We're back from the holiday with so much to talk about!
President Obama began campaigning in Ohio, visiting the manufacturing town of Maumee where he touted the bailout of the auto industry. Just a couple miles away, Mitt Romney hammered away at the incumbent president's message. NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
President Obama takes his “Betting on America” bus tour to battleground Ohio as the Romney campaign deals with new reports of offshore tax havens.
Bloomberg View columnist William Cohan joins Martin Bashir to analyze why the Romney campaign doesn't have a clamp down on the many tales of his offshore investments.
Tonight, former Gov. Ted Strickland (D-OH), an Obama 2012 campaign Co-Chair, has some tough words for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Researchers are predicting a rebound from last month's disappointing job numbers. We'll preview the June jobs report and what it means for the campaign with Steve Benen, Contributing Writer and Blogger with the Washington Monthly.
Rep. John Yarmuth tells msnbc's Richard Liu that the June jobs numbers report will be seen by both Democrats and Republicans as bolstering their candidate.
The right wing media us turns its sights against Mitt Romney and his confused "tax or penalty" campaign. Sam Stein, Huffington Post political editor, has the latest.
Detractors on the right are criticizing the Romney campaign over a stumble on healthcare messaging, and pushing for Romney to be more specific on his policies. Will the criticism change anything? Erin McPike of Real Clear Politics and columnist Bob Franken weigh in.
Ann Romney says Barack Obama’s campaign strategy is to “kill“ her husband. The Big Panel – Patricia Murphy, Editor of Citizen Jane Politics and Daily Beast contributor, Susan Del Percio, Republican Strategist and MSNBC Contributor, Keli Goff, author of "The GQ Candidate” – weighs in on her questionable comments.
Mitt Romney's wife blasted the Obama campaign's strategy to launch a personal assault on the presidential candidate's character and business background. The Huffington Post's Sabrina Siddiqui discusses.
A shocking new report says Republican voter ID laws could disenfranchise three quarters of a million voters!
A new article from Mother Jones finds that UFO sightings are more common than voter fraud. In 10 years, 13 credible cases of in-person voter fraud were found, while there were 47,000 UFO sightings. So why are some states pushing for a solution to a voter problem that doesn't seem to exist? Rev. Al Sharpton explains.
And in the Big Finish, comedian Chris Rock tweets about slavery on Independence Day and the right wing can't stand it. Dr. James Peterson, Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University, responds tonight.
Ed is taking a few days off, but the always excellent Michael Eric Dyson will be filling in.
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Think the republican paranoids should be watching the skies more closely instead of the ballot boxes. "Men in Black Four"!*******
What's with all these buses, first it was Snakes on a Plane! then Nun's on a Bus!
Speaking of buses, the Repubs like to bash the Prez for riding around in a bus made in Canada. ALL of the buses the candidates used have been made in Canada! We don't make those in the U.S.A. We should, and if he ever gets a House that's on his side, maybe we can get one of those companies going. Repubs aren't happy unless they can bi*&h about something!
Seriously, that is an excellent idea. We need buses, and are capable of making buses -- so why aren't we?
Nuns on a bus...yeah I bet Paul Ryan must be like "I have had it with all these..monkeyfighting...nuns on this...monday to friday bus"
Nuns on a bus...yeah I bet Paul Ryan must be like "I have had it with all these..monkeyfighting...nuns on this...monday to friday bus"
ED, If we have learned any thing over the past months it is the Reported Monthly Job Numbers are always revised after they are initially reported. Rather than discuss the miserable numbers reported for June, how about waiting until they are revised so your viewers get the real numbers. As an example I cite the February and March 2012 Job Numbers. The original numbers reported were revised by 15,000 after the initial report from the Department of Labor hit the News Media.
Cute. You think Ed reads your crappy little posts.
I agree we need to see the real job number. I am sure it will be the same as mentioned above; that once the numbers are released and corrected to actual we will see an increase from the initial numbers. As for the report above, I think the revised number is a little low. The revised employment number I am sure was greater than 15K.
If I was not clear, the 15K was an increase in the job numbers reported.
Patriot, You are correct, they were increases. I assumed the viewers knew what I was talking about.
A concern about the president's speech today is that, like most of the media, the president noted his allegiance to the middle class alone. That's a change. I remember back in the first campaign when he still had the courage to mention the millions now in poverty. It's unfortunate, too, in that the poor voted very heavily for him, yet they continue to have no representation in govt whatsoever. Well, no point voting for someone who won't represent you. Ever since the 1990s, we've heard that helping the middle class will help everyone. That's only marginally true. (Historically, when the richest few gained too much power, harming the country, the poor and middle classes united to successfully push back, but now we're deeply divided.) Some jobs might trickle down, but more likely, they'll just be shipped out. The jobs that people were once able to get to work their way up are gone. The only thing the president mentions related to poverty amounts to more promises of job creation, as we've been hearing for 30+ years. Good, but how can people survive until those jobs actually show up? Millions of us are a single job loss from losing everything. How do you then get another job when you have no home address, no phone, no clean clothes/bath, bus fare?
The answer is to vote all republicans out of office and we will all be better off.
