Who do you support for Governor in Tennessee in 2010?

Timbuk2 wrote:

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http://hempbeach.com/teenage-obama-embraced-t...
“As a teenager, President Barack Obama never did anything half-heartedly, especially when it came to smoking marijuana. The boy who would be president was a notorious pot smoker in his youth,”
“Obama embraced “total absorption” while he smoked marijuana in the car,“the windows had to be rolled up.” The president would call out “Intercepted!” and grabbed the joint out of hand when it was passed among his high school friends.”
Obama was bogarting, or hogging, the joint.

finally something comes out of your corner i agree with.

barack obama jr., the best communicator ever (as president), was the "go to guy" in HS.

he had the bag with the eighths, all budled up, for his after school customers, who he would sell pot to, then dream and fantasize about becoming president one day.....

it is one of the reasons I still like him, and consider him one of my own.

compared to mitt Romney, who lived JUST up the street from me for the first 10 years of my life........he has NOTHING in common with my family, except that we both lived on belmont hill in 70's.

Barack Obama is truly the first US. "head" of state ever.

ill bet he has a U.S. bong hidden somewhere, for "sentimental value"
that he and michelle(mabey even marion) hit on very special occations...
you also must know about the aphrodisiac qualities of pot???
yes??

Belmont hill Mitt wrote:

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over taxed.....I know this much.
the race was running roughly even until 3 weeks ago, when an onslaught of kock brothers money flooded the airwaves with negative adds, and I mean really disgusting ones......and the race suddenly swang towards walker.
8 to 1 is enough to buy an election....
dont tell me you side with the republicans on "citizens united"
that supream decision has basically sold our election process to the highest bidder ( just like the republicans love)....if this recall election wasnt enough to CLEARLY show you that, then I dont know what would.

the question you haven't seem to realize is WHY walker had 8 times more money than his opponet. That is the BIG question.

Exasperated1 wrote:

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killing teachers unions??? hahahaha...how about the truth for a change...he forced the unions benefits to be more in line with the public sector to save the state financially. He did, and it worked, with ADDED jobs. How you can portray that to be a bad thing is beyond me.

it is naturally a bad thing when the middel class has less money and the wealthy have more.......the money isnt circulating nearly as much if it goes to the welathy.....

and that is exactly whatr lawmakers in wisconsin did, balance the budget on the backs of the middle class, to give the "job creators"
more wealth that they arnt going to reivest.

demand stimulates the economy, not tax breaks for the wealthy....

and you cant stop a flood or rescue folks with a tax break for billionaires.

any rspectable economist(paul krugman, robert reich) will tell you this.....listen to them.

Exasperated1 wrote:

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the question you haven't seem to realize is WHY walker had 8 times more money than his opponet. That is the BIG question.

I realize it all too well....

citizens united allowed our election process to be sold to the highest bidder......who are the koch brothers..

they funded scott walkers original campaign because of that decision.

why DO YOU think that walker had 8 times as much cash??

the koch stand to benfit handsomely by having ANY govenor in their pockets....and walker is like a marionette, bought and paid for.

they are, after one of the largest petroleum/gas services companies in the nation.

why do you insist on them having that kind of influence on our legislative process???

Exasperated1 wrote:

I find it rather unusual...or maybe I just skimmed too fast...I haven't seen anyone talking about the "gaff" between obama and clinton occurring over the past 24 hours. Mr. Clinton clearly stated he felt the bush tax cuts should stay in play, until after the election. The white house has VEHEMENTLY rejected that, rather forcefully. Will be interesting to see the skurrying within the democratic party in the next week or so. This is the 2nd time recently Mr. Clinton has "upset the apple cart" of the white house. The first was when he said Mr. Romney had a stellar record in business.

it would help if the democrats all got on the same page, HUH???especially the one who's policies they are trying pitch as an alternative.....

I think that clinton era taxation rates, for the uber wealthy, are perfect.
as well as the size of the clinton era defense budgets.

lets go back to both.

Really Sassy wrote:

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Gosh, I hope he doesn't "cave" this time, OT!
BTW, I recently read an Article that said Dems had moved out of WI, in massive numbers. That may be one possible explanation for the way the "recall" went.

it seems like only republicans would be stooooopid enough to freeze their nuts off like that.

OBAMAIT,past tense,one who has been there and failed.also slangfor lazy people and misfit's.
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A new word soon to be added to all dictionarie.

