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2012 Presidential Election Part 4

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Seriously?

Now his inability to submit a budget becomes clear......now we understand how he thinks a few extra billion of incremental tax revenue will somehow "pay for" a trillion-dollar budget deficit. He simply can't figure out where the commas and decimal points should go!

and naturally you are okay with that, eh?

:eek:
Yah, that makes sense of a lot of Obama's fumbling around with numbers all the time. He isn't just trying to be evasive, but he really isn't good with the math.

I'm with you Scooby. We as a nation don't value knowledge and education and math much anymore, so why not have a president who represents those values.
 
Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part 4

Seriously?

Now his inability to submit a budget becomes clear......now we understand how he thinks a few extra billion of incremental tax revenue will somehow "pay for" a trillion-dollar budget deficit. He simply can't figure out where the commas and decimal points should go!

and naturally you are okay with that, eh?

:eek:

Oh, please. That has nothing to do with it and you know it. He has advisers for everything. And anyone can do Simple addition and subtraction and that's all budgeting is for the most part.

You guys thinking that the budget is out of control just because of Obama is sheer insanity. It's a systemic problem all the way through the government and it involves EVERY stripe. Tea party folks to greens. Paul Ryan voted for EVERY SINGLE BUSH budget busting legislation that was offered.

You folks should be happier with Obama. He can't pass a Veteran's Job Bill cause the Repubs think 1 billion dollars is too expensive.
 
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There's an old-school drive-up A&W in Michigan about 20 mins. from my house. Only open in the summer for obvious reasons.

My old summer camp was located across Portage Lake from Onekema (a few miles from Manistee). And one of the real treats was counselors who would go into town at night and bring us back those megaphone shaped paper cartons of A&W (for a price). The taste was a big part of it and so was the cachet of "contraband."
 
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Interesting...

Inside Romney World
By Mark Halperin | October 25, 2012Tweet
4:35 p.m. E.T.

If you think the presidential campaign fundraising wars are over since there is less than two weeks to go, think again.

The Romney high command did a Thursday afternoon conference call with some of their biggest donors and bundlers from around the country, urging them to push hard for the next week to bring in more dough.

According to a source familiar with the call, Romney national finance chair Spencer Zwick and pollster Neil Newhouse gave the group a briefing on the state of the race and pressed them to raise more more more in the next week.

Newhouse told the group that the battleground states are within 2-3 points in their data and they need more money for additional last-minute television ads, direct mail, and other forms of voter contact.

Zwick asked the elite donors to give more themselves and/or to raise more from those who haven’t already maxed out. Even $500, he said, will help buy a radio ad or bulk up a phone bank.

There were donors on the call from Florida, California, and across the Midwest. Among the questions during the brief Q&A: the status of Florida, how to get young people to care more about the debt, the status of Ohio, and how to get more Romney-Ryan yard signs.

Zwick also pushed hard to get their national finance supporters to come to Boston for election night, where the campaign has reserved a large block of hotel rooms for them

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Maybe its me, but isn't it a little late in the game to be hustling for cash? Hasn't he raised like a billion dollars already?
 
Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part 4

Interesting...

Inside Romney World
By Mark Halperin | October 25, 2012Tweet
4:35 p.m. E.T.

If you think the presidential campaign fundraising wars are over since there is less than two weeks to go, think again.

The Romney high command did a Thursday afternoon conference call with some of their biggest donors and bundlers from around the country, urging them to push hard for the next week to bring in more dough.

According to a source familiar with the call, Romney national finance chair Spencer Zwick and pollster Neil Newhouse gave the group a briefing on the state of the race and pressed them to raise more more more in the next week.

Newhouse told the group that the battleground states are within 2-3 points in their data and they need more money for additional last-minute television ads, direct mail, and other forms of voter contact.

Zwick asked the elite donors to give more themselves and/or to raise more from those who haven’t already maxed out. Even $500, he said, will help buy a radio ad or bulk up a phone bank.

There were donors on the call from Florida, California, and across the Midwest. Among the questions during the brief Q&A: the status of Florida, how to get young people to care more about the debt, the status of Ohio, and how to get more Romney-Ryan yard signs.

Zwick also pushed hard to get their national finance supporters to come to Boston for election night, where the campaign has reserved a large block of hotel rooms for them

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Maybe its me, but isn't it a little late in the game to be hustling for cash? Hasn't he raised like a billion dollars already?
I thought Obama was the one who had already eclipsed the billion dollar mark. Wouldn't surprise me though that both campaigns want last minute donations to fuel adds in close states. I'd be shocked if they weren't.
 
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My Parise people, are you really this literal? First of all it's fun as a parent to joke about, "I don't even recognize the math my kid does" even if you'd have no problem actually doing it. All of you with kids have never been stumped by a question by them? Really? It was a moment of levity and not literal self-deprecation. Of course if those of you without a sense of humor really want to drive this one home, our children are learning things at a faster rate than we did without question. My 4th grader is already doing algebra - I don't think I saw it until 6th and I considered a math major in college so math is not a struggle for me. Meanwhile my 3rd grader (he is 8) had bouillabaisse on his spelling list last week and had to use it in a sentence - I know plenty of adults that don't know that word. :)
 
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I thought Obama was the one who had already eclipsed the billion dollar mark. Wouldn't surprise me though that both campaigns want last minute donations to fuel adds in close states. I'd be shocked if they weren't.
If this election is REALLY close, you also may have recounts ^ n. They can be expensive.
 
