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First up, is an amazing ad from Rick Perry. What makes it amazing to me is the amount of dislike that he manages to express in one small, 31-second snippet. Gays, non-Christians (or even Christians who just don’t publicly proclaim their faith–which I’m pretty sure is something that Jesus himself suggested), the President. . . he really packs it in there!
Second up is a clever rebuttal.
All I’m gonna add is that, as a commenter on Political Animal noted, I don’t think that Rick Perry’s barn coat has ever seen an honest day’s work. What is it about this man, Mark, Mr Troll McWingnut, and others familiar with Texas politics, that has made him such an unstoppable force within the state? Now that he’s on the national stage he sure seems like a bit of a doofus.
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"who just don't publicly proclaim their faith–which I'm pretty sure is something that Jesus himself suggested"You're referring to my favorite passage. Matthew 6."1 'Be careful not to parade your uprightness in public to attract attention; otherwise you will lose all reward from your Father in heaven.2 So when you give alms, do not have it trumpeted before you; this is what the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win human admiration. In truth I tell you, they have had their reward.3 But when you give alms, your left hand must not know what your right is doing;4 your almsgiving must be secret, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.5 'And when you pray, do not imitate the hypocrites: they love to say their prayers standing up in the synagogues and at the street corners for people to see them. In truth I tell you, they have had their reward.6 But when you pray, go to your private room, shut yourself in, and so pray to your Father who is in that secret place, and your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you.The "look how pious I am" act defeats purpose.
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Yep! Also one of my favorite passages.BTW, OT on my own post, Mark passed on some excellent news about 12BarBlues–this experimental treatment has actually shrunk her tumor by a significant amount! Woohoo!!!
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excellent news!have a good night.
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Why have concern about Perry? There is no way Obama loses. Seriously.And howdy!
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Rick Perry is a doofus. A personable, handsome doofus. A self serving doofus.Did I ever tell you my story about sitting next to him in the Central Appraisal District anteroom waiting to appeal our valuations, and the conversation we had?Or his recognizing one of my daughters' childhood friends in the grocery and the conversation they had?He has consolidated the power available to a TX Governor which was never much, before, by using his time in office to subvert every appointed position with cronies.The Austin paper runs straight expose after expose about his doings and nobody outside Austin seems to care.KBH was my classmate in law school. She was one of 6 women in my section of 100 at the beginning and one of 4 who made it through. I have always respected her and voted for her. She adopted kids when she was 57 and then 59 [she is one month older than I, 68 in July]. She really wanted out of DC and back to Austin. When she ran against Perry I thought he was finally toast, but, no, she was. In 2006 he was elected with 39% of the vote [4 way race]. We hold our Governor's election two years off the presidential, so a smaller turnout tends to be more rural and small town than suburban and urban. Other than that, and his amazing luck, I do not know why we are saddled with Goodhair. Rosanne says every time he wins "HOW?" She sounds like Tonto every four years.I am so used to Goodhair winning despite his goofiness and admissions in public of lack of understanding that I figured he would breeze to the presidential nomination. So for me the R nominating process has already proven satisfying.
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He was never on this religious bandwagon or the states' rights bandwagon until 2009, btw.He supported Giuliani in 2008.
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For what it's worth, he wouldn't do as much as I want done, but more than Romney (who would be an Obama second term.)He is unarguably less corrupt than Obama.
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Important link dump on Russia:http://www.economist.com/node/21541444http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/thousands-of-protesters-in-russia-demand-fair-elections/2011/12/10/gIQAru4XkO_story.html?hpid=z1http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/world/europe/the-saturday-profile-blogger-aleksei-navalny-rouses-russia.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/05/anti_putin_brigade_russia
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Ummm,… Wow. Just wow.
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TMW, if you think Perry is "less corrupt" than BHO, then you should have some evidence of actual personal gains BHO has made in public office that coincide with his supporters achieving no-bid contracts.Personal gains. Personal wealth. Real estate or other insider transactions. I can list the Perry deals. But I cannot do that now because Rosanne and I are going to a movie.
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Mark,I can think of a couple. There's his house he bought with Tony Rezko. The Job his wife had at the University of Chicago at over $300K a year that was discontinued when they moved into the White House. Let's not forget the hundreds of thousands of dollars in earmarks Obama garnered for UofC while he was a Senator. The "Green Energy" loans provided to his campaign contributors (though most politicians do this, it still strikes me as corrupt, and the numbers involved make Perry look like a piker and therefore less corrupt.)Further, the lie that is his personal narrative, barely surviving on food stamps, while in reality living in Hawaii, attending the most prestigious prep school on the island paid for by his grandmother who happened to be the Vice President of the largest bank in Hawaii.There are other things with little or no evidence. I do not think he wrote "Dreams of My Father" for example, and I don't think we'll know for years the amount of fraud involved in the so-called stimulus bill he signed.
