An Ohio man at the market told President Obama that business has been "Terrible since you got here," according to the White House pool report. Via the pool report:
Potus stopped to meet people waiting for him, where he did the requisite hand-shaking, high-fiving and the rare baby-holding before going on to chat with proprietors at Turczyk's Meats and the adjoining Larry Vilstein's, Christopher Bakery and Edward Badbuster & Son. He then asked the proprietor at Rolston Poultry how business was going. "Terrible since you got here," the man said. Pool could not get close enough to the Rolston Poultry man to get his name or political affiliation. Potus didn't appear amused by the sentiment.
Potus stopped first at Michelle's Bakery, where he chatted with the two ladies manning the counter. They discussed business, the outlet's cheese danish and butternut bread. Potus asked about the challenges in running a small business, and one of the ladies said she makes all of the goods at home and transports them to the market.Potus seemed enamored by the shop's name."It is no coincidence that I'm stopping at Michelle's bakery," Potus said. "I just want to point that out. And she spells it the right way, with two Ls. That's the correct way. How are you. Good to see you. So Michelle, when did you get started with this?" Potus ordered one piece pumpkin cheesecake ($2.95), one Danish butternut loaf ($6.95) and one loaf of zucchini bread ($6.95). He insisted on taking a photograph in front of the sign that read "Michelle's Bakery."
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He insisted on taking a photograph in front of the sign that read "Michelle's Bakery."
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How many days until the Eye-Candy-In-Chief gets relegated to the dust bin of history? "Hope and Change" to believe in. The last 4 years feel like 20 years spent someplace like a Zimbabwean, Sudanese, or Cuban jail.
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...not quite, as the property values and employment rates within the Beltway have been basically immune from the ravages the rest of America has to deal with. Well past the time to reverse that situation with plummeting property values and unemployment levels, meaning a dramatic reduction in the size and breathe of central government.
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The president's impromptu visit after a campaign stop at Cleveland State University forced the market to shut down for about an hour, and the habitually smiling Leu lost business.
"I have no problem with that man," the 56-year-old Medina man said in an interview soon after the president had left. "I was happy to meet him and happy to shake his hand, but I lost business." http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/10/obama_vendor_snub_each_other_d.html
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well, I hope Rolston Poultry has a good tax accountant and attorney, cuz he's got an IRS colonoscopy audit coming
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Bobby, funny I remember hearing stories of the Clinton entourage forgetting to pay a tab or two. Never heard such crazy antics from the W crowd for some reason.
Seems to me they should have a designated person who pays. Call them the Tip Czar.
President Obama, speaking in Virginia, said, "We don't believe anybody is entitled to success in this country."
"This country doesnt just succeed when just a few are doing well at the top. It succeeds when the middle class gets bigger. Our economy doesnt grow from the top down -- it grows from the middle out. We dont believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country," said Obama. "But we do believe in opportunity. We believe in a country where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded, and everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share and everybody is playing by the same rules."
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We believe EVERYBODY is entitled to success, dumb ass.
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But, but, but in the coming "Classless Society" our Champ and his appointed diviners who will identify, and reward success.
On 1 January 1852, the communist journalist Joseph Weydemeyer published an article entitled "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" in the German language newspaper Turn-Zeitung in New York. In that year, Karl Marx wrote to him, saying:
Now, as for myself, I do not claim to have discovered either the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me, bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this struggle between the classes, as had bourgeois economists their economic anatomy. My own contribution was (1) to show that the existence of classes is merely bound up with certain historical phases in the development of production; (2) that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; [and] (3) that this dictatorship, itself, constitutes no more than a transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.[
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C.S. Lewis, in the Aboltion of Man, did not put a name on this practice, but the idea is to take a Virtue, and make it THE Supreme Virgue to the exclusion of all other Virtues, and starts riding roughshod over everyone who advocates balance of the Virtues. Freedom of choice is a good value/virtue, but Abortion and murder are the result of riding Choice as the Supreme virture. Teh 0ne talks of "playing by the same rules", but doesn't talk about the character or bias of the referees.
Of course, Success is good, but in actuality, those who could not succeed in life enough to get a cell phone of their own are given one, free of charge TO THEM, at the expense of those who DO succeed.
Oh, what was that about "playing by the same rules?" Will the "referees" abide by the rules too?
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Oh, what was that about "playing by the same rules?" Will the "referees" abide by the rules too? Posted by Ptah
No, the "referees" like the "diviners" will be bred from the progressive learned, not the proletariat. They will appointed for life, wear white robes, have personal physicians, private commissary, special seating in the great coliseum, free golf, and more.
The law of the common man will not apply to diviners or referees. Those who speak ill of them will suffer increased "fairness". They will receive no Peoples Coupons and be heavily taxed. Their children (those licensed to be born) will be denied education, employment, and success. Tiny monitoring droves will be assigned to watch over their government assigned container homes and terminate them as necessary.
I believe black is the color they've been employing for well over a half century, disregarding that 'equal before the law' meant equal standing in court, not equal outcome in the endeavors and chances of life.
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The German media is slowly waking up to the fact that Romney wouldn't be such a bad choice after all.
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Germany probably realizes that they can't bail America out as well and having the US solve its own financials would probably be helpful all around.
Champ's reelection campaign, rattled by his piss poor debate performance, could be in for even worse news. According to knowledgeable sources, a national magazine and a national web site are preparing a blockbuster donor scandal story. Sources told Secrets that the Obama campaign has been trying to block the story. But a key source said it plans to publish the story Friday or, more likely, Monday.
According to the sources, a taxpayer watchdog group conducted a nine-month investigation into presidential and congressional fundraising and has uncovered thousands of cases of credit card solicitations and donations to Obama and Capitol Hill, allegedly from unsecure accounts, and many from overseas. That might be a violation of federal election laws.
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Pffffttt. Old news. It ALWAYS was the case that name/address verification was turned off at the O's website. ANYBODY who wanted to make this point with a Democrat could have suggested making a $10 donation to the website, but put in "Mickey Maus" as the name.
This was always a strategy in my pocket for the liberal in the cube across from mine if the debate turned to fundraising. A good problem solver and project manager, but always seemed to leave their brains at work when they went home.
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I run into liberals; some are friends. I have found that you cannot reasonably or logically discuss politics with them. If they don't get agitated and visibly upset and hate you, they fall back on: "Well, I know, I know, but I just feel that way." It is usually a waste of your breath and energy.
Unless the MSM gets on the donor story, it won't get any legs except in the blogs and on Fox. Now, Romney might bring it up in the debates if Obama starts to make the debates personal and dirty. However, I suspect Obama will save the personal attacks for speeches outside of the debates or leave the dirty work to surrogates such as Axlerod and others.
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The donor story will become big news if Obama is blown out in the election. Until then it will remain quiet.
Liberals think with their emotions. Thus if it feels right or good the facts don't matter. Thus instead of arguing with logic to prove their solution is better they argue with emotion to prove that it should be this way and if you disargree you are evil.
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An Ohio man at the market told President Obama that business has been "Terrible since you got here," according to the White House pool report. Via the pool report:
