Thursday, November 22, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
For the stupid(yea, I said stupid) people who signed petitions to secede from the Union....
Found this, loved it, sharing it with you today!
I did not write this, but I agree with most of it... ;) This is not my nation any more. This is not my America!" they say.
I did not write this, but I agree with most of it... ;) This is not my nation any more. This is not my America!" they say.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
When will Conservatives learn from their mistakes?
Great piece, found it on facebook....
CRY BABIES & SORE LOSERS (does not apply to all Conservatives & Republicans - but far too many)
- To Tea Party Patriots and hardcore Religious Engineers:
- Republicans lost because their party leadership and most candidates feared you, listened to you, and looked the other way on important issues as you picked the dumbest, craziest nominees in key primaries (Murdock and Akin), or converted otherwise
CRY BABIES & SORE LOSERS (does not apply to all Conservatives & Republicans - but far too many)
- To Tea Party Patriots and hardcore Religious Engineers:
- Republicans lost because their party leadership and most candidates feared you, listened to you, and looked the other way on important issues as you picked the dumbest, craziest nominees in key primaries (Murdock and Akin), or converted otherwise
sensible, experienced candidates to Crazy Town (Romney).
- There’s nothing wrong with wanting limited government. I do. There’s nothing wrong with believing in God, the Golden Rule, or wanting to reduce abortions. I do, too. But you’ve taken it too damn far and scare the shit out of people you could otherwise persuade.
- Yes, the message and messenger matter (you’re failing at both, BTW), but no Madison Avenue P.R. firm, K Street lobbying firm, Fox News “analyst”, or local chapter of “Freedom Works” can sell the flaming dung you’re slinging.
- Smart people can lose. But smart people always learn.
- You didn’t lose because you “weren’t conservative enough” or because the country has become full of lazy “takers” who don’t want to earn a living or just want America to “turn in to Europe”.
- You didn’t lose because of Hurricane Sandy or because Chris Christie hugged the President on TV – they were both doing their jobs.
- You didn’t lose because of a liberal media, liberal college campuses, liberal polls that were “weighted to Democrats” (mostly because they were accurate), or because of “election fraud”… actually, that probably benefited you this time.
- No. You lost because your policies, tone, conspiracies, rigid inflexibility and irrational rhetoric helped align enough moderates, swing voters, and minority groups whom otherwise could be persuaded by Republicans, to align with Democrats and a beatable incumbent.
- It’s not that you didn’t get your message out, it’s that we all actually heard it and threw up a little in our mouths.
- There isn’t a mandate for Democrats in this election. Liberalism wasn’t rewarded in this election. However, calm pragmatism, compassion, working together, compromise and sincerity were rewarded. People may not have agreed with President Obama, but more felt he was sincere and that he understood their daily problems, fears, and dreams. If you don’t trust what the polls say, take a look at who is sworn in on January 20th. I thought you’d at least believe in Math when it came to counting to 270.
- Sincerity is the only thing in politics you can’t fake. You can’t teach it. No matter how shiny a candidate’s bio is, how smooth he is, or how perfect the gray hairs rest on his temples — any average Joe on the street can spot a bullshitter.
- Mitt is a generous and good man, but he didn’t know who he was or “needed” to be at any given time in that campaign. That’s largely his fault for lacking core convictions or personal toughness (Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush possessed both traits – that’s why they won).
- But you, the right wing base of the party, who drove so many of us moderate republicans out the door years ago, were the main catalyst. Your inability to reason, compromise, or let new facts and evidence challenge your predetermined outcomes led millions of moderates to no longer be able to stand on stage with you.
- Frankly, you’re embarrassing – more so than a crazy family member at dinner, or having your mom drop you off at a high school dance.
- You say stupid shit and look stupid saying it.
- You pass amendments to ban flag burning and then hang it upside down and post it on Facebook when you lose.
- You preach limited government in the economy when Democrats are in charge and then look the other way when you’re in charge.
- You want a government small enough to stay out of corporations and banks but big enough for bedrooms and hospital respirators (see Schiavo, Terri).
- There’s a hatred inside of you that burns in a way that scares normal people.
- You made unlikely allies in large corporations who are more interested in tax breaks and loopholes even if the government has to cut your Medicare and Social Security or cut education to a point where states and local governments have no financial choice but to educate your children in portable trailer classrooms with 35 other students.
- Would these corporations do this just to help pad their quarterly earnings reports with certain tax and regulatory policies? You bet your sweet ass they do. And you better believe they’re happy to have you make the “freedom” argument as “concerned citizen patriots” on their behalf.
- Yet, after those corporations spent billions on TV adds and herded you like sheep over the last half decade to discredit Barack Obama for everything from being a “Godless communist” — to his “being born in Kenya and hatching a secret plot to take down America” — to Obamacare’s “death panels and job killing regulations” -
- YOU still lost.
- After having a Senate Republican Leader state that his party’s top priority in Congress was to make “Obama a one term President” and a House of Representatives that blocked everything he tried to do and then had the brass to criticize him for “not getting anything done” -
- YOU still lost.
- After attacking gay people who want equal protection under the law (BTW, I’m referring to the 14th amendment to the constitution, I know you forget most of the amendments after the 2nd one) -
- YOU still lost.
- After attacking the Hispanic community who’s tired of being spoken “at” like criminals, attacking low income women who rely on Planned Parenthood for services of which 98% have nothing to do with abortion, and attacking relatively trivial things like PBS that children and adults enjoy as “1″ damn television channel that doesn’t include Honey Boo Boo or a “Fox News Breaking Alert” announcing Obama’s latest “Czar” appointment -
- YOU still lost.
- And after throwing all the red meat in your warped political base out to the rest of the country to eat, the majority of Americans weren’t hungry for it and didn’t trust ordering from your unhealthy, de-regulated menu -
- YOU still lost.
- You can read me the constitution, but you clearly don’t have a practical understanding of what you’ve read, heard on television, or forwarded to your entire email list of like minded xenophobes.
- This country is great because our founders were smart enough to limit the government’s power and give the people enough freedom and authority to correct their own mistakes in pursuit of a “more perfect union” (it’s in the first damn line of the Preamble, in case you can’t find it in your Tea Party Constitution Cliffs Notes).
- Our founders were utterly brilliant and sophisticated. I don’t like to speak for them, but I doubt they would have been friends with Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sarah Palin. Nah, they wouldn’t have made the guest list at Mt. Vernon or Monticello.
- But let’s be clear, our founders weren’t perfect. They owned slaves. Only White male property owners had a say in things. Women, blacks, native Americans, and other constituencies had to wait for an American dream and in many cases, are still waiting and working for it. Speaking of work, children were working 12-16 hour days with zero safety protections in statute. Zero.
- The constitution, subsequent amendments and Supreme Court rulings and opinions since 1800 aren’t perfectly clear (those who think they are tend to have had a healthy serving of Kool-Aid and have never watched oral arguments at the Supreme Court).
- The founders knew that they, and the constitution they drafted, weren’t perfect. This is why they added a Bill of Rights and why they created a Supreme Court and a process that has allowed us to add 27 amendments to their work of art.
- Their imperfection is what led to a Civil War to prove that human and civil rights aren’t a “states’ rights issue” – they’re endowed by our creator, not by legislatures in Mississippi or Alabama, and they’re protected equally in our constitution, but also in our democratically passed laws.
- I run from the Capitol steps to the Lincoln Memorial most mornings that I’m in Washington. I may not be fast or smart, but I can read what’s carved in stone.
- Please. I welcome a challenge to what I’ve said. If you think because I voted for President Obama that I’m a socialist or that I don’t want a better America, I’m happy to take time from running a business I’ve co-founded and time from money I’m trying to raise for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to pause and give you a fresh one. At no charge.
