On Voting Republicans Out Of Office

You support Obama and you really want to use the term Unqualified? You are a funny person MIT.

Oh? Show me where I criticized GW Bush before the Iraq war was being considered. You can copy and paste from any of my posts.

I normally don't speak out against any politician until I know of some wrongdoing on their part. I'm curious; show me proof of your claim that I attacked Bush before Iraq.

Besides, I don't hate Bush; he was one of the worst presidents in history - also responsible for the war in Afghanistan and the Great Recession. He also shirked his military duty in the Air National Guards.

Virginia Congressional map thrown out by judges for racial bias
http://www.vox.com/2014/10/7/6939763/virginia-congressional-map-court-racial-gerrymandering

Your entire post is right on target, CI. After I understood how W was controlled mentally by Dick Cheney, there was no love lost on the man. To be truthful, I disliked GWB from the beginning as he campaigned. It began with his malapropisms, the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect. Compared with Al Gore's performance, Bush Jr's many flaws glaringly stood out. He refused to debate the first two or three calls for public policy discussion. They finally had two and in the first one, Bush had a mechanism under his jacket to receive answers to questions he could not answer. The media caught this and the imprint of the cord was seen underneath his suit coat. The second debate they decided to give it to GWB just for his showing up!....they realized W was frightened to debate Gore, a master rhetorician.

Bush was doing a lot of sniffing on TV and some thought he had a cold; it was speculated hard use of much cocaine had damaged his septum. He served one tour of duty, if one can call it that. He showed up when he wasn't too hung over but his father had powerful influential pull and nothing happened to W. The same applied to Yale University (his father's alma mater) where he graduated with a C average. His father donated millions of dollars to the University to allow his unqualified son to attend.

So you see, CI, all of the above information merely helped me to form my opinion of Bush jr. And once I saw the audacity, the gall by which they invaded Iraq, a sovereign nation that was no threat to the US or any other country, my disrespect for the man skyrocketed. The accumulated affects of that invasion lingers with us still because GWB did not pay for the two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, which had a devastating inpact on the US economy. Obama has righted this and today our stock portfolio is soaring and the economy is coming along swimmingly.

We aim to please!

The reason I do is my own party gives me such abysmal candidates. Screw the Teabillies.

And the answer why they hate him never ever boils down to anything significant. Only one thing is certain and they usually bring it up first, "it ain't racism." Riiiiigggggghhhhht.

I consider racism to be huge, in the Republicans' hatred for Obama, but, one only has to look at how they treated Clinton to to get a view of their overall focus. They were just formulating their strategy against Clinton. Now, it is in full bloom with Obama. Do any and everything to keep him from being a successful president. More because he is a Democrat than because he is black. But racists are having a field day out of it.

That's cause you're no fool, edgar!

Wal-Mart Cutting Health Benefits to Some Part-Time Employees
Source: Bloomberg

By Nick Turner and Renee Dudley Oct 7, 2014 11:08 AM ET

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), the world’s largest retailer, plans to stop offering health benefits to U.S. employees who work less than 30 hours a week, becoming the latest company to cut coverage in response to the Obamacare law.

The change, which affects about 30,000 workers, is in line with what other retailers are doing, including Target Corp. (TGT), Home Depot Inc. (HD) and Walgreen Co. (WAG), the company said today on its website. Wal-Mart will rely on the firm HealthCompare Insurance Services Inc. to help employees find replacement coverage.

“We don’t make these decisions lightly, and the fact remains that our plans exceed those of our peers in the retail industry,” Sally Welborn, senior vice president of global benefits for the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company, said on its internal blog.

The U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, doesn’t require companies to cover part-time workers, and offering them health plans may disqualify those people from subsidies in government-run insurance exchanges that opened last year. Today’s move by Wal-Mart will affect about 2 percent of its 1.3 million U.S. employees.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-07/wal-mart-will-cut-health-benefits-to-some-part-time-employees.html

More effects of the ACA. So these people who had insurance are now going to have to go to a govt solution for a problem that was created by the govt. Perfect.

What 'government solution' are you talking about? The only 'solution' based on the ACA is that ten million more Americans now have health insurance.

What meddling part of the Federal Government are you whining about? The insurance comes from private companies fer chrissakes. Its saving people money and their lives.

I don't doubt this is the case with some Republicans, but in my personal view, Edgarblythe, racism is dominant, and especially so in the cultural deep South, the Bible Belt, and many of the Red states. It has seemed to be OK for all racists to come out of the closet now that there is a black president and their resentment at seeing a black man occupy the highest position weights heavily on many whites who thought they had nothing to fear any longer from Blacks, and certainly not a black president. This is most highlighted when on Obama's first Inauguration night. McConnell and his think-a-likes from the Republican Party decided they would collectively oppose everything this black president did and they have been wildly successful! People who had never even dreamed a black could be president of the US were stunned when Obama pulled it off and then, many realized their hold on the most prestigious, exalted office in the land, had been seized by a black man...not once but twice! Now the race is on to make sure it doesn't happen again. Even Clinton or any white would looked better in that office than Black Barack Obama in the racist mind.

I am delighted President Obama's term will be over in 2 more years. It is painful to see the ridicule dumped on this decent man.....but this is the dark side of our species. Obama does have his supporters, but they are drowned out by the racists who shout the loudest. It was these supporters who put him into the white house in the first place, not his detractors.

The Republicans are benevolent to their racist fellow Republicans, but I still think they are following a strategy that was born during Clinton's time. If Hillary had been elected, it would have been the same, except they would substitute racism for undercutting her for being female.

However, doesn't it make you wonder why blacks and women vote for republican candidates that have shown their teeth of bigotry and the control of women's bodies?

If they're okay with that, why I should complain?

From moveon.org.

http://pol.moveon.org/waronwomen/

Some women aren't shocked, and vote for more of the same.

Maybe they have a variation of the abused woman syndrome.

Maybe some, but the majority? That's hard to believe.

From thinkprogress.org.

More likely the women grew up with the mind set of women in the forties and fifties, where the woman played second fiddle to the husband. Treated like a servant and submissive - willingly. Because the men remind me of those days also.