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Come up with the wittiest, most outlandish repartee between our two beloved political icons and the commenter with the most “likes” will have their dialogue published into the word balloons. Both art and copy will then be re-posted with a credit line for the winner!
CONTEST RULES:
1. No more than 80 characters (including spaces between words and sentences).
2. Colorful, adult language allowed, but keep it G-rated please : )
3. Indicate dialog for Democrat symbol (the donkey) and Republican symbol (the elephant)
4. Winner will be notified via Facebook inbox mail before their entry is published.
5. Winner’s name or tag will be used as a credit line, your choice.
Contest ends January 31, 2013 @10am. Revised art with winner’s copy and credit line will be posted February 1st, after winner notification.
In a televised interview with Cybercast News Service about year ago, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum challenged President Obama over the concept of personhood in regards to the abortion issue, which the conservative candidate feels is not even a debatable issue being that he favors a constitutional (read:government sanctioned) ban on abortion and implied that President Barack Obama should be pro-life also. Why?
Because he’s black.
“The question is — and this is what Barack Obama didn’t want to answer — is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says ‘no’ ”, Santorum said in a televised interview. “Well if that person — human life is not a person — then I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, ‘we’re going to decide who are people and who are not people.”
What is frightening fact that Rick Santorum is practically tied for first place in the republican presidential contest after the Iowa caucus. In the interview, he actually attempts to bring up an intellectual and philosophical stance that compares the claim that a fetus should be called a person
to that of a black person’s right to be declared as such. As if a black person’s rights as a human being should be – or should have ever been for that matter – questionable in this country.
And if I were to stick with his playing of the race card, then can it be said that a white person would be more likely to be pro-choice because there has never been an issue about his humanity in this country?
Yeah–sounds stupid, doesn’t it?
As a so called Christian-neoconservative whose general stance on most of the important issues of the day are anti-science, anti-revelation, anti-philosophical, anti-progressive, etc., it would be a waste of time to get into any type of constructive debate with the likes of a Mr. Santorum. I will, however, like to assure him and others who think like him, that they have as much right in determining what a women does with her uterus as they do determining what a man does with his penis.
And for your viewing pleasure: Check out Rachel Maddow’s “vetting” of the ‘Almighty Santorum’ on her show this evening. Once Rachel’s findings make their way into the hands of his opponents, I think the “family values guy ” of the GOP will go the way of Trump, Sarah, Michele, Perry, Herman, and Newt. Mitt Romney will relieve the final endorsement and we can finally get this show on the road. Bring it on, indeed!
So — I’m searching online this Sunday afternoon looking for a ‘clean’ Republican logo image for a design I had in mind, and I came across a post at the blog site SodaHead asking the question,
Some of the comments were…
…and then there were some very interestingcomments from other readers that linked the use of the topsy-turvy star formation to a well known underground organization…
On the day before Veteran’s Day, The Senate overwhelmingly approved a provision of President Barack Obama’s Job Act that gives companies tax credits for hiring unemployed military veterans – a proposal which had rare bipartisan appeal.
A month ago, President Obama’s job’s plan was killed the second it hit the congressional floor, but as promised, he began sending portions of the bill up to Congress in hopes of getting them enacted separately, but until yesterday Republicans voted unanimously to knock them down as well. But Thursday, Republicans joined Democrats in passing this bill with only one dissenting vote, that belonging to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) explaining that the amendment only created loopholes that benefited veterans over regular citizens for jobs (WTF?!).
President Obama urged lawmakers to “pass additional jobs proposals in the weeks ahead to help the millions of other Americans who are still looking for work.” After weeks of publicly campaigning against Republicans for failing to act on portions of his $447 billion jobs bill, President Obama said Thursday they “did the right thing.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY.) said the bill offered a welcomed opportunity to break the gridlock on the Senate. “We’re going to legislate,” he said, before predictably ranking on Democrats for not advancing more jobs ideas Republicans could back.
