Month: October 2012

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Paul Ryan Politics

Paul Ryan’s Staged Photo In Soup Kitchen Is Causing “Substantial Backlash” To Charity

A charity that operates a soup kitchen in northeastern Ohio has faced an exodus of donors ever since vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan staged a photo-op on the premises.

“It appears to be a substantial amount,” Brian Antal, president of the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society in Youngstown, told The Huffington Post. “You can rest assured there has been a substantial backlash.”

Ryan and his family were photographed cleaning dishes on the premises. During Ryan’s appearance at the soup kitchen on October 13, he briefly talked with volunteers before donning an apron and cleaning some large metal pots. He was at the soup kitchen for about 15 minutes.

But Antal told the Washington Post that the Romney campaign did not ask for permission before entering the soup kitchen. He said he worried his faith-based apolitical organization could lose funding if it appeared the charity favored one of the political candidates.

The photo-op ended up being an embarrassment for Ryan.

Now, Antal’s concerns appear to have been warranted. The charity, which is funded by private donations, has seen much of its money cut off, though Antal said he could not disclose the specific amount.

“I’m a volunteer,” Antal added. “I receive zero compensation. Withholding donations is only going to hurt the over 100,000 we serve annually.”

h/t The Raw Story

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Politics

The Obama Resurge Starts Now

Ignore the national polls from now on. Ignore them. Even the Gallup poll that has Mitt leading by 7 points. You heard me. The only real action is in the swing states that will decide this election.

There were some very good polls for the president over the past two days, and you need to keep one thing in mind when you read them: they were mostly taken before Tuesday’s debate. The Romney Bounce, which ended last week according to this sage, has given way to the Obama Resurge, which should improve after his debate performance.

Evidence?

Virginia
Colorado
Wisconsin
Iowa
Pennsylvania

And with the president holding a lead in Ohio, he’s now ahead in enough states to claim an electoral victory. As I have said before, this will be a very close election down to November 6 and Mitt Romney will need an event or a stellar run of ads and circumstances in order to win.

The final debate on Monday is on foreign affairs, and let’s face facts; foreign affairs ain’t where it’s at this election. It won’t matter how many times Mitt mentions Benghazi or Tripoli or Bibi, fewer people will be watching, and fewer still will know a lot about what he’s talking about. Obama can pretty much stick with “Osama bin Laden is dead” for about 85 minutes, then give a closing that mentions the 47% and GM being rescued.

OK, it won’t be that easy, but I think the debate danger is past, unless Mitt decides that he wants to get aggressive, but since that didn’t work out well on Tuesday, I don’t think he’ll try it.

We’ve come to the frenetic last weeks of a campaign that’s gone on far too long, but this what political junkies like us live for, so get your comfy sneakers on and line up your binders full of women for the stretch run. And stop looking at that Gallup poll. Yes, I’m talking to you.

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Barack Obama Eminem Mitt Romney Politics

Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up [Feat. Eminem]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of The United States:

Barack Obama: Can I have your attention please. Can I have your attention please. Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up? I repeat, will the real Mitt Romney please stand up?

Music.

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Politics women

Women Voices For Obama – Video

When you know what’s at stake, the choice is obvious. Republicans in Congress have engaged in a war against the women of this country, attacking their health, their pay, their right to choose.

President and the Democrats on the other hand have fought for and signed bills into law, improving on women’s rights. From the Lilly President Fair Pay Act to the Affordable Health Care Law, the Democrats realized that these issues are not only important to women, but to the general welfare of the economy.

With Mitt Romney still pushing policies in line with his Republican party, the choice in this November election is clear, and women are speaking up in their support for the President.

Video.

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Elizabeth Warren Politics

New Poll – Elizabeth Warren Has A Commanding Lead in Massachusetts

Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown’s campaign strategy of attacking his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren racial makeup is not working. A new PPP poll shows a huge lead for Mrs Warren

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Politics

Romney’s Son Wanted To Take A Swing At President Obama During Debate

The audio clip above features the voice of one of Mitt Romney’s son, Tag Romney. The son of the Republican presidential nominee went on a radio show after the second presidential debate was held and responded to the following question -“What is it like for you to hear the president of the United States call your dad a liar? How do you react to that?”

Being the class act he is, Tag answered, saying that he wanted to take a swing at the President. “Well jump out of your seat,” Tag said, as he explained his initial feeling. “And you want to rush down to the debate stage and take a swing at him.”

Tag later admitted that his plan would have been spoiled by the Secret Service.

The truth hurts, huh Tag?

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Arizona Immigration Politics

Arizona Spanish Voters Told Election Is On November 8th Instead of November 6th

The wrong information was sent to Spanish speaking voters in Arizona, while the English voters received the correct information. According to election officials in the Republican controlled state, about 50 mailings went out to voters.

