President Obama's new policy on immigration is popular, but not everyone is a fan. When asked about it, Mitt Romney was unable to provide an alternative plan when asked about the policy, other than to say it would be replaced by a "long-term solution". Alicia Menendez of HuffPost Live and Felipe Matos, National Field Director of Get Equal, react to Romney's answers.
Ed is back tonight (reporting from Los Angeles) and he’s fired up about immigration!
Four days after President Obama's dramatic shift in immigration policy, Mitt Romney is still tongue-tied. And Democrats hammering him for it.
Tonight, Ed welcomes Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Joan Walsh, Salon’s Editor at Large, to talk about the Republican nightmare over the Dream Act.
Protesters stage a silent march against New York's divisive "stop and frisk" policy on the same day Rodney King died. Is New York's policy racial profiling? Ed will ask Dr. James Peterson, Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University.
Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the U.S. Senate, defends the Koch brothers before their anti-Obama retreat. Howard Dean, former Democratic National Committee Chairman, former presidential candidate and the founder of Democracy for America, explains what the corporate takeover of America is all about.
A conservative activist shouts down the president and now one veteran journalist admits some righties just can't stand having a black president. The Big Panel (Michael Medved, nationally syndicated talk show host, Trymaine Lee, Senior Reporter with The Huffington Post, and Keli Goff, author of “The GQ Candidate”) weighs in on that and more.
Mitt Romney isn't winning over hoagie lovers in Pennsylvania. Ed will comment on Romney’s latest "out of touch" moment.
And in Michigan, Democrats fight back after being silenced for saying the word "vagina" on the state House floor. Ed will go live to Lansing for a special edition of The Vagina Monologues and talk with state Rep. Barb Byrum (D-MI).
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All Mitt Romney has to say is that he supports the Constitution, respects the rule of law, would enforce the immigration laws on the books, and would work with the Congress on sensible immigration reform. All the things Obama failed to do. It's ironic to think Obama believes he's "winning" the Latino vote, when in fact he angered many across the nation with this illegal mandate in his attempt to pander to them. Sweet irony as he continues to lose support. :-)
RobUs -- What a DORK !!! Even his supporters are Clueless !!!!
I'll take a successful dork over a BS snake oil salesman any day. :-)
the muslim grover norquist (3rd repub party leader in line behind ronald reagan and rush limbaugh) said that the next repub president doesn't need to know how to do anything, except to have digits high enough to know how to sign his name.
they don't want mitt romney to govern. they just want him to sign his name.
Just more 'mirror imaging' from the Liberals that elected a puppet whose strings are pulled by the large labor unions and George Soros. :-)
... nick knack paddy whack give the dog a bone this old man came rolling home..
Ah, yes, labor unions and George Soros, the great string pullers of the 21st century. Except they can't hold a candle to the Koch Bros and Sheldon Adelson. Those two can outspend anybody and probably will. These guys are your REAL string pullers, but you're too stupid to see it.
@Vatican12442 Where have you been lately? Polls after polls show Obama leading Romney on latino votes. The repubs has nothing to offer for the latino voters. Most on fox/fake news even calls them "illegals", like they're not humans. There is no sweet irony in the real world sweetheart, it only happens in your imagination. Stu*id repub.
You radical lunatics still don't get it, do you? Remember how your MSNBC polling "thought" Walker was going to lose, but won big? Do you know why? I'll let you in on a secret. Socially conservative Blacks and Latinos that voted for Obama in '08 will tell your Liberal polsters and co-workers that they would vote for Obama again so as not to deal with the radical idiotic revenge of fellow Progressive nut cases like you; that is until they go to the polls where they can vote their conscience in private. Idiot liberals... clueless to the end, and the end is coming soon for you all this November. So, please keep embracing those "polls". I see it and enjoy the fact that you all don't. Another election surprise!
We should just make it legal for anyone to come to this country. I dont what the hell is wrong with Mitt. Let em all come on in we go plenty of room, jobs and money. If we run out of money no worries we still got a printing press.
Good grief.....
Gutless Runny runs his mouth and does not say anything. All blank statements and who under the heavens will believe what he says or who will vote for him. Runny has no substance in his statements nor in his character. WHAT A DORK!!!!
Yea that "DORK" mitt only made himself a few hundered million bucks$$$$
because Obama's "hope and change" said so much... Ha ha! No substance and kept it simple for the Liberals. :-)
NObama 2012!!!!!!
Romney/Nobody 1812
Hell of-ah line-up there ed..
All Lefty's.
Why don't you have a guy like Jim Cramer on ???
Oh that's right he'd eat your lunch than have your guess for desert......
September 28, 2011
President Obama :
"I just have to continue to say this notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true. We are doing everything we can administratively. But the fact of the matter is there are laws on the books that I have to enforce. And I think there's been a great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It's just not true."
THE WHITE HOUSE
And the leftwingnuts say Mitt is a flip-flopper....
Just when obama flips he is violating the constitution and the rules and laws of government.
And when in the senate obama made a speech about the evils of raising the debt ceiling.
But as soon as he took office he was like a kid in the candy store...
Romney has never actually answered a question - he just rolls around it hoping that people do not notice that he has no idea of what he is saying. He is a salesman selling a load of manure !!!
I can't wait to see how many people will actually BUY that load of BS in Nov.
By being moderate to get the base's vote, he's proven that he's a liar to the fringe he was courting up till now; and by proving he's a liar to the fringe, he's proven he's a liar to everybody else.
Great description of President Obama
You have President Obama to a T
You may not know this, but twisting people's words is not an argument, and shows you to be a small child.
If obama wins.... Who will he put the blame on for the past 4 years of over 8% unemployment, 40 million on food stamps and 12 million out of work???
He can't say it was "Bush's" fault any more...
02/2013 Obama: we just took over a bad situation left by the last administration...
@Vatican12442 You're an idiot. You and Romney both are big idiots. What does Romney really stand for other than $$$? That moron changes his position each season. He doesn't stand for anything other than big money. You republicans are a bunch of hypocrite a$$h0l3s.
Aw lipkrak... you sound like another desperate nut case that knows his free ride is coming to an end this Fall when the wealth redistribution train gets derailed by real Americans. To say you're a moron would be an insult to morons like Whom. You have no clue what Romney stands for because all you watch is mindless Media Matters, which passes it's stories to MSNBC to spew to the clueless idiots like you. Enjoy the show! :-)
@Vatican12442 You're an idiot. You and Romney both are big idiots. What does Romney really stand for other than $$$? That moron changes his position each season. He doesn't stand for anything other than big money. You republicans are a bunch of hypocrite a$$h0l3s.
Just love these liberals, they give each other green stars for violating the term of use..
I told 1 poster to "get a life" and got cliped for 3 days...
Hope the majority of the American electorate decide to be mittout Romney.
That's because he's full of mitt.
There is only thing Romeny is for, and that would be nothing that president Obama is for. This Romney fool is an empty headed scare crow, and I think all us liberals would do to him what a scare crow is really for.. Right on his head..
A majority of Americans would vote for Mitt if he simply said, "I would do the opposite of everything Obama has done over the past four years." It would be a landslide victory!! :-) That's positive change!
Let's face it, many white Americans will vote for Mr. Romney for one reason...He is white! Even though he has his moderate, left foot in the closet and his right foot out just a little..to fish for white votes...he is pitiful...but he is trying to be with the teaparty boys and girls.
Still beating the old racist drum like a good Democrat that created racism in America centuries ago? At least you're consistent in your hate, fear and small minded thinking. You all used racist attacks against Herman Cain, which was funny as you were caught in a Catch 22 with Obama as many of you were Hillary supporters that hated Obama, but had no choice but to support him against McCain. Love it!! :-) It's funny watching the Obama campaign pander for Black and Latino votes as they decimate their jobs with record unemployment. We're waiting for more class warfare rhetoric BS!
oh my my my obama slapped those idiotic repukes up side their pointy little heads friday
I guess President Obama WAS AGAINST IT BEFORE HE WAS FOR IT
September 28, 2011
President Obama :
"I just have to continue to say this notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true. We are doing everything we can administratively. But the fact of the matter is there are laws on the books that I have to enforce. And I think there's been a great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It's just not true."
THE WHITE HOUSE
Only in your delusional mind, which is where most of you live on the Ed Show blog. Funny farms. :-)
14 Bald-Faced Mitt Romney Flip-Flops
#1 On Immigration - For A Path To Citizenship, Then Against
FLIP: "Gov. Mitt Romney expressed support ... for an immigration program that places large numbers of illegal residents on the path toward citizenship ... Romney said illegal immigrants should have a chance to obtain citizenship." (Evan Lehmann, "Romney Supports Immigration Program, But Not Granting 'Amnesty'," The Lowell Sun, 3/30/06)
FLOP: "[I] think I'm best off to describe my own positions. And my positions, I think I've just described for you – secure the border, employment verification and no special pathway to citizenship. I feel that's the course we ought to take." (CNN's "The Situation Room," 5/22/07)
2) On George W. Bush's Tax-Cuts
FLIP: "[R]omney spoke at the 10th annual legislative conference organized by U.S. Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Lowell) and met with the Massachusetts delegation. ... Congressional sources said that a point of contention arose when Romney refused to take a position on Bush's massive, 10-year tax cut plan." (Noelle Straub, "Romney Talks Policy With Bush Staffers, Mass. Delegation," Boston Herald, 4/11/03)
FLOP: "McCain opposed President Bush's tax cuts, Romney noted. 'I supported them,' the former governor said." (Lee Bandy, "Romney Targeting McCain," The State [SC], 2/4/07)
3) Anti-Reagan then, now Pro-Reagan.