The 94-1 vote for the legislation came as the jobless rate among Iraq and Afghanistan vets are in the double digits. The bill awards companies a $5,600 tax credit for each veteran they hired who had been unemployed for at least six months and $2,400 for hiring a veteran who has been out of work a month.
On his jobs plan stump, Obama has emphasized that taking care of our Veterans is not a Democratic or Republican issue, it is an American responsibility.
Big Up! for our military women and men and President Obama’s bill.
Your bank is required to keep only a fraction of your cash deposit in its vault. The bulk of your money gets loaned out, paid off and redeposited into the banking system. This happens an exponential amount of times, creating a “virtual” accumulation of wealth for your bank off of your one deposit.
Is there the possibility of corruption and fraud based on such a system…uh, yeah!
For those of you who think Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has no official campaigning platform or staff for that matter and that he’s running for President in 2012 purely for the fame and fortune such notoriety will bring him…think again.
With the assist of his own campaign strategist and chief of staff, Mark Block, Cain has concocted this creeeeeepy video in which a smarmy faced Block rants on about Cain’s electability points ( also giving viewers a great view of his smoked stained teeth – now that’s a real American, y’know, like the Marlboro Man!) And after the usual rhetoric of …”we can take this country back!”, the camera then pans in close to Mr. Block’s face where he takes a drag from a cigarette and blows a puff of smoke into the camera. The real clenceher is at the end when the Man Of The Hour assures us with that knowing look and enigmatic smile, that he’s Herman Cain, and he approves of this message.
I have to admit, these days I’m looking for a reason to re-elect our incumbent president in 2012. I can no longer hide my disappointment at his not taking the wheel and steering this sinking ship over to more shallow waters. Why fight so hard and valiantly to become the first African-American president of – what we’re told – is the most rich, the most powerful, the most influential nation in the world only to constantly cave-in with a whimper once confronted with your opposition’s…opposition?
And Mr. President – with all due respect – f**k those bi-partisan pipe dreams! Groveling is not a good look for my president. The public no longer needs that to be one of your goals any longer, anyway. And if another of your actual goals is to appear stymied in making any real, substantial policy changes because those mean old republicans keep bullying you and taking your lunch money… well, again, not a good look.
You’re on the stump now across the country campaigning on those grounds and its sounds more like you’re looking for pity rather than re-appointment. The thing with trying to appear as ” the adult in the room”, is that you get loads of obstinacy when the adolescents in the room with you, have no respect for your authority in the first place. However, that mustn’t stop you from laying down the law. It never stopped my Mom, a single mother of five big-ass kids.
If you’d just concern yourself with blowing your own horn on all you’ve accomplished thus far; Bin Laden, a great start to a future of healthcare reform, being stalwart against the GOP on their insistence to not raise the debt ceiling and their personal vendetta against Social Security and Medicare, a successful auto industry bailout, aggressive moderator to the conflicts in the Middle East, International Kumbayah Ambassador… look, you don’t need me to tell you what you’ve done.
If your true agenda is to be the beacon of ‘Change’, as you touted yourself to be and – we went for – back in your glory days in 2007, you’d better go for it now, with no damn regrets. Don’t give credence to my naysayer associates on Facebook who say you’re a pawn for someone else’s political agenda (ie: Robert Redford’s Bill McKay in The Candidate (1972), remember?).
Hopefully your initiative to present a master plan for (what I wish to be!) an actual Jobs Bill (wouldn’t that be grand!) that could realistically be implemented ASAP – despite the expected stonewalling from the party on the right – will jumpstart your mojo with a “TOUCHDOWN!” tonight.
After eight years of the Bush Administration living way beyond its means and charging up a debt that has now put the country on the brink of disaster, NOW the GOP wants to introduce “cap, cuts and balancing” in their never-ending quest to pin this insurmountable mess on President Obama.
The offer from Harry Reid and the Democrats to cut $2.7 trillion from our spending budget with no tax increase to the rich and no additional revenue is a travesty. Who’s going to suffer from those cuts? The poor and the soon to be devastated middle-class that’s who!
