Congrats obama

[ksjdan]

[Julien]

This article shares similar views, a good read

http://www.scottgood.com/jsg/blog.nsf/d6plinks/SGOD-8ZTHFZ

[z31maniac]

Great article, spot on analysis.

It's the insane social conservatism of the Extreme right that turns me off as well.

[rwh11385]

Agreed. The GOP has become the party of religious nut jobs and teabaggers, bankrolled by business interest that find them politically useful. If they want to win presidential elections in the future they need to stop letting themselves be dominated by retards. Oh yeah and keep banging on about the evils of immigrants. The growing latino vote is loving it.

Yeah, it makes as much sense to whine about people not paying taxes while forcing people who want to work to be paid under the table as being pro-life while only wanting to teach a bunch of horny teenagers abstinence-only Sex Ed.

Or complain about not enough skilled workers or innovative small businesses while limiting visas to allow the educated foreign students to work here instead of heading home to compete with us.

Or keep trying to find NSF grants to criticize when science and technology is the backbone of economic growth (and population growth of course which for us depends on immigration). They also attack the losses of high risk but high reward grants while failing to realize that one big win could revolutionize the country/world. Like Joule Unlimited or Sandia's Sun2Petrol. Creating an enemy in science is ridiculous.

So their strategy is attack immigrants, disrespect women, and deny gay rights... And then be shocked when they can only carry some angry white dudes? There's not enough of them without the ability to fact check to win a presidential election.

[CorvallisBMW]

I'm pretty sure the person Mitt was as Governor could have possibly won. But the shell he evolved into for the GOP was an anchor around his neck, along with some of his comments.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2012/11/why_romney_lost_he_couldn_t_separate_himself_from_the_republican_party_s.html

Why Mitt Lost
He couldn’t separate himself from the Republican Party’s growing extremism.



Like the article I posted about Santorum hopefully being the end of an era, hopefully this election will bring the fall of the Tea Partiers who have skewed the GOP more extreme and illogical, and can return the party to something more people can connect with and respect.

Good article. Thanks for posting.

[ohthejosh]

Not everyone receiving help from the government are lazy. You guys are pricks if you believe that. Open your eyes, if you were hit hard during the recession and were put in a situation that would either leave you bankrupt and homeless you know you would not reject any form of help from the government. I hate the fact that there are 30 yr olds just freeloading off their parents but that's the parents fault not Obama's. Of course there will be people taking advantage of the system there will ALWAYS be those people whether rich or poor.

We are suppose to be a United country, it's in the name FFS. Stop being assholes and support the country. We have a leader but he doesn't have 100% power to control us. Do your part to make this country a better place for everyone.

[cale]

how?

For starters, nearly every post you make comes off as though a high school kid made it. Maybe you're had at articulating your thoughts, I however would be more inclined to believe you're just unintelligent....that's what the evidence has pointed to so far.

[joshh]

Condoms break, maybe he or she made a mistake (forgot pill/got drunk/didn't think ahead).

I have a hard time getting over the "holier than though" attitude that is shared by some of the members in this forum. No matter how careful you are, you are still human and completely capable of making mistakes. I try my best to not require any kind of assistance, but sometimes you find yourself paddling up shit's creek and you need the help.. a favor you will return to someone else later in life.

Congrats on the second win President Obama.

How many forms of contraception are there...and he's whining about barely being able to make it. Yet here he is about to have a kid. If you're in financial straights you double up on contraception (pills and condoms, creams, diaphragm etc). Just sounds to me like he's not really as strapped as he makes it sound because he's "taken care of".

[tjts1]

Its like a retardathon up in this joint.

[joshh]

can I ask you, why would you get her pregnant if you knew you could NOT afford it?

I was going to bring that up myself. I wonder if he has any idea how much it costs to take care of a child these days.

[Julien]

Condoms, use them. Educated people made them for a reason, they teach sex-ed for a reason FFS.

Condoms break, maybe he or she made a mistake (forgot pill/got drunk/didn't think ahead).

I have a hard time getting over the "holier than though" attitude that is shared by some of the members in this forum. No matter how careful you are, you are still human and completely capable of making mistakes. I try my best to not require any kind of assistance, but sometimes you find yourself paddling up shit's creek and you need the help.. a favor you will return to someone else later in life.

Congrats on the second win President Obama.

