[Rhodes22-list] POLITICAL: Another Class Act from the GOP

Thu Oct 23 17:55:55 EDT 2008

Slim,

I'm aware of Bachmann's position because I'm a regular reader of
Powerline, three lawyers from Minneapolis.  Minnie is a strange place,
you included.  Minnie has gone out of its way to include the Somalis,
and they gained what?  I warned you against voting for the first
"Muslim" for congress. There's nothing wrong with being a Muslim, but
I don't trust anyone who "converts" to the Muslim faith.  Call me
narrow minded if you will, I just don't see the attraction.  Anyway,
back to Minnie, you people have lost it!

Slim, I don't care who I piss off at this point.  You included my friend.

Brad

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yet another class act from the GOP is Michelle Bachmann, R-MN.
> It wasn't enough for her to call Obama anti-American.  She wants a
> McCarthy-esque witch hunt of all the congress itself!
>
> So in the last week, her opponent has received over $800,000 contributions
> to take her out.  They're calling it a "million dollar mistake."
> Personally, I hereby disavow Michelle Bachmann as a fellow Minnesotan.  We
> here in the frozen north stand for inclusion and tolerance and she doesn't
> belong here.  She should join Palin and go hang out with the "real
> Americans."
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_pN2IPAw6E
>
> Slim
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Lou Rosenberg <lsr3 at nyu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Brad
>>
>> In the field of telecommunications esp video production, workers are
>> NOT hard to find.
>> even workers with thousands invested in Japanese gear need to be as
>> competitive with their
>> fees to get work because of a glut of workers and a paucity of any
>> decent work.
>>
>> And in boat repairs market, There are few opportunities for any new
>> workers in the NYC /LI area according to an employer I spoke with
>> recently.
>>
>> just my pov  here
>> Lou
>>
>> On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Brad Haslett wrote:
>>
>> > Lou,
>> >
>> > The Chinese have an expression to describe people like you-
>> >
>> > "killing chickens to get eggs"
>> >
>> > There are a lot more of us at +250K than there are Warren Buffets?
>> >
>> > Workers are pissed?  Trust me "buddy", workers are hard to find.
>> >
>> > The talented in the world will be OK.  The workers in the world will
>> > be fine.  The dreamers in the world will be left with wet underwear.
>> >
>> > Some things never change!
>> >
>> > Brad
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Lou Rosenberg <lsr3 at nyu.edu> wrote:
>> >> re:  redistribution of wealth is NOT the same as taxing people who's
>> >> GROSS EARNINGS are OVER 250Gs.
>> >> Especially when a honest billionaire like Warren Buffet  admits that
>> >> he pays LESS taxes than his secretaries.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> the trickle down economics of the Reagan era just didn't work and
>> >> Republicans cannot understand why
>> >> workers are PISSED!
>> >>
>> >> Lou
>> >>
>> >> On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Ben Cittadino wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> Gail Collins had the following column in the NYTimes today.  It
>> >>> struck a
>> >>> chord with me.  My Obama sign was stolen from my yard (not a
>> >>> particularly
>> >>> brave act as you can barely see my house from the road).
>> >>> I took it as a "sign" that Jesus wants me to keep talking politics,
>> >>> at least
>> >>> until after this election.  If I can convince one "lurker" on this
>> >>> forum to
>> >>> vote for Obama, or at least give the guy a chance, it will be
>> >>> adequate
>> >>> revenge for the theft of my "freedom of speech" by one of Sarah's
>> >>> Real
>> >>> Americans.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> "October 23, 2008
>> >>> Op-Ed Columnist
>> >>> Confessions of a Phone Solicitor
>> >>> By GAIL COLLINS
>> >>> Word comes from Madison, Wis., that a telemarketer named Ted
>> >>> Zoromski quit
>> >>> his job this week over John McCain's message.
>> >>>
>> >>> Zoromski was prepared to interrupt people during their dinner
>> >>> hours to
>> >>> encourage them to vote Republican. But when he got the script
>> >>> saying "you
>> >>> need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic
>> >>> terrorist
>> >>> Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the
>> >>> Pentagon, a
>> >>> judge's home and killed Americans," he packed it in.
>> >>>
>> >>> "Even though I was paid to do it, I didn't feel comfortable,"
>> >>> Zoromski told
>> >>> WKOW-TV.
>> >>>
>> >>> This story, relayed via Mike Allen on Politico.com, struck me
>> >>> because I once
>> >>> worked as a telemarketer, and it is an occupation so soul-numbing
>> >>> that it is
>> >>> hard to imagine that anything could make it worse. I woke up people
