Michele Obama put it correctly. You do not pass through the door of opportunity, and slam it shut behind you. That is part of the Republican problem. They are so business oriented, their philosophy, like Donald Trump, is “kill the competition.” They do not want to help those behind them. Because they view them as competition in the ” make more money” race.

I agree. If we do to them what they do to us then we are no better than they are.
I believe we Democrats are bigger than that.

MCT, I am not sure how educated you are, but I don’t think you graduated summa cum laude from Harvard. The word is wit, not whit.

Half is better than none.

Again, I don’t know of anyone who “complained” about the Tuesday night platform announcement (most of us expected this as “busines as usual”), but it was YOUR PARTY who decided to flip-flop and reintroduce both God & Jerusalem to your shakey platform. Why don’t you ask Obama why he did it???

It is apparently VERY important to the Democrat Leadership, who had to go AGAINST the will of the Delegates to get them back into the platform!

It is not important to me. The Democrat Leadership showed their true colors by taking out the references. They showed their cowardise by forcing them back in over the objections of the delegates.

Personally, I’d rather they leave them out and not lie about their intent.

“That may look strange to you being as how you come from a party that just follows the marching orders given to them from the Party Leaders.”

Arfe you truly this clueless? That is EXACTLY what happened here. The party leadership FORCED God and Jerusalem back into the party platform over the LOUD objections of the delegates.

And I already told you that it doesn;t matter to me. I just enjoy pointing out your blatant and abject hypocrisy on the matter!

I already said it did not matter to me, Skal. You can continue your lies, but all that does is show what a pathetic and partisan hack you are.

Perhaps you should spend your time trying to figure out why it mattered so much to the Democrats to take the language out, and then force it back in over the objection of your own delegates.

So I said it doesn’t matter and you say it does. No need to read any more of your pathetic lies, Skal.

You are the one doing yourself a dis-service.

If they do this within their own party, against people who are on their side, what do you think they will do to America when the Obama Administration consider half of us his enemy!

Ok, this is what happened. The president was not there when the platform was set up. The President is a very religious man and said God was in all things he did so therefore wanted it on the platform. The delagates probably said no because 1. the RNC is trying to shove their religion down everyones throats and into everyones bedrooms and 2. there is in the constitution a separation of church and state. You can be all kinds of religious but you need to keep it out of the government. And if Obama was going to go after anyone, you’ld have to be a republican in the house or senate who have stood in the way of getting the work done. And yes they did. My favorite game show is US House of Reps. and sometimes the US Senate.

He’s your leader too. hahaha

It’s people like you who have infected the Republican party that cause us to not be able to come together and solve our country’s problems.
All you bring to the table is a “smart” mouth a bobbing head and a bad attitude.
None of these things is conducive to solving the problems that face us.

Why?
I haven’t see that YOU are interested in coming up with any useful solutions.

For one how about the two and a half dollar entitlement cuts to one dollar revenue increase.
So not being an elected official is your fall back position? That’s weak.

I gave you an example as you asked for.
Then I made a comment on your excuse for why you have no solutions to our country’s problems. And you accuse me of not staying on topic and diversion.

I apologize if I’m not yet up to speed on the laws that define your alternate universe.

First of all calm yourself.
I didn’t lie.
Who do your elected officials represent if not the people within their party affiliation?
Are the people who elected them not the ones who tell their representatives what they want done or not done in their name?
Aren’t you part of your party’s electorate?
Being a part of that electorate isn’t it your duty to offer input for the solutions being put forward by your party?

I didn’t see what you gave me as an example of rejection. I would describe as more of a rant than anything else.

What does this even mean?: “Perhaps the voices in your help will keep you company until you can return to the topic!”

I think I know what you are alluding to but I don’t want to jump to any conclusions.

It is not true that democrats have rejected all views from the right. ObamaCare contains quite a number of republican ideas. And Cap and Trade which the Obama Administration was forced to walk away from because republican opposition was a republican idea. There have been a number of ideas that republicans have been for until President Obama was for them too. Then the republicans became against them.

Republicans by in large were responsible for the mess that Obama inherited and they refuse to acknowledge the fact and pitch in to help clean it up.

Your statement that: “You want Republicans to compromise their beliefs and do whatever the Democrats want.” is untrue. That is the republican way not the democrats.

