tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post8748156140598113446..comments2024-03-28T10:49:14.510-05:00Comments on Horizons: Obama and luckNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-23968080993028048862012-08-12T11:38:08.872-05:002012-08-12T11:38:08.872-05:00My take on Ryan is mostly that we'll have to s...My take on Ryan is mostly that we'll have to see how it plays out.<br /><br />But mostly I agree with BooMan.<br /><br />http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/8/12/12106/2055Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-11532180063334391632012-08-12T07:05:07.875-05:002012-08-12T07:05:07.875-05:00.
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..<br /><br />!<br /><br />Ema Nymton<br />~@:o?<br />.Ema Nymtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01291372077565212886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-69080981805153703002012-08-11T20:35:59.733-05:002012-08-11T20:35:59.733-05:00Hi smarty! This is my first time posting. I just ...Hi smarty! This is my first time posting. I just have to tell you, your outlook is so refreshing. I'm so tired of hearing the cave/weak attack from fellow libs. Keep up the good work. :)<br />emh88Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-34147301601938209412012-08-11T20:26:26.373-05:002012-08-11T20:26:26.373-05:00I'd like to get your take on how the addition ...I'd like to get your take on how the addition of Ryan affects the race. Frankly, it scares me, because he's so extreme, but he presents himself as a reasonably intelligent choirboy, without Romney's wishy-washy-ness. The average low-information voter won't necessarily believe the ugliness of Ryan's goals (and in earlier focus groups on the Ryan plan, that was just the outcome--people thought it was a farce, that no politician would seriously enact such ideas).Monalanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-81551125854980680572012-08-11T18:44:42.851-05:002012-08-11T18:44:42.851-05:00Majii, too bad more prominent Democrats stood up f...Majii, too bad more prominent Democrats stood up for private equity and Bain than ever stood up for community organizers and ACORN.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-34816875694088344022012-08-11T16:52:43.376-05:002012-08-11T16:52:43.376-05:00You certainly make your own luck in any successful...You certainly make your own luck in any successful endeavor through hard work and patience and cunning and whatnot, but it's also true that it's not exactly historic brilliance to take the side of NOT privatizing social security or dismantling Medicare.<br /><br />Democrats certainly ARE lucky that Republicans have made repeated legislative attempts at these things over the years. Radical redistributionists (whether right or left) make for easy foils.<br /><br />Lucky doesn't mean undeserving.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-4883006001285521222012-08-11T15:38:52.458-05:002012-08-11T15:38:52.458-05:00Biases are often deadly because they leave you bli...Biases are often deadly because they leave you blind.<br /><br />And thanks so much for your support majii!!!!Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-77219363683529185682012-08-11T15:30:56.023-05:002012-08-11T15:30:56.023-05:00Republicans have spent the last five years dispara...Republicans have spent the last five years disparaging community organizers. To them, a community organizer has no useful/marketable skills. This has caused them to miss the forest by staring at the trees. Conciliatory rhetoric as ruthless strategy is the exact community organizing tactic PBO has used on the republicans. They've been so busy painting him as weak and ineffective that they missed the trap he set for them. Thanks for pointing this out, Ms. Smartypants. I'm addicted to your blog, and even though I don't comment very often, many of your posts are on my FB page.majiinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-60497595077013537072012-08-11T15:06:36.780-05:002012-08-11T15:06:36.780-05:00This one is for you Mr. Blackman. Cause you got me...This one is for you Mr. Blackman. Cause you got me goin' with your comment on the Pierce article!<br /><br />So please excuse me because when I get goin', my language goes downhill.<br /><br />but...who the hell says that when "we" do it, we're going to do it the same way the tired old white guys have been doing it for centuries now?<br /><br />People are blind to what PBO is doing because he's doing it HIS way...smarter. <br /><br />That brings me to this line of yours - which I LOVE:<br /><br /><i>And, the longer that continues, the longer PBO is gonna tear their - conservative and "liberal" alike - collective butts UP.</i>Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-67638448798288098922012-08-11T14:55:14.738-05:002012-08-11T14:55:14.738-05:00'Afternoon, Ms. Pants
Annnd, you're gonna...'Afternoon, Ms. Pants<br /><br />Annnd, you're gonna have to say this, in any number of iterations over and over again. Know why??<br /><br />I'm VERY serious that Pierce needs to read you. And, it appears, so does pm.<br /><br />As I've said, you run it down all the time. Mr. Critter up above says it in three words. I'll say it like this....<br /><br />Black, or Brown,or Asian, orrr Female and BRILLIANT and capable and confident is NOT an oxymoron!<br /><br />What we see is that, even for folk that are supposed to be on "our" side, who present as that they really do know better (i.e. Pierce and pm), but when presentations are done that CLEARLY show that there is NO OTHER explanation for what was seen than actual skill and a keen intellect....<br /><br />Noooooooooo.......that just CAN'T be right. I know! It's LUCK. Why, he's just like Felix The Cat.<br /><br />We, ever since we have been brought here, have done one remarkable thing after the next for hundreds of years, now - with much the same end result. A breath taking resistance to admit that we (and, again "we" are, also, Brown, Asian, or Female) are peers.<br /><br />And, the longer that continues, the longer PBO is gonna tear their - conservative and "liberal" alike - collective butts UP.<br /><br />Which leads me back to something I said to you a bit ago, now which your piece shows yet again....<br /><br />Ms. Pants...you're needed.Blackmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-48596069409217538152012-08-11T14:29:45.001-05:002012-08-11T14:29:45.001-05:00Despite hearing the political pundits blather ince...Despite hearing the political pundits blather incessantly this weekend, the Romney campaign demonstrated an extraordinary lack of political theater placement. In fact, it's tragic. According to the Wall Street Journal, Romney purportedly "picked" Ryan as his VP running mate last Wednesday. <br /><br />-- Mr. Romney told Beth Myers—his longtime adviser who was the head of the vice-presidential search—on Aug. 1 that he wanted Mr. Ryan as his running mate. He then called Mr. Ryan and asked to get together, according to an aide. Mr. Ryan formally accepted the position on Sunday, Aug. 5, when Mr. Romney offered him the slot in person --<br /><br />If that's true, then why did the Romney campaign select the backdrop of a retired warship for their VP roll out? While scanning the assembled crowd, it became apparently clear that the Romney campaign had missed the basics of advanced planning.<br /><br />There was no official campaign logo or slogan boldly displayed declaring the new "Romney / Ryan" ticket. There were no "Romney / Ryan" campaign posters or flyers. In fact, the only thing you could see were a few sprinkled American flags that were being waived by bored onlookers.<br /><br />Contrast today's scene against the VP roll out of Biden with Obama in 2008. The Obama campaign had created and distributed their new official campaign posters and banners. The stagecraft in Illinois aptly reflected the importance of that day.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4QCcwJjk54<br /><br />There should be no doubt that Romney was bullied into picking Ryan. Although his campaign will deny it, their rapidly defunct campaign roll out of Ryan suggest otherwise.adjouirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-78167824405466330192012-08-11T13:58:50.832-05:002012-08-11T13:58:50.832-05:00Obama is not lucky. He is skillful. Republicans ...Obama is not lucky. He is skillful. Republicans have gone where Obama led them.Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.com