Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 01, 2012

Roland, a class act.

Hit him later. Please.

Just another typical day full of deception in the Romney campaign. Obviously, they would prefer an interview with someone from Faux News than a legitimate journalist, even if he is reduced to unpaid blogging.

Rick has his story now — a tale of deception, lies and calumny (on Roland’s part) in the belly of the beastly Romney campaign — that’s sure to find publication on HuffPo. And maybe even a chance of going viral.πLike the frog who’s keeping a choke hold on the neck of the pelican who’s trying to swallow him: NEVER GIVE UP.

Sadly, in the US, this is life. Find another discipline, like Arms Dealer!!!Then, you’ll get recognized.These guys suck!

Nah…he’d probably enjoy it too much.

It all depends on what you feed them of course.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/matt-rhoades-romney-campaigns-under-the-radar-chief/2011/11/17/gIQARfsyfN_story.html

Matt Rhoades = Mitt’s campaign managerJim Messina = Obama’s campaign managerAnd no, he’s not the same Jim Messina who played with Kenny Loggins back in the Stoned Age.

Who is Matt Rhoades?πMatthew “Matt” Rhoades (born February 3, 1975) is an American political consultant and strategist for the Republican National Committee. In the 2000 presidential election, he worked as a research analyst for the Republican National Committee assisting in the Florida recount.1 In the 2004 presidential election, Rhoades was director of opposition research for the campaign to re-elect President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. In the 2008 presidential bid of Mitt Romney, Rhoades was director of communications. Rhoades is cited as a pioneer in using less conventional outlets, such as the Drudge Report, to influence the public image about candidates who oppose his clients. 2 He is the manager of Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign for the presidency. 3 Rhoades received his B.A. at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1997 and his M.A. from the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University in 1999.π“LOOK IT UP” REFERENCES FROM WIKIPEDIAπ[1, 2] “Matt Rhoades: Executive Director at Free & Strong America PAC”. WASHINGTON POST. Retrieved September 28, 2012.2 Jim Rutenberg (October 22, 2007). “Clinton Finds Way to Play Along With Drudge”. NEW YORK TIMES. Retrieved September 28, 2012.3 Jason Horowitz (November 20, 2011). “Matt Rhoades, Romney campaign’s under-the-radar chief”. WASHINGTON POST. Retrieved September 28, 2012.

Rick looks younger than he is — he would be in his 60s at least. His wife is made to look closer to her age. He really shouldn’t have such a nice head of hair. Does he dye it?

Just finished reading ROMNEY SLAMS OBAMA OVER MIDDLE EAST, CALLS FOR NEW COURSE [source: Reuters] on this morning’s Google News page.πMakes me think Mitt’s gonna drop a few thermonuclear bombs on Iran in order to please Bibi Netanyahu. Go figure.

assisting the Florida 2000 election scam? lol well that says all one needs to say. Crook incorporated.!!

America is great? no doubt. best crooks money can buy. the Republican kind. lol. true patriots selling us out for money. way to go Republicans, stay evil.

CALLING ALL TROLLS, CHICKEN HAWKS, AND ROMNOIDS:πDare ya ta read this:πhttp://www.chronogram.com/issue/2012/10/News+%26+Politics/Gotterdammerung-It-s-the-Re-Flight-of-the-Chickenhawks

I keep getting an e-mail that says Obama has been ruling by Executive orders. I googled several and found thet none that I checked were from Obama. When I added Obama’s name to executive order, several did come up and none had the intent of making him a dictator as suggested. Do your own research!

watch Obama sell us out when it comes to Social Security and Medicare, after the election. to show how bipartisan Obama is, he will give away OUR social security to the Wolves/Republicans

Ricardo is a “legitimate” journalist? Since when? Oh, right, he submits hot copy to hufpo! This even clears up the “legitimate rape” conundrum.

Just curious, do I qualify as a troll? I’ve been called a wingnut, freak of nature (my sister), twerp, annoying happy person, nerd, dork so on and so forth. So I was wondering what one must do to qualify as a troll. Incidentally, I think Ron Paul and Santorum combined would make a pretty good president. I’m no longer disappointed by being under voting age.

John Fugelsang, commented this morning on The Bill Press Show, seen daily on Current TV, said something like, “Main Stream Media, is driven by ratings”. Which means Faux News represents the feelings and attitude of its viewer. This scares me that real people out there believe the propaganda they spread…

Oooh, when is Rick gonna blow? Poster boy for what’s happening to real journalists. Hang in there NYT writers!

The first rule for the GOP: “Only talk to Fox ‘News’”

By the way, I’m not sure if I heard this correctly, but it seems that the conservative controlled media is deliberately skewing poll data to make the presidential race seem closer than it is so republicans won’t be too discouraged to go out and vote on election day. The real numbers show Obama up eight to ten points and they say it’s only four. Would they really do something like that?

