Biden for vice president on Wednesday.
That’s also when the convention hears from Bill Clinton, whose 1990s presidency is being trumpeted by Democrats as the last great period of economic growth and balanced budgets – a further redemption of sorts, at least from his party, for a leader who survived impeachment over sexual scandal.
In a USA Today interview, Obama accused Republicans of building their campaign around a “fictional Barack Obama” by wholly misrepresenting his positions and words. He singled out Romney’s claim, widely debunked, that the Obama administration stripped a work requirement out of federal welfare laws.
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Readers: I can’t wait to hear Michelle Obama speak tonight! Blog me.
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September 4th, 2012 at 9:55 am
Would my continuation of the chase be considered a life long purpose?
September 4th, 2012 at 10:57 am
It is unknown whether marine organisms that migrate through or near Japanese waters to locations where they might subsequently be harvested by U.S. fishermen (possibly some albacore tuna or salmon in the North Pacific) might have been exposed to radiation in or near Japanese waters, or might have consumed prey that had accumulated radioactive contaminants.”
What do the Aliens say to this? Howie, what is your opinion?
Aymuni
September 4th, 2012 at 11:08 am
I called twice this morning, once while still aboard the plane that brought me, and once while checking for my baggage.
Since I got no answer. I decided to try your blog. Yes, I am here again and yes, I would love to see you again. I realize it is short notice. But in my defense I did tell you I could get this trip.
Brunch, lunch, dinner, after dinner drink, I’m easy. When it comes to getting next to you, I’m REAL easy! Will tell you more when we talk. Area code is still 804.
Just Another Chaser I Guess?(JACIG)
September 4th, 2012 at 11:08 am
Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a good Labor Day holiday. There is a lot to get to, so here’s what we have for you today:
‘The Democratic Party is not finished in the South’ by John Gizzi.
CHARLOTTE, N.C.– ‘With few prognosticators or even partisan Democrats betting on a strong showing in the South for Barack Obama this fall, two key black Democratic figures told Human Events last week that a changing population and a fresh approach to economic issues will, sooner rather than later, make the Democratic Party very competitive in the South once again.’
Romney picks up 5 point convention bump by John Hayward. “The first major polling firm to measure the polling “bounce” from the Republican National Convention is Rasmussen, which reports that Mitt Romney picked up five points and is now leading President Obama, 47-44.”
Forward back across the bridge to the 21st Century by Erick Erickson. “Bill Clinton promised a Bridge to the 21st Century when he campaigned in 1992. Now more than a decade across that bridge, Barack Obama is dependent on a man his campaign painted as racist to claim that Barack Obama will go forward, back into the twentieth century, and start using Bill Clinton’s economic policies he thus far hasn’t used. Or something like that.”
John Gizzi will be in Charlotte all week, so stay tuned to Human Events for complete coverage of the Democratic National Convention.
Onward and upward,
-Adam
September 4th, 2012 at 11:26 am
If a group of national legislators plotted to bring the United States government to a stand still to prevent the incoming white president from getting re elected they would be tried as traitors.
But since the president was black. The media has basically ignored the implications of a private dinner of House Republicans on inauguration day in 2009 in which they plotted to bring the country to economic disaster to prevent President Obama from being able to claim he got the country out of the economic mess Bush left he country in.
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Democrats condemn GOP’s plot to obstruct Obama as ‘appalling and sad’
Roger Draper book details how in 2009 senior Republican figures planned a campaign to bring Washington to a standstill
Democrats have rounded on revelations about a private dinner of House Republicans on inauguration day in 2009 in which they plotted a campaign of obstruction against newly installed president Barack Obama.
During a lengthy discussion, the senior GOP members worked out a plan to repeatedly block Obama over the coming four years to try to ensure he would not be re-elected.
The disclosures – described as “appalling and sad” by Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod – undermine Republican claims that the president alone is to blame for the partisan deadlock in Washington.
A detailed account of who was present at the dinner on that January 20 night and the plan they worked out to bring down Obama is provided by Robert Draper in ‘Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the US House of Representatives’, published this week.
In his book, Draper opens with the heady atmosphere in Washington on the days running up to the inauguration and the day itself, which attracted 1.8 million to the mall to witness Obama being sworn in as America’s first black president.
Those numbers contributed to a growing sense of unease among Republicans as much the defeat in the White House race the previous November. The 15 Republicans were in a sombre mood as they gathered at the Caucus Room in Washington, an upscale restaurant where a New York strip steak costs $51.
Attending the dinner were House members Eric Cantor, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra, Dan Lungren, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and Pete Sessions. From the Senate were Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, Jim DeMint, John Ensign and Jon Kyl. Others present were former House Speaker and future – and failed – presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who organised the dinner and sent out the invitations.
The dinner table was set in a square at Luntz’s request so everyone could see one another and talk freely. The session lasted four hours and by the end the sombre mood had lifted: they had conceived a plan. They would take back the House in November 2010, which they did, and use it as a spear to mortally wound Obama in 2011 and take back the Senate and White House in 2012, Draper writes.
“If you act like you’re the minority, you’re going to stay in the minority,” said Keven McCarthy, quoted by Draper. “We’ve gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign.”
The Republicans have done that, bringing Washington to a near standstill several times during Obama’s first term over debt and other issues.
On the more immediate future, they discussed targets such as Charlie Rangel, chairman of the House ways and means committee, who Gingrich said was vulnerable over his personal taxes. They would also target Treasury secretary Tim Geithner, demonstrate united and unyielding opposition to the president’s economic policies, and release negative ads against vulnerable Democratic members of Congress.
Draper quotes Gingrich at the end of the meal: “You will remember this day. You’ll remember this as the day the seeds of 2012 were sown.”
Axelrod, who is based at Obama’s re-election campaign headquarters in Chicago, condemned the revelation as “sad, appalling but not terribly surprising”.
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How is economic terror plotted and carried out by home grown terrorist any different from that by outsiders? The effect upon the people of the United States of America is the same.
September 4th, 2012 at 12:40 pm
Journalists really need to do their job. Unbelievable how Romney hasn’t been forced to give up any real policy details yet. Has gone without giving up a standard amount of tax returns.
Ever since the press dropped the ball and allowed Bush to get us into a war with no real case I’ve sorta given up. I like MSNBC because they have some good liberal commentary but the GOP counters that by hardly giving them any interviews and sticking to Fox. CNN tries to be “fair” by forcing false equivalences.
September 4th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
Jeesh! Wouldn’t it have made it easier for the media to just report the truth that raw moneys policies will ruin the country financially and sink his campaign as soon as he won the primary season?
They could have all just been kick’n it and chillax’n for weeks now instead of dreaming up ways from help the GOP get their bogus message out.
September 4th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
The media work for our Corporate OverLords, not for the people. Sad for those who want to get into media in the first place….. Now, just a cushy job – say whatever you are told to say and/or write.
September 4th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Rachel Maddow reported last night that Romney informed reporters yesterday at 9:30 am not to cover him for the day as he wasn’t making any appearances – so they did. An hour and a half later, he got back to them and said cancel that, he was on for the day. They rushed out to his New Hampshire compound to find him pulling away in his boat for the day.
No wonder the journalists are angry at the push-pull. They had nothing to report other than photographs of him driving his boat. She also reported that every campaign takes advantage of the excitement they received at the convention and the following week is loaded with more campaigning stops. Romney has informed them he has no events scheduled this week.
You see – for Romney, he turned up at the convention and that was enough. He’ll now take the week off and let his billionaire donors unleash negative ads. Romney is better off retiring to his lakeside compound and enjoying his jet ski or his new house in La Jolla than managing the USA.
September 4th, 2012 at 3:26 pm
Michelle sure wish I had a little of your action. Care to share? Where are you finding all these rich boy toys?
I live in the Bay Area. I have been known to turn a few heads when I enter a room. I have a bachelor’s degree in accounting. I am 31, never married, but was in a 8 year relationship that ended 4 months ago.
He was just not what I wanted to spend the rest of my life with so I broke it off. It has been difficult to get back in the dating arena. The pickings seem to be slim.
The ones that want me, I wouldn’t recommend to my worst enemy (well, maybe to my worst), but certainly not to any other woman.
The ones that I want…..well frankly, I haven’t found any. That’s my point. Michelle, give a girl a clue. Where are you finding these gems?
Selene
September 4th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Selene
I suspect they are finding her.
Cricket
September 4th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
I recently read an article in Huff Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-kornbluth/a-jury-said-jeffrey-macdo_b_1852292.html?ir=Media
Titled: A Jury Said Jeffrey MacDonald Killed His Wife and Kids. So Did ’60 Minutes’ and a Bestseller. 40 Years Later, Errol Morris Counters With 500 Pages of Awkward Questions.
