The Republican Nomination For President: The Race For The Race For The White House

@georgeob1,

georgeob1 wrote:

Still whistling in the dark ! Keep on reciting these Obama advantages: perhaps you'll even convince yourself.

Romney, Cain and Perry....
Why don't you regale us with all the advantages of your choice from among these three gems.

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@snood,

Gems in the rough, perhaps. LOL

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@Cycloptichorn,

You obviously didn't take the point about the bargain $599.99 outboard motor Cyclo. Quality stuff can be made in sweatshops. It usually is because people who buy quality stuff are generally the tightest asses bastards of all.

Quality is the best value. Everybody knows that. I'll bet money you are not "blue collar" Cyclo.

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@Joe Nation,

All that is obvious Joe. Tell us how best to suck eggs eh?

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Surrey socialists are all three.

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This is from Jimmy Fallon's show. A hilarious bit with Brian Williams and The Roots about the Occupy Wall Street movement...

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Still waiting to be regaled there, george.....

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What really happened when the war veteran received brain damage from the police!

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@reasoning logic,

You know, posting this video once is OK, but you posted it like 12 different times. It's obnoxious.

If you're such a revolutionary firebrand, why aren't you on the front lines?

Ranting about OWS in an Internet forum is a pretty pathetic contribution to the cause.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Do you think that they should be protesting Washington [the white house]?

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The St Petersburg Times reports that hotel managers in Tampa are being told to renegotiate contracts with the Republican National Committee for hotel rooms for attendees at the Repub Convention.
100 hotels with a combined 15,000 rooms agreed a year ago to provide the rooms for a minimum 5 night stay. The contract was between the RNC's Arrangement Committee when the now ousted Michael Steele was chairman of the committee.
The new chairman hired a company specializing in block booking of rooms. Hotel managers were assembled and told to not only lower the rates, but also to increase the $30 per room fee that would be given to the RNC. The new rate would be 10% of the total hotel bill for the 5 days.
One hotel, with a name which sounds to me to be swankier then Motel 6, signed a deal for 90% of its rooms to be reserved for convention goers for $160/night for 5 nights. The $30 would increase to 10% of ($160 x 5) $800...or $80.

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@snood,

That was very funny, but I think you got the subject wrong

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@reasoning logic,

reasoning logic wrote:

Do you think that they should be protesting Washington [the white house]?

I think the problems they are concerned about have as much or more to do with the government as they do with Wall Street, so protesting in front of the White House and the Capitol would at least be consistent.

I think to whatever extent they could make their point, they did and should all go home and get back to looking for jobs.

Nothing is going to come from continued demonstrations except violence which is something I fully suspect the movement (including you) wants.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

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I think the problems they are concerned about have as much or more to do with the government as they do with Wall Street

You're plainly incorrect with that thought.

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

Maybe, Finn can enlighten us as to why he thinks it also includes the government besides the fact that we elect them into office.

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@Cycloptichorn,

Sez you

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@cicerone imposter,

Who bailed out the banks and allowed the rich Wall Street bankers to retain their wealth?

Crony-capitalism, and not capitalism, is at the heart of our problems.

One set of cronies operates within corpoations, and the other operates within the government.

Who is more beholden to the American people? Billionaires or the US government?

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@Finn dAbuzz,

The bailout of the banks was the right thing to do; they just did it wrong - with no strings attached. That was not only dumb, but wasted taxpayer money.

They could have taken advantage of making more money from wall street, the banks, and financial institutions if they had implemented the right rules and regulations for the "loans."

That was another Obama disappointment.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

reasoning logic wrote:

Do you think that they should be protesting Washington [the white house]?

I think the problems they are concerned about have as much or more to do with the government as they do with Wall Street, so protesting in front of the White House and the Capitol would at least be consistent.

I think to whatever extent they could make their point, they did and should all go home and get back to looking for jobs.

Nothing is going to come from continued demonstrations except violence which is something I fully suspect the movement (including you) wants.

When the Tea Party started, the protests were disjointed amalgamations of people who eventually became a major force in the Republican Party. Were you likewise anxious for them to go home and carry on with business as usual when they were forming up all over the country?

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@cicerone imposter,

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The bailout of the banks was the right thing to do; they just did it wrong - with no strings attached. That was not only dumb, but wasted taxpayer money.
They could have taken advantage of making more money from wall street, the banks, and financial institutions if they had implemented the right rules and regulations for the "loans."
That was another Obama disappointment.

ci: I don't know why you keep saying this.

1) The TARP Program was issued by Bush and there were strings attached, lots of them. Over 700 banks benefited and all were warranted for repayment in cash or, like in the case of Citibank, stock. (The Federal Government sold the 1.6 billion shares of Citibank for 60 billion dollars, three times their value.)

2) As of June 2010, all the loans had been repaid with interest or stock sold at a profit. The taxpayers made money on the deal. (To say nothing of the pleasure of not having the entire banking business of the USA collapse.)

Keep being disappointed if you want to but pick something which was actually a disappointment.

Joe(love you, but hey, com'on.)Nation

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