- But I do ask this: be a real Patriot. Look at that flag you’ve hung upside down. Look at what you’ve done to it and what that means. Thousands of our bravest men and women, braver than me, just lost limbs and in many cases their lives so that Iraqis and Afghanis could vote however they see fit. I did that on Tuesday and so did you. That’s what that flag stands for – equal access to a process, not a guarantee for any of our desired outcomes.
- A country that defeated Hitler, Mussolini, and bin Laden won’t crumble because the guy you wanted to be President got beat.
- You lost. Now learn from it.
Sincerely,
Guest Contributor, Rob Ellsworth, “A Proud American”
- There’s nothing wrong with wanting limited government. I do. There’s nothing wrong with believing in God, the Golden Rule, or wanting to reduce abortions. I do, too. But you’ve taken it too damn far and scare the shit out of people you could otherwise persuade.
- Yes, the message and messenger matter (you’re failing at both, BTW), but no Madison Avenue P.R. firm, K Street lobbying firm, Fox News “analyst”, or local chapter of “Freedom Works” can sell the flaming dung you’re slinging.
- Smart people can lose. But smart people always learn.
- You didn’t lose because you “weren’t conservative enough” or because the country has become full of lazy “takers” who don’t want to earn a living or just want America to “turn in to Europe”.
- You didn’t lose because of Hurricane Sandy or because Chris Christie hugged the President on TV – they were both doing their jobs.
- You didn’t lose because of a liberal media, liberal college campuses, liberal polls that were “weighted to Democrats” (mostly because they were accurate), or because of “election fraud”… actually, that probably benefited you this time.
- No. You lost because your policies, tone, conspiracies, rigid inflexibility and irrational rhetoric helped align enough moderates, swing voters, and minority groups whom otherwise could be persuaded by Republicans, to align with Democrats and a beatable incumbent.
- It’s not that you didn’t get your message out, it’s that we all actually heard it and threw up a little in our mouths.
- There isn’t a mandate for Democrats in this election. Liberalism wasn’t rewarded in this election. However, calm pragmatism, compassion, working together, compromise and sincerity were rewarded. People may not have agreed with President Obama, but more felt he was sincere and that he understood their daily problems, fears, and dreams. If you don’t trust what the polls say, take a look at who is sworn in on January 20th. I thought you’d at least believe in Math when it came to counting to 270.
- Sincerity is the only thing in politics you can’t fake. You can’t teach it. No matter how shiny a candidate’s bio is, how smooth he is, or how perfect the gray hairs rest on his temples — any average Joe on the street can spot a bullshitter.
- Mitt is a generous and good man, but he didn’t know who he was or “needed” to be at any given time in that campaign. That’s largely his fault for lacking core convictions or personal toughness (Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush possessed both traits – that’s why they won).
- But you, the right wing base of the party, who drove so many of us moderate republicans out the door years ago, were the main catalyst. Your inability to reason, compromise, or let new facts and evidence challenge your predetermined outcomes led millions of moderates to no longer be able to stand on stage with you.
- Frankly, you’re embarrassing – more so than a crazy family member at dinner, or having your mom drop you off at a high school dance.
- You say stupid shit and look stupid saying it.
- You pass amendments to ban flag burning and then hang it upside down and post it on Facebook when you lose.
- You preach limited government in the economy when Democrats are in charge and then look the other way when you’re in charge.
- You want a government small enough to stay out of corporations and banks but big enough for bedrooms and hospital respirators (see Schiavo, Terri).
- There’s a hatred inside of you that burns in a way that scares normal people.
- You made unlikely allies in large corporations who are more interested in tax breaks and loopholes even if the government has to cut your Medicare and Social Security or cut education to a point where states and local governments have no financial choice but to educate your children in portable trailer classrooms with 35 other students.
- Would these corporations do this just to help pad their quarterly earnings reports with certain tax and regulatory policies? You bet your sweet ass they do. And you better believe they’re happy to have you make the “freedom” argument as “concerned citizen patriots” on their behalf.
- Yet, after those corporations spent billions on TV adds and herded you like sheep over the last half decade to discredit Barack Obama for everything from being a “Godless communist” — to his “being born in Kenya and hatching a secret plot to take down America” — to Obamacare’s “death panels and job killing regulations” -
- YOU still lost.