>> >>> on the
>> >>> overnight shift who had just managed to fall asleep for the first
>> >>> time in
>> >>> six days. Sometimes, when there was clearly nobody at home, I would
>> >>> just let
>> >>> the phone ring and ring in order to avoid having to call anybody
>> >>> else. Once
>> >>> after about 30 rings, I heard the breathless voice of a man who had
>> >>> climbed
>> >>> down off the roof in hopes that this was the critical business call
>> >>> he had
>> >>> been waiting for all year, the one that was going to change his life
>> >>> forever. Imagine his joy when he discovered that it was, instead, an
>> >>> exciting opportunity to purchase an entire packet of portrait
>> >>> photographs of
>> >>> his loved ones at a special discount price.
>> >>>
>> >>> So truly, if you can come up with something that would send a
>> >>> telemarketer
>> >>> over the edge, you have really overachieved on the offensiveness
>> >>> front.
>> >>>
>> >>> For a while, John McCain and Sarah Palin were so over-the-top about
>> >>> Barack
>> >>> Obama that people in the crowds started yelling death threats —
>> >>> sometimes
>> >>> while simultaneously begging McCain to "take the gloves off." The
>> >>> idea of
>> >>> what they were hoping to see in a post-glove era scared everybody
>> >>> so much
>> >>> that the campaign tamped things down.
>> >>>
>> >>> Opening for a McCain rally in North Carolina last weekend,
>> >>> Representative
>> >>> Robin Hayes said he wanted "to keep the crowd as respectful as
>> >>> possible."
>> >>>
>> >>> In order to pursue that goal as efficiently as possible, Hayes then
>> >>> announced that "liberals hate real Americans that work and
>> >>> accomplish and
>> >>> achieve and believe in God." This was an especially unfortunate
>> >>> turn of
>> >>> phrase given the fact that he had begun his remarks by saying he
>> >>> wanted to
>> >>> "make sure we don't say something stupid."
>> >>>
>> >>> All this was a direct outgrowth of Sarah Palin's own comments in
>> >>> North
>> >>> Carolina, in which she praised the "pro-America" areas of the
>> >>> country. But
>> >>> Hayes had clearly been absent for the day in scurrilous campaign
>> >>> school when
>> >>> they explain that you aren't supposed to specifically name the anti-
>> >>> American
>> >>> parts.
>> >>>
>> >>> Meanwhile, over on MSNBC, Representative Michele Bachmann of
>> >>> Minnesota was
>> >>> launching into the Obama/terrorist spin when she suggested that the
>> >>> news
>> >>> media should investigate "the views of the people in Congress and
>> >>> find out:
>> >>> Are they pro-America or anti-America." So far, the only person
>> >>> who's felt
>> >>> the impact of her call to reinvent McCarthyism for a post-Communist
>> >>> planet
>> >>> has been her opponent, a hitherto totally ignored Democrat named
>> >>> Elwyn
>> >>> Tinklenberg, who was stunned to discover in the following days that
>> >>> he had
>> >>> received close to $1 million in donations.
>> >>>
>> >>> When reporters first began covering political speeches in the 19th
>> >>> century,
>> >>> politicians were so appalled at the idea that somebody planned to
>> >>> write down
>> >>> what they said that they would stop speaking if a reporter showed
>> >>> up along
>> >>> the campaign route. Today, in the post-macaca era, you'd figure that
>> >>> politicians would be so sensitive to the perpetual presence of
>> >>> recording
>> >>> devices that they'd censor their comments even while muttering to
>> >>> themselves
>> >>> when taking a shower. Not to mention comments made right after they
>> >>> have
>> >>> been made up, offered coffee in the MSNBC green room, had a
>> >>> technician
>> >>> install three different recording devices under their clothing and
>> >>> given a
>> >>> seat in front of a large camera.
>> >>>
>> >>> But the tone of this campaign has given some of the Republican
>> >>> faithful,
>> >>> even those who are members of Congress, the impression that
>> >>> questioning the
>> >>> patriotism of large groups of the population is now O.K.
>> >>>
>> >>> Right now, all the polls predict that in less than two weeks,
>> >>> Barack Obama
>> >>> is going to be elected president. The McCain campaign disputes
>> >>> this. Large
>> >>> numbers of Obama supporters are also in doubt, possibly because
>> >>> they keep
>> >>> getting e-mails from their relatives in Toledo revealing that Obama
>> >>> has gone
>> >>> to Hawaii not to visit his ailing grandmother, but to destroy
>> >>> evidence that
>> >>> he is not actually an American citizen.
>> >>>
>> >>> For John McCain, the best question now is not whether he's going to
>> >>> lose,
>> >>> but what kind of a country he'd wind up with if he won after a
>> >>> campaign even
>> >>> a telemarketer can't love. "
>> >>>
>> >>> Ben C.
>> >>>
>> >>>
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