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I suppose one can define corruption in various ways, but Obama also knife-fought his way into the Senate by the improbable release of sealed divorce records of his primary opponent and then his general opponent. I put the odds of that happening without his inolvement quite low, and it was about as dirty as dirt can get. We also know now that he simply lied about not having his political career launched at a fundraiser hosted by Bill Ayers, who recently boasted about it. Perry is often attacked as something of a chameleon. Obama is quite a chameleon as well. He was for gay marriage and single payer, socialized health care up until he ran for President and was supposedly against it. He obviously lied about the gay-marriage pledge he signed in the 90s. There is plenty of this stuff in his background. And there's no way to debate that a major thrust of his Presidency is to reward his favored constituencies with money from the enemy classes. That's the height of corruption in my book.As for the video lampooning Perry and Christians, it's deeply offensive, as it obviously was intended to be. Those who made it are religious bigots. Not that complicated. That's okay; let the poor souls feel the satisfaction of hating and ridiculing others.Matthew 6, btw, is a favorite of liberals only when they aren't instructing the rest of us that their policies represent "true" Christiantiy, i.e., socialism in one form or another. Obama openly proclaimed his Christian faith, so did Hillary, so did many other Democrats. It's only bad when conservatives do it.
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My goodness, you guys are in to conspiracy theories tonight!McWing: your "wow" video. . . wow, just wow. Gulp. Be careful what you ask for, I guess!qb: religious bigots???? I don't think that I've ever told anybody how to exercise their religion, let alone whether or not Christianity should equal Socialism. I thought the video was funny and a nice riposte to Perry's claim that he–and he alone–knows how to make America strong again. Plus, it *wasn't* a gay, atheist President who got us into the hole we're in! 🙂
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Michi,I'm not surprised that it didn't strike you as bigoted. Obviously it didn't. But it is. I don't think that I've ever told anybody how to exercise their religion, let alone whether or not Christianity should equal Socialism.I'm not sure what you mean by this. I didn't say that you have told anyone how to exercise their religion; in fact, I didn't say anyone did. I said that liberals (yes, I generalized) attack public expressions of religious principle as informing public policy only when they aren't doing the same thing themselves. I couldn't count the number of times I had exactly that debate with liberals at PL. One of the early debates I had there was over the express claim that Jesus was a socialist.I didn't hear Perry claiming that "he alone" knows how to make America strong. But if he were to win the nomination, he certainly would be running against someone who ran on that premise about himself. He also ran on the political claim that we are each our brother's keeper, on which he purportedly bases his redistributionist vision.
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Mark/McWing/qb:I don't know much about politics in Texas, but Obama made his political career in Chicago. To think he did so without being significantly corrupt is pretty optimistic. Naive might be another word.
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The fact that the last four Governors of the State are convicted felons is purely coincidence. Nothing to see there, move along.
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"What is it about this man, Mark, Mr Troll McWingnut, and others familiar with Texas politics, that has made him such an unstoppable force within the state? Now that he's on the national stage he sure seems like a bit of a doofus." Good question. Earlier in the race, I predicted that Pawlenty would surprise the commentariat because his aw shucks boy-next-door earnestness played well up here, in MN. He managed to convince moderates he wasn't an idealogue, yet he convinced the Repub base that he was. He knew his audiences & new how to play to each one without alienating the others. That's a critical skill in politics, which led me to believe he'd pull it off again. But apparently what works in MN doesn't work elsewhere.
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qb; I'm not sure what you mean by thisThat all too often I hear Conservatives/Republicans accuse me of doing exactly that (conflating Christianity with a political leaning), and you seemed to be doing that. If you weren't, I'm sorry that I read it that way.We obviously heard each of those commercials differently. . . which leads to why we're on this blog.Scott: think he did so without being significantly corrupt is pretty optimistic. Naive might be another word.Oh, please, dude, PROOF??????????
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Mich:McWing and qb have highlighted some of O's known and suspected ethical problems. But my point was simply that anyone familiar with the political culture from which Obama emerged would have to be pretty optimistic, to the point of being naive, to think that he is clean of corruption.
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Answer videos to Rick Perry's commercial are a bit of a cottage industry. Here is a serious video by Fred Karger the protest gay Republican candidate who never gets invited to the debates.Far funnier is this Bad-Lip-Reading style parody of the original Rick Perry ad.
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I recall reading the Rezko connection about the house, but it turned out BHO was the high bidder for it and it had been languishing on the market. Later BHO bought a strip of land from Ms. Rezko and I recall being botherd by that story but I no longer remember why.Her career hs followed a predictable path – Princeton, Hatvard, big firm CHI practice, then set fundraising records at some non-profit. She had a near perfect background to become the Community Relations Director for the Hospital.I will go back to that purchase of the strip of land from Ms. Rezko and see what it was that bothered me.
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The Rezko accusations were very, very big during the 2008 primaries, particularly by Clinton backers which was ironic considering the Whitewater trades and Hillary's spectacularly prescient futures trading. I recall there being a lot of smoke but no fire found.