- After having a Senate Republican Leader state that his party’s top priority in Congress was to make “Obama a one term President” and a House of Representatives that blocked everything he tried to do and then had the brass to criticize him for “not getting anything done” -
- YOU still lost.
- After attacking gay people who want equal protection under the law (BTW, I’m referring to the 14th amendment to the constitution, I know you forget most of the amendments after the 2nd one) -
- YOU still lost.
- After attacking the Hispanic community who’s tired of being spoken “at” like criminals, attacking low income women who rely on Planned Parenthood for services of which 98% have nothing to do with abortion, and attacking relatively trivial things like PBS that children and adults enjoy as “1″ damn television channel that doesn’t include Honey Boo Boo or a “Fox News Breaking Alert” announcing Obama’s latest “Czar” appointment -
- YOU still lost.
- And after throwing all the red meat in your warped political base out to the rest of the country to eat, the majority of Americans weren’t hungry for it and didn’t trust ordering from your unhealthy, de-regulated menu -
- YOU still lost.
- You can read me the constitution, but you clearly don’t have a practical understanding of what you’ve read, heard on television, or forwarded to your entire email list of like minded xenophobes.
- This country is great because our founders were smart enough to limit the government’s power and give the people enough freedom and authority to correct their own mistakes in pursuit of a “more perfect union” (it’s in the first damn line of the Preamble, in case you can’t find it in your Tea Party Constitution Cliffs Notes).
- Our founders were utterly brilliant and sophisticated. I don’t like to speak for them, but I doubt they would have been friends with Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sarah Palin. Nah, they wouldn’t have made the guest list at Mt. Vernon or Monticello.
- But let’s be clear, our founders weren’t perfect. They owned slaves. Only White male property owners had a say in things. Women, blacks, native Americans, and other constituencies had to wait for an American dream and in many cases, are still waiting and working for it. Speaking of work, children were working 12-16 hour days with zero safety protections in statute. Zero.
- The constitution, subsequent amendments and Supreme Court rulings and opinions since 1800 aren’t perfectly clear (those who think they are tend to have had a healthy serving of Kool-Aid and have never watched oral arguments at the Supreme Court).
- The founders knew that they, and the constitution they drafted, weren’t perfect. This is why they added a Bill of Rights and why they created a Supreme Court and a process that has allowed us to add 27 amendments to their work of art.
- Their imperfection is what led to a Civil War to prove that human and civil rights aren’t a “states’ rights issue” – they’re endowed by our creator, not by legislatures in Mississippi or Alabama, and they’re protected equally in our constitution, but also in our democratically passed laws.
- I run from the Capitol steps to the Lincoln Memorial most mornings that I’m in Washington. I may not be fast or smart, but I can read what’s carved in stone.
- Please. I welcome a challenge to what I’ve said. If you think because I voted for President Obama that I’m a socialist or that I don’t want a better America, I’m happy to take time from running a business I’ve co-founded and time from money I’m trying to raise for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to pause and give you a fresh one. At no charge.
- But I do ask this: be a real Patriot. Look at that flag you’ve hung upside down. Look at what you’ve done to it and what that means. Thousands of our bravest men and women, braver than me, just lost limbs and in many cases their lives so that Iraqis and Afghanis could vote however they see fit. I did that on Tuesday and so did you. That’s what that flag stands for – equal access to a process, not a guarantee for any of our desired outcomes.
- A country that defeated Hitler, Mussolini, and bin Laden won’t crumble because the guy you wanted to be President got beat.
- You lost. Now learn from it.
Sincerely,
Guest Contributor, Rob Ellsworth, “A Proud American”
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Congratulations Mr. President!!
Aaaaah what a year it's been.....all coming to an end Tuesday night, November 6th, 2012.
Barack Obama won a second term as I sat on the couch watching, no phone, no internet connection to stress me out, Just me, my TV, and my President, who WON by a large margin! I never doubted, not even for a minute, that he would win! When they called it with Ohio I quickly turned on Fox to see their reaction, it was pretty hilarious to see their stunned faces and to hear their whiny asses! Pathetic...Dick Morris saying Romney would win by a landslide, with 400 electoral votes! Haley Barbour saying hurricane Sandy broke Romney's momentum! LOL! I didn't know that lying geek had momentum!! This is what happens when people live in a bubble, those conservatives have tunnel vision! How could they and how could Romney go into November believing he had a chance in hell of winning?? Have they never heard of Nate Silver?? ;)...stupid sheeple, stupid, stupid sheeple!!
Oh well it's done and over and President Obama is our president for FOUR MORE YEARS! Face it haters, wingnuts....sheeple....even with MILLIONS upon millions spent by KKKarl Rove, the KKKoch brothers, and numerous anonymous wealthy donors, even with voter suppression tactics that came straight from the GOP, the good people of this country actually VOTED without giving those ads full of lies and distortions a second thought! People stood in lines to vote early, standing sometimes for 7 or more hours! They were NOT gonna let the GOP suppress their votes! The evil ones did not win, their tactics backfired and I can only believe it hurt their party so bad we have yrs and yrs of Democratic presidents to look forward to...
So what do we have next? Will the GOP work for the people and work WITH the president now that they don't have to worry about making him a one term president? I don't see it happening, sadly. AND if they don't then we have 2014 to vote the fuckers OUT! I don't believe we will ever see a yr like 2010, Democrats are awake and paying attention! I believe we will see a different Barack Obama in 2013, he wants a place in the history books, he will do big things in the next 4 years, even bigger than what we saw in his first term, which was impressive to say the least!
I'm so proud this week, so proud to be on the right side of history supporting a good man and a great president! Thank You Mr. President for all your sacrifices, thank you for loving this country and giving of yourself to protect us and move us FORWARD...not backward
CONGRATULATIONS MR. PRESIDENT!!!!!!
Barack Obama won a second term as I sat on the couch watching, no phone, no internet connection to stress me out, Just me, my TV, and my President, who WON by a large margin! I never doubted, not even for a minute, that he would win! When they called it with Ohio I quickly turned on Fox to see their reaction, it was pretty hilarious to see their stunned faces and to hear their whiny asses! Pathetic...Dick Morris saying Romney would win by a landslide, with 400 electoral votes! Haley Barbour saying hurricane Sandy broke Romney's momentum! LOL! I didn't know that lying geek had momentum!! This is what happens when people live in a bubble, those conservatives have tunnel vision! How could they and how could Romney go into November believing he had a chance in hell of winning?? Have they never heard of Nate Silver?? ;)...stupid sheeple, stupid, stupid sheeple!!
Oh well it's done and over and President Obama is our president for FOUR MORE YEARS! Face it haters, wingnuts....sheeple....even with MILLIONS upon millions spent by KKKarl Rove, the KKKoch brothers, and numerous anonymous wealthy donors, even with voter suppression tactics that came straight from the GOP, the good people of this country actually VOTED without giving those ads full of lies and distortions a second thought! People stood in lines to vote early, standing sometimes for 7 or more hours! They were NOT gonna let the GOP suppress their votes! The evil ones did not win, their tactics backfired and I can only believe it hurt their party so bad we have yrs and yrs of Democratic presidents to look forward to...
So what do we have next? Will the GOP work for the people and work WITH the president now that they don't have to worry about making him a one term president? I don't see it happening, sadly. AND if they don't then we have 2014 to vote the fuckers OUT! I don't believe we will ever see a yr like 2010, Democrats are awake and paying attention! I believe we will see a different Barack Obama in 2013, he wants a place in the history books, he will do big things in the next 4 years, even bigger than what we saw in his first term, which was impressive to say the least!
I'm so proud this week, so proud to be on the right side of history supporting a good man and a great president! Thank You Mr. President for all your sacrifices, thank you for loving this country and giving of yourself to protect us and move us FORWARD...not backward
CONGRATULATIONS MR. PRESIDENT!!!!!!
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