Who Should Be Mitt Romney's VP Pick?!( alphabetically listed)

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Back here on solid ground, I note the following: of course Biden's remarks were racist in nature. "Articulate," "bright" and "a nice-looking guy" might proceed from Biden's conviction that he is the final source of judgment, and that he is uniquely qualified to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of others. "Clean" falls into a very different category. Those people just aren't like us, don't you know. They're lazy, shiftless, and dirty. They don't clean up after themselves. They're barely presentable in public. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that Biden heard the vile phrase, "dirty n****R," many times in his life, and perhaps he used it himself more than once. Such phrases carry descriptive as well as moral meaning. And he did spend a lot of time with Thurmond. It might be illuminating to know what his other friends and acquaintances are like, and what their attitudes are on this subject.

"Clean" is simply not a word that pops into your head in this context -- unless you hold a viciously false view of what those people are really like. Case closed.[As I'm about to post this, I see that Biden is now "explaining" this by referring to the common phrase his mother supposedly often used: "Clean as a whistle and sharp as a tack..." Dear God. Biden's own phrase was: "clean and a nice-looking guy..." Translation: "That darkie cleaned up good!" And remember the Thurmond eulogy.]

Biden is harshly criticized (when he is) only because he revealed our sickeningly primitive attitudes in a manner that renders them too obvious to deny. Meanwhile, we invade and occupy nations that never threatened us, while we tell the entire rest of the world how we will permit it to conduct itself. We condemn the individual instance of blatant racism that cannot be overlooked (although some still try to mitigate it)-- but the racism that is an inextricable part of our foreign policy for over a hundred years is denied by almost everyone.

We treat other nations and peoples with contempt and derision, as ill-behaved, ignorant children who have to be taught manners and all of civilization at the end of a gun, and still many of us wonder "why they hate us."

If we were capable of taking the full and accurate measure of our actions and our attitudes, if we assessed ourselves in any manner even close to the way the rest of the world does -- and with full justification -- we would not wonder at all.

Biden provided a very small window onto the much more significant problem. As in all such cases, the brief glimpse of the truth will be quickly brushed aside. After all, we're not like that. We're America the Good. Such faults are not ours.

Our national self-delusion is all-encompassing. One day, it may finally be fatal.

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Knightmare wrote:

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How enlightened you liberals are.

we use our brains. Try it sometime.

the economic problems we are now having started when our government started allowing the outsourcing of our jobs. and permitting our american based companies to build their factories overseas.

all this "pointing fingers" by the conservatives and the liberals is so insane. it reminds me of a fight between children.

we know when the problem started. just back out the policies that got us there.

nafta, cafta doesn't work. the free trade agreements didn't work. it's obvious.

did we see our trade profits with china explode as was expected? the answer is - no.

did we see a new job materialize with every job outsourced? the answer is - no.

the idiots in capitol hill said we would be experiencing trade surpluses with all these countries that we signed free trade agreements with. did we? again - the answer is no.

then, there are the idiots who say we need the lower priced products produced overseas. and I'm wondering - at the price of our jobs?

...that doesn't make sense. right?

as I see it, we know what policies created the problem, all we need to do is back them out.

you people need to quit pointing fingers at one another and back out the policies causing us this problem.

Yes wrote:

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we use our brains. Try it sometime.

Really, for what - place holders?

Yes, The place we hold is the Pres: Too bad, so sad -- YOU LOST! Also, Obama will beat your POS Candidate in Nov. That rich, out-of-touch POS wouldn't give you or any of the middle-class work slaves the sweat off his balls. He just wants you to keep earning and feathering his off-shore accounts -- what idiots.

dpb wrote:

Yes, The place we hold is the Pres: Too bad, so sad -- YOU LOST! Also, Obama will beat your POS Candidate in Nov. That rich, out-of-touch POS wouldn't give you or any of the middle-class work slaves the sweat off his balls. He just wants you to keep earning and feathering his off-shore accounts -- what idiots.

Whatever mota boy, keep on living in denial, which to you is a river in Egypt.

We shall see in Nov. And, your stupid ending to that post is just childish, as are many, many of your responses -- ignore the reality and act stupid -- that's you!

dpb wrote:

We shall see in Nov. And, your stupid ending to that post is just childish, as are many, many of your responses -- ignore the reality and act stupid -- that's you!

So why respond? Are you claiming stupidity as your reason, or just sometimes stupid because you smoke mota<G>?

NO I'm pointing out your stupidity -- drunken fool that you are.

dpb wrote:

NO I'm pointing out your stupidity -- drunken fool that you are.

You pointing anything out other than your pointed little head is unlikely mota boy. You can't stay focused that long - Har har har! Now go pick the toe nail fungus from your feet, play with your crotch crickets and shush like a good little fry brain<snicker>!!!

Romney wins in 2012
NOBAMA gets kicked to the curb!
dpb gets incarcerated for use of ILLEGAL drugs!!

Bite my a$$ you right-wing nut case. Just a lazy fkr sitting on your useless, drunken a$$ whining and complaining about most everything. Just can't wait for you to be gone by age attrition. Fk off and die!(hopefully soon)

dpb wrote:

Bite my a$$ you right-wing nut case. Just a lazy fkr sitting on your useless, drunken a$$ whining and complaining about most everything. Just can't wait for you to be gone by age attrition. Fk off and die!(hopefully soon)

ROTHL, ejo, you are wayyyyy too funny. Listen to your rants and verbal vomit. I've accomplished more in my retired years than you have your entire useless life<snicker>. You should look into some anger management classes, you need them. Maybe you're near a senior center that hosts them? Oh, and you have a bad attitude too<snicker snicker>. Poor little pointed pothead...

Fk both of you right-wing LOSERS. You haven't accomplished a thing in your pathetic facist lives but to whine and bitch. (temper-temper old fart)LMFAO

Knightmare wrote:

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Hey, Bush was not all that great either. The last two good presidents were Reagan {and I can't believe I'm saying this} Clinton had some good things going on. Bush and Obama are just...sometimes I feel we've been in the Police Academy President Edition lately. And you're right it isn't necessarily because he is Democrat, there are actually some decent Dems. As with Bush it is much of his policies and the way he insists on his way rather than actually really compromising.
Both were tied to their party line. I'd like a President who has the wisdom and the guts to be able to not go with their party and to be able to go with the American people.
Haven't seen that in Bush, didn't see that in Obama.

I happen to like Obama's policies and would like to see Universal Health Care.
As for Reagan, oh please! He was a joke, under his terror in the health care system we had the revolving door policy. Everyone was only entitled to a 3 day hospital stay, even if you had surgery, a heart patient, didn't make a difference to Ronnie. Ronnie was going to save money even if it meant eliminating some US residents.

Who Should Be Mitt Romney's VP Pick?

A gay, overweight, black, female Jew.

fmer505-1951 wrote:

<quoted text>I happen to like Obama's policies and would like to see Universal Health Care.
As for Reagan, oh please! He was a joke, under his terror in the health care system we had the revolving door policy. Everyone was only entitled to a 3 day hospital stay, even if you had surgery, a heart patient, didn't make a difference to Ronnie. Ronnie was going to save money even if it meant eliminating some US residents.

hey. I think it would be safe to say.. everybody would like to have something for free. BUT if you can't pay for it, where's the logic?

the only way we will be able to have universal health care is if we enslave all the doctors. and they allow us to enslave them.

good luck.

fmer505-1951 wrote:

<quoted text>I happen to like Obama's policies and would like to see Universal Health Care.
As for Reagan, oh please! He was a joke, under his terror in the health care system we had the revolving door policy. Everyone was only entitled to a 3 day hospital stay, even if you had surgery, a heart patient, didn't make a difference to Ronnie. Ronnie was going to save money even if it meant eliminating some US residents.

I was trying to be balanced and positive here. I am sure that we could list each presidents faults. They have many. Including Clinton. Even Abraham Lincoln did as well, but why not work with the positive. Now, as bad as President Obama is, there has been some, flashes of bright spots. He has made laws better for the consumer against credit cards. That is a definite bright spot. Even the concept of health reform is a bright spot. Maybe not the execution of it but the concept.

And Bush though he was kind of one the Three Stooges in some ways, there were some bright spots with him as well. And how he handled 9/11 though not perfect was not nearly as bad as people say.{Unless...well we won't get into conspiracies right now...}

So that being said, I was just trying to do some positive not negative comparisons. That's half the reason they can control us...both sides have us up in arms about what we think are negatives. I mean it's got to the point if Obama sneezes, the Repubs will say that was evil and but the Dems will blame Bush or some other Repub for Obama sneezing and the reverse can be true...if Bush burped, it was evil from the Dems side but then the Repubs would blame Clinton or some other Dem.

After awhile it gets really old.

Knightmare wrote:

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It wasn't by a landslide. And how many of you STILL blame Bush and insult his intellgience or political acumen. And then you imply that I don't have half a brain.
It's fascinating. Are you that insecure?

No