David Corn

We know McSame will say more dumb stuff and gaffe and the press will give him slack and more of a pass. What I hope upon hopes is he loses it in a debate.

I hope BHO pushes his policy button and McSame goes all red faced for all to see.

That could make the election a given.

We don't need a hot head in the WH, the world is too dangerous a place to have any leader with that kind of temperment.

Wow!

Pand 'O' nial is all about LBHmania on last post, at least he wasn't shamelessly whining about being called a spic or wetback~ I'm still cracking up about that one.

My daughter went to see Obama at a rally and said he was great. What freaked her out were the cultist cornnuts that showed up to worship him and put on a freak show. Sounds like the cornnuts here on the corn blog.

I think that having a temper is much less of a problem for an elected leader than being an empty vessel steered by neocons and ideological nut cases because of lack of intelligence. God help us if we end up with another anti-intellectual who genuinely seems to believe he's doing the right thing. Of course, if Bush doesn't really believe he's doing the right thing, and is letting our kids die in Iraq in order to save face, then he's Satan in a very thin disguise.

Fortunately, even though I will not vote for McCain, and even though I want a lopsided Democratic blow-out this fall, if it doesn't happen, I don't think it will be nearly as dispiriting as the mood on Nov. 4, 2004.

Why can I see McCain owning one of these
http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?&langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&productId=130700
with Iran scribbled over the top?

A public Cheney style FU moment would be perfect for YouTube.

child, you're such an easy target. The only whiner here is you. You're always complaining about us ganging up on you when we haven't even mentioned your name. I know it hurts you to have your lies shot down one after another; but deal with it. It's all fun 'n games, right?

We have to be ready to fight for every vote.

The election is not democrats versus republicans it is democrats against an election machine.

The GOP has the power to wiretap everybody, read all emails, sneak and peek in all democratic offices, they own the voting machines, the courts, the US attorneys, caging lists, push polling, big corporate money and the main stream media. Not to mention the really low stuff they will always deny, whisper campaigns, fake emails, fake news shows, talk radio lies, Faux news BS and the likes of Moonie Washington Times.

Wins - big or small are not a given and the GOP will do and say anything to retain as much power as they can.

This will be no cake-walk and we are delusional if we ever kid ourselves into thinking we will be greeted with candy and flowers.

No matter what a mess we are in financially or internationally the GOP will crow about "victory" on all fronts. Some people will believe it.

How could 55 million (+/-) vote for a second term for Bush?

That still gives me chills.

The Top 10 Myths Keeping Hillary in the Race

Here are ten enduring, kudzu-like myths about the state of the Democratic nomination race, with the debunking they sorely need.

http://www.alternet.org/election08/80870/?page=entire

Pand 'O' nial is all about LBHmania on last post, at least he wasn't shamelessly whining about being called a spic or wetback.
Posted by: LBH | April 1, 2008 11:45 AM

If you use the words "spic" and "wetback" in a sentence referring to a particular person with Hispanic bloodlines, the burden of proof of whether you're a racist shifts from the benefit of the doubt to a presumption of culpable.

Who says this is not an open forum where people of all opinions, including racists, are not welcome? Welcome LBH. Be brave and share your innermost feelings about race. Why hide it? We don't even know who you are or where you live. No one can use it against you. You've got nothing to lose.

http://www.northstarwriters.com/dc163.htm

Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior

-Dan Calabrese

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As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying.

The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.

Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career...

Full Article

...Of course, Nixon’s resignation rendered the entire issue moot, ending Hillary’s career on the Judiciary Committee staff in a most undistinguished manner. Zeifman says he was urged by top committee members to keep a diary of everything that was happening. He did so, and still has the diary if anyone wants to check the veracity of his story. Certainly, he could not have known in 1974 that diary entries about a young lawyer named Hillary Rodham would be of interest to anyone 34 years later.

But they show that the pattern of lies, deceit, fabrications and unethical behavior was established long ago – long before the Bosnia lie, and indeed, even before cattle futures, Travelgate and Whitewater – for the woman who is still asking us to make her president of the United States.