Belmont hill Mitt wrote:

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it seems like only republicans would be stooooopid enough to freeze their nuts off like that.

the fool returneth, it getteth better. if you cant stand the ehat get out of the kitchen{wisconsin]

Belmont hill Mitt wrote:

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I realize it all too well....
citizens united allowed our election process to be sold to the highest bidder......who are the koch brothers..
they funded scott walkers original campaign because of that decision.
why DO YOU think that walker had 8 times as much cash??
the koch stand to benfit handsomely by having ANY govenor in their pockets....and walker is like a marionette, bought and paid for.
they are, after one of the largest petroleum/gas services companies in the nation.
why do you insist on them having that kind of influence on our legislative process???

answer to last question can be found in the golden rule: he who hath the gold rules.

give it up belmont chnge is on the way. change you dont want to believe in

Belmont hill Mitt wrote:

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I realize it all too well....
citizens united allowed our election process to be sold to the highest bidder......who are the koch brothers..
they funded scott walkers original campaign because of that decision.
why DO YOU think that walker had 8 times as much cash??
the koch stand to benfit handsomely by having ANY govenor in their pockets....and walker is like a marionette, bought and paid for.
they are, after one of the largest petroleum/gas services companies in the nation.
why do you insist on them having that kind of influence on our legislative process???

standard bogus, to-the-party-line answer that requires absolutely NO thought. Do not even try to tell me the unions who had already spent a jillion bucks in Madison, could not have poured in the same amounts. The answer I'm looking for, however, does require some thought and also includes the reason 2 large cities in California ALSO last night, made some pretty drastic changes in public employees benefit program.

belvis wrote:

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answer to last question can be found in the golden rule: he who hath the gold rules.
give it up belmont chnge is on the way. change you dont want to believe in

by change you mean, the status quo of wealth concentration at the top??

because that is what voting republican means.

Belmont hill Mitt wrote:

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it would help if the democrats all got on the same page, HUH???especially the one who's policies they are trying pitch as an alternative.....
I think that clinton era taxation rates, for the uber wealthy, are perfect.
as well as the size of the clinton era defense budgets.
lets go back to both.

I'm a fan of Clinton's, so probably a bit jaded. But he has ALWAYS had the well-being of this country at heart. Obama?? not so much...he has ALWAYS had his own aggenda.

I suspect that alot of the Dems left because Walker had done away with their jobs. The Working People have to go where the jobs are.
Then , I suspect some also left because they were just tired of all the BS. I know that feeling quite well, I'm ready to leave the State of TN. for the same reason. In fact, if Romney wins the election. I'll be ready to leave this Country for the same reason.
This is the first time in my Life that I have ever even considered leaving this Country that I love so much, but I'm about ready to go & Romney being President, after 8 years of Bush/Cheney with only 4 years to recover, will mean the end of my patience & hope for the U.S.A.

Sassy, that reason you stated "that its because dems left" might be plausible, IF, there weren't right-at 500,000 jobs created during that time-frame. Walker had projected about 4 times that tho..so came up short on his optimism. The dems there out to be celebrating at the turn around of the state's huge deficit into a thriving economy again...another HUGE factor why walker retained his seat.

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Exasperated1 wrote:

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the question you haven't seem to realize is WHY walker had 8 times more money than his opponet. That is the BIG question.

I can answer that with two words, "Big Business".

Belmont hill Mitt wrote:

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by change you mean, the status quo of wealth concentration at the top??
because that is what voting republican means.

Even some in my own family vote Republican everytime and they always expect to do better in life.
Well now some of them are old and have nothing but that "Socialistic" Social Security to live off of. They don't have a pot to piss in, and when they die, I will probaly have to bury them.

Dunlapian wrote:

<quoted text>Even some in my own family vote Republican everytime and they always expect to do better in life.
Well now some of them are old and have nothing but that "Socialistic" Social Security to live off of. They don't have a pot to piss in, and when they die, I will probaly have to bury them.

Classic example of Voters who are so brainwashed that they vote against their own best interests for their entire Lives & the consequences they suffer for doing so. The worst part is that they die without ever seeing where they made their mistake!
I just can't understand it!

Dunlapian wrote:

<quoted text>I can answer that with two words, "Big Business".

You could be right, but that really makes no sense. Dems are JUST as wealthy as the pubs (soros/buffet). The unions have a TON of money, they made a conscious effort to make this their waterloo...by the demonstrations organized in the beginning. Don't get me wrong, I have no big/big answers here, it just makes no sense. In my mind, anyway, the key is San Jose and San Diego voting down public employee benefits yesterday as well. San Diego MIGHT be more conservative (military is there) but San Jose definitely isn't...the major is even a dem and leading the charge for the effort.

mayor...sorry