FLIP: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan- Bush," Mitt Romney said during a debate with Ted Kennedy
FLOP: "'Ronald Reagan is one of my heroes,' Romney said as he praised Reagan's strategy for winning the Cold War: 'We win; they lose.'" (Michael Levenson, "Romney Links Gay Marriage, US Prestige," The Boston Globe, 2/26/05)
4) On The National Rifle Association And Gun Laws
FLIP: "[Romney] said he will take stands that put him at odds with some traditional ultra- conservative groups, and cited his support for the assault rifle ban and the Brady gun control law. 'That's not going to make me the hero of the NRA,' he said. 'I don't line up with a lot of special interest groups.'" (Andrew Miga, "Mitt Rejects Right-Wing Aid," Boston Herald, 9/23/94)
FLOP: Romney told a Derry, N.H., audience, 'I'm after the NRA's endorsement. I'm not sure they'll give it to me. I hope they will. I also joined because if I'm going to ask for their endorsement, they're going to ask for mine.'" (Glen Johnson, "Romney Calls Himself A Longtime Hunter," The Associated Press, 4/5/07)
5) On Whether He Even Owns A Gun (This story changed within just a few days)
FLIP: "I have a gun of my own. I go hunting myself. I'm a member of the NRA and believe firmly in the right to bear arms," Romney said. (Glenn And Helen Show, www.glennandhelenshow.com, 1/10/07)
FLOP: "Asked by reporters at the gun show Friday whether he personally owned a gun, Romney said he did not. He said one of his sons, Josh, keeps two guns at the family vacation home in Utah, and he uses them 'from time to time.'" (Scott Helman, "Romney Retreats On Gun Control," The Boston Globe, 1/14/07)
6) Is the planet warming? Mitt probably agreed with you at one time or another.
Courtesy of mittromney
FLIP: "I think the global warming debate is now pretty much over and people recognize the need associated with providing sources which do not generate the heat that is currently provided by fossil fuels ..." (Jack Coleman, "Massachusetts Governor Urges Use Of Alternative Energy," Cape Cod Times, 3/14/03)
"I concur that climate change is beginning to [have an] effect on our natural resources and that now is the time to take action ..." ("Romney OK With Plan On Emissions," Boston Herald, 7/24/03)
FLOP: "I have to tell you with regards to global warming that that's something, which, you're right, the scientists haven't entirely resolved, but no question about one thing, it's getting warmer, and a lot of good reasons for us to use less energy, to use it more efficiently and to develop sources here in this country that could allow us to be more independent of foreign sources." (CNBC's "Kudlow & Company," 2/7/07)
"Unfortunately, some in the Republican Party are embracing the radical environmental ideas of the liberal left. As governor, I found that thoughtful environmentalism need not be anti-growth and anti-jobs. But Kyoto-style sweeping mandates, imposed unilaterally in the United States, would kill jobs, depress growth and shift manufacturing to the dirtiest developing nations. Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore." (Romney For President, Press Release, 2/23/07)
7) Don't Ask Don't Tell? Don't Ask Mitt Romney
FLIP: In 1994 "[Romney] called President Bill Clinton's 'don't ask, don't tell' military policy 'the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation's military.'" (Dan Balz and Shailagh Murray, "Mass. Governor's Rightward Shift Raises Questions," The Washington Post, 12/21/06)
FLOP: "[Romney] defended his policy switch on gays in the military. He said when he first heard the phrase 'don't ask, don't tell,' he thought it was 'kind of a silly phrase that didn't make a lot of sense.' But the last 10 years have convinced him that the policy is working and there is no reason to change it, he said." (Alexa Aguilar, "Romney Campaigns In Chicago," Chicago Tribune, 4/12/07)
8) Has your position on same-sex marriage changed? So has Mitt Romney's.