Full Article

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Diogenes keeps walking...

Hajji,

the [a href=""] [/a] link is not working. paste the whole URL or a tinyurl version of it.

I don;t know what going on here at DAVIDCORN.COM witht html tags but it has changed recently and without explanation.

There were problems posting, they (CQ tech) worked on that and we lost the tags.

I hope they return the tags soon.

Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential Primary
Pennsylvania: Clinton 47% Obama 42%

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Senator Hillary Clinton’s lead in the Pennsylvania Primary is shrinking.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Pennsylvania shows Clinton leading Barack Obama by just five percentage points, 47% to 42%. For Clinton, that five-point edge is down from a ten-point lead a week ago, a thirteen-point lead in mid-March and a fifteen-point advantage in early March.

If you use the words "spic" and "wetback" in a sentence referring to a particular person with Hispanic bloodlines, the burden of proof of whether you're a racist shifts from the benefit of the doubt to a presumption of culpable.

Neil the bone head
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I have never used either of those words, the only person that has is Pand "O' nial~~

Sort of like Hillary's trip to Bosnia~~~

He like to make stuff up like me whining about you all ganging up on me~~ I thrive on it!!!

The only one whining about someone ganging up on them was Pand "O" nial when just one person, not a gang, put him in his place. Oh ya, and you too Neil!

The award goes to Flan~~

http://www.slate.com/id/2112318/fr/nl/

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Washington state voters finds Barack Obama leading John McCain 48% to 43%. When matched against Hillary Clinton, however, it’s McCain with a three-point edge, 46% to 43%. Those results reflect a slight improvement for the Democrats compared to a month ago. They also are similar to results from the Evergreen State’s southern neighbor. In Oregon, Obama leads McCain by six while McCain leads Clinton by six.

Like 'Rocky,' Clinton in fight until last punch

By Brian Knowlton

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

WASHINGTON: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, fending off pressure from some senior Democrats for her to give up her presidential campaign, on Tuesday likened herself to the fictional boxer "Rocky Balboa," saying: "I never quit. I never give up."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/01/america/campaign.php

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Someone need to remind HRC that Rocky lost to Apollo Creed.

The common thread being . . . .

yeah, old habits die hard.

And the more I look at Calabrese's stuff, the less inclined I am to value that article, anyway. He's got an obvious agenda.

Should've know, since I first heard this referenced on "Neil Boertz"!

C'mon Cyber-Guys...howzabout giving us back our "style"?

-T

"He's got an obvious agenda."
And it really shows with things like his pro missle defence piece. Who besides those with brains stuck in the Cold War believe any country advanced enough to fire a missle that could reach us is stupid enough to do so?

Gov. Rendell: Fox is 'most objective' cable network

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BspCUHqXME0&feature=related

Joe Lieberman will be VP on BOTH Clinton and McCain 2008 tickets

Sen. Joe Lieberman with running mates Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton

It has long been suspected that Joe Lieberman would make history by being the first person to run for vice president for both major political parties, but now he will top himself and potentially appear as VP candidate for both parties at the same time.

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2008/04/joe-lieberman-will-be-vp-on-both.html

Today, I am challenging Senator Obama to a bowl-off," Clinton said, provoking relieved laughs from the assembled scribes.

Clinton carried on, making reference to Obama's disastrous outing at a Pennsylvania bowling alley Saturday.

"A bowling night. Right here in Pennsylvania. The winner take all," she went on. "I'll even spot him two frames."

"It is time for his campaign to get out of the gutter and allow all the pins to be counted. I'm prepared to play this game all the way to the tenth frame. When this game is over, the American people will know that when that phone rings at 3 a.m., they'll have a president ready to bowl on day one."

"Let's strike a deal and go bowling for delegates. We don't have a moment to spare, because it's already April Fool's Day. Happy April Fool's Day."
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Wow! What a woos, he can't do better than a gutter ball?

NYT WEDS: PRESSURE MOUNTS ON DEM LEADER DEAN; INSIDERS QUESTION ABILITY TO NAVIGATE PRIMARY FINISH... DEVELOPING...

