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edge540 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7691

Moby Grape wrote:

....can explain how a "community organizer" got that kind of money.

What, you can't fuking read? From Lennie's source:

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As was clear from Obama’s income tax filing, much of his income continues to roll in from book royalties. The disclosure form lists $100,000 to $1 million in royalties from Dreams from My Father, $100,000 to $1 million from Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, and $50,000 to $100,000 from The Audacity of Hope.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

edge540 wrote:

[b]As was clear from Obama’s income tax filing, much of his income continues to roll in from book royalties.

from the 10 cent bargain box?

LOL!!!! sure he did...and probably shrewd investments too right edge?

That worthless pos can piss on your leg and say it's raining and you'd believe it.

good grief.

edge540 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7691

Moby Grape wrote:

from the 10 cent bargain box?

JHC, You're more fuking ODS stupid than I thought. Try reading this very slowly:

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much of his income continues to roll in from book royalties. The disclosure form lists $100,000 to $1 million in royalties from Dreams from My Father, $100,000 to $1 million from Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, and $50,000 to $100,000 from The Audacity of Hope

Dreams from My Father was first published in 1995. If he was getting 100,000 to $1 million in royalties every year since 1995 how much do you think that would add up to, moron?

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LOL!!!! sure he did...and probably shrewd investments too right edge?

Yeah maybe the president of the United States is making money on the side as a pimp and a drug dealer AND cheating on his taxes.

Yep that's it.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

edge540 wrote:

Yeah maybe the president of the United States is making money on the side as a pimp and a drug dealer AND cheating on his taxes.

Yep that's it.

We all know how those shovel ready projects went...

edge540 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7691

Moby Grape wrote:

We all know how those shovel ready projects went...

Damn right we do, it went to fuking republican hypocrites who voted against the bill and then claimed credit because conservative morons who vote republicans are the most stupid and ignorant creatures on the planet:

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REPORT: After Voting To Kill Recovery, 110 GOP Lawmakers Tout Its Success, Ask For More Money

ThinkProgress has investigated opponents of the Recovery Act, reporting throughout the year that many of the lawmakers who tried to kill the legislation have been returning to their home states to claim credit for popular stimulus programs. In a new research report, ThinkProgress finds that over half of the GOP caucus, 110 lawmakers — from the House and Senate — are guilty of stimulus hypocrisy. Among some of the key findings:

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/ ... crisy-101/

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2012 5:51 pm

edge540 wrote:

http://thinkprogress.org

Biased source.

chuckmo48 · **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2012 6:14 pm

Mitt Romney Doesn’t Remember What He Said, But Stands By ‘Whatever it Was’

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At a press conference in Jacksonville today, Mitt Romney said he rejected a plan presented by GOP strategists to a Super PAC funded by Cubs-owning billionaire Joe Ricketts aimed at "defeating" President Obama by rehashing his ties to controversial reverend Jeremiah Wright.

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Back in February, Romney himself brought up Wright in an interview with Sean Hannity on his radio show. "I think again that the president takes his philosophical leanings in this regard, not from those who are ardent believers in various faiths but instead from those who would like America to be more secular," Romney said then. "And I'm not sure which is worse, him listening to Reverend Wright or him saying that we must be a less Christian nation."

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Asked today if he still stood by those remarks, Romney responded that he was "not familiar, precisely, with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was."

http://gawker.com/5911283/mitt-romney-doesnt-remember-what-he-said-but-stands-by-whatever-it-was

edge540 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7691

-={ARCLIGHT}=- wrote:

edge540 wrote:

http://thinkprogress.org

Biased source.

Of course it is Lennie, did you expect Fake News to report republican hypocrisy?
It's all fact that you can't refute. We don't make up crap and lie like ya'll.
REPORT: After Voting To Kill Recovery, 110 GOP Lawmakers Tout Its Success, Ask For More Money

ThinkProgress has investigated opponents of the Recovery Act, reporting throughout the year that many of the lawmakers who tried to kill the legislation have been returning to their home states to claim credit for popular stimulus programs. In a new research report, ThinkProgress finds that over half of the GOP caucus, 110 lawmakers — from the House and Senate — are guilty of stimulus hypocrisy. Among some of the key findings:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/ ... crisy-101/
My favorite republican hypocrites:

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– The Audacity Of Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds: Many opponents of the stimulus have been quite brazen with their ability to try to claim credit for the program. For instance, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) spent the morning of July 28th railing against the stimulus, yelling “Where’s the stimulus package? Where’s the jobs?” on the House floor. On the same day of his rant, Kingston’s office sent out multiple press releases bragging that he had secured hundreds of thousands in stimulus funds to hire additional police officers in his district. Other stimulus opponents, like Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) — who has called the stimulus a “trillion dollar debt bill” — have printed out jumbo-sized ceremonial stimulus checks to present to local communities to try to garner positive press.

