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Poll: Dem leads in NY-20

Posted: Friday, March 27, 2009 10:17 AM by Mark Murray
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From NBC's Mark Murray
This is potentially bad news for the GOP: A new Siena Research Institute poll shows Scott Murphy (D) leading Jim Tedisco (R), 47%-43%, in that special election taking place in upstate New York on Tuesday. (Hat tip: Taegan Goddard.)

An earlier Siena poll this month had Tedisco up by fours points (45%-41%), and in February, Tedisco was ahead by 12 (46% to 34%).

As we've written, it would be a P.R. disaster for Republicans if they lose this GOP-leaning congressional district, where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats and which the GOP held for 28 years until Kirsten Gillibrand (D) won it in 2006. (That said, Obama did capture 51% of the vote in this district last November.)

“If Republicans lose this race, it is likely to have more significant aftershocks than if Democrats lose,” Amy Walter of the Hotline told First Read.

“I think Republicans will have to do some introspection if they lose this race,” added David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report. “If there is any district in New York they should be able to get back, it is this one.”

Meanwhile, Tedisco released this statement about the new Siena poll: “Heading into Election Day, our campaign’s internal polling shows us continuing to lead, just as we have for this entire race. Today's Siena poll is simply another in a line of polls that show this race within the margin of error.  In the end this race is coming down to voter intensity and turnout, and our internal polls show us with strong leads in both areas."

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Well, once The Teleprompter jumps ship, It's all over for the Dems.  I heard The Teleprompter is not content with Obama doing online and pre-recorded propaganda and neglecting it.
Game time!  Aren't those the same talking points we heard from Nicolle Wallace the night before the Presidential election?
Well, if the good people of upstate New York paid ANY attention to the GOP non-budget unveiling yesterday, Murphy should win in a landslide! The GOP has NOTHING to offer. At least the Dems are trying SOMETHING, rather than ignoring the situation. Go Murphy! Let's continue the exile into oblivion of the GOP!
Republican internal polling ALWAYS tells them what they want to hear!  Is providing these bogus numbers a good paying gig?
Here, let me post for Eric so he can take a break.

Obama's great blah bleh bleh.Democrats are so smart blah blah blah save the country blah blah blah

repugnant's suck blah blah blah ruin country blah blah blah

repug we bust
bama we trust blah blah blah

there Eric, saved you some time today, maybe you can use it to go out to the mailbox and see if your welfare check has made it yet.
McCain's internal polls also showed him winning by election day...see how that turned out Teddy?  

I wan an intern for the NYS State Assembly when Tedesco was there.  If he brings the Albany disease of legislative disfunction to Washington, we are all screwed!
Do not know how any intelligent voter could support any republican. Their actions these last few months prove they do not care about the survial of our country or us and are not able to provide any solutions of their own.
New Yorkers, know you can see through their hypocrasy..
I can't help but wonder if the horrible performance of Washington Republicans over the past 2 months is impacting this race.  Maybe I'm crazy, but I assume the people of NY-20 also need jobs and education and aren't liking what they hear from Congressional Republicans.
First, you gotta use a fair and balanced poll to see what the REAL numbers are. We all know the Dems have a real strong tendency to cheat so all of this is moot.
Meanwhile, Tedisco released this statement about the new Siena poll: “Heading into Election Day, our campaign’s internal polling shows us continuing to lead, just as we have for this entire race. Today's Siena poll is simply another in a line of polls that show this race within the margin of error.  In the end this race is coming down to voter intensity and turnout, and our internal polls show us with strong leads in both areas."
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The only margin of ERROR is Tedisco and The RNC's fundraising is that they can't see The Republicans are are falling backwards and can't look forward?

As long as the Party of NO turns a blind eye to the real issues for US of America like AIG--that the Bush administration last fall approved billions of dollars in aid to it (AIG) without requiring the company to nullify its bonus contracts.
 That ... was a Huge Mistake!
This is the special election in upstate New York, around Poughkeepsie, for house seat located in district 20 (NY-20), vacated when Gov. Paterson appointed Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Senator Clinton's old seat after she was confirmed as Sec. of State.

By sheer numbers it has the heaviest Republican lean in New York state, and in my time in the area (my in-laws live up there), it is clear that pro-guns and anti-government has been the district's history (I saw more Ron Paul for President signs than Obama and McCain combined). It is also heavily effected by the last 18 months of recession and has seen massive layoffs and jobs lost.

It will be a big deal if the Tedisco and the Publicans lose this one, considering its Republican registration advantage and the amount of time and money that Steele has poured into the race.
Hey....Teleprompter Republicans on Obama...

REALLY....Is THAT all you got?  LOL....!!

Grow up....you all sound like it's Recess in the Schoolyard.....in the 5th Grade!!
a Great Article


‘...nearly all of America's top 100 corporations maintain subsidiaries in countries identified as tax havens...’


‘...Goldman Sachs Group to set up three subsidiaries in Bermuda, five in Mauritius, and 15 in the Cayman Islands? Why did Countrywide Financial need two subsidiaries in Guernsey? Why did Wachovia need 18 subsidiaries in Bermuda, three in the British Virgin Islands, and 16 in the Caymans? Why did Lehman Brothers need 31 subsidiaries in the Caymans? What do Bank of America's 59 subsidiaries in the Caymans actually do? Why does Citigroup need 427 separate subsidiaries in tax havens, including 12 in the Channel Islands, 21 in Jersey, 91 in Luxembourg, 19 in Bermuda and 90 in the Caymans? What exactly is going on at Morgan Stanley's 19 subs in Jersey, 29 subs in Luxembourg, 14 subs in the Marshall Islands, and its amazing 158 subs in the Caymans? And speaking of AIG, why does it have 18 subs in tax-haven countries?...’


‘...a renewed willingness on the part of American authorities to crack the tax havens -- which was not a priority, to put it mildly, of the Bush administration....’



A GREAT article from Salon:


‘...AIG is chump change -- let's find corporate America's hidden billions

It's time to reform offshore banking, and see what untaxed wealth big business is hiding in overseas tax shelters.

By Joe Conason

March 23, 2009 | The popular urge to claw back the bogus bonuses paid by American International Group is irresistible and fully justified, but should the Treasury someday retrieve every single bonus dollar, that total of $165 million will make no difference to anyone except a few disgruntled traders. From the jaded perspective of the financiers, the uproar over the AIG bonuses may provide a welcome distraction from far more important (and lucrative) abuses in the world's offshore tax havens.

So rather than continue arguing over chump change, it is long past time for the United States, with its international friends and allies, to demand accountability from the long list of tiny countries and principalities, from Andorra and the Cayman Islands to Singapore and Switzerland, where corporations, wealthy clients and unrepentant evildoers hide their assets.

The big claw-back will reach into quaint islands and mountainous principalities, because the same banks, hedge funds and private equity firms responsible for the world financial meltdown keep their profits in those "secrecy spaces" -- alongside the ill-gotten gains of numerous drug dealers, dictators and delinquents of every description.

According to the Government Accountability Office, nearly all of America's top 100 corporations maintain subsidiaries in countries identified as tax havens. As the GAO notes, there could be reasons other than avoiding the IRS to set up branