I gotchu, Recovering. As much as I’d love Romney to run this country, it ain’t gonna happen.
Thanks, Chessic.
If Obama cuts Social Security and Medicare he will be in trouble.
Given the fact that 90% of guys discharged for being gay were people who wanted out of the army anyway, not really so much.
I knew people when I was in who got out for that reason. They decided they didn’t like the Sergeant getting into their face, they didn’t like the discipline, so they fessed up and got a ticket out.
Will it score him some points with Gays? HOw many of them were really trying to get in to start with?
Frankly, that’s one of the things I give him credit for, because it was a stupid policy. Either it disqualifies you or it doesn’t. Not it only disqualifies you if you tell someone.
Well, today he said he would.
Well, I don’t think so.
I think any REpublican who gets to the finish line of the nomination process has an excellent chance of beating this guy. And it’s not just the unemployment number. It’s GDP growth, it’s approval ratings, it’s direction of the country polls. Any poll you have out there, he’s in the loser category.
Romney’s biggest problem is going to be in the nominating process. Too many evangelicals voting, to many tea partiers who don’t like RomneyCare because it looks like ObamaCare, too many pro-life and anti-gay folks who actually have memories…
Now you are not even trying. The plural of anecdote is not data.
Hint: referring to things you think as facts doesn’t make them such.
If the GOP are going to unseat the incumbent, they better crack open their piggybanks…
GOP candidates not raising as much money as they thought they would:
Given the furvor with which the various GOPers are pushing the notion that Obama is a failure, he’s weakening our international stance, he’s destroying the economy, you’d think that they wouldn’t be able to count the donations fast enough…
Meanwhile…
Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but is it possible that there are a large number of people out there who think Barack Obama’s done a pretty good job under some adverse circumstances? 
Just saying.
Why you’re right. There is probably no data on this, and these yardbirds are just going to have to find another excuse to get discharged after they figure out their recruiters lied to them, I guess.
I think that the Republicans would have a heard time hitting him on this given that it was they who were forcing him into it, and he that was arguing against it.
A bit too much. Democratic campaigns always attract more individual donors; Republicans attract larger donations. It’s the nature of the respective constituencies.
Point well taken, but if the number in the link in my post are accurate, the Repub’s usual deep wallets are taking their sweet time with their checkbooks.
Not to mention, the large number of individual donors to Obama’s re-election campaign seems to bely the right wing’s contention that The People are disappointed in Obama. They seem to be wanting to give him another go-round in the Oval Office.
You’re right, you are reading too much into it.
His donors are all the usual suspects- the Union “teachers” (who don’t actually teach anything), big labor, etc.
All the money in the world isn’t going to erase the fact we have 13 million unemployed people.
Actually, wouldn’t money be exactly the thing to erase that fact? The entire problem is, in a nutshell, lack of money in the right hands.
Whatever Obama’s faults, he and his staff are excellent tacticians. This most recent kerfuffle over raising the debt ceiling is a good example. Boehner and company clamored for $2T in cuts before they’d agree to raising the limit. The Dems fight back. Suddenly, Obama steps in and says “I’ll do better than that: let’s cut $4T, simplify the tax code, and close those loopholes that allow some to pay no taxes at all!”
Close loopholes? The horror! says the right. Why that’s, that’s. . .sputtersputter. . .an increase in taxes! Yeah, that’s it: it’s not reasonable and prudent, it’s a tax increase on our wealthy contributors! Away with you, foul liberal!
“Tax loopholes” has been anathema to the working man since forever. For them to reject a spending cut that is double what they proposed in order to save their rich buddies from having to pay taxes on their income is going to be used to flog their asses bloody in the coming campaign, no matter how they try to spin it. It’s brilliant.
Except now they are folding on the 4T deal and going back to the 2T deal that Boehner already agreed to but is having a hard time getting his caucus to go along with.
I heard he was upping the ante to 6 trillion.
Again, any ante that includes tax increases is a fantasy. The country has made it pretty darned clear that they don’t want more taxes.
The way to approach this is the way any company would have to before going back to a bank for more loans or stockholders for more investment- show that you’ve cleaned up every bit of waste, inefficiency, etc. Asking the taxpayers for more money when you can’t spend what you are already taking from them responsibly is a non-starter.
Of course, Obama could play the “Class Warfare” card, like FDR did in 1936. He’d lose most of his big money donors, mind you, but he might be able to pull it off. But that would take a lot of foundation laying, and he’s really only got about four weeks to wrap this thing up.