FLIP: When a 2002 Constitutional Amendment was proposed to ban same-sex marriage, Romney opposed it. "Romney's family members signed the petition to put it on the ballot 'without reading the fine print,' [Romney aide Eric] Fehrnstrom said, but he has no reason to believe they do not support it. 'Mitt did not know they signed it, and Mitt does not support it,' he said. 'As far as Mitt is concerned, it goes farther than current law, and therefore it's unnecessary.'" (Rick Klein, "Romney Kin Signed Petition To Ban Same-Sex Marriage," The Boston Globe, 3/22/02)
FLOP: "Just two weeks before lawmakers resume a Constitutional Convention to vote on a proposed ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage, Gov. Mitt Romney will stand with the supporters of the measure to call on the Legislature to back it. Romney will join petition backers in a State House press event today to urge the Legislature to pass the Protection of Marriage Amendment when the Constitutional Convention reconvenes July 12, authorizing a 2008 ballot question asking voters to define marriage as between one man and one woman." (Kimberly Atkins and Kate Gibson, "Mitt Joining Supporters Of Anti-Gay Wed Initiative," Boston Herald, 6/28/06)
9) On embryonic stem cell research, Romney's still developing a fully-formed position.
FLIP: "Speaking at a bioethics forum, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Mitt Romney yesterday endorsed embryonic stem cell research ... [Romney] endorsed embryonic stem cell research, saying the controversial science might one day help treat his wife's multiple sclerosis in addition to numerous other degenerative diseases. ... Romney spoke extensively about his position on stem cell research, which also involves embryo destruction." (Raja Mishra, "Romney Endorses Stem Cell Research, Is Silent On Cloning," The Boston Globe, 6/14/02)
FLOP: ...On Feb. 10, 2005 ... Romney came out strongly against the cloning technique ... He vowed to press for legislation to criminalize the work. Romney's opposition stunned scientists, lawmakers, and observers because of his past statements endorsing, at least in general terms, embryonic stem cell research." (Scott Helman, "Romney's Journey To The Right," The Boston Globe, 12/17/06)
10) Favorite Book? Well, that depends.
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FLIP: FOX NEWS' MARTHA MCCALLUM: And an interesting response to his favorite novel. ROMNEY: "Actually the one by L. Ron Hubbard, I hate to think ... I'm not in favor of his religion by any means, but he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was a very fun science fiction book." (Fox News' "Fox & Friends," 4/30/07)
FLOP (Maybe just a hedge): "Asked about his comments during a Fox News interview Monday that L. Ron Hubbard's 'Battlefield Earth' is his favorite novel, Romney said Huckleberry Finn is his favorite fiction and that the book by Hubbard, who founded Scientology, is his favorite science fiction reading." (Mary Anne Ostrom, "Education Should Determine Immigrants' Legal Status, Mitt Romney Says," The [San Jose, CA] Mercury News, 5/1/07)
11) His Own Health-Care Initiative. He's Not Sure About That Either.
FLIP: "In a Colonial-era hall, with a fife-and-drum corps marching in with him, Gov. Mitt Romney (R) signed a bill Wednesday requiring all Massachusetts residents to purchase health insurance -- portraying the measure as a historic solution to health-care costs, even as questions emerge about whether the state can afford it. The signing [was] staged with a near-presidential attention to theatrics and slogan-bearing banners..." (David A. Fahrenthold, "Mass. Marks Health-Care Milestone," The Washington Post, 4/13/06)
FLOP: "As governor of Massachusetts he signed a bipartisan law intended to ensure that every resident has coverage. Romney touted it as an innovative free-market solution. Yet these days, Romney ... is much more likely to present his state's universal coverage law as not a model to copy but an example for other states to learn from. He's now a critic of his own biggest achievement." (Sean Higgins, "Ex-Gov. Romney Keeps Distance From His Own Mass. Health Plan," Investor's Business Daily, 3/7/07)
12) Tax Pledges are beneath Romney, until the presidency was in front of him.
FLIP: "Four years ago, Mitt Romney broke with GOP tradition and refused to sign the [Americans for Tax Reform] pledge [to 'oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes']." (Lisa Wangsness, "Healey Will Sign Antitax Pledge," The Boston Globe, 9/4/06)
"Romney's Gubernatorial Campaign Spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, Dismissed Such Pledges At The Time As 'Government By Gimmickry.'" (Scott Helman, "Romney Finds 'No New Taxes' Promise Suits Him After All," The Boston Globe, 1/5/07)
FLOP: "Almost five years after he refused to sign a 'no new taxes' pledge during his campaign for governor, Mitt Romney announced ... that he had done just that, as his campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination began in earnest." (Scott Helman, "Romney Finds 'No New Taxes' Promise Suits Him After All," The Boston Globe, 1/5/07)
13) Money in politics? Sometimes its good, sometimes it is bad.
