FEEEELL the love going on here!
Posted on 09/05/2012 2:29:12 PM PDT by matt04
Idiots! Pawns!
Talk about a forced smile.
I am sorry, but this picture just makes me wonder if BJ let one go. Obama looks like he is smelling something bad and BJ has a smirk.
yeah, I heard that, what the hell is that about. What an idiot. I had two when pregnant for c-sections as did my daughter, invasive?? And the fools all applaud her, they didn’t even hear the stupidity she spewed.
I know, can’t wait to hear him. She called him out during her ‘speech’. She is a nut!
The butt-ugly squad!
yes, I saw it too, like she was drugged or something...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/05/transcript-bill-clinton-speech-at-dnc/
CLINTON SAYS THERE ARE 3 MILLION UNFILLED JOBS!!!!!!!
HEADLINES, LETS SMASH THAT ONE OUT OF THE PARK.
I didn’t watch the convention, didn’t need to be nauseous. I take care of my mother and saw bits on her tv when I go downstairs by her...just happened to see the fluck with the weird eyelid thing going on. It just started re-running on Fox so I’m watching Friends instead like I did last night.
Those speeches by Fluke and Warren were truly horrible. Hard to believe that in this day and age these man-hating, fire-breathing, hateful femi-nazis are still considered ready for prime-time. Then when Warren stood there and told everyone the country is “rigged” against them, I got sick to my stomach. That pessimism was a marked contrast to not only the RNC but even how the DNC started out yesterday. If the country’s rigged against anyone, it’s against those honest people who are not willing to lie and say they’re part of an oppressed minority group just to get ahead in their job.
“Democrats have a problem with white middle-class voters,” added Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, which has studied that electorate in depth. “Those voters are very disappointed and very critical of Obama as president.”
Some convention-goers say more effort is needed.
“I believe the president’s losing support among the blue-collar workers. A lot of people feel he promised a lot, and they’re angry,” said Bob Miller, an electrician from Hatfield, Pa.
Many people Miller knows were already sympathetic to Republican social positions – opposition to strict gun control, for instance – but backed Obama in 2008 because of his message of economic hope.
Obama rewrote recent political history that year. Until the late 1970s, blue-collar whites were usually strong Democrats. They tended to be labor union members, often with ethnic urban roots, and came from families that had voted for Democratic presidential candidates for generations.
A variety of factors pushed them away. Democrats became champions of affirmative action, which many whites thought threatened their jobs and promotions. Cultural conservatives were often uncomfortable with the party’s pledge of easier access to abortion, gun control, and gay rights.
Democrats also seemed willing to keep tax rates up and to funnel dollars to the less wealthy, dollars that workers felt were often going to irresponsible people who were not working.
President Ronald Reagan successfully tapped this vein, creating an army of “Reagan Democrats,” a term that still lingers. Democrats occasionally won them back in tough economic times. In 2008, Republicans struggled to only a 46 percent to 44 percent edge, according to Pew.
This year, the Republican advantage has returned. A Pew survey released Aug. 23 found white working-class voters this year preferring Republicans 52 percent to 40 percent.
The gain among whites crosses many lines. Democrats gained a big lead among whites with family incomes below $30,000 in 2008. Today, that lead is gone.
Whites earning between $30,000 and $74,999, generally considered the working middle class, had split between the two parties four years ago. Republicans now have a 17 percentage point advantage.
The Democrats’ answer is that the convention is putting strong emphasis on economic security for the middle class and portraying Republicans as hopelessly out of touch. “We’re going to have an honest conversation about where we were in 2008,” said Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt. “We’ve made progress.”
Democrats are reminding delegates how Obama pushed for the auto industry bailout, while Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was opposed. They’re telling viewers how Obama would maintain current income tax rates for people earning less than $250,000. Romney would continue current, lower rates for everyone, including the wealthy.
Dave Green is ready to spread the word. He’s president of United Auto Workers Local 1714 in Ohio, a crucial state where votes of his 1,500 members could help decide the election. The Lordstown, Ohio, Chevy plant, for years a popular presidential campaign stop, is running three shifts, up from one about four years ago.
Obama carried Ohio in 2008, but in 2010, Ohioans turned against Democrats and elected a conservative Republican governor and U.S. senator.
“A lot of people just thought the economy didn’t get good enough fast enough,” Green said. “And a lot still vote single issue, against gays, for God and for guns.”
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/09/05/3507267/dems-struggle-with-white-working.html#storylink=cpy
Posted: Thursday, Sep. 06, 2012
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Protesters escorted by police marched from uptown Charlotte’s Marshall Park Wednesday night as the Democratic National Convention continued a few blocks away.
About 75 marchers left the park after 9 p.m. on the same route they used Tuesday night, flowing up Stonewall Street, past Bank of America Stadium and onto Graham Street.
Marchers chanted anti-Obama slogans and “DNC is meaningless.”
The two-hour march appeared more relaxed than the Tuesday night march, in which protesters engaged in a tense standoff with police at Tryon Street.
But lines of police officers more closely hemmed in marching protesters Wednesday night, limiting them to one lane of the streets. Spectators watched from the sidewalks, some heckling the protesters.
The procession stopped on Tryon Street between Third and Fourth streets. Some protesters sat in the street while others denounced former President Bill Clinton, who was addressing the convention at that time
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/09/06/3507252/night-march-winds-uptown-under.html#storylink=cpy
I don't know but dunkin' donuts has it figured out. They sell entire boxes of them.
And then there is foam...:-)
I think Debbie was busy getting her war-bonnet preened.
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