I don’t really know how well Obama is going to do. I live in Kansas. It would be nice if the GOP would lose big. There are a lot of folks out here who are really only worried about taxes and not much else. Then there are the folks who have right wing ideas about social issues but are not among those who are wealthy enough to worry about taxes being raised. The whole tax issue is such a faux issue anyway. There is such a small number of folks who need to be worried about it at all, and those who do don’t have to worry about their taxes going up all that much. But yeah, the GOP has gotten far too right wing, they need to have a come to Jesus moment and get back a little to the middle. As it is, they are going to lose big soon because of the demographics situation in the US. Fewer rich white folks are going to be around.

To all:I apologise for rambling sometimes. I guess I try to put to many issues in one post. Also, I didn’t mention my reservations on Romney.I am the same religion as Gov. Romney, also Sen, Harry Reid. I listen to BYU radio on XM. They have a program where successful entrepeneurs give seminars to students from BYU. Most of them who are in manufactoring are proponents of sending their products to China for manufacture. Their reasons are, honestly, greed. More profits, not just profits. They all know that they can make a profit here in th USA but go there for MORE profits.This is the same reasoning used by many furniture companies here in the “old” home of furniture building. At Hooker furniture, right before the plant closed, we sampled a new chest of drawers. Ours would have made about a 25% profit. The one from China that looked the same, from across the room, gave more than 50% profit. Soon after they closed our plant and put around four hundred people out of work. Most of these furniture plant management teams are solidly republican.These are the very reasons that I am a confused voter. That is what I’ve written here and my previous post today. I for one am truly tired of the divisiveness surrounding our people. Please, let’s get together in respect for one another and vote for a truly UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

And CNN, MSNBC, should have to do the same for democrats.

To the ’toon; in ’Nam, a “news” photographer (camera ready) asked me a stupid and insensitive question in a moment of “stress”. He woke with his jaw wired shut. Today, too many ’reporters", not real field people, but talking heads, could use some “adjustment” of the same nature.

Everyone who doesn’t agree with me is biased and wrong and will spend eternity in Hell, because I am the Ubermensch. Or is that the Great Pumpkin or maybe the Easter Bunny? I forget, but Mom always said that I was special.

“The Shadow” = Lamont Cranston.

“The age of irony is dead.”πSuch IRONY on display!

I am good at derailing things…I have a special talent for randomness. I usually manage to confuse myself and everyone else.

“… fascist democrats will always complain that GW Bush was the most stupid president in one breath, and in the next say that he “tricked” them into going to war.”πEver heard of “dumb luck”?

I don’t know why everyone feels this is such a burn. Roland covers FOX news—a clearly biased/republican network. Rick covers an online liberal newspaper that’s got a history of burning BOTH parties. Rhoades is promoting a candidate that’s OUT OF TOUCH with half of America. So, the big picture here is:Obama will win, so fuhgeddaboutit!

DNFTT

LEGEND OF THE TURTLE AND THE SCORPION

A turtle was happily swimming along a river when a scorpion hailed it from the shore. A scorpion, being a very poor swimmer, asked a turtle to carry him on his back across a river. “Are you mad?” exclaimed the turtle. “You’ll sting me while I’m swimming and I’ll drown.” “My dear turtle,” laughed the scorpion, “if I were to sting you, you would drown and I would go down with you, and drown as well. Now where is the logic in that?” The turtle thought this over, and saw the logic of the scorpion’s statement. “You’re right!” cried the turtle. “Hop on!” The scorpion climbed aboard and halfway across the river the scorpion gave the turtle a mighty sting. As they both sank to the bottom, the turtle resignedly said: “Do you mind if I ask you something? You said there’d be no logic in your stinging me. Why did you do it?” “It has nothing to do with logic,” the drowning scorpion sadly replied. “It’s just my character.”πAnd the moral of the story is: DNFTT

I told you before, Ed, executive orders cannot make new law. He cannot “forget about Congress”; his orders cannot go against any law Congress has written, nor can they write “new” law in an area that Congress hasn’t addressed. Congress also had the option of passing law that overrules the order, and Obama would be constitutionally bound to follow. If the Republicans see him breaking any of these rules, they will have the matter in front of the Supreme Court in a heartbeat.

I also pointed out that executive orders have been around since 1789, and RedRep pointed out that Bush made a record number during his presidency. This is NOT some crazy new thing that Obama is doing, but that’s exactly what the right-wing media wants you to think. Don’t let them fool you.

Totally off any of the many subjects covered here, but boy! The definition of chickenhawk sure has changed over the past 35 years.