FLIP: "Romney also said he advocates spending limits on congressional elections, even suggesting that the current race against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy should have a $6 million spending cap." (Frank Phillips, "Romney, Vowing To Live It, Touts Congress Reform Plan," The Boston Globe, 7/27/94)
"[Mitt Romney] once touted dramatic restructuring measures such as taxing political contributions and placing spending limits on federal campaigns." (Alexander Bolton, "Romney's About-Face On Campaign Funding," The Hill, 2/8/07)
FLOP: "Romney noted his foe from Arizona wrote the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law that restricts certain types of contributions. 'That's a terrible piece of legislation,' Romney said. 'It hasn't taken the money out of politics. ... (But) it has hurt my party.'" (Lee Bandy, "Romney Targeting McCain," The State, 2/4/07)
14) NOW THE BIG ONE: During his 1994 Senate Run, Mitt Romney argued that he was more pro-choice than Ted Kennedy
FLIP: "When Kennedy called him 'multiple choice,' Romney demanded an extra rebuttal. He revealed that a close relative died of an illegal abortion years ago and said, 'Since that time, my mother and my family have been committed to the belief that we can believe as we want, but we will not force our beliefs on others on that matter, and you will not see me wavering on that.'" (Joan Vennochi, "Romney's Revolving World," The Boston Globe, 3/2/06)
"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it." (Joan Vennochi, "Romney's Revolving World," The Boston Globe, 3/2/06)
14) (continued) When he went to conservative Utah, that tune changed.
FLOP: "When I am asked if I am pro-choice or pro-life, I say I refuse to accept either label." (Glen Warchol, "This Is The Place, But Politics May Lead Romneys Elsewhere," The Salt Lake Tribune, 2/14/99)
14 (continued) But I'm running for office in Massachusetts again, so I'm pro-choice again
FLIP: "I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose, and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard. I will not change any provisions of Massachusetts' pro-choice laws." (2002 Romney-O'Brien Gubernatorial Debate, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 10/29/02)
In 2002, Romney Offered His Completed NARAL Questionnaire, Filled Out With "Mostly Abortion-Rights Positions," To The Media Even Before Returning It To NARAL. "Yesterday, Romney also aimed to head off confusion about his stance on abortion rights by answering a Mass National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League questionnaire with mostly abortion-rights positions. He offered the questionnaire to the press even before he returned it to MassNARAL..."
14 (continued) FLOP: Then he started thinking of national office as a Republican. ANd he happened to have a revelation
FLOP: "Romney said he had a change of heart on the issue after speaking with a stem-cell researcher, Dr. Douglas Melton. Romney claims Melton said 'Look, you don't have to think about this stem cell research as a moral issue, because we kill the embryos after 14 days.'
'It hit me very hard that we had so cheapened the value of human life in a Roe v. Wade environment that it was important to stand for the dignity of human life,' Romney says." (Karen Tumulty, "What Romney Believes," Time, 5/21/07)
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Bald-Faced Obama Flip-Flops
1. Keeping Guantanamo open
Undoubtedly Obama's biggest flip-flop, his decision to keep the Guantanamo detention facility in operation has outraged his liberal supporters and 'shocked' European governments, who, needless to say, had overwhelmingly declined to take large numbers of dangerous terror suspects off the hands of the US government.
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama had condemned President Bush for supposedly "running prisons which lock people away without telling them why they're there or what they're charged with", and signed an executive order shutting the facility down immediately upon taking office. Two years later Guantanamo still holds 172 detainees, and plays a vital role in the long war against Islamist terrorism.
2. Bringing back military tribunals for terror suspects
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was a firm opponent of the Bush administration's military tribunals, which he said "failed to establish a legitimate legal framework and undermined our capacity to ensure swift and certain justice." But, as The New York Times reported last week, "President Obama on Monday reversed his two-year-old order halting new military charges against detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, permitting military trials to resume with revamped procedures but implicitly admitting the failure of his pledge to close the prison camp", paving the way for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators to face trial at Guantanamo.
3. Continuing renditions of terror suspects
In a 2007 Foreign Affairs article, Senator Obama gave a strong indication that he would end the Bush administration practice of rendition of terror suspects:
But, as The New York Times reported in August 2009, the Obama administration's Interrogation and Transfer Task Force announced that it would retain renditions, but with what The Times referred to as "more oversight".
4. Ordering military action in Libya without seeking Congressional authorisation
President Obama has shown a striking lack of consistency with regard to the question of Congressional authorisation and the use of force. In a 2007 interview with The Boston Globe, then Senator Obama declared:
However, as president in March 2011, Barack Obama authorised military action against the Libyan regime without consulting Congress, a decision which drew heavy fire on Capitol Hill.