DH, I made the same observation. Obama said some thing a long the line of We are not looking to help people that are not willing to help themselves. I took his statement as a prelude to cuts to Food Stamps and Welfare Programs. The current Democrat Farm Bill in the Senate proposes a 12 Billion Dollar cut to Food Stamps. Of course the Democrats will attack the Republicans in the House for proposing a 16 Billion Dollar cut in the program. I guess the Democrats only want some people to starve, but not as many as the Republicans. I personally believe it is our obligation as individuals to help the needy. I don't bellieve it is a Government responsibility. I say cut all the spending on Food Stamps and leave the issue in the hands of those nearest to those in need.
Well there is what's called diversity of thought that doesn't exist on the right which is why democrats seldom all agree on anything where as the republicans are always in lock step
now there is a huge difference between 12 billion and 16 billion as I'm sure I don't have to explain to you. Fact is the dems know cuts have to be made but gutting the entire program isn't okay. They know you have to compromise with the republicans who only want cuts
now find me one successful nation state where the government provides none thing you foolishly believe charity will make up for...and when people close to the need choose to do nothing then what
let them die?
Cynical, The United States of America for its first 150 years. Family, neighbors, Churches, and private organization did a great job, absent of Government involvement.
No they didn't what history book are reading......starvation and poverty didn't happen in the first century and half of the country
Cynical, Of course there was Poverty, there always will be and the 15 Trillion Dollars spent on its eradication has done little to stop it. There is no doubt that during the Colonial Period when the Nation was first forming there was starvation and a lot of it in some places. This was not due to an absence of Government intervention or the absences of a compassionate community, it was due to the lack of food. There were also cases of starvation with the Indian population. But over all when compared to Europe and the rest of the world there were few cases of starvation in the United States. There were also cases of starvation during period of economic hardship, but over all the standard of living was very good for the vast majority of Americans and it still is. Let me simply ask you this. If there was no Government Programs to support the needy, would you not do more for your neighbors in need? While we as a whole are very Charitable, far too many of us rely on the Government to help our neighbors, friends, and family. It is not the Governments responsibility, it is our individual obligation.
I love this idea that government is some seperate aline force not made of people. Government is people my friend. The money you give to it comes from you. What your government does is done in your name whether you know it or not or whether you find that unsettling or not. To try and say otherwise is really just a cop out, an excuse to not have make any changes to it.
Let me ask you do you think that government programs to help the needy don't have any connection to the people who find it aka the pepople who pay taxes aka you?
As for me the answer is no since I don't particularly care all that much about the people who live near me, but that's a different story.
Seriously what you think government is made of? Robots?
Cynical, Of course Government is people, the wealthy Ruling Class Elite controls it, and it employs others, that through Union donations feed the political machine that keeps the Ruling Class Elite in power. Somehow I don't believe you think the same of Corporations. Stockholders, Executives, Managers, and workers (all people). Secondly I don't give the Government any thing, it is taken! If Government acted on behalf of the people Obama Care would never have been passed, the majority of people didn't want or need it. The same holds true for the Auto Bailout and the Stimulus. The Ruling Class Elite deciding what is best for us poor ignorant masses. Certainly there are Government Programs that benefit all the people, the Defence Department for example. I do like your comment about your neighbors. I am fairly certain there are people in need within your community, your neighbors? After all you are part of the 99%. It appears you don't believe they are worthy of your compassion, your charity. If that is the case why do you think the government should step in when you are not willing to? I see a big difference between a neighbor, say a single mother with two children in need of help and a bum. I would provide assistance to the single mother, but not the bum. The Government is not so discriminate. Like many Liberals your compassion is limited to the amount of Tax Dollars the Government is willing to spend. As I said Charity is an Individual Obligation, not a Government Responsibility. Your obligation of Charity cannot be fulfilled by the Government.
So then fix the system instead of just bitching about it. No matter the people are always in control, there is always a choice to say otherwise is simply an excuse for not paying attention to world events. If people put their mind to it all that can change. Always love the system is bad so let's not doing anything about it argument.
Funny mention the ruling elite yet apparently according to the GOP when the left says the same thing it's stalinism.
Being people doesn't mean any collective entity is the same as a human. Government is made by people but it itself is not a person. That's laughable you think I believe otherwise.
As I said before in life there are always choices sometimes it's easier to pretend there aren't but there always are. If you didn't want to pay taxes all that bad you'd move to somewhere undeveloped part of the world. If you have no taxes or things from the people that are collectively pooled together there is no governemnt. Call it what you like but no government "taking" anything is anarchy aka no government.
Again if you don't like it get up and do something about it instead just bitching. You continue to act as if a society can have no influence on the governance within it as if governments can never change. Now more onto your policy lies every provisional in obamacare accept for the mythical individual mandate is outrageously popular. If the autobailout hadn't happened the unemployment rate and the economy would be much worse. If it's so bad why was Romney trying to take credit for it if it was so unpopular?
