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The best campaign counter-attack video I HAVE EVER SEEN. Obama 2012
”So we’re going to call their BS when we see it and we need your help to call them on it too and set the record straight. So share this, tweet it, facebook it, I keep hearing about tumblr and whatever that is…please use that too. Thank you.”
-Stephanie Cutter / Deputy Campaign Manager at Obama for America.
And a Tumblr shout-out.
Reblog this so it goes to everybody. Facebook it to everyone. Cover the internet in a call to arms to keep the truth in politics. Never let them lie again.
In January 2010 the former Massachusetts governor proudly cast a ballot for Republican Scott Brown in the special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. He didn’t own property in the state at the time, and had registered to vote listing his son’s unfinished basement as his residence. Massachusetts law defines a residence for voter registration purposes as “where a person dwells and which is the center of his domestic, social, and civil life.” Anyone found guilty of committing voter fraud faces up to five years behind bars and a fine of $10,000.
(via stfuconservatives)
Oh, and it’s only been three days since he dropped the n-word in front of a large crowd with cameras and microphones rolling. I think the FCC needs to issue a ban against broadcasting another word he says for the rest of his life.
(via annakie)
A fun visual representation of how unbelievably pointless and wasteful Florida’s drug testing law is. Not pictured: the fact that that $178 million dollars went to a company owned by the governor’s wife.
-Jess
But, but that would be a conflict of interest! From a Republican!
(via stfuconservatives)
“Denver authorities detained Smith for questioning on Tuesday night, and he was cited on misdemeanor charges of creating a disturbance, throwing a missile and an unlawful act on school property, Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said.”
A missile? Throwing a missile? What the fuck, laws. Anyways, this article also has the video of Romney getting
missile-attackedglitter-bombed, so enjoy!-Jess
(via stfuconservatives)
“Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting”—
Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama
Nobody is surprised by this.
Drawing on a sample size of several thousand, correcting for both education and socioeconomic status, the new study looks embarrassingly robust. Importantly, it shows that prejudice tends not to arise directly from low intelligence but from the conservative ideologies to which people of low intelligence are drawn. Conservative ideology is the “critical pathway” from low intelligence to racism. Those with low cognitive abilities are attracted to “rightwing ideologies that promote coherence and order” and “emphasise the maintenance of the status quo”. Even for someone not yet renowned for liberal reticence, this feels hard to write.
This is not to suggest that all conservatives are stupid. There are some very clever people in government, advising politicians, running thinktanks and writing for newspapers, who have acquired power and influence by promoting rightwing ideologies.
But what we now see among their parties – however intelligent their guiding spirits may be – is the abandonment of any pretence of high-minded conservatism. On both sides of the Atlantic, conservative strategists have discovered that there is no pool so shallow that several million people won’t drown in it. Whether they are promoting the idea that Barack Obama was not born in the US, that man-made climate change is an eco-fascist-communist-anarchist conspiracy, or that the deficit results from the greed of the poor, they now appeal to the basest, stupidest impulses, and find that it does them no harm in the polls.
— The Right’s Stupidity Spreads, Enabled By A Too-Polite LeftGeorge Monbiot (via somepolitics)
This Man has TWICE the COMBINED Wealth of these Men
SOURCE: http://www.starhq.com/2012/01/30/if-elected-romney-would-rank-among-richest-presidents-ever/
Nixon,Bush AND Reagan? Fuckk ehh
He can’t be president because he is completely out of touch with any part of America that isn’t stupidly wealthy. He’s never had friends who didn’t have servants, he’s never lived anywhere that wasn’t a mansion. To him, the poor aren’t people, they’re a hypothetical situation, a fantasy construction, a fairy tale.
Jon Stewart Explains Republican Mitt Romney
- Jon Stewart: It's like putting ten percent down on a car, then using the value of that car to get another loan and repay yourself that ten percent and and maybe a little twenty percent... on top for your troubles and then walking away, leaving the car on the hook for the payments.
- But, for Bain Capital to borrow money from other people, knowing that those debts might never be repaid, while still profiting themselves, I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that business practice. Does it make anyone else uneasy?
- [video of Romney]: I think it's simply immoral for us as a nation and as a generation, to keep spending more and more money, by borrowing money from other people knowing that those debts will never be repaid during our lifetimes.
- Stewart: I don't know who that ruggedly handsome guy is but I agree one hundred percent. So there you go and his pitch to Americans seems to be, elect me as your president. I have twenty five years of business experience doing something I believe this country should never ever do.
Here’s what Mitt Romney said after he won the Florida Republican primary last night:
“While we celebrate this victory, we must not forget what this election is really about …”
… What do you think he said? Not getting the economy moving. Not keeping America safe. Not improving people’s lives.
“While we celebrate this victory, we must not forget what this election is really about: defeating Barack Obama.”
Then he launched a “One-Term Fund” drive to get his backers to contribute $1 million to make Barack Obama a one-term president.
It may not take the Romney camp very long to get to a million — they announced today that just 9 percent of their money comes from donors giving less than $200.
It’s also clear that there’s lots of money to be raised from far-right Tea Party types appealing to a very personal dislike of Barack Obama. When Romney tells a reporter that we need a president “who believes in American principles” or that President Obama will be just a “footnote in history,” that’s who he’s talking to.
Last night Romney summed it up in one line — for them, it’s all about beating one man and sending his family packing from the White House.
Everything else the Republicans say or do is just means to that end.
Our campaign is different. It’s about bringing people together to protect the progress we’ve made and make a lot more in a second term.Jim Messina
Campaign Manager
Obama for America
“Canada’s Radio Act requires that ‘a licenser may not broadcast … any false or misleading news.’ The provision has kept Fox News and right-wing talk radio out of Canada and helped make Canada a model for liberal democracy and freedom.”
America NEEDS an anti-lying law for the news. The First Amendment does NOT protect lying and false advertising.
This must be a TOP priority for activists. We can march and chant till we’re blue in the face and it’ll still be nothing compared to the billion-dollar-funded national propaganda machine for the right wing that snows a good half of our population.
“This country is bankrupt; all great nations go down because they extend themselves overseas. …let’s defend this country, and stop pretending we can tell other people how to live!”
“This country is bankrupt; all great nations go down because they extend themselves overseas. …let’s defend this country, and stop pretending we can tell other people how to live!”—
Ron Paul, calling for less foreign military involvement, and a rededication to strict, domestic military defense.
He’s a racist, homophobic, sexist piece of trash, and he’s probably either crazy or stupid… but he’s the only Republican on the field right now that I could support to any degree. If Romney or Gingrich or Santorum wins the Presidency with the Congress we have now, then we won’t have a nation by the next elections. Ron Paul might set us back to the Dark Ages, but he wouldn’t completely flush the country down the drain. And then, once he’s out, we can elect someone smart and modern-minded to repair the damage he caused. If it’s Mitt or Newt or Rick, there won’t be anything to repair.
I want to vote for Barney Frank, or Sherrod Brown. I’ll take Obama if that’s what’s on the menu.