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2008-05-13 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Bobby 2008-05-13 05:52|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Wee duh - the dominant leftists media has only been pounding away at how bad the economy is for several years now, ho bad the war is going for several years now, and trying to create a recession out of lower growth.

Of course people are going to be negative if al lthey get is spin and bad news, and never the whole truth, being that inflation has been historically low, economic growth and employment historically high, unemployment controlled well below where it was in the Clinton "Boom" years, home ownership (even factoring in the current problems) at an all time high, especially amongst minorities, and even in the middle of a press-declared recession, unemployment went DOWN and remains far under recessionary levels and growth continues to be positive, not negative, and we are still creating jobs.

DO YOUR DAMNED JOB PRESS! Tell ***ALL*** the nes, the whole of the truth, and stop trying to spin things your way politically. You are supposedly the 4th part of our Demcarcy, and you are FAILING us.

If you cause our republican democracy to collapse via your malfeasance and craven political behavior of misinforming the people, I and others like me guarantee your kind will be the first to dance on the end of a bayonet.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-05-13 09:15|| 2008-05-13 09:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The economy is indeed very gloomy for journalists. Few Americans take anything they write at face value anymore.

But let's face it, skyrocketing gas and food prices are affecting the average Joe and Jane. They are reminded of it every time they stop at the grocery store or gas station.

Posted by ed 2008-05-13 09:24|| 2008-05-13 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Gloomy?
Just because the manufacturing, steel, mining, and electronics industries have been sold out to our most rabid competitors?
Just because REAL wages are lower than they were in the 70's?
Just because the Oil Sheiks have us by the nutsack?
Just because we spend trillions of $$ to kill arab assholes that our grandfathers could have killed for 1/10 the price?
Just because our dollar is worth half what it was 2 years ago?
Just because both parties running for office of president have hairbrain schemes to make things worse not better?

Why would we be gloomy?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-05-13 09:40|| 2008-05-13 09:40|| Front Page Top

#4 "the dominant leftists media has only been pounding away at how bad the economy is for several years now"

Only since 2001. The economy will miraculously improve as soon as a Democrat is elected.

Posted by Frozen Al 2008-05-13 11:25|| 2008-05-13 11:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Look, let's be honest here. The Country is heading in the wrong direction. The Earth's rotation sends us around from West to East and it's time for a change.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-05-13 11:26|| 2008-05-13 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Obewan isn't a leader; he is a follower of the reparations rhetoric that African American leaders have been spewing since the sixties. He will alienate white Americans. Give him time.

Posted by McZoid 2008-05-13 12:51|| 2008-05-13 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 It's just one redneck Kansas banker's opinion, but I think we hit bottom (such as it was) last month.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2008-05-13 13:08|| 2008-05-13 13:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Despite more than eight in 10 now saying the country is headed in the wrong direction, coupled with growing disaffection with the Republican Party, Sen. John McCain, the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, remains competitive in a hypothetical general-election matchup with Sen. Barack Obama, the favorite for the Democratic nomination, and he runs almost even with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Those findings indicate that McCain continues to elude some of the anger aimed at his party and at President Bush...

They jumped to the wrong conclusion here, IMHO. McCain matches up well against Obama and Hildebeast because the donks have failed to offer a viable alternative. They're not an opposition party, they're a motley collection of moonbats, misfits, and crooked morons. Yes, we're pissed off at Republicans but we're pissed off at donks too. Now that's gloomy.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-05-13 13:30|| 2008-05-13 13:30|| Front Page Top

#9 You know things are bad when you are even considering Ron Paul as a last ditch effort to get out from under the three toads we have to choose from now.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-05-13 13:45|| 2008-05-13 13:45|| Front Page Top

#10 "Obewan isn't a leader; .... He will alienate white Americans. Give him time."
So he can alienate MORE; he has already lost just about all the white votes in my neck of the woods......( there are still a few, mostly women that think he's cute, that will vote for him. now that is a real key characteristic for the job: CUTE!)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-05-13 14:57|| 2008-05-13 14:57|| Front Page Top

#11 now that is a real key characteristic for the job: CUTE!)
USN, don't knock it. That's one of the things that got JFK elected.
Oh, and the Chicago Democratic machine.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-05-13 15:47|| 2008-05-13 15:47|| Front Page Top

#12 now that is a real key characteristic for the job: CUTE!

Gee, I would have thought so, given how many snide comments have been made about Hillary's appearace .....

Posted by lotp 2008-05-13 15:56|| 2008-05-13 15:56|| Front Page Top

#13 No way lotp, Chillary is just plain two bag kevlar reinforced FUGLY. the whole friggin forest fell on her.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-05-13 16:27|| 2008-05-13 16:27|| Front Page Top

#14 And that matters for being President how, exactly?

Why does her appearance matter and Obama's doesn't?

Just askin' ..... I don't like the woman but she does get a shitload of crappy snarks that simply would not get sent a man's way.

Posted by lotp 2008-05-13 16:33|| 2008-05-13 16:33|| Front Page Top

#15 she does get a shitload of crappy snarks that simply would not get sent a man's way

I dunno - 'Chimpy' ain't exactly term of endearment.

Posted by Chookie McTavish 2008-05-13 17:03|| 2008-05-13 17:03|| Front Page Top

#16 Children! Let's play nice, now....Hilly's appearance doen't matter any more the Big O's skin color or John-Boy's age.

Now, the fact that that O is cute (like JFK) and from Chicago worries me when I think how Chicago helped put JFK over the top in 1960. remember the Chicago Machine is run by King Richard the Second (son and heir to King Richard the First, of 1968 Demo convention fame).

But some of the nasty snark is also pretty funny...

Posted by Bobby 2008-05-13 18:36|| 2008-05-13 18:36|| Front Page Top

#17 Well I've heard Obama called "Dumbo".

Posted by OldSpook 2008-05-13 21:04|| 2008-05-13 21:04|| Front Page Top

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