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I am not here to debate the guilt or innocence of Cpt Jeffrey MacDonald. I am here to point out the hypocrisy of the white boy when it comes to basic fairness.
Here the press gives a white man convicted under basically the same circumstances as O.J. so much more deference and the benefit of the doubt.
Let’s start with this statement – The Army investigators did not find those hippies. Not that they were hard to find. It was more that the investigators really didn’t look for them. They had a better suspect: the husband and father.”
If we change a few words we could wonder why O.J. didn’t get a similar objection. – The LAPD investigators did not find those other suspects. Not that they were hard to find. It was more that the investigators really didn’t look for them. They had a better suspect: the husband.
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I quote Huff Post again. – “In short, you know whatever you know about this case because of a media narrative. You don’t know the facts. You know the story.”
I defy anyone to prove that what they know about the O.J. case is any different.
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Again as Huff Post says. – It is “the prison of belief.” How, Morris asks, do you escape from a story that pretty much everybody believes? That is Jeffrey MacDonald’s prison. The Army investigators made mistakes, the police and prosecutors followed their lead, and then Joe McGinniss — “a sloppy journalist who confabulated, lied, and betrayed while ostensibly telling a story about a man who confabulated, lied, and betrayed” — hammered the nails in.
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Yes, it is “the prison of belief.” But the bars in O.J.’s case are the bars of racism. The LAPD investigators made mistakes, the police and prosecutors followed their lead, and then NUMEROUS WHITE BOYS- “racist journalists who confabulated, lied, and betrayed while ostensibly telling a story about a man who confabulated, lied, and betrayed” — hammered the nails in.
This is exactly what happened to O.J. except he is still in the prison of racism because his bars continue to prevent him from ever getting a just look at the railroad job the white boy has given him.
In O.J.’s case the LAPD developed a theory of the murder and set out to prove it. If lies, planting evidence, hiding exculpatory testimony, etc furthered their theory, the better. They did it.
Others looking at the behavior of the LAPD knew they were lying but since it was to convict a black man white america knew was guilty, they feigned ignorance of the police misconduct.
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Finally if a white man is accused of: “Yet every day the evidence mounted. Concrete physical evidence; unambiguous, clear. It could not be, yet it was. He could not have, yet he did.
The evidence demonstrated that Jeffrey MacDonald, this gracious, charming, affable man, had fractured the skull of his pregnant wife with a club; had broken both of her arms with a club; had stabbed her sixteen times in the neck and chest with a knife;
had shattered the skull of his five-year-old daughter with a club; had stabbed her in the throat eight to ten times with a knife; had hit her again so hard with the club that he’d shattered an entire side of her face, leaving a piece of cheekbone protruding through the skin;
and then, with full awareness of what he was doing, had walked into the bedroom of his two-year-old daughter and, laying her across his lap, had stabbed her twelve times in the back with a knife and four times in the chest and once—in the neck and then, again, fifteen times in the chest with an icepick.”
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can get multiple opportunities to tell his story. Why can’t a black man accused of stabbing two white adults get even a portion of the same?
To you white america, I’m just asking.
Robert, rt
September 4th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
How the CEO of a Giant Corporation helped save the Economy by Doing the Unthinkable . . . Raising Wages.
In 1914, a business executive named Henry Ford did a startling thing: He announced that he was going to more than double the wages he was paying his employees, from $2.34 to $5 a day — the equivalent of $120 a day in today’s money.
The country was as shocked by this as it would be today.
A powerful company voluntarily sharing some of its profits with its workers and paying them more than it absolutely had to? Had Henry Ford gone mad? Didn’t he understand that the only goal of a business was to make money?
Didn’t he realize that, as a successful business executive, he was entitled to make as much money as he could possibly make — the financial health of his employees being nobody’s business but their own? Didn’t he understand that smart executives pay their employees no more than “market rates” because the executive’s job is to “create shareholder value,” everyone in our economy gets what they deserve, and the financial well-being of employees is not something that business owners or bosses or shareholders should be concerned with?
Yes, Henry Ford understood all that.
The story you hear frequently about why Henry Ford made this decision was that he wanted to allow his workers to be able to afford to buy his cars. The wage increase certainly made the cars (and many other products) more affordable for Ford employees.
IT WORKED. Thousands of people immediately lined up to get jobs at Ford. Employee turnover plummeted, and recruiting and training costs dropped. The new wages allowed Ford employees to live middle-class lives, instead of being poor. And it presumably made Ford, Ford’s senior executives, and Ford’s shareholders even more proud of what they had created.