5. Dropping Third Site missile defences in order to appease the Russians
In his Prague speech in April 2009, President Obama pledged to move forward with the Bush-era plans for Third Site missile defences in Poland and the Czech Republic:
Just six months later however, the Obama administration surrendered to Russian demands, and dramatically dropped plans for Third Site. As I noted at the time, "this was a shameful abandonment of America's friends in eastern and central Europe, and a slap in the face for those who actually believed a key agreement with Washington was worth the paper it was written on."
6. Letting Sudan off the hook for the Darfur genocide
In 2004, Senator Obama was a prominent supporter of a "humanitarian intervention" to halt state-sponsored mass killing in Darfur, declaring in a speech that "we cannot, in good conscience, stand by and let the genocide continue." He advocated tough UN sanctions against the brutal regime of Omar Hassan al-Bashir, which "should freeze the assets of the Sudanese government, its leaders and business affiliates; outlaw arms sales and transfers to Sudan; and prohibit the purchase of Chinese oil."
However, as president, Obama dramatically changed his tune, extending the hand of friendship to Bashir, despite the fact the Sudanese government and its proxy Janjaweed Arab militias had butchered hundreds of thousands of people. As Obama's special envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force Major General J. Scott Gration put it, describing the new strategy of appeasement:
Or as known as in the real world Fox news rewrites of Obama not meant to be factual but don't it make us money.
I would have to say that Romney is still "evolving"in his position on the issues
Spoken from someone when President Obama pulls something from his behind, you are ready with a fork and a knife
Projecting your love of the Koch brothers again?
Still stroking George Soros again in his "magic underpants"? :-)
Or as known as in the real world Fox news rewrites of Obama not meant to be factual but don't it make us money.
Ah you can not just "re-write" what a person says in the media and in public and in private..
FOX news like all news media ( the ed show is not a news show) just play back the video and it is obama bumping his gum's and we all listen to what he is saying.
How many times in the very short history of the ed show, has ed come out and said he screwed up!!!!!!! got the Lura Ingraham deal, the Rick Perry deal........
2 of ed's highlights.....
Senator McConnell says it is OK if there is no disclosure?
So, here's a question:
Would he feel the same way if a HUGE amount of CASH suddenly poured in supporting President Obama and the other Democratic candidates - enough to effect the outcome - the source of which is not disclosed?
My guess is the answer Is NO - of course not!!!!!
Obama was the 1st to use a Super PAC when he ran against McCain, and chose to use a Super PAC again in 2012. Now they find themselves being out done by the GOP as Romney is receiving more contributions 5 months from the election. Ha ha! :-) Now lets hear the whining because this blog is so cheesy. It's a perfect combination. Those that live by the sword; often die by the sword.
@Vatican
Your persuasive logic is just ... well ... stunning?
There are many points regarding campaign financing - who did what first, most, best, whatever - that could be talked about. You know - discuss pros and cons.
I was limiting my comment specifically to whether the sources of money that are large enough to effect the outcome of elections should be made known. It's kind of like wondering whether you should buy a used car if you knew nothing about the person who was telling you what a great deal you are getting.
If you have an opinion and are interested in sharing, please go ahead. But, to be honest, I think I'll just go back to ignoring what you have to say.
Vatican's a spammer who's not interested in discussion. He just attacks everyone on the blog.
I think he's a rereg of OtD.
He lives in his mother's basement playing HALO and delivering pizza and beer for cigarette and beer money.
MMMMmmm, pizza! and a cold beer! MMMMmmmm Okay, breaks over - time to kick more Liberal butt with the facts. :-)
Just some of Real Chris Comments
you be the Judge!!!
Poll: Will Mitt Romney ever take a firm stance on anything?
Mon Jun 18, 2012
Unlike you, every word is true.
Odd how you left out Gohmert's comment.
Gee. I wonder if this would constitute a personal attack?
Read again
LMAO
@TheRealChris
(BTW is there a NotRealChris?)
I disagree with the phrase "@!$%#", but otherwise agree.
Statement from justlyingasfastasIcan:
juststatingitasitis
Spoken from someone when President Obama pulls something from his behind, you are ready with a fork and a knife
#10.7 - Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:08 PM EDT
Unlike you, every word is true.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
And a sign you can't think of anything to say.
Liberals,,,,, had obama done a good job, well then the money would be coming in on his side!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go read what Steve Winn has to say..... Dude is a democrat and he supported obama in 2008...
