Comments on: POLL: Latino Voters Are Highly Engaged, Overwhelmingly Back Obama

By: ProfitOverLife

ProfitOverLife — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:36:00 +0000

Lol okay let me get this straight: your claim is that democrats are owned by unions, and your proof is that CORPORATIONS are contributing to Dems to further their CORPORATE agenda? LOL wow. Just wow. Nice try though!

PA schools clearly SUCK.

By: totenkatz

totenkatz — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:29:00 +0000

If you can’t support your position with facts just belittle the other person, be condescending and call them names. If you would have looked at my other post on this blog you would have seen I was raised and schooled in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. Tamaqua is very near Scranton PA where the Vice President is from. My parents where Democrats most of their adult lives and my father a union member all his working days, except when he was busy fighting the Japanese in WWII, and I was a union member myself until I joined the military in 1977. So I do have some knowledge and understanding of unions and my entire primary and secondary schooling was before President Carter created the Department of Education out of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Corporations are made up of people, i.e. General Motors Corporation, and union members are on the board of GM. In an article by Josh Mitchell for the WSJ in September 2010, he wrote, General Motors Co. has begun to once again contribute to political campaigns, lifting a self-imposed ban on political spending put in place during the auto maker’s U.S.-financed bankruptcy restructuring last year. The Detroit company gave $90,500 to candidates running in the current election cycle, Federal Election Commission records show. The beneficiaries include Midwestern lawmakers, mostly Democrats, who have traditionally supported the industry’s legislative agenda on Capitol Hill, including Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) and Rep. John Dingell (D., Mich.). GM spokesman Greg Martin said the company stopped making political contributions in spring 2009 to focus on its taxpayer-financed bankruptcy reorganization. “As we’ve emerged as a new company, we’re not going to sit on the sidelines as our competitors and other industries who have PACs are participating in the political process,” Mr. Martin said. He called GM’s political action committee is “an effective means for our employees to pool their resources and have their collective voice heard.” Mr. Martin added that the company has supported members of both parties who “approach issues thoughtfully” and “support a strong auto industry.” Not to be condescending but it looks like corporations also give to Democrats running for office.

By: ProfitOverLife

ProfitOverLife — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:00:00 +0000

LOL if I was no smarter than a conservative, I’d actually think you were serious, in trying to make that comparison.

Any idiot with 4th grade reading ability and an internet connection can go and find out that only a few percent of business are unionized, the money involved is a small fraction of the money at the disposal of corporations, and that unions are for and made up of PEOPLE whereas corporations are for PROFIT and MONEY and made up of DOCUMENTS ON LEGAL SIZE PAPER.

I wonder why you were incapable of knowing these things? Oh that’s right. Conservative. Probably educated in a red state school system? Sad. Vicious economic cycle there in them red states, over the past 60 years, I see (poverty, stupidity, GOP scamming you, lather, rinse, repeat…)

By: J.D. Rhoades

J.D. Rhoades — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:42:00 +0000

I’m an upper middle class white guy. I’m highly engaged with the race. And I’m voting for Obama.

By: totenkatz

totenkatz — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:09:00 +0000

I don’t care about having traction here. I believe it’s good to read what others think on a subject, whether I agree with them or not. I also believe in civil discourse.

By: totenkatz

totenkatz — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:32:00 +0000

Okay so then you will have to agree the Dems are owned by big labor/unions; bought and paid for. Every Democratic candidate is being openly blackmailed into acting not on their principles but on pledges made before the union money comes in.

By: ProfitOverLife

ProfitOverLife — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:26:00 +0000

Not the GOP. Not anymore. It is fully corporate owned now. Bought and paid for. And every candidate is being openly blackmailed into acting not on their principles but on pledges made before the money came in.

By: bsweezy

bsweezy — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:06:00 +0000

What the Republicans did in the primary and that the party supported the AZ papers please law…Republican’s are on course to lose Latino’s for an entire generation….Just like the Democrat’s lost the support of the south with the Jim crow thing.

By: Joel Sorenson

Joel Sorenson — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:05:00 +0000

OHHH tater tot…when wil you learn. LOL you have no traction here.

BTW Foolsdance nice pic you look fabulous in blue. Oh and your opinions are cool too, and you are an excellent speller. Come back more often

By: Dominick Vila

Dominick Vila — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:32:00 +0000

hey do it all the time and on just about every issue. The original included a bit of hyperbole, but considering the remarks made by people like Todd Akin, Bachman, Smith and other Tea Party members I think it is fair to say that the opinions of some Republicans are influenced by prejudices that have no place in a society such as ours. Obviously, that is not true for all republicans or even most Republicans. I have close relatives and friends who are Republicans and whose opinions are influenced simply by a difference of opinion on how to solve our socio-economic problems.