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Barack Obama Mitt Romney Politics

The Second Presidential Debate – The Polls – – Who Won?

Democrats have a lot of reasons to feel good this morning. First the debate “snap polls:”

The CBS insta-poll gives the win to Obama, 37%-30%. CNN’s “scientific” poll gives it to Obama, 46%-39%. A Battleground poll of swing states gives Obama a bigger win, 53%-38%. And an online poll by Google Consumer Surveys gave Obama his biggest win of all, 48%-31%.

And that CNN poll likely understates the win:

The sample of debate watchers was EIGHT points more Republican than the general public, per CNN polling. So even this heavily GOP group gave the victory to Obama.

Finally and most importantly, time is (finally) running out. The third debate is the least likely one to move the polls since it is about foreign policy and both candidates are likely to make sure they don’t make the mistakes of the first two debates. President Obama will get a bounce over the next week that will put him up 2-3 points and then regress to a 1-2 point lead. Which is where most experts predicted the race would end up. Romney is almost out of time.

H/t Alan

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Mitt Romney Politics

Yes, Mitt Romney Lied About His “Binder of Women” Comment Too

Andrew Sullivan did some digging and guess what he found – Mitt Romney Lied!

No news here, because lying is now synonymous with Mitt Romney. This particular lie came in the second debate with Romney trying to pander for the women’s vote. In an attempt to show that he hired women in his administration when he was governor of Massachusetts, Romney claimed that he went looking for qualified female candidates and was given “binders of women” to choose from.

And now the truth about Romney’s binders.

What actually happened was that in 2002 — prior to the election, not even knowing yet whether it would be a Republican or Democratic administration — a bipartisan group of women in Massachusetts formed MassGAP to address the problem of few women in senior leadership positions in state government. There were more than 40 organizations involved with the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus (also bipartisan) as the lead sponsor. They did the research and put together the binder full of women qualified for all the different cabinet positions, agency heads, and authorities and commissions. They presented this binder to Governor Romney when he was elected.

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Barack Obama Mitt Romney Politics presidential

Best Debate I’ve Ever Seen – President Obama Dominated The Stage

WOW! This debate could be where President won his second term!

This post will be very short. I am still at a lost of words on what I just saw on the debate stage. To put it briefly, President Obama totally commanded the stage and Romney was just an innocent bystander who got caught in the Tsunami. As the President took control of the stage and the debate, Mitt Romney looked like a deer caught in the headlights.

There were so many places in the debate where the President called out Romney for the many different positions he’s taken. There were places where the President even called Romney a liar, saying things like, “”very little of what Gov Romney just said is true” and another time in the debate when Mr. Obama said to Candy Crowley, “”Candy, what Gov Romney said just isn’t true!”

The lies told by Mitt Romney were too much for me to keep up with. Personally, I think Romney’s performance tonight amounts to a new record for lying in a debate. But one lie that caught me off guard, one lie I really wasn’t expecting was when Romney said he was now FOR contraception. Yes, the same Mitt Romney who has always been against contraception said in the debate that he was now for it. His words, “I believe that all women should have contraception.”

OMG!

After the first debate, I was shocked. I couldn’t understand how a president so knowledgeable of all the facts, of all his accomplishments, of all the lies his opponent told… I couldn’t understand how the president kept his mouth shut and allowed Romney to run wild. Tonight, the president I expected in Debate #1 showed up for debate #2, and Romney was put in his place… once and for all!

But I did say this was going to be a short post, so I will stop now and allow the video below to speak for itself.

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Mitt Romney Politics terrorist

Mitt Romney Was Wrong About The Libyan Attacks – Here’s The Video

This is sure to be a big talking point over the next few days with Republicans pulling their facts out of the air and Democrats getting their facts from the actual record.

Remember the point in the second presidential debate where Mitt Romney found himself saying that President Obama did not refer to the Libyan attack – where four Americans were killed – by using the word ‘terror’? Well Romney swore that he was right in saying that President Obama did not refer to the attacks as a terrorist attack for “14 days.”

Fact is, the very next day after the attack, President Obama held a press conference in the Rose Garden and referred to what happened in Libya as something being done by terrorists.

Romney again was wrong – another deer in the headlight moment!

You may try, but you simply cannot change the facts.

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Mitt Romney Politics

Rosie Perez Addresses Mitt Romney’s Claim That Latinos Have It Easy

On the same secret recording that captured Mitt Romney disrespecting 47% of Americans calling them lazy and not able to care for themselves, Romney was also heard saying that if he was from Latino descent, he would win the Presidential election. Apparently, Latinos in his country are all living on easy street.

Well, Rosie Perez has something to say about that!

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