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My old summer camp was located across Portage Lake from Onekema (a few miles from Manistee). And one of the real treats was counselors who would go into town at night and bring us back those megaphone shaped paper cartons of A&W (for a price).
I loved those! Didn't they have kind of a paper/wax cap that you basically peeled off, and if you were careful, could snap back on one or two times?
 
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My Parise people, are you really this literal? First of all it's fun as a parent to joke about, "I don't even recognize the math my kid does" even if you'd have no problem actually doing it. All of you with kids have never been stumped by a question by them? Really? It was a moment of levity and not literal self-deprecation. Of course if those of you without a sense of humor really want to drive this one home, our children are learning things at a faster rate than we did without question. My 4th grader is already doing algebra - I don't think I saw it until 6th and I considered a math major in college so math is not a struggle for me. Meanwhile my 3rd grader (he is 8) had bouillabaisse on his spelling list last week and had to use it in a sentence - I know plenty of adults that don't know that word. :)
Says the guy who jumps all over every even slightly questionable quote from a conservative candidate. I doubt Obama meant anything by it, but in this campaign where no one is given any breathing room for misstatements, he shouldn't get a free pass, though he typically does.
 
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I loved those! Didn't they have kind of a paper/wax cap that you basically peeled off, and if you were careful, could snap back on one or two times?
I recall as a kid going to the drive-in A&Ws in Minnesota and we'd buy a gallon jug of the stuff and drink it down. Especially good on hot days. At times our whole church softball team would go to A&W after a game in the evening.
 
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Says the guy who jumps all over every even slightly questionable quote from a conservative candidate. I doubt Obama meant anything by it, but in this campaign where no one is given any breathing room for misstatements, he shouldn't get a free pass, though he typically does.

I haven't jumped over anything as innocuous as joking about doing homework with ones kids and clearly you don't have a sense of humor. But please, cry some more about someone joking about you having an interent crush on another woman.
 
Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part 4

My Parise people, are you really this literal? First of all it's fun as a parent to joke about, "I don't even recognize the math my kid does" even if you'd have no problem actually doing it. All of you with kids have never been stumped by a question by them? Really? It was a moment of levity and not literal self-deprecation. Of course if those of you without a sense of humor really want to drive this one home, our children are learning things at a faster rate than we did without question. My 4th grader is already doing algebra - I don't think I saw it until 6th and I considered a math major in college so math is not a struggle for me. Meanwhile my 3rd grader (he is 8) had bouillabaisse on his spelling list last week and had to use it in a sentence - I know plenty of adults that don't know that word. :)
Depends on which dive bar in Southern France the soup comes from.
 
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I recall as a kid going to the drive-in A&Ws in Minnesota and we'd buy a gallon jug of the stuff and drink it down. Especially good on hot days. At times our whole church softball team would go to A&W after a game in the evening.

One time coming home from a trip to Wisconsin, we had a flat, and the spare turned out to have a lump on the sidewall. We wound up driving to the next town at about 25mp in an unairconditioned car. And it was late August, hotter than Hades. Turns out there was an A&W stand across the street from the gas station where we bought a couple of tires and had 'em mounted. We staggered across the street and just gorged ourselves on that wonderful beverage. Man, it was like one of those old movies, where the guy is found wandering in the desert. We also forced ourselves to have several burgers and fries. Wonderful. Memorable.
 
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I thought Obama was the one who had already eclipsed the billion dollar mark. Wouldn't surprise me though that both campaigns want last minute donations to fuel adds in close states. I'd be shocked if they weren't.

Didn't His Failureness' campaign just borrow 15 mil? By now we should all be aware that any ordinary, routine campaign activity engaged in by Romney leaves Rover "shocked. . .shocked." Not just a libstain troll, but a boring, repetitive, totally predictable libstain troll.
 
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I haven't jumped over anything as innocuous as joking about doing homework with ones kids and clearly you don't have a sense of humor. But please, cry some more about someone joking about you having an interent crush on another woman.
Ah, yes, the old standby that one side has a sense of humor and not the other. You're more creative than that with your excuses most of the time. I know you can do better.
 
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A&Ws are still all over Wisconsin. The girls on rollerskates still bring papa burgers out to your car, hang the tray on your window, give you a nice "hi," and smile at you in a way you KNOW is borne of innocence but still makes you feel like you have something to hide from the person on your right chomping down on the mama burger. Life comes that close to being perfect sometimes.
 
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A&Ws are still all over Wisconsin. The girls on rollerskates still bring papa burgers out to your car, hang the tray on your window, give you a nice "hi," and smile at you in a way you KNOW is borne of innocence but still makes you feel like you have something to hide from the person on your right chomping down on the mama burger. Life comes that close to being perfect sometimes.

A&W's and Paul Bunyan Cook Shantys*, mmmmmmmmmm

*IIRC, one in the Dells and another in Minocqua.
 
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