In short, instead of viewing “shareholders” and “customers” as the only two corporate constituencies that matter, Ford introduced the idea that great companies should also serve a third constituency: Employees.
And because one company’s employees are another company’s customers, Ford’s decision helped spread the country’s wealth to more citizens and expand the purchasing power of the country as a whole. And, in so doing, it helped the overall economy.
Specifically, Ford’s unprecedented move also helped usher in an age in which the middle class became the driving force in the American economy, turbo-charging the nation’s economic growth right up through the early 1980s, when relative middle class wages began to decline.
Henry Ford’s story is highly relevant today.
Why? Because we are facing a very similar economic problem as the country did in the early 20th century. A glut of labor was allowing companies to pay a pittance for a day’s work, leaving most of their dedicated employees destitute. Business owners and executives (the equivalent of today’s 1%) did fine, but most workers did not. And this lack of spending power in the middle class crimped overall economic growth.
If we want to fix today’s ailing U.S. economy, we need many of our large corporations to do exactly what Henry Ford voluntarily did — Share more of their vast wealth with employees.
Perhaps some CEO’s will learn a lesson from Henry Ford and help the economy by paying higher wages to their disposable em[ployees. It isn’t ‘Trickle Dpwn’ it is just fair, and it helps the economy if your employees can afford to purchase the products manufactured.
HOWIE
September 4th, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Hi everybody.
I’m excited about FLOTUS speaking tonight too! I decided to rewatch Mrs. Obama’s speech from the DNC in 08, in preparation.
Here’s the link.
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/conventions/videos/20080825_OBAMA_SPEECH.html
Love her! <3
(I'm also looking forward to seeing what she will be wearing. Call me shallow, it's a girl thing.)
*four more years*
/SB
September 4th, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Robert,RT
You are right Robert, again. How can one not recognize everything you bring to the table? You show us something we as a people should be ashamed of. Time after time. Racism goes around the world but it is so ingrained in US history and in its psyche. Some white people can’t / won’t / aren’t able / to see what’s always been there, it’s sad.
Is there a solution? How do we reverse racism? Can we as people, ever?
I don’t see people being that compassionate to each other even within their own races. I think the hate grows out of hate and racists are haters. I think they must really hate themselves deep down inside.
But how is racism overcome? How is justice best served? Do you have any answers?
The concept of equality, in general, seems overwhelmingly impossible as long as someone wants to come out on top.
I’m sorry to say but I do question if human beings have common sense to overcome racism. I would like to be more optimistic about human growth but I don’t see it.
Lily
September 4th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Glad to see you back Howie. You always have a unique grasp for getting to the point.
September 4th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
I think both political parties suck. I am a white dude. I’m voting for Obama only because he’s black. Does that make me a racist?
September 4th, 2012 at 8:08 pm
Wow! Michelle was wonderful! What a motivating speech! Lots of women and tears I noticed, me included.
I thought she looked fantastic. I’m glad she went sleeveless too. I think it makes her look stronger. The dress was simple but classy and I need to find that nail polish!
What a wonderful example of FLOTUS for the world to see. She’s beautiful.
/SB
September 4th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Did you hear greta van susteren? Her only critique was how come the word god was only mentioned once this time as opposed to being mentioned 3 times in the last DNC speech.
Incredible that the Right attempts to equate the number of times the word god is mentioned with the morality of the party. Just goes to show you which party is about the bullshit of talking about how moral they are rather that actions that show what moral tenor.
So good ole greta brought in people in to discuss why the word god wasn’t mentioned more often.
Who are the people that accept that mentioning god is more important than actually acting as a person of caring for their fellow man.
September 4th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Hafa adai: Yes they are stealing copper on Guam too.
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Two suspects who allegedly stole about $350,000 of copper wire from their employer have been indicted in federal court, sparking one of the largest metal theft cases in the history of Guam.
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That is my answer to all of you sending me emails about the value of copper of island.
Peter
September 4th, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Sandra L. Brown, MA and Dr. Liane Leedom, MD, authors in the field of
psychopathy are writing a book on women who love psychopaths and are seeking women willing to anonymously tell their stories, answer a survey of questions about the relationship dynamics, and be willing to take a temperament assessment.
If you have been in a relationship (preferably with a diagnosed anti-social, sociopath, psychopath or one with psychopathic tendencies) please contact us at: HowToSpot(at)yahoo.com.
Materials will be sent to you. Thank you.