[Thizzelle]

Im sure he did it on purpose...

Condoms, use them. Educated people made them for a reason, they teach sex-ed for a reason FFS.

[Thizzelle]

For somebody that claims to be educated you certainly know how to make yourself sound uneducated. Good job.

how?

[tjts1]

I have science degree, I'm not religious, I just don't want to keep helping lazy retarded people.
I'm where I'm at because I thought into the future and made good decisions to set myself up to where I am today.
More than half of the kids from my high school are still living at home or who the fuck knows WTF they are doing, and are right around the 30 age. WTF

For somebody that claims to be educated you certainly know how to make yourself sound uneducated. Good job.

Like the article I posted about Santorum hopefully being the end of an era, hopefully this election will bring the fall of the Tea Partiers who have skewed the GOP more extreme and illogical, and can return the party to something more people can connect with and respect.

Agreed. The GOP has become the party of religious nut jobs and teabaggers, bankrolled by business interest that find them politically useful. If they want to win presidential elections in the future they need to stop letting themselves be dominated by retards. Oh yeah and keep banging on about the evils of immigrants. The growing latino vote is loving it.

[rwh11385]

wow dude. Add homophobia, bigotry, religous intolerance and scientific ignorance - and you can see why the extreme right has lost.

I'm pretty sure the person Mitt was as Governor could have possibly won. But the shell he evolved into for the GOP was an anchor around his neck, along with some of his comments.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2012/11/why_romney_lost_he_couldn_t_separate_himself_from_the_republican_party_s.html

Why Mitt Lost
He couldn’t separate himself from the Republican Party’s growing extremism.

This failure began with the spectacle of the extended primary season, which was dominated by candidates with views far outside the political mainstream. Rick Santorum rejected the separation of church and state. Newt Gingrich challenged the notion of judicial supremacy. Michele Bachmann claimed the government had been infiltrated by radical Muslims. Donald Trump refused to recognize the validity of Obama’s birth certificate. Rick Perry wanted to take down more parts of the federal government than he could successfully name. In the debates, the country saw the GOP talking to itself and sounding like a bizarre fringe party, not a responsible governing one.

Romney is not a right-wing extremist. To win the nomination, though, he had to feign being one, recasting himself as “severely conservative” and eschewing the reasonableness that made him a successful, moderate governor of the country’s most liberal state. He had to pass muster with his party’s right-wing base on taxes, immigration, climate change, abortion, and gay rights. Many of his statements on these issues were patently insincere, but that was hardly reassuring. Romney’s very insincerity and flexibility made it improbable that he would stand up to the GOP’s hyper-partisan congressional wing once elected any more than he had during the primaries.

Romney’s pandering to the base made it possible for the Obama campaign to portray him as a right-wing radical from the start of the campaign. Fear that he didn’t have the base locked down kept Romney from moving smoothly to the center once he had secured the nomination. It further encouraged his choice of Paul Ryan, a popular figure with the Tea Party. And when Romney tried, much too late, to move closer to the center, Republican Senate candidates, like Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana, kept popping up with disgusting reminders of the GOP’s retrograde views on gender issues. For women, Latinos, and young voters tempted to abandon Obama, the old Romney might have been a plausible alternative. The new Romney, fettered by a feverish GOP, was too risky a choice. According to exit poll results, Romney won men as expected, but lost among women by 11 points—too large a gender gap to be overcome.

Demographic change and better economic circumstances stand to make the Republican road back to the White House an even steeper climb in future years. Simply put, the party has to present a more conciliatory and reasonable face to sell itself to swing voters. To do that, it must elevate its own moderate voices, cut loose its theocrats, and liberate itself from the domination of Tea Party know-nothings.

So let the season of Republican recriminations begin. The GOP now faces the challenge of self-examination and internal reform that Democrats began to undertake after losing twice to Ronald Reagan. It desperately needs the kind of centrist reform movement that was led on the other side by the Democratic Leadership Council, which paved the way for the election of a centrist Democrat named Bill Clinton. Without that sort of renewal movement, the 2012 election may come to be seen less as a fluke than a harbinger.

Like the article I posted about Santorum hopefully being the end of an era, hopefully this election will bring the fall of the Tea Partiers who have skewed the GOP more extreme and illogical, and can return the party to something more people can connect with and respect.