He also is the CEO of WINN resorts...
Oh look the 5 sock puppets are playing Fox's greatest conspiracy hits of the Glen Beck years. Funny how they are all for Mittens you would think they have been Mittens biggest fans, if it weren't for their Mittens is a rhino posts from a 3 months ago.
Try reading Mother Goose, it may help on your material you post...
Ed and Mr. Medved had difficulty with the two black guests on the show. Using the word, "racist" with white people just messes up their minds and they can't think...so go around it and help white folks understand. Both white men couldn't imagine any white man would consider a black man to be their equal...and way down deep too many white men have not looked at their whiteness. Practice Melissa Harris-Perry's 6 steps to help white people talk about race. One is "silence is golden" listening carefully to the black guests at the end of the program tonight may help Ed and Medved..".Not all white Americans are biased but all white Americans have been affected by bias." MSNBC needs to have MHP give some help to the white men on the show.Melissa can do it...don't be scared guys...you can still learn and look deeply at your whiteness. Ask Melissa!
Democrats of all color can't help themselves but be racist; it's in their DNA. Your self-hatred is truly delicious! Liberal whites hate blacks, and liberal blacks hate whites. Conservatives put race pimps like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton out of business, but you all give them a reason for business. :-)
White people's difficulty with the status of black people has been a part of America from the start of the Colonies and markedly North v. South to this day. We had a Jefferson Declaration provision removed by southern colonies protest, civil war over slavery and the South turned Republican because of civil rights, in wrestling with this matter as we now see played-out before us. Thanks to MHP for her basic communication guide with 6 simple, easy to follow rules.
Another Liberal "myth" that Southern Democrats some how turned Republican because of civil rights, yet they can't show which of those Democrats that fought against Civil Rights actually changed parties. Al Gore, Sr.? Nope. Robert Byrd? Nope. The south became more Republican because Democrats went too far to the left with their Progressive liberalism. The radical leftists alienated moderates, so they joined the GOP. Thanks! We appreciate your support! :-) Democrats = Racists.
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how true you are the one thing they fail to mention is that out of the 26 or so known Dixiecrates only three joined the Republican party the rest returned to the Democratic Party and fought against every civil rights bill all the way up to 1964 when Republican Senator Dirkson broke a 54 day filibuster by Democrats to block the civil rights bill
cappy is that you returned from the land of banishment? Because that is the worst history rewrite we have seen since cappy tried to claim reservations were a democratic ideal and was there to make Native Americans have to rely on government handouts.
If you were an American and understood our history you would know the Democratic attrocities against the American Indian. Guess who the President was that created policies that led to the "Trail of Tears".... Andrew Jackson, one of the founding members of the Democratic Party, another fine racist and bigot. Good job Democrats! :-) Nice try foreigner, play again.
Because that is the worst history rewrite we have seen since cappy tried to claim reservations were a democratic ideal and was there to make Native Americans have to rely on government handouts.
If you do live in the USA, then go to a liberay and read the history of the USA...
There was no GOP in those days.................. Founded in 1854
1851 the congress passes the Indian Appropriations Act........
Said by the guy who thinks free republic is a reliable news source and got his history from watching reruns of Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
Ah it is in the records of the USA Government!!!!!!
Go read the 1851 "Indian Appropriations Act" it is fact.
Next go find out when the GOP was Founded.....
Don't let the truth get in your way now....
Indeed President Jackson gave us Jacksonian Democracy and murdered American Indians by forced march because of his blind hatred towards any Indian. The original National Republican Party formed in 1843 to severely restrict immigration and deny voting and office-holding rights to immigrants before 1854 when they took a stance against the extension of slavery with most members coming from the Whig party and became the dominant party of the North. Democrats adopted a civil rights party plank in 1948 when Sen. Strom Thurmond walked-out in protest and formed the so-called Dixiecrats and then with the 1964 Civil Rights Act further alienated southern Democrats. Most of the South has since been Republican, but regardless of party has always been, in timeline, in favor of slavery then and against civil rights, and immigration, to this day.
The GOP/TEA Party must not know basic USA history! The Founding Fathers expressed their agenda in 1776 with their names on the Declaration of Independence. Today's political leaders have no issue with supporters who conceal their identity like the PLO did at the 1972 Munich Games when they made their political statement about Isreali treatment of the Arab peoples on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
In 1776 there was no PLO, no Munich games, no west bank no gaza strip.
Next those places are outside the USA....