September 4th, 2012 at 9:33 pm
Our values are reflected in our policies. So we don’t have to mention god we do God’s work. By the definition that God regardless of what personal name we call Him or Her, expects tp do unto others as we wish to be done unto us.
That’s my best biblical quote.
Ito
September 4th, 2012 at 9:38 pm
When did journalists start prefacing every question with “There are those that say…”? How about, “My research shows that you played fast and loose with the truth”? Who are these people who are saying everything?
September 4th, 2012 at 9:40 pm
Ryan will lie, then lie that he said it and then lie about it again, just so you only hear another lie. Karl Rove said, if you lie enough someone will believe you, Ryan, so Ryan just lies.
September 4th, 2012 at 9:42 pm
Anybody being honest, would have to say this was way better than any thing the republicans did.
The only way Romney stays even with this president is because the racist are saying “anybody but the black man.”
Kelly
September 4th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
We need to learn from history:
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”
A. Hitler
September 4th, 2012 at 9:45 pm
I would love to hear the truth from the Replican candidates for once. If your plan for our country is so great then tell us all that your plan will relieve debt and lower unemployment down to what it was before the crash, and tell us that it will happen in the same time our current president has had, then I’ll consider voting for you.
September 4th, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Michelle, am I on some kind of blacklist??? I never swear or attack anyone who posts here. I try to post at least once a day & am getting tired of this.
Steve
September 4th, 2012 at 9:58 pm
My god did you hear the white woman pundit who replied when asked what she thought about Ted Kennedy’s video showing Mitt Romney flip flopping on the issue of a woman’s right to choose say that she found it difficult to believe that they picked a man that ran off and let a woman drown in his car to champion women’s rights.
The silence was deafening until Pierce Morgan said that was below the belt. It just goes to show that the level of vitriol from republican knows no bounds.
Carol
September 4th, 2012 at 9:58 pm
We all get black listed, Sometimes if I just change the first word it goes through, it makes no sense.
September 4th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
The ‘art’ of telling a lie is to not get caught telling the lie, and that is where Ryan and Romney fail. They are the ‘transparent’ ones that continue to try to convince America that they, Ryan and Romney are worth putting into one of the highest offices in the Free World; transparent in that their lies are so easy to prove.
Can you imagine Ryan or Romney lying to MR. Putin, or some other world leader; or telling their lies to Congress like Bush jr did; or telling the American people that they are for human rights and freedom..?
Leslie
Shouldn’t we demand that our leaders be at least good at lying when they obviously have no talent in any other department?
September 4th, 2012 at 10:12 pm
The republicans are very good liars. But Romney and Ryan know that the people who support them don’t care who they are as long as they are white. So they don’t have to have a platform or morals, or even pretend to tell the truth.
All he has to be is not the black man. As long as the person they are running against is who their electorate is voting against regardless of who his opponent is, what do they care what they say?
Clark
September 4th, 2012 at 11:09 pm
The fact that Ryan blatantly lied at the RNC isn’t as important as the fact that the media and most of the white world permits it.
Those two and the rest of the Right know lying on and about Obama can continue because they know that truth is completely irrelevant to their base.
The simple fact is they’re slogan is “anybody but Obama.”
September 4th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Michelle Obama made me tear up, and that takes something. Credible, intelligent, educated, fit, hot, this woman will go down in history. Unlike those blow up doll wives the old guys pull out. Really, there is only so much that Botox can do!!!
Kate
September 5th, 2012 at 7:24 am
Katherine B. I felt the same way. It is a shame that she will be judged more for the color of her skin than the strength of her character.
Let’s get out there and make sure that the bigots have to contend with this First Lady 4 more years.
Sophie
September 5th, 2012 at 7:31 am
Drug-Free Relief for COPD
Breathe in. Breathe out.
Get out of bed.
Take a walk around the block.
These three things may seem oh-so-simple to do, but if you suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it’s pretty darn tough to do them without getting winded and/or feeling weak.
While you can take drugs to ease your symptoms, they may not do enough.
You might still find yourself wheezing and/or unable to get around as easily as you once did.
But there’s good news. A certain kind of ancient Chinese medicine may help you breath better and move around more, according to a new Japanese study.
A DOSE OF EASTERN MEDICINE
Want to know which kind of ancient Chinese medicine was studied? It was good old acupuncture, which is, of course, the practice of inserting needles into the skin at different points along the body.