Clearly you have a fundamental misunderstanding that I am making so statements about the current US government I am reffering to government as a concept. Also just as a small note what if people, a majority, decided the defense department wasn't benefitting all people does that necessarily mean this is not the case? That it isn't helping people....is it not possible for people to vote against their own interests? I suppose you must believe that popularity should override what one feels deeply and personally is right. There is something to be said about doing something because you believe it is right and must happen whether it's popular or not. Popularity can not always be the deciding factor.
Ha what a laugh....what about AIDS in africa if this society put its mind to it things would be better, we have the compability to end it however we do not. We could end Syria now if we wished, we don't, and why? Because as the human animals we are it is in our nature to be selfcentered. While you deny that I'm just being real. Lets be honest america we care for ourselves first 'cuz we could do a little things and we don't because of our own personal desires so it's a little late for this society to pretend like it really cares all that much
Point is what is to stop everyone from thinking like me? What then? The people die then don't they. I don't care how likely you believe anything to be I am making the various obvious case that just because people can help does not have anything to do with whether they will or not. So if one is really concerned you might want a sure thing as opposed to a "maybe".....what if they can't help almost at all? Then what we're all screwed.......
You continue to forget that government is an extention of the collective will and resources of a society....when you pay taxs you pay and facilitate all that it does whether you agree with those actions or not. If we do not choose to have any governance by not paying or pooling any resources into a government nothing is stopping us. We indeed do have that choice. Government is voluntary like the law. Murder is illegal but will that stop you from getting killed? Clearly no, so does that mean the law does nothing?
Rules are only rules when people choose to follow them. Following the rules is actually voluntary, the universe won't stop you from breaking them.
If you don't want government helping the bum, move to a different locality or change the system in the government that is responsible for helping. The people will never be powerless, if you don't want that happening you have the power to change it no matter what you've convinced yourself of. The entire that there is nothing that people can not do anything to change the systems they themselves created is nothing more than an excuse for why individuals choose not to use their power.
Cynical, And that is why Conservatives were elected in 2010 and why more will follow in 2012. We can change the Government and we will.
Yes you can yet you haven't. The tea party has accomplished nothing and has no plans to do so in the future.
Cynical, If the Tea Party accomplished nothing, then Obama mush have accomplished every thing he wanted to.
I don’t care what Chris Rock tweeted… IS WASN’T STRONG ENOUGH! Blacks and Latinos have experienced abuse of power and racism not many WASPs can understand. How many Americans have been railroaded by an corrupt legal system that forces inmates to work for pennies a day?
What kind of fascist police state are you Conservative wackos running?
A long list of legislation starting with “fiscal conservatism” and “trickle down economics” led to the decline in federal aid to local governments from $64 per resident in 1980 to $29 in 1992. To REPLACE the lost funding, a mandate for LAW ENFORCEMENT and Criminal Justice (sic) System to generate revenue for itself, State and local governments. PROFIT margins created a government VS. the PEOPLE mentality.
NOTE: (Sunday, April 16, 2000 Press-Enterprise B-1 article titled “San Bernardino County leads nation in forfeitures” WHAT? Joseph D. Mcnamara, a research fellow at Stanford University and former police chief in San Jose, said: “I think in general it’s a BAD MISTAKE to have the police interested in anything other than the pursuit of justice”
Add the special interest pandering which further separated the PEOPLE from “LIFE, LIBERTY, HAPPINESS, EQUAL RIGHTS and JUSTICE”. As a mater of fact JUSTICE became a commodity bought and sold by the wealthy, powerful and well-connected. Jail and forced slavery for everyone else who can‘t pay up…
Southern speed traps, stupid drug laws, Red State expensive toll roads and Arizona routine traffic stops
Hidden taxes through police ticketing, tolls, fines penalties, code enforcement, seizures, court costs, bail among other ways law enforcement generates income for itself and local governments. The whole system reminded me of something I couldn’t put my finger on when it hit me… a shake down by ORGANIZED CRIME! I am somebody who hates a police state consciousmc.blogspot.com
© 2012 by FGE
So...enforcing immigration laws is racist? And the only real racism in the black community I see is the murder of blacks on blacks at an astounding rate. The worst thing to happen to the black community is the welfare state and the effects it has had on the black family. And the numbers are there to prove my point of that reality.
So a white guy killing a white guy is racist? Are sure you want to keep that theory? Your assumption that blacks are stupid and lazy and ae dependent on welfare is in it itself what most americans would call racist. Just saying......you know in case you didn't know
I thik slavery was a little worse than this mythical welfare dependence...wait isn't the right always talking about how we shouldn't talk about anything in racial terms.....
Michelle Malkin and those who support her most recent idiot comment are fools who do not understand what this country really is about. The neo-cons always label anyone who is in away critical of america and then trash the president, the supreme court, teachers.....this "true americans" bull---- pisses me off and I'm done putting up with that
The bus is warming up pal. The fact remains that this country has veered far from what the founders intended and the road we are on currently leads to oblivion and Liberals are standing on the gas pedal. Libs don't seem to take kindly to having the truth being told to them.
The same goes for you, I've noticed.
The same conservative policies that tanked our economy gave us the patriot act, trickle down economics, vagina obcessions of republicans, iran/contra are all helping the country..ha what a laugh
conservaticism has divorced itself from reality