Now go in a corner and cry.

edge540 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7691

chuckmo48 wrote:

Mitt Romney Doesn’t Remember What He Said, But Stands By ‘Whatever it Was’

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At a press conference in Jacksonville today, Mitt Romney said he rejected a plan presented by GOP strategists to a Super PAC funded by Cubs-owning billionaire Joe Ricketts aimed at "defeating" President Obama by rehashing his ties to controversial reverend Jeremiah Wright.

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Back in February, Romney himself brought up Wright in an interview with Sean Hannity on his radio show. "I think again that the president takes his philosophical leanings in this regard, not from those who are ardent believers in various faiths but instead from those who would like America to be more secular," Romney said then. "And I'm not sure which is worse, him listening to Reverend Wright or him saying that we must be a less Christian nation."

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Asked today if he still stood by those remarks, Romney responded that he was "not familiar, precisely, with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was."

http://gawker.com/5911283/mitt-romney-doesnt-remember-what-he-said-but-stands-by-whatever-it-was

Did that blow up real good for Mittens and his race baiting hate mongers or what?

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 1:31 pm

It may be early in the campaign season, but the Communist Party USA already has seen fit to endorse Barack Obama for the 2012 election.

While noting he is disappointed with "some aspects" of the Obama administration's domestic and foreign policy, Sam Webb, chairman of the Communist Party USA, threw his support behind Obama's re-election bid

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 5:23 pm

Obama Campaign Does Damage Control After Dems Question Anti-Bain Strategy

The Obama campaign is in full damage-control mode one day after Newark Mayor Cory Booker publicly derided Democrats’ assault on presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney over his record at Bain Capital.

Chief Obama strategist David Axelrod today publicly rebuked Booker, a popular and high-profile surrogate for the campaign, saying he was “just wrong.”

“I love Cory Booker. He’s a great mayor. If I were, if my house was on fire, I’d hope he were my next door neighbor,” Axelrod said on MSNBC, referring to Booker’s rescue of a neighbor last month.

“I agree with what he said later. I think this was a legitimate area for discussion,” Axelrod said of Booker’s subsequent comments clarifying the issue.

As for the criticism that the Team Obama’s Bain attack is part of “nauseating” political discourse with which Booker has become “very uncomfortable,” Axelrod said, “on this particular instance he was just wrong.”

Booker is not the only Democrat to question the aggressive, negative portrayal of Romney’s work in private equity. Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. said today he agreed with “the substance” of Booker’s comments and “would not have backed out.”

“I agree with him, private equity is not a bad thing. Matter of fact, private equity is a good thing in many, many instances,” the Democrat said in a separate appearance on MSNBC earlier in the day.

Former Obama administration economic adviser Steven Rattner made similar comments last week, calling a new Obama campaign TV ad attacking Romney’s role in the bankruptcy of a Bain-owned steel company “unfair.”

“Bain Capital’s responsibility was not to create 100,000 jobs or some other number. It was to create profits for its investors,” Rattner said. ”‘It did it superbly well, acting within the rules, acting very responsibly. … This is part of capitalism, this is part of life. I don’t think there’s anything Bain Capital did that they need to be embarrassed about.”

Republicans have been gleeful with the apparent divide among Democrats over the portrayal of Romney’s Bain days. The Romney campaign produced a web video – “Big Bain Backfire” – highlighting the comments, while the Republican National Committee purchased ads on Twitter to play up the Booker flap.

“President Obama’s attacks on free enterprise have triggered a backlash among many, even among those in his own party,” Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said. “With no record to run on, it is no surprise that the Obama campaign has resorted to misleading attacks that have been disavowed by its own supporters.”

edge540 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:42 pm **Posts:** 7691

Mitt Romney's Bain Capital took $20 profit for every dollar invested in Ampad. Creditors got $0.002.

by Jed Lewison
Cue the Mitt Romney outrage machine about transfers of wealth...
Via Maggie Haberman, these are some amazing statistics:
For every dollar Mitt Romney's Bain Capital invested in Ampad, it received $20 back in profit—a 2,000 percent return—even though the company went bankrupt.
For every dollar Ampad's creditors were owed its when the company bankrupt, they received two-tenths of a cent, $0.002—a 0.002 percent return.
In all, Bain made $100 million on its $5 million investment. Creditors were paid $330,000 of the $170 million they were owed.
So Bain's return was two thousand percent ... while the creditors got back just two tenths of one percent. On a dollars per dollars basis, that means Bain managed to do forty-two ten thousand times better than creditors, even though they both did business with the very same company. I guess the difference was that Bain had the good sense to be the outfit responsible for loading the company up with debt. And in the process, it creatively destroyed nearly $170 million owed to Ampad's creditors.