Mr comments are no dumber than yours! Have a nice day!

My guess is to provide an alternate viewpoint, from the pervasive slant of many posters here. Besides he/she does incite an abundance of response. Some of it constructive in bringing out and commuicating ones viewpoints on various subjects.

Do you really believe that you are no worse than the other guy is a serious argument? Great logic you’ve got there.

I agree Tobewan.
But is there a chance that some may be turned away from the Darkside?

There is NO difference between two opposing sides who are convinced they are both right. Te only difference is in HOW the two sides believe the problems should be solved. Since one side has had two years with a favorable majority in both houses and yet failed to accomplish the most pressing issues, to some that might be considered STRIKE ONE! Since the SAME party has had a total of almost four years to solve our most pressing issue (Hint: JOBS) and has failed, that might be considered STRIKE 2! Now the only question left is, do we risk STRIKING OUT (ie: strike 3), or do we try something new?

Hey Tax—
A good article. If there were no stumbling blocks obstructing proposals then I would concede you have a good point. You see failure and I see deliberate stumbling blocks by the other side that prevented the improvement or solution to pressing issues.
And – that’s what makes this Country great. We are free to express our differences in a civilized manner and still be in disagreement.

Reminds me of 1952. My Dad made sure he paid poll tax for he and my Mother and ensured they would be early at the polling booth. When they were leaving my Mom asked Dad “who did you vote for” He replied “I voted for ____ of course”. Mom just chuckled and said “well, I just cancelled your vote”.

And so it will be in this election. When I vote I can say “well old tax cancelled my vote and you can think the same.

It’s how each individual sees the problem.

Have a good day.

tack

Oh! You’ve met Romney? You pegged him! That’s just about what he did in Mass.

An idiotic two line retort from a true imbecile.

A two line retort?

Well that is an improvement over those one liners on your survey record. You may become capable of limited dialogue someday.

But – then again – pigs may one day have the capability to fly. About the same odds.

The Christians of the crusades you refer to not only killed Muslim’s they killed fellow Christians that where native to Palistine

Middleclass (really), If Iran dropped a bomb on the United States and killed your entire family, you don’t know how you would react. I am sure I would be angry and want justice. Some don’t and some do. There was a couple, here, whose daughter was snatched off the street. The perp drove around with her all night raping her. Then he shot her and dismembered her body. Google Jerilee Underwood. Her parents got on television and forgave him. I don’t think I would. There was a picture in a magazine that showed an Iraqi father holding his daughter and crying. The story said he lost his entire family in the bombing of Baghdad.

mct, why don’t you prove what you say. Play like you are in a court of law and have to back up everything you say with facts.

mct, first, all generalities are lies. Second, there is a 118 new oil drillings in the US since 2009. Third, North Dakota is booming right now because of the oil drilling.

You lying sack of hypocricy, you never even listened to the speech.

OK

Yes, female Republicans and Democrats delivered speeches during the conventions; it is not clear their contributions were well received by those who believe the role of a woman is procreation and baking cookies, however.
What bothers me the most on this issue is not so much the inclusion or exclusion of women in secondary roles in the USA, but our failure to elect a female President or even a Vice President. Why is that? Why can so many countries elect female leaders, time and again, and the best we can say for ourselves is that we let them deliver a speech during a convention or hold a Cabinet position. Consider this short list:
Margaret Thatcher, Indira Ghandi, Golda Meir, Angela Merkel, Eva Peron, Cristina Fernandez de Kichner, Michelle Bachelet, Dilma Rousseff, Mary McAleese, Violeta Chamorro, Corazon Aquino, Indira Ghandi, Pratibha Patil, Hasina Wajed, Laura Chinchilla, Julia Gillard, Helle Thorning-Schmidt and the list goes on.

The press is complicit in destroying the character of women running for higher office, inasmuch as they don’t have the guts to comfront the bigots who remain intent in preserving their medieval values.
The part that surprises me is that the ones that have the courage to stand up are often the least qualified, and the ones with the best credentials often back off.

Hey, Dominick…
While history is littered with countless women who have contributed positively to humanity, we still find some roles elusive. I think I have some insight…but let me preface my observations with saying I’m a proud woman that was raised by proud women.
I’m an RN. I love everything about being an RN. I really care about people and I’ve worked with all ages over my 17 year career. Having said that, I really can’t stand our profession. We RN’s really outnumber doctors, but we remain politically whimpy in comparison. Nursing is still a female dominated and our leadership reflects that. We women still take everything WAY too personally. We love to complain but by and large do little to actively change things. The nursing profession is infamous for eating it’s young rather than bringing them along. I think it’s because women are territorial. Don’t get me wrong. We women have all the right attributes to truly be rulers. Afterall, the Bible says, “…the hand that rocks the cradle will rule the world.”
I would like nothing more for my fellow women. I admire all of the women you mentioned and many more. My personal mentors are great, strong women- my childhood friend’s mother who is a black woman who raised 3 kids in the 60′s and 70′s along and was a highly educated university professor- my other mentor was my high school english teacher who inspired me and helped me through those tough years of angst.
My observation of men are that they can put bad blood aside when it is needed and work toward getting down to work. Men can enter a new workplace and get along. Women will see another woman as competition.
A lot of women may not like what I’m saying…and I’m not labeling ALL women. These are just generalized observations of mine alone.

I’m speaking in generalizations, not specific incidents. Your example of congress is a poor one. That was a case of one group of individuals who’s single purpose was to make it appear that Obama was weak and unable to lead or get anything done. That is an example manipulation with intent humiliate. It’s about opposing forces at war with each other.

Women are hardly shallow and I never suggested that. They are anything but shallow. My female role models in my life were fiercely independent women who overcame much. One is my childhood friend’s mother- now in her mid 80′s- a black woman who was a university professor who was divorced in the 60′s and raised her children alone. She taught me about strength and the unique qualities that women bring to the table. I embrace uniquely female strengths. My other role model was my high school english literature teacher. She is still my friend today, more thant 30 years later. She was a great educator who helped to guide me through those difficult, angst-ridden teen years.

I stand by my statements about how I feel about my chosen profession. When more than 50% of nurses leave the profession before 5 years of service, you know there is something very wrong. I’ve seen many young nurses be treated poorly. There is not nearly enough mentorship. Nursing is still a very female-dominated profession- moreso than education. We must look to ourselves to discern why it is that we are not more politically powerful and why we fail badly to demonstrate inclusiveness and mentorship to our new nurses.

I love that we’re talking about this!
I am with you completely with getting Obama re-elected…the poor and middle class can’t afford the same old policies that the republicans continue to try to sell us.
I thought a lot about your comments on who can put differences aside- men vs. women. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head when you said that my experiences have shaped how I see these situations. It’s so true! I’m an only girl and I have 3 brothers. When I was 11, my parents moved our family from a large suburban area to a very rural, small town. My brothers seemed to fit it right away and quickly made friends. For me, it was traumatic. I wasn’t accepted at all. The girls were cruel and no amount of friendliness on my part made it any easier. I couldn’t wait to get out of that small town and away from those many mean girls. You’d think that I’d have more male friends but I don’t. My closest friends are women. I’m far more closer to my mom than dad. I’m not extremely close with my brothers either. My husband is a manager and he seems to never have a problem with any employee, no matter how much they drive him nuts. It’s never personal to him. Did you know that the former presidents are all very close not matter what party they belong to? Ever hear comedians talk about how women always have one woman at work they intensely dislike? I also know how when I get irritated with females that I work with, I catch myself finding that part of the problem is that I’m taking it WAAYYY too personally. I guess those things influence my opinion on these matters.
Thanks for making me think about the motives that help to form my perspective!

IT’S IN YOU ALL HANDS YOU HAVE THE NUMBER EVEN WITH THE NON-WHITE MALES I KNOW IF HILLARY RUNS I’AM VOTING FOR HER

The way to get needed Job Growth is to get Small Businesses Hiring. There 5,200,000 of them in the US that have 20 employees or less. I am not talking tax breaks or tax credits, these might help a few but don’t do most that much good. We need to reduce the cost of Regulatory compliance for them and make capital available by stopping the amount of money being borrowed and taken out of the capital markets by Federal and State Governments.

SBA estimates that it cost $10,585 per employee for these businesses to comply with the regulation in place as of 2010. My companies cost is about double this number. It is just getting to hard.

