Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

I did it with Bachmann and found that she has been attacking Obama a lot.

But reading carefully -- and really, that was a drag -- I see that Obama put out a statement reacting to her announcement that she was running -- six weeks ago. The announcement disagreed with her on policy. Is that what you're talking about?

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

You are not good at google. This was on the first page: http://www.nationalreview.com/primar...katrina-trinko

You can try it with the others.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Not worked up at all. You are the one that went back to dissect prior days' posts. How does it feel to be trolled for once, troll?

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Dude, just pointing out your ongoing reading deficits - not hard in this case. As to trolling, man, you've got to stop quoting hank, who no longer even rises to the level fo the bad joke himself. He's trying to get out from under the troll label himself, and it's not working.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

On a more entertaining note, it's always good to read stories of Christian Redemption. What do you think it was about the 10th visit that made the scales fall from his eyes?

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

You know, we need some good fall from grace stories, too. I think attention whore Christine O'Donnell needs to go Dan Savage in a very public way.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Is responding to your own posts any different that responding to the others here?

Re: D*mned teachers unions are trying to do to Texas what they've done to other state
 

Perry's dumb, no doubt. But that doesn't mean he'd be any less effective in DC than our current smart President. (In the land of the blind, the one man... etc.)

Tenacity and street smarts go a long way in the practical, some would say "real" world of arm-twisting, back room dealing politics. Perry seems to have good instincts so far. He's even managed to get away with that ridiculous pray-in with limited fallout.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

As a citizen, I take issue with Obama responding to Bachmann. It is unpresidential. The woman is a joke, a circus clown. She is not to be taken seriously. She should be dismissed as a temporarily relevant media-created confection.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Did you see this:

http://news.yahoo.com/christine-odon...011635684.html

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Ever since I gave up socking, I've felt free to respond to my own posts under my primary.

Perry promises, but can't deliver
 

I'm shaking in my boots! They may nominate a man whose greatest accomplishments include pulling off a pray-in!

Did it rain, or does God hate Rick Perry?

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Oh, come on. A guy's got to have a little fun.

She's also head of the tea party caucus in Congress and a significant legislative problem - for Boehner and for the country as a whole. If the Rs can't take her down a few notches in this process, it's going to be very ugly in Congress for a long time. They should thank him for the help.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Yeah, that was the current media whoring.

Think of all the press she'd get if she moved to a free-love safe-sex-every-day-and-every-way kind of mission?

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

I disagree with the last two sentences. She has better chances of becoming the next GOP nominee than almost anyone else, and it's because she is not a media-relevant confection. She has real political skills and what she says resonates with a lot of people, particularly the sort of people who vote in GOP primaries.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Piers Morgan: Very happy to be the center of attention on anything that's not phone-tapping-related.

Re: Perry promises, but can't deliver
 

It rained everywhere else in the damned country but here.

Perry has the same problem Bush had in that the Governor of Texas is pretty weak on the legislative side of things. EXCEPT the man has been in office so damned long that pretty much every agency, commission, board or other body in the state is PACKED with his appointees. Makes for a right pain in the ass when trying to, say, obtain reimbursement for participation in the Medicaid Women's Health Program.

And he has a hard on for highways. When he got into office, we never borrowed a dime to build roads. Now, we're $18 billion in the hole for transportation costs, and he's still salivating over the superhighway from Mexico that he's been blathering about for as long as he's been in Austin.

Re: Perry promises, but can't deliver
 

I hear he likes trains too, but the GOP primaries will drum that out of him.

Run!
 

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/...g?w=1024&h=576

TM

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

2. I would not write Bachmann off. She's a smarter, savvier Palin. Scary.

Also, being dismissive of her would only set Obama up for the "he hates women" attack.

Re: Perry promises, but can't deliver
 

I see two possibilities, and only two possibilities:

(1) You cannot petition the lord with prayer; and
(2) The wrong guy is petitioning the lord with prayer.

Since (1) isn't conceivable, it's really got to be (2), right?

Re: Run!
 

In your professional opinion, who has better technique: Bachman or Perry?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/content.../image.img.jpg

Re: Perry promises, but can't deliver
 

I'm a ninth generation cattle rancher in Texas. I've been petitioning the lord with prayer for rain my entire life.

And I'm clearly the wrong guy because we're talking this week about selling the rest of the herd (we sold the calves early last month). There's no hay left in Texas.

Re: Perry promises, but can't deliver
 

Damn. I cannot imagine how difficult that is.

Meanwhile, up here, there's already been a second cut and the third is in the field. The growth hasn't slowed all summer.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

So, because he's president the spokesperson for his CAMPAIGN (not a WH employee) can't say anything about the GOP primary candidates? That's your view?

Re: Run!
 

Clearly this guy:
http://babyboomeradvisorclub.com/wp-...0in%20Iowa.jpg

Re: Run!
 

Re: Run!
 

I'm sure that what's going through old Marcusss's head there in that photo is, "I sure wish this were a soy dog instead."

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Not can't. Shouldn't. He lowers himself by getting into the fray with each primary candidate making a splash. But whatever. The one thing he has proven to be good at is campaigning.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

But it's not Obama. It's his campaign staff. Did Rove's nonsense *really* affect Bush's presidential-ness? (other than the part of giving him a WH job)

Really?
 

The defense of Perry is that he was just being "irrational?":

Apparently "irrational" is just fine with the WSJ, as long as you are for hard money.

Okay, actually, I guess that makes sense. Nevermind.

Sebby in search of a bubble
 

How about energy? And that doesn't even discuss coal.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

I think Clubby's new thing is to just post Hank-like trolls. He is sick of getting the beat down when he seriously posts stuff that proves to be garbage.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

Anyone else think it odd that CNN has ignored Maxine Waters at the CBC event asking people if it is time to attack Obama? It seems to me a pretty significant thing, and one that could really complicate his path, yet CNN has ignored it.

It also seems to not be on the NYT page.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

I never think it is odd to ignore Maxine Waters.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

The "other than" was a problem there....

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Ha! Nice try.

ETA: Nice leadership Obama. 26% approval rate on the economy. But I'm the crazy one . . .

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

You are not serious with this.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Right, and when someone who's out there slamming the maroons running for the R nomination get a genuine WH position--rather than a strict politics position, paid for by the campaign--then there's an issue about that person speaking "as" the POTUS.

Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
 

Yes, I am. The campaign and the office of the POTUS are not the same. Obama (and any other POTUS) does not personally get to wear two hats, and the campaign shouldn't speak to policy (just as the WH staff should not speak to the election), but the words of the campaign staff are not the words of the President.