As the Obama campaign said today in a conference call with reporters, things like this show that Mitt Romney saw his job as making money—not jobs. He was focused on short-term profits, not building a fundamentally sound economy. Romney was amazingly good at earning those profits—thanks to his heads I win, tails you lose approach to business.

As campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt asked, "why did Mitt Romney and his partners always succeed even when the companies failed?" The answer is that Mitt Romney was able and willing to play by two different sets of rules: one for himself, and one for everybody else. That may have worked out exceptionally well for him at Bain Capital, but the question facing the country now is whether that sort of economic philosophy is what we want in the White House.

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Tue May 22, 2012 1:21 pm

Obama Campaign: We Did Not Reach Out To Cory Booker Before He “Clarified” Bain Criticism — Cory Booker: “I Certainly Did Talk With Campaign Officials” Beforehand

The gang/campaign that couldn’t shoot straight.

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Less than 24 hours after Obama 2012 press secretary Ben LaBolt told CNN that the Obama campaign did not reach out to Cory Booker following his remarks on Meet The Press, the Newark Mayor went on MSNBC to confirm that he had, in fact, had “good conversations” with the Obama campaign before deciding to clarify his remarks in a YouTube video.

“I certainly did talk with campaign officials, but they didn’t force me to do anything,” Booker told Rachel Maddow last night. “They had good conversations with me, and after having good conversations with them. . . all of those things made me say, you know what, I need to go on and clarify.”

Booker’s admission to Maddow, like his initial criticism of the Obama campaign’s “nauseating” attack ads against Bain Capital, is once again a departure from the official line. Earlier yesterday, CNN host Brooke Baldwin asked LaBolt whether the campaign (or White House) had reached out to Booker, and La Bolt offered the opposite answer.

“Did anyone from the White House or the Obama 2012 campaign reach out to Booker, make him reel his words in?” Baldwin asked.

“We did not,” LaBolt said. “These are his own views in the video.”

Baldwin pressed again: “You’re telling me no one within the Obama 2012 campaign in any way reached out to Cory Booker to fix this?”

“He released that video of his own volition,” LaBolt said. “We did not ask him to do so. We did not, no.”

Remember sheeple, don't believe your own eyes or think for yourself, just "punch 10".

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Tue May 22, 2012 1:26 pm

Obama Raised Most From Now Evil Private Equity Donors In 2008

Pass me another nail, we’re almost done hammering Obama to the wall.

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President Obama raised far more cash from hedge fund and private equity donors than any other candidate in the 2008 election cycle.

According to an analysis by the nonprofit group Open Secrets, Obama took in nearly $3.5 million from large private-equity donors that year — nearly twice what his general-election rival, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), pocketed.

The data bring into focus the thin line Obama must walk in attacking presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s background in the industry, which has sparked criticism from allies including Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker.

Obama is working hard to make the case that Romney’s background in private equity does not qualify him to be president. In fact, Obama and his campaign, in a series of ads, have sought to turn that background into a weakness by highlighting companies that failed after their purchase by Bain Capital, the private equity group founded by Romney.

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Tue May 22, 2012 4:38 pm

Barack Obama’s Arkansas primary problem
Posted by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake at 07:34 AM ET, 05/22/2012

Wave bye-bye Stupid.

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Two weeks after an imprisoned felon received 41 percent of the vote against President Obama in West Virginia’s presidential primary, Arkansas could provide another potential embarrassment for the incumbent.

That’s because only Obama and John Wolfe, a Tennessee lawyer, are on the Democratic presidential primary ballot in the Razorback State. (Wolfe took 12 percent — and nearly 18,000 votes — in a four-way fight in the Louisiana Democratic presidential primary in late March.) And a recent independent poll showed Obama running just seven points ahead of Wolfe in the southern Arkansas 4th district, which covers one-quarter of the state.

All of this takes place on a backdrop that is decidedly less than friendly for Obama. Even while he was sweeping to a national victory (and 365 electoral votes) in 2008, Obama received just 39 percent in Arkansas — six points worse than Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry did four years earlier.

“Arkansas voters are informed voters and are fully aware that John Wolfe will not make it out of the primary,” said one well-connected Arkansas Democrat. “However, if John Wolfe has a strong showing tomorrow, it’s a sign that Democratic voters in Arkansas are frustrated with the administration’s policies and further reiteration that Southern Democrats simply cannot identify with President Obama.”

And, if the press coverage of Keith Judd’s surprisingly strong showing two weeks ago in West Virginia is any indication, you can expect Wolfe to draw significant attention in the immediate aftermath of today’s vote.

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