Beginning 2013 we will have to pay a 2.3% excise tax do to the Health-care bill, this will cost us over $69,000. There is no projected increase in sales and we will need to get this from laying off two employees. It is sickening.

The problem is is that these Government created jobs are just temporary jobs and mostly make work projects that are not really needed. If were are going to have an infrastructure job bill, then let’s rebuild the power grid.

If we matched Reagan and Clinton’s numbers of Jobs created we would produce 21,800,000 jobs in 8 years (15.6%). It would mean recovery.

By the way I don’t live in Boston.

I guess you’re right….a guy who earned only a “C” average in college and was a really horrible “B” movie actor became a great orator with a little training.
Your republican “god” Ronald Reagan. The original, “Bonzo goes to Washington.”

Critics have said of your 2016: Obama’s America,
“…a cavalcade of conspiracy theories, psycho-politico conjectures and incendiary labeling.”

I know that this movie is an anti-Obama film, targeted at making him look like a stereotypical, scary black man. Big surprise from you and the makers of this movie, Bill. Maybe you grew up with both parents. Not a lot of us did. Any child who is abandoned by their father has “daddy issues.” I have few memories of my bio-dad. My parents divorced when I was 4 years old. When you’re left to come to your own conclusions about who your father is or is not, as a child you tend to try to idealize them. That doesn’t make Obama some raging negro, hell-bent on undoing America and everything that you white males have worked so hard to build. Your fear, anxiety and paranoia about Obama is utter ridiculous.
And…surprise!…your birther, neo-conservative, right wingnut, tea party friends LOVE IT!
I’m quite sure you never bothered to see “Ferinheit 91″1 or “Sicko.” Perhaps if YOU had taken a deeper look at George W Bush…maybe our country wouldn’t have been in the horrible state he left it in, in 2008.

I will vote for Obama again this year. I campaign for Obama. Your party must be really quite desparate to be funding and promoting another birther movie to get your sorry candidate elected.

And what is your excuse after viewing “Farenheit 911″ and” Sicko?” I suspect you didn’t see either of these movies which raised huge concerns about the Bush administration but you voted for him anyway…right?

Sicko was far more on target than the crazy mish-mash of Bush hating quick cuts in Fahrenheit. The latter was full of ‘facts’, if you didn’t know the context or where the information was cut from, and if you didn’t pay enough attention to know that Moore contradicted himself numerous times. Since Moore didn’t bother to point his demonizing spotlight on socialized medicine, he left us the impression that somehow that would be better. It was like watching a picture of Ying Yang, with only Ying. Yes I voted for Bush. Why? Because of the alternatives.
Now go see 2016.

You mean someone who would actually tell you the truth?
I realize your ‘fake intelligence’ and ‘Bush tanked the economy’ are standard Democrat claims, but neither is true. I would have liked Obama to have been well on his way to fixing the economy cratered by Affordable Housing, especially since he claimed he could do it. Which, by the way, he said after being in office and should have had, by then, a full comprehension of the state of the economy. As has been said before, he is either not too smart, or he is deliberately driving up the debt and keeping the economy from recovering for his own reasons. Which is he, dumb or smart?

thank you for returning my comment. by the way your great better than any laxitive I’ve ever taken works so quick. Oh no medicare and no medicade, I’ll leave that to all you freeloaders sucking off the bammies teat. Screwing up how about the DNC traveling circus. Jump on board the ship of fools with the washerwomen, “Not me I didn’t do it or maybe I did whatever”

I know tomorow you’ll write I’ll immediately have a bowel movement and everything will be good. I always knew that libs were good for something.

Only when I listen to you Libs. By the way I take no meds. don;t need’m I live a very clean healthy life. You see when you don’t have to lie all the time life is easy. My stories are always the truth, deal with it.

Thank you my efforts are working pretty soon you’ll be talking just like Debbie the Shultz. And I;’m sure your not talking about the truth cause I’m not sure what the truth is.

Wow your finally getting it. To answer to each of your statements. Yes on #1,NO #2 and on 3 you must have looked in a mirror to see who you are. No you drank the right stuff alnog with a shot of Bammy Beer.

You mean you don’t have your welfare ck. direct deposit. Oh just to let you know I write the Whit house at least once a week. If you think I’m picking on you, you should see the crap I dump on big ears. but it is a shame he never write back. Maybe he’s is smarter