Next thing you know the Liberals on this blog will declare the, "Remember when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!"... Their intellect is often lacking coupled with no common sense or education. :-)
The Dream Act was passed in December, 2010 by the U.S. House and received a majority of votes, 55 votes to be exact, in the Senate with several GOP Senators voting for it. The Dream Act should have been law if we actually had a democracy that ran by normal democratic rules. The GOP in the Senate filibustered the Dream Act even though a clear majority of Americans want the Dream Act passed into law. So the bottom line is that the party of obstructionism and huge corporate money is standing in the way of protecting America's Dream children. Anyone who is opposed to the Dream Act is really a very bigoted and ignorant person. Imagine deporting a child back to a country they don't even know or to a culture and language they can not speak because of something their parents did long ago.
President Obama did the right moral thing in issuing this change in policy. The will of the majority of the American people are behind his change in policy. Good policy that helps real people with real problems is often good politics. However, anyone opposed to the Dream Act or President Obama's change in enforcement policy really needs to examine their belief system. Do you really want to deport a child who has lived in America all of their formative life and gone to public school here? We do not live in a police state in America. If you think those 11 million undocumented workers are going home anytime soon you are grossly mistaken. Get over it conservatives you had a chance to pass the Dream Act in 2010 and you failed to do so. Shame on the GOP for their filibuster and hatred of America's children and families.
So you were able to get Obamacare through a GOP filibuster, but no federal budget, no jobs Bills, no Dream Act, and on and on.... it's one excuse after another with you liberals isn't it? :-) Liberals love to break the law, trample on our Constitution and have no clue what a Republic is. Predictably clueless.
The conservative's version of the Constitution is a version where oligarchs get to stamp all over our electoral system with huge amounts of corporatist money. American is becoming a plutocracy run by corporate special interests who buy and sell our democracy like shares of stock on Wall Street only the top one percent get to make all the profits in a game that is rigged in their favor. The Dream Act is not something that can be passed on reconciliation under the current rules of the U.S. Senate. Democrats controlled the Senate for only about seven months while during President Obama's first term. The 2008 recession, caused by the GOP repeal of the 1932 Glass-Steagall Act by the Graham-Bliley-Leach Act has caused a virtual depression in many parts of the country that we are only slowly now climbing our way out of.
The point is that the country was facing a severe emergency back in 2009 when our economy was in a free for all losing 800,000 jobs per month. President Obama and the Democrats had to clean up the horrible mess left over from the Bush administration. Two wars, the worst economy since 1929, trillion dollar deficits, and an ailing auto and financial sector on the verge of collapse were given to President Obama as a gift from the GOP to welcome him in office. President Obama has been cleaning the GOP disaster and messes left to him for his entire first term. Now the GOP wants to blame President Obama for not cleaning up their filthy messes like unfunded wars and tax cuts fast enough. Never mind the gross hypocrisy of the GOP filibustering everything President Obama wants to do to build up the country.
This current generation of conservatives are some of the most selfish and unpatriotic scoundrels that America has ever faced. Conservatives are brain washed right winged corporatist puppets funded by big businesses out to control America for their own selfish gain. This desire to win at all costs by the plutocrats is caused by deep avarice that is difficult too understand. President Obama wants to build America up while the conservatives want to tear the country down. If President Eisenhower were alive today, he would look at the Tea Party Republicans and puke in disgust and shame at the intolerant unpatriotic corporatist sycophants that the Republicans are today.
Ed, it occurred to me ... the goal of business is to coordinating resources to make a profit. The goal of politics is to make people's lives better by coordinating resources to accomplish that goal. This has been confused in people's minds by the rhetoric we see and hear.
Maybe an analogy would make things clearer. After all, Jesus used parables to clarify a point. So why reinvent the wheel?
We know that dentists are very smart and talented. But I wouldn't want one to work on my heart, mainly because there are no teeth in the middle of my chest!
Romney is obviously a very talented businessman, but he proved to be an inept politician as evidenced by his record in Massachusetts. The two disciplines are not the same. They require not only different skills, but a completely different mindset. I hesitate to say this, but the reason he is so socially unskilled is because there is something about people he doesn't like. If you don't like something, you don't learn about that thing. I'm not saying that he hates people, I don't believe that's true. But he doesn't see certain people, probably because he thinks they don't count or something.
I think it's great that he's learning about donuts. Regular, ordinary people eat them. So if you want to cozy up to a group of people, you should at least learn what they eat. And pronounce it correctly.
Secondly, I think that the media and the White House both are so immersed in their own political jargon that they take it for granted that people understand things. Ask regular people about what a deficit is, much less what it does. Make a questionnaire about finances, just to see whether or not you're talking past them, like over their heads. Make more analogies.
That's my observation and my two cents. I could be wrong ... but suppose I'm right?