The pressure is on President Obama in this no-real-win situation. He can either allow the bills to go unpaid and be the first United States (Black) President in history to default on the country’s debt repayment schedule – but still illuminate the despicable, uncooperative stance of the GOP and thus hopefully proving to the skeptical and undecided that any faction of the Republican Party is incapable of running anything, let alone the governing challenges of the US.
Or, he can drop his losing bi-partisan stance, take control, raise the debt ceiling as he knows – and reputable non-partisan economists have advised him – must be done, eliminate tax loopholes for the super wealthy who live like kings on the backs of the labor force and steer Boehner and his bunch clear of the Big 3.
Mr. President, you may have to deal with this bullsh**t again in 2012 when you’re re-elected, but because of the sacrifices you would make for us today, with hope and good sense the People will stand by you, especially in lieu of the odds we’ve witnessed you up against for the last 7 months with Republicans and the Tea Party.
What would I want you to do? I’d want you to save us first, Mr. President! And come what may in 2012! You have more than proven that you are up for the challenge!
A friend of mine texted me last night to inform me that my dear President Barack Obama extended the super controversial Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 also known as the USA Patriot Act and better known simply as the Patriot Act, for four more years.
The way my friend texted, “Obama signed an extension to the patriot act,” assured me that he was commenting on the fact that he couldn’t understand how even die-hard pro-Obama fans would think that the President could operate out of the White House in any way other than the old status quo or business-as-usual. That Obama or any President for that matter – even with the best of intentions during their naive campaigning debut – would have any real authority to do anything other than what has already been laid out for him/her as a course of action by the omnipotent “powers that be”.
I realize that the Patriot Act was the cause of much public outcry following its initiation after 911 by the Bush Administration, paticularly because of how it dramatically reduced restrictions on law enforcement agencies’ ability to search telephone, e-mail, medical, financial, and other records of US citizens. Americans felt the invasion of privacy was unwarranted.
I think that was especially true in lieu of the fact that George Bush had declared on several occasions, that he was no longer interested in hunting for the man whom most Americans were led to believe was the mastermind behind terrorists acts against this and other countries. And no “weapons of mass destruction” were ever uncovered during his administration either.
The sentiment had been that we were being punished for our government’s short-comings in handling the Bush/Cheney “War on Terrorism”. And now we have President Barack Obama, fresh on the heels of capturing and slaying Osama Bin Laden – who we’re told was responsible for killing almost 3,000 people in New York that fateful day – now extending the hated act for another four years (which btw, pretty much covers a full term in the President’s seat for 2012).
My response to my buddy who sent me that text?
Well, although I can partake in a good conspiracy theory as well as the next guy, in the wake of Bin Laden’s demise at President’s Obama’s hands I’m willing to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this. It’s possible he knows something we do not. Unlike Bush, Barack Obama has actually struck a real blow to those who have been deemed as an enemy to the nation’s security, which can in turn provoke a serious counter attack. Perhaps it will be counter intelligence and not torture that will finally win the war on terrorism. And perhaps this is something we should just trust the President of the United States on.
Apparently all a Republican presidential candidate has to do to win crucial polling points is — just show up! Pennsylvania’s Rick Santorum, being the the only potential GOP candidate at a dinner held by south Carolina’s Republican party last Friday night, won 150 out of 408 votes cast by the attendees for a straw poll taken during the dinner. A no-show, Republican darling Mitt Romney, got whipped with just 61 votes.
Guess Romney’s invite must’ve “… got lost in the mail”…
Read how the other “candidates” fared, as reported by Huffpost Politics.
Watching the last couple of hours of the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner, aired on television this morning, was like having front row seats at a black tie comedy club! The President, showing his adeptness at adding some well needed humour to the absolute madness that is his life right now, was crackin’ on everything from the Birthers to Matt Damon! And Seth Meyers, head writer of Saturday Night Live?…I was laughing so hard I ended up having a coughing fit!…
BTW, Keep your eyes on Trump when the jokes turn on him…priceless!
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