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DNC Live Thread Final Night
cspan ^ | 9/6/12 | DNC

Posted on 09/06/2012 4:35:57 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3

Welcome to the freak show.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012dncconvention; convention; democratparty; dnc; dncconvention; dncconventionlive; freakshow; plzpassdbrainbleach
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To: MaxMax
Roosevelt did admit to experimenting with the US economy. He and his friends didn't have a clue what they were doing and it was all trial and error, mostly error.

This quote from an Atlantic article is undoubtedly what Obama is referring to in his self comparison to FDR.

But President Roosevelt is the first statesman in a great capitalist society who has sought deliberately and systematically to use the power of the state to subordinate the primary assumptions of that society to certain vital social purposes. He is the first statesman deliberately to experiment on a wholesale scale with the limitation of the profit-making motive. He is the first statesman, again in a wholesale way, to attack not the secondary but the primary manifestations of the doctrine of laissez faire. He is the first statesman who, of his own volition, and without coercion, either direct or indirect, has placed in the hands of organized labor a weapon which, if it be used successfully, is bound to result in a vital readjustment of the relative bargaining power of Capital and Labor. He is also the first statesman who, the taxing power apart, has sought to use the political authority of the state to compel, over the whole area of economic effort, a significant readjustment of the national income.

No unbiased spectator of the adventure involved can withhold his admiration for the courage such an effort has implied. Success or failure, it bears upon its face the hallmarks of great leadership. Improvised in haste, devised under the grim pressure of crisis, imposed, as no doubt it has been imposed, in an atmosphere of panic and bewilderment, it stands out in remarkable, even significant, contrast to the economic policy of any other capitalist government in the world. Compared, for example, with the unimaginative activity of the British Government, -which rode to power on a wave of kindred enthusiasm,—it is an exhilarating spectacle.

1,121 posted on 09/06/2012 7:49:48 PM PDT by Eva
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To: DocRock

Why didn’t he reform the tax code during his first 2 years?


1,122 posted on 09/06/2012 7:49:58 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: matt04
True, however Clinton can deliver a speech that keeps the audience engaged. Obama has lost them.

The crowd seems pretty loud to me, are they amplifying it?

1,123 posted on 09/06/2012 7:49:58 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: rainee

Infrastructure, donchano!


1,124 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:05 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Bocephus hits a home run! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_vjPqAVzI)
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To: yield 2 the right
I hope Romney sees this as a wake-up call to finally turn up the mockery of Obama and fight fire with fire. Obama is so thin-skinned that mockery should bring out the negatives in him.

-PJ

1,125 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:09 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( It doesn't come naturally when you're not natural born.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Obama worked last summer to cut 1 bil in spending??? WTF?? LOL!!!


1,126 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:13 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: apillar

Ask Wealthy Households to pay their fair share...DRINK!


1,127 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:20 PM PDT by apillar
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To: DocRock

Compromise? You rammed through Obamacare without any compromise, jackass. You had no time for the Republicans.

FUBO.


1,128 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:25 PM PDT by mrs9x
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To: ILS21R

Telling.


1,129 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:25 PM PDT by yield 2 the right (2012, the election year that stinks!)
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To: All

He ignored HIS debt commission. Flat out lie there.


1,130 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:28 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: DocRock

YOU DON’T SPEND MONEY ON TAX BREAKS YOU _________.


1,131 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:28 PM PDT by phalynx
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To: phalynx

GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, released a statement saying that Obama has “laid out the choice in this election, making the case for more of the same policies that haven’t worked for the past four years.

“He offered more promises, but he hasn’t kept the promises he made four years ago. Americans will hold President Obama accountable for his record – they know they’re not better off and that it’s time to change direction. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will restore America’s promise and deliver a better future for our country.”


1,132 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:38 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: tapatio

Roads...bridges....schools....lions...bears oh my.


1,133 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:38 PM PDT by WWABD (Hey Barry....Get the Hell off my lawn.)
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To: Girlene

worked with republicans....

i won


1,134 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:38 PM PDT by ILS21R (The time is nigh.)
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To: All

If we’re going “Forward”, why does Barry keep harping on Bill Caligula’s tax rates ?


1,135 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:50 PM PDT by Absolutely Nobama (The Doomsday Clock is at 11:59:00......tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.....)
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To: phalynx

Somebody is gonna have to shovel the piles of bs out of the dem convention hall!! That is good for at least a million jobs right there!!


1,136 posted on 09/06/2012 7:50:50 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: phalynx
Is there anything worse then an Epic Fail? We have to come up with a whole new measurement of FAIL for the 2012 Democrat National Convention

I mean rock-hard fail. Dehydrated-rock-hard fail. Fail so failing that it goes way beyond the fail we know into a whole different dimension of fail.

The 2012 DNC is trans-fail failure. Meta-failure. Failure collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Fail gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity fail. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury fail.

The 2012 DNC emits more fail in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar fail. Nothing in our universe can really be this much a failure.

Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of fail. Some pure essence of a fail so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know.

1,137 posted on 09/06/2012 7:51:02 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: combat_boots

This asshole has no desire to WIN any war! He never has!!
I am incensed that the pussies in the Pentagon havent the balls to stand up to this puke! iF YOU GO TO WAR, GO TO win, NOT USE OUR MEN AND WOMEN AS CANNON FODDER!
GAED I despise this turd!


1,138 posted on 09/06/2012 7:51:10 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: llevrok

He gonna rebuild roads, schools and bridges. Wow! you would think that 5 trill could have done that. Now its 23 million new jobs. He has Joeitus. The folks that believe this guy are demented.


1,139 posted on 09/06/2012 7:51:13 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: yield 2 the right

now say God bless America and good night, Enough!!!


1,140 posted on 09/06/2012 7:51:15 PM PDT by jennychase
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