Obama '08?

okie wrote:

The term "bigot" has been used way too freely, mostly by liberals by the way, to demagogue and beat down the people that disagree with them, to the point that the term has lost its real meaning and significance, and usefulness

Ya, in theory disagreement is allowed, but in practice all efforts to voice disagreement is not. The logical jumps required to rationalize this nonsense would be a hoot if were not the cause of so many of America's failures to preserve our way of life.

Robert S. Lichter, Professor at Smith College, and Stanlty Rothman, Professor at George Washington University, after an extensive study, in The Radical Personality: Social Psychology Components of New Left Ideology, 1982:
Most liberals exhibit a narcissistic pathology marked by grandiosity, envy, a lack of empathy, illusions of personal perfection, and a sense of entitlement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Media_Elite
The Media Elite, written by S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman, and Linda Lichter, details a social scientific study of the ideological commitments of elite journalists and the consequences of those commitments on both the reporting itself and on its reception by the public.[1][2] The conservative Media Research Center contends that The Media Elite is "the most widely quoted media study of the 1980s and remains a landmark today."[3]
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The book is based on a survey, completed in 1980, of 238 journalists randomly selected from America's most influential news organizations: ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Content analysis and audience reception studies were used to determine if deviations between the views held by journalists and those held by the general public had any effect on the way the news gets reported and the resulting beliefs held by the public.
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Obama-is-in-over-his-head-96764199.html#ixzz0rWe2Zumj
Obama is in over his head
By: Hugh Hewitt
Examiner Columnist
June 21, 2010 Democrats expect voters not to notice, or care if they do notice, that legislators have not passed a budget for next year's federal spending.

The Pelosi-Reid "leadership" team have "gone off the grid" of congressional practice and not even pretended to care about spending targets and deficit projections. Humming "que sera sera, what ever will be will be," they twirl toward summer vacation and the November elections beyond.

President Obama and his congressional allies expect to be assisted in their casual shuffling off of the most basic of Article I duties by a Manhattan-Beltway media elite, quick to assure their dwindling audiences that the abandonment of budgeting isn't completely without precedent. Lefty pundits can and will point to a year or two where the pressures of business ended the hope of a formal budget.

The president's pals in the press will be hard-pressed, though, to find any years in which the effort wasn't even begun, and there is no example of a year wherein a deficit like the one the country faces today went unaddressed by a national budget plan.

They cannot find such a parallel because we have quite unprecedented deficits --soaring, arching, never-seen-before gushers of red ink dwarfing Bush's 2007 deficit of $160 billion by nine or 10 or even more times that amount. We cannot know for certain how high the tower of borrowed money will even approximately rise because, well, there is no budget.

The new cliche is that such magical budgeting practices are "unsustainable." They are sadly much more sustainable when everyone in power agrees to pretend that they aren't there.

Thus do the Democrats steel themselves to face a furious electorate: "What deficit? We don't have no stinking deficit. We haven't even passed a budget yet."

Democrats in the rank and file appear to understand that this will not work in the age of Tea Party activism. Clueless Dems like the very flappable Rep. Bob Etheridge, D-N.C., erupt in anger at the appearance of a flip phone, while others cower in their district offices, afraid they will be asked deeply unfair questions like, "Do you support the entire Obama agenda?" The White House advance office is scrambling to line up gigs for the president in the fall, where his act is suddenly as popular as Melanie backed up by the Lettermen.

The Gulf spill parade of fiascos is adding to the president's ever-present and growing aura of vincibility, and Hill staffers are freshening up the resume. They should be.

There is a vast, coast-to-coast recognition of "oiiohh" -- Obama is in over his head. I have offered the T-shirt to my radio audience, and they are moving quite briskly. The "messiah" has become a punch line.

What could he do to turn it around, I asked John Podhoretz, editor of the newly energized and sparkling Commentary magazine. "Things his ideology will never allow him to do," John replied, and we went on to talk about extending the Bush tax cuts and standing resolutely beside Israel in the face of serial provocations.

There are other steps, and the House and Senate could actually try to control spending rather than hold useless show trials of already convicted BP execs. Voters from coast to coast know the issue is the stalemated recovery and the exploding spending that is doing nothing to turn on the jobs machine.

If the GOP runs on extending the existing tax rates five years while bringing a massive ax to the federal budget, they will sweep all before them. "Enough!" is the one-word bumper sticker showing up across the country and uniting every candidate from the center to the libertarian right.

"Enough!" is enough of a slogan. Not even the Republicans can screw that up.

Examiner Columnist Hugh Hewitt is a law professor at Chapman University Law School and a nationally syndicated radio talk show host who blogs daily at HughHewitt.com

A bigot is a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices

Biden was in Wisconsin to hit the campaign trail with Democratic Senator Russ Feingold. Just days earlier, the vice president told a crowd of Feingold’s supporters gathered at a fund-raising event that "there’s no possibility to restore the 8 million jobs lost in the Great Recession."

Republicans understand that the real engine for creating jobs is private nenterprise, not the government. It appears that you have a seriously distorted view of job creation.

If Republicans understand job creation, why do ALL Republican presidents since Herbert Hoover rank below ANY Democratic president in job creation?

When the current process is finally complete and everyone is working for the government, we will see how they manage to finance it with the taxes collected from the wages they pay.

Fantastic! George, you've just invented perpetual motion.

Liberals use the term bigot because one of the main tenets of liberalism has been and continues to be opposition to bigotry.

This is how wiki defines bigot:

A bigot is a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices.

That is an exact and excellent description of you, okie.

Unfortunately this kind of "job creation" is counter productive in that it diverts capital away from the private sector

When the current process is finally complete and everyone is working for the government, we will see how they manage to finance it with the taxes collected from the wages they pay.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/suppl/empsit.cpseea1.txt

Year………………………..USA Total Civil Employed
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2001………………..............136,933,000 [BUSH43 2001 TO 2009]
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2007...........................146,047,000
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2008:
August........................ 145,273,000
September.................... 145,029,000
October....................... 144,650,007
November................... 144,144,000
December.................... 143,338,000

2009: [OBAMA 2009 TO ?]

January.................... 142,221 ,000
February................... 141,687 ,000
March......................140,854,000
April...................... 140,902,000
May........................ 140,438,000
June....................... 140,038,000
July....................... 139,817,000
August..................... 139,433,000
September................ 138,768,000
October.................... 138,242,000
November................... 138,381,000
December................... 137,792,000

2010:
January (3)................ 138,333,000
February................... 138,641,000
March...................... 138,905 ,000
April......................... 139,455,000
May……………….139,420,000