Too funny, dem insiders are just now figuring out that there leader is an idiot!!!!

Their - not there.

Their leader is an idiot.

But the irony stands.

Mutant Cornnut Monkeys get Hooked On A Drug Called Obamamum


New Scientist ^ | 4-1-2008 | NewScientist.com news service

Mutant Cornnut monkeys get hooked on a drug called Obamamum 15:35 01 April 2008 NewScientist.com news service Ewen Callaway A gene mutation determines whether or not macaque infants make a fuss when their mothers are missing, say researchers. A similar mutation has been linked to alcoholism and drug abuse in humans. The work could explain why some children are cry babies and some are more independent, says Christina Barr, a neuroscientist at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in Bethesda, Maryland, US, who led the study. "There are some kids that go with the flow and there are some...

Their - not there.

Their leader is an idiot.
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Thanks for the correction you little Mutant Cornnut Monkey!

Simple rule that helps me:

"There" has the word HERE in it so "here and there" while THEIR does not have here in it so it is the other one.

The Steal & Spend Republicans are at it AGAIN!

April 1, 2008 - 8:26am

Cost Overruns Hit $295 Billion

GAO Blasts Pentagon Weapons Budget

They are bleeding our military dry in Iraq and we have nothing to replace it with.

$295 Billion could cover so many other things. This is the OVER CUTS not the original costs.

I wonder what the interest ALONE would be on $295 BILLION DOLLARS. Anyone out there have a clue?

And John McCain supports it ALL!

So remember to reelect the failed policies in Iraq, spending $4655 per second in Iraq.

Do you realize that $4655 would pay for health insurance for 1 person for a full year. So in one day's spending in Iraq would pay for 86,400 people to get health insurance. One week in Iraq would cover 604,800. One month pay for 2,592,000 people to have health insurance. One year would pay for over 31 million people to be covered by health insurance for a year.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/5707

Anybody heard any so-called conservative calling for Social Security privatization these days?

Whoop's - if the GOP had managed to pass that - it would have gone down with Morgan-Stanely and Bears-Sterns.

Take your Social Security on a sub-prime ride?

No thanks!

"The only one whining about someone ganging up on them was Pand "O" nial when just one person, not a gang, put him in his place. "
Posted by: LBH | April 1, 2008 2:45 PM

Yes, you're right. cleaning after your lies and messes has become my place. It's fun/funny; and requires remarkably little effort. You're slipping up on catapulting the lies. Are you feeling alright.

You need to find your way back to FauxNews. Nobody's buying the zombie chow now that all they have to serve is Wright's speeches 24/6.
http://tinyurl.com/2pgxe6

It's not "woos." It goes something like this:

"If LBH wasn't such a wuss, he'd trying sticking to the facts instead of lying like a flea-infested rug."

Or

"If LBH wasn't such a wuss, he wouldn't go crying to Mr. Corn for clemency for being such a Dingbat. "

We'll cut ya' some slack for being DMW, but not much.

Capt,

SS privatization was only for a small percentage of the overall contribution as an election not mandate. Even with the drop in the market over the last year it still out preformed the SS fund. My retirement fund is up overall quite a bit over last three years. I would have even more in retirement if I didn't have to pay the FICA tax twice for being self employed. The SS is a sub-prime ride now, it will be broke when I'm ready to cash in after paying thousands of dollars for notta!

LBH this, LBH that, blah blah blah~~~

LBHmania has got you all worked in a blather. Now bug off and blather on someone else cuz you're getting old and smelly~~~

Or,

Go do something really matcho and bowl a 37 like a little girl~~

Or,

Go do something really macho and bowl a 37 like a little girl~~

It's not "woos." It goes something like this:

"If LBH wasn't such a wuss, he'd trying sticking to the facts instead of lying like a flea-infested rug."

Or

"If LBH wasn't such a wuss, he wouldn't go crying to Mr. Corn for clemency for being such a Dingbat. "

We'll cut ya' some slack for being DMW, but not much.
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Dude, you really need to quit taking out your displaced anger from Hillary on other people~ Your boy Obama wouldn't approve!