To test whether acupuncture is effective, scientists often compare it with “sham” acupuncture, which uses blunt-ended needles made to look exactly like real needles, but which telescope back into place without penetrating the skin. And that’s how the researchers tested the effectiveness of acupuncture on COPD in this study.
Results:
COPD patients receiving real acupuncture, rather than sham, experienced startling improvements.
By the end of the three-month study, their level of breathlessness was more than cut in half, and they increased their average walking distance by nearly 20%.
In contrast, patients receiving sham acupuncture had no significant changes in either measurement. It’s important to note that while the patients in the study were receiving either real or sham acupuncture, they continued taking whatever COPD medications they were on.
Researchers concluded that real acupuncture probably eased breathing for COPD patients by relaxing muscles around the rib cage, which in turn allowed patients to exert themselves more and walk farther.
Talk about a win-win situation, since being able to exercise more will, in turn, improve lung function even further!
FIND AN ACUPUNCTURIST NEAR YOU
Len Horovitz, MD, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, told me that he encourages his COPD patients to try acupuncture as long as they don’t abandon their conventional medications.
Since each patient might experience a different level of COPD relief with acupuncture, he explained, he wouldn’t want to remove the “safety net” of drugs that has helped them previously.
If acupuncture were to continue to work well in the long term, then, in theory, COPD patients might be able to either reduce or eliminate their medications, said Dr. Horovitz, but he has yet to treat such a person.
If you’re interested in trying acupuncture to treat COPD, Charles Kim, MD, a physiatrist and medical acupuncturist practicing in New York City, suggested checking out the site of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (http://www.nccaom.org/), which can help match you with a qualified practitioner if you enter your state and zip code. You can also contact your local hospital or medical center.
The cost of acupuncture varies widely—topping off at around $250 to $300 per session, Dr. Kim said—depending on your location and whether you choose individual or group treatments. Medicare and most health insurers don’t cover acupuncture for COPD, said Dr. Kim, but check your plan to find out.
Sources:
Len Horovitz, MD, pulmonary specialist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City.
Charles Kim, MD, physiastrist certified in medical acupuncture in private practice in New York City.
September 5th, 2012 at 7:43 am
Talk about your bias and inflammatory reporting. The Huff Post’s headline this morning was – VICIOUS: DEMS BLISTERING AGAINST ROMNEY
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At least what the Dems said was true. But the lies the Republicans used against the Dems didn’t receive any such condemnation by the Huff or any other major news media outlet.
I guess it is okay for the white boy to dis the black man.
Jackie
September 5th, 2012 at 8:06 am
About time the dems got feisty! Keep it up for the next couple of months please. Those that vote by “going through the motions” need to be shaken from their slumber.
Romney/Ryan are too much of a threat to the middle class to let slide with their lies and dirty tricks.
September 5th, 2012 at 8:08 am
BOTTOM LINE:
mitts swiss and cayman bank accounts are fair game and have substance.
and the empty chair stunt was worthless
September 5th, 2012 at 8:11 am
¡Vamos Obama!
Recuerde votar el 6 de noviembre
September 5th, 2012 at 8:33 am
Talk about “Vicious” Did you see the video that racist Chuck Norris has out. In it he “warns” that if President Obama is reelected for a second term in November, U.S. citizens face “1,000 years of darkness.”
Now, folks that’s “vicious.” If a black man gets back into the White House for 4 more years, then the white man will suffer for 1,000 years.
Incredible, the black man will cause 250 years of darkness for the white man for every year he spends in the White House.
One thing I will say though is that the white boy never misses a chance to use racism to make a buck. Did you notice that in that video warning the white boy about the dire threat Obama poses to the country he took time out to advertise and promote his work-out tutorials and promotional appearances for “The Expendables 2?”
I guess he couldn’t let a little thing like his warning of a “growing concern” that the America we know can be lost forever if Obama is reelected, stand in the way of his making a little money on the side.
Gotta love the greed of those republicans.
Wilma
September 5th, 2012 at 8:54 am
I get it Chuck, if Obama is re elected for 4 more years, we will have at least 4 more years of a dark man as President.
But are you implying that you are afraid that if this black man gets to show the country how effective an OTW can be at President that the country will only elect OTWs for the next 1,000 years. Ergo 1,000 years of darkness?
September 5th, 2012 at 9:15 am
Let me get this right… they want the Christians to vote for the Mormon because voting for the Christian will bring 1,000 years of darkness?
September 5th, 2012 at 9:16 am
Chuck speaks the truth when it comes to Obama, The LIAR that he is!!!!!!!