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Scott: color me naive, then (I've been called worse), but I think it's all smoke and no fire. Pretty much what Mark and yello have been saying.A more exhaustive look at Obama's Presidency from the corruption/scandal side is here. My favorite quote from that:Of course the most entertaining and explosive scandals involve sex, which reporters and pundits will ride all day and night. But you’ve got to give them something to work with. As far as we know, the president, the vice president, the top White House staff, and the Cabinet members are either committed family men and women or single. Nowadays you need flagrant adultery— or Anthony Weiner-style weirdness—to get some traction with sex. Barack Obama and an intern? Highly unlikely. The first lady would kill him, cover it up, look fabulous at the state funeral—and no one would be any the wiser.Michelle is my kind of First Lady. 🙂
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Good morning, everyone. Michelle Obama made over $300K one year, but it was not all in salary. There was a signing bonus included in that figure, plus a one-time mandatory payout related to some internal hospital program. She had other job offers at the time, so she was able to negotiate a higher-than-expected salary. I'm not clear why this would be considered unseemly.Also, her pay as a VP at the medical center was in line with other VPs there. Again, what's the big deal?As for her position remaining unfilled after she left, she had gradually reduced her hours at the job (with the expected decreases in pay) to work on her husband's campaigns. By the time she left, she was working only half-time and a lot of her prior responsibilities had been absorbed by others. So there wasn't the same level of need to fill the vacancy. I've seen this happen gobs of times.As to the real estate deal, the real estate listing required that the home the Obamas wanted and the adjacent vacant lot had to be sold as a package. The Obamas were the high bidder on the home (about $300K under the asking price), but wouldn't buy the lot. Enter Rezko's wife, who bought the lot at full price. That one I've always found to be totally weird. Legal on its face and a year of investigations by the Chicago Tribune couldn't shake up a smoking gun, but it still smells.
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Good morning, MsJS! How are things in your part of the world?
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TMW: The fact that the last four Governors of the State are convicted felons is purely coincidence.That's four out of the last nine, actually. The facts are grim enough without embellishment.
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Michi: Things are fine.It turns out the facility where my father's urn will be placed is still under construction. Won't be ready until late January. And my father has always been both a college football fanatic and a vodka drinker. So, with our tongues planted in our cheeks we requested the management to place his urn in the interim at a sports bar and give him one dry vodka martini every evening.
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MsJS–I love it!!!!What do you think he would've thought of the Big Ten Championship? Darn those Badgers!!I've embarked upon the journey of switching back to my maiden name (has less to do with the divorce than the fact that I feel very strong ties to my roots–my ex and I had actually been discussing it off and on for years as he didn't feel strongly one way or the other about my taking his name in the first place). Turns out to be far more complicated than changing it when you get married–yet another sign of Male Domination of the "Weaker" Sex?? 🙂
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"TMW: The fact that the last four Governors of the State are convicted felons is purely coincidence.That's four out of the last nine, actually. The facts are grim enough without embellishment."Oops, sorry about that. Luckily for us Obama was untouched and no doubt unaware of the corruption. He was to busy not listening to Reverand Wright's sermons. 😉
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Michi: He watched the Big Ten championship, actually. One of my brother's daughters graduated from UW-Madison last May, so the family allegiances are aligned in that direction.Changing one's name these days can be complicated, regardless of the reason. When I looked into it, I decided not to bother.
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McWing: pure as the driven snow, I have no doubt! :-)I went ahead and put up a Sunday post, BTW. . .
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MsJS: I must admit, that if MSU didn't play in the Rose Bowl I wanted it to be Wisconsin. But still!!I've decided to take the plunge on the name change, despite the complications. Keeps my mind focused on moving forward, if nothing else. This coming year was when I was going to have to renew my driver's license and passport, anyway, so I'm kind of killing two birds with one stone. I have a feeling that this is going to be a year-long project, though!
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" What do you think he would've thought of the Big Ten Championship? Darn those Badgers!!"The funeral where I was last week had the opposite sentiment. For a WI transplant in Eugene, OR, badgers-ducks in the rose bowl is a dream come true.
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Here is another parody of the Rick Perry commercial, this one featuring Jesus.
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Okay, first I will establish that not only do I dislike Perry, I also despise him, which means that I have no respect for him soever.Second, I have made no secret that I don't care for monotheism in general, and when I see something like this ad, (is this for real?!), I experience a moment of intense hatred for a religion that not only allows this, but promotes it (I have no more love for the other two either, but they aren't prevalent in this country).That then gets transferred to the deliverer of that type of message.However, I see this played out on many different levels in all of our politics. It disgusts me. I like that you quoted Matthew, I would really enjoy seeing that run right after one of his ads as well, just to remind the public of what time it really is. Of course, that would then be feeding the very thing that I most despise about religion.Regarding $300k… was this before or after the presidential election? You know, for the most part, I can only get hired based on who I know, not my skills. That has been my observation. I got the most favorite job I ever had, based not on skill (I was new to IT, no experience), but on who I KNEW. If it is like that for me, little ol' Jane Doe of no importance, how on Earth can you dis those that use that recognition on a national level? It is the intent that I am concerned with. I honestly believe that Obama has this country's best interests in his heart. I believe equally that Perry, Romney, Cain, and all of the rest DON'T.Further: the above are only on the tail-end (so far, the path has no end in sight today) of a trend that began with Rove and Reagan. Tell me, if the philosophy was so fine, why do they have to stoop to such low actions to promote it? Kind of goes back to Matthew again, doesn't it?
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