"If LBH wasn't such a wuss, he wouldn't go crying to Mr. Corn for clemency for being such a Dingbat.

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What the frig are you talking about? Too much of that drug called Obamamum? You little mutant cornnut monkey~

I'm starting to feel like an abusive master and Pand "O' nail is my battered play thing.

He just keeps coming back for more even after the azz whoopings he keeps getting.

Starting to feel bad for you so I'm going to be Bold as DB likes to call me and put and end to your pathetic misery.

I will ignore you from now on~~

Twelve Reasons Why Privatizing Social Security is a Bad Idea

Greg Anrig, Jr., Bernard Wasow, The Century Foundation, 12/14/2004

Addressing Social Security’s potential long-term financing challenges by taking the dramatic step of diverting its payroll taxes to create new personal accounts will have drastic consequences for federal finances, future retirees, and those who rely on the system the most. Learn more about twelve major reasons why less costly and less painful reforms should be considered instead.

Click on the links below to jump to different parts of the document or download in PDF format here.

Introduction

Reason #1: Today's insurance to protect workers and their families against death and disability would be threatened.

Reason #2: Creating private accounts would make Social Security's financing problem worse, not better.

Reason #3: Creating private accounts could dampen economic growth, which would further weaken Social Security's future finances.

Reason #4: Privatization has been a disappointment elsewhere.

Reason #5: The odds are against individuals investing successfully.

Reason #6: What you get will depend on whether you retire when the market is up or down.

Reason #7: Wall Street would reap windfalls from your taxes.

Reason #8: Private accounts would require a new government bureaucracy.

Reason #9: Young people would be worse off.

Reason # 10: Women stand to lose the most.

Reason #11: African Americans and Latin Americans also would become more vulnerable under privatization.

Reason #12: Retirees will not be protected against inflation.

http://www.socsec.org/publications.asp?pubid=503

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Good thing we never allowed the GOPhers to privatize.

Every point has been proved true. It would have been a very bad idea.

President George W. Bush has called for a transition to a combination of a government funded program and personal accounts ("individual accounts" or "private accounts") through partial privatization of the system. The personal accounts could be invested in various managed investment funds similar to the government employees' Thrift Savings Plan, in which the investor can choose between Treasury Bills, Corporate bonds and a stock market fund. Since the Report of the 1994-1996 Advisory Council on Social Security, the Social Security program has been the subject of widespread debate. After President Bush highlighted the issue in his 2005 State of the Union Address, the debate became especially intense.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on October 4, 2006 "Reform of our unsustainable entitlement programs should be a priority." He added, "the imperative to undertake reform earlier rather than later is great." Bernanke delivered the prepared remarks to the Economics Club of Washington.[4]

(Wiki)

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Whoop's, eh?

I think the primary reason the GOPhers aren't mentioning Social Security is:

"The [CBO] report finds that extending the life of the trust fund into the 22nd century, with no change in benefits, would require additional revenues equal to only 0.54 percent of G.D.P. That's less than 3 percent of federal spending — less than we're currently spending in Iraq."

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Less than we are spending in Iraq.

Loyalty to My Country

By Bill Richardson
Tuesday, April 1, 2008; 10:29 AM

My recent endorsement of Barack Obama for president has been the subject of much discussion and consternation -- particularly among supporters of Hillary Clinton

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040100885.html

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Bill is pretty good guy. I think far less of Carville since the endorsement.

Experts Debunk Clinton's Electoral Vote Idea

With Clinton and Obama so close in the delegate count, both campaigns are grasping at all measures that they are ahead

(Usnews.com)

Good thing we never allowed the GOPhers to privatize.

Every point has been proved true. It would have been a very bad idea.

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Are you speaking from your own investing experience and knowledge or just talking points that you've read?

By the way the majority of people in favor of privatizing
(a small percentage) of SS is 20 to 30 year olds who are Obamas biggest voting block.

Good thing we never allowed the GOPhers to privatize.

Every point has been proved true. It would have been a very bad idea.

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By the way State and Federal pension plans are tied to the markets nd have done very well.
Aggressive Tactics Boost Pension Plan
Colorado's $31 billion state retirement portfolio has a larger proportion of its money in common stocks than any other U.S. public pension fund.

By Steve Raabe

For 27 years, teacher Susan Christensen has worried far more about her third-graders at North Star Elementary in Thornton than about her state-sponsored retirement plan.

Fortunately for Christensen, she's had little reason to worry about whether her retirement check will bounce. Her pension plan, the Public Employees' Retirement Association of Colorado, has become one of the best-performing public retirement organizations in the business.

"Until I started getting close to retirement, I never paid much attention to it," Christensen said. "I just put my trust in them and said, `Here's my money.'"

So far, Christensen's trust has been well placed.

PERA has adopted an unusually aggressive money management style to produce an eye-catching rate of return for its 297,000 members-employees and retirees of school districts, cities and state government agencies. The $31 billion state retirement portfolio has a larger proportion of its money in common stocks than any other U.S. public pension fund.

Pand 'O' nial is all about LBHmania on last post, at least he wasn't shamelessly whining about being called a spic or wetback.
Posted by: LBH | April 1, 2008 11:45 AM

If you use the words "spic" and "wetback" in a sentence referring to a particular person with Hispanic bloodlines, the burden of proof of whether you're a racist shifts from the benefit of the doubt to a presumption of culpable.
Posted by: Neil | April 1, 2008 1:30 PM

I have never used either of those words, the only person that has is Pand "O' nial~~
Posted by: LBH | April 1, 2008 2:45 PM

Child, the "whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you" excuse doesn't tend to work past the age of 8.

I gotta say, my opinion of Hillary has degraded since the 3am phone call thing. But would I vote for McSame if Hillary somehow won? No freaking way and I doubt any democrat would. The media is acting all body snatched again coming up with these bizarre scenarios, all the Democratic party in trouble nonsense, and the 24-7 Reverend Wright crap. None of the crazy preachers that endorsed McLame have gotten any play.

Corky,

Question is...could you still vote for Shillary?

Barack Obama gets former Rep. Lee Hamilton's endorsement

In what could prove both a significant addition to his foreign policy credentials and a boost for the close Indiana primary, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois this afternoon scored the endorsement of former Rep. Lee Hamilton, one of the Democratic Party's leading foreign affairs experts.

Hamilton, a 35-year House member from Indiana, which holds its presidential primary May 6, chaired the Committee on Foreign Affairs and co-chaired both the 9/11 commission and the Iraq Study Group.

“I read his national security and foreign policy speeches," Hamilton told Bloomberg News today, "and he comes across to me as pragmatic, visionary and tough. He impresses me as a person who wants to use all the tools of presidential power.”

The backing of Hamilton, who was said to be on the list of possible vice presidential partners for Bill Clinton in 1992, could help Obama, who's been criticized for his foreign policy inexperience.

Both his Democratic presidential competitor, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, and the Republicans' presumptive nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who has many years of foreign policy experience, have attacked some Obama foreign policy statements.

Hamilton said he particularly agreed with Obama's stand on meeting with adversarial foreign leaders without preconditions and on Obama favoring possible unilateral military action against terrorist hideouts, although in the case of Pakistan that would be attacking a staunch ally.

-- Andrew Malcolm

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/barack-obama-ge.html

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Has HRC garnered any new endorsements?

This freaked me out a bit. Corporate Welfare for when the big kids cry:

Treasury Agrees to Absorb any Losses to the Fed from Bear Stearns

CNBC's Steve Liesman reports on a letter from Treasury Secretary Paulson to New York Fed President Tim Geithner. In the letter, Treasury agrees that the Fed can bill Treasury for any losses from the Bear Stearns deal.

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Source: http://tinyurl.com/yqsw9v

Time for some tax breaks for rich folks. That'll fix the problem, Right? Right.

Corporate welfare for the poor bankers and investors that have been taken advantage of.

Tent cities pop up for the foreclosed while the bankers get their salaries and bonuses.

Maybe they can buy some cheap rentals as investment property?