Political Roundtable Pulsar of Annihilation part IV

[Zonkerbl]

So yeah. Gold standard sucks.

So does your Mom.

[nate33]

Zonker, sooner or later, you're going to run out of celestial phenomena. I vote for Cosmic String of Catastrophe next.

Link to old thread:
Political Roundtable Quasar of Mayhem part III

[Zonkerbl]

nice!

[hands11]

Wow, Willard has to be thinking, WTF. Didnt I already kill this guy once.

Newt is surging in SC and Perry is out ( again ) while giving Newt his support.

At the same time, "one" of Newts X wives comes out saying Newt wanted an open marriage. This is the same Newt that while speaker of the house was leading the charge to impeach Clinton for getting a BJ. And just who did he want to his wife except as the other women he was bonking. You got it, the women he is now married to, Callista Gingrich. Well, says his x wife.

Mean while Willard admits to only playing 15% in taxes ... well on the money he doesnt have over in the Caymans where he pays zero taxes.

[Cramer]

This is the same Newt that while speaker of the house was leading the charge to impeach Clinton for ONLY a BJ.

Fixed. And I can respect that.

Hey, Newt always had an agenda.......

[hands11]

This is the same Newt that while speaker of the house was leading the charge to impeach Clinton for ONLY a BJ.

Fixed. And I can respect that.

Hey, Newt always had an agenda.......

I didn't see the debate but I hear when asked about this, Newt went at the media and got a standing O. Nice.

I give Newt credit for knowing how to pull the puppet strings perfectly.

[Cramer]

This is the same Newt that while speaker of the house was leading the charge to impeach Clinton for ONLY a BJ.

Fixed. And I can respect that.

Hey, Newt always had an agenda.......

I didn't see the debate but I hear when asked about this, Newt went at the media and got an standing O. Nice.

I give Newt credit for knowing how to pull the puppet strings perfectly.

WTF? Newt went to the media and got a standing O because Clinton was only interested in a blowjob?

I try and play along and make a joke in your personal blog, that RealGM funds, and......oh, never mind.

Dude, two words. Lighten up.

Ohhhh I know, you can't because blah blah blah......

[hands11]

I'm thinking it is you that should relax.

I thought what you posted was funny.

Actually, I was thinking there would be some funny comment about a standing O. That was kind of a softball.

I just posted what happened. I wasn't bent about it nor what you posted. I find the entire thing funny.

[Cramer]

My bad......

[montestewart]

Gingrich making a pitch for the swing vote

[BanndNDC]

Gingrich making a pitch for the swingER vote

hey now

anyhoo... 7 million people signed the anti-SOPA/PIPA petition. hot dame.

[hands11]

Gingrich making a pitch for the swing vote

Well played.

His bar line was. Hey, you ever have sex with a newt ? You know he has said it.

I wonder if he has contacted the women with two vaginas yet.

Edited. Newt takes SC. This just isn't going to be easy for Mitt. People just don't like him. He is another 1% er like Bush Jr was. And as his fathers names come up more related to the taxes things, I really dont think that helps. Another family that want to be president. Daddy ran in the past.

I still say it really doesnt matter between Mitt and Newt. Both would get clobbered in a general election. Obama is doing a good job as president. We dont need a new one. What we need is a better House. That is whats broken and that isnt likely to get fixed this next election so this whole election cycle is a big fat waste of time and money. Well except for the issues that will get brought up like Citizens united and balancing the budget.

[montestewart]

^
vote early, vote often, eh?

[dobrojim]

had a FB encounter with a honest to god birther yesterday

It's hard to be polite when you're dealing with people
that willfully naive.

PS - Santorum is a true coward. He knows Obama
was born in Hawaii and is a Christian but is unwilling
to clue in his supporters probably feeling that if
he were to do that, his support would drop from
its already pitiful level.

[montestewart]

I've got a friend who's a birther and a truther, and bunch of other ers. Quite entertaining.

[dobrojim]

that's quite a combination a bi-partisan wacko

let me guess, he probably also believed in
the 70s that poor gas mileage was a plot
by the oil companies who wanted to prevent
there being 60 mpg cars from being mass produced.

[montestewart]

that's quite a combination a bi-partisan wacko

let me guess, he probably also believed in
the 70s that poor gas mileage was a plot
by the oil companies who wanted to prevent
there being 60 mpg cars from being mass produced.

He's a gearhead. He likes muscle cars. Hates working on my Toyota. He still might have a theory about the oil companies in the 70s though.

[hands11]

I hear they have a health care idea.

You have competitive free markets. And then instead of people without insurance just getting free care at hospital, etc, they are fined if they don't have minimal coverage which gets them that minimal coverage. This way, everyone pays in something but there are different level of coverage in the free market for those who want to pay more.

So what do you guys think about something like that?

[montestewart]

what if they don't have money for insurance? or for the fine? when would they be fined? how would their lack of insurance be revealed?

[Severn Hoos]

had a FB encounter with a honest to god birther yesterday

It's hard to be polite when you're dealing with people
that willfully naive.

PS - Santorum is a true coward. He knows Obama
was born in Hawaii and is a Christian but is unwilling
to clue in his supporters probably feeling that if
he were to do that, his support would drop from
its already pitiful level.

jim, I won't start on the Birther stuff - although I do think Obama's team was glad that it kept going b/c it allowed him/them to paint all opponents as crazy, dangerous whack-jobs. Until an honest-to-goodness whack-job said he was thinking of running for President and making a huge deal of the issue and it just became too much.

But on the "is a Christian" idea - this is really misleading in the way it's polled and portrayed in the press. If I was asked the following questions, here is how I would answer:

Is President Obama a Christian? No
What religion does President Obama claim (maybe offer a multiple choice)? Christian

How can this be? Well, the second is a factual question around what religion the President says he adheres to. The first is a value judgement, based on a person's words and actions. For me, when I hear him talk about important issues - and especially when I talk about anything of a religious nature - my evaluation is that he is not "born again". (Please note, it was Jesus Himself who said "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." in John 3:3.)

Now, before anyone says this is about race or politics, please understand that I would make the same assessment about a co-worker or neighbor, regardless of race, and also about many, many people here in the Bible Belt who call themselves Christians (and vote Republican! ), but who do not pass the test Jesus laid out in the Sermon on the Mount ("by their fruit you will recognize them" - Matthew 7).

Now, frankly, if a pollster asked me if President Obama was a Christian, I'd say yes - because I know that the question he's asking is really "does President Obama claim to be a Christian?" Most pollsters would have no idea about how their questions are received by Evangelicals, so would not be precise in the wording of the questions.

I'm not asking you to agree with my assessment, just pointing out that the results that get so much publicity are not necessarily based on "well, he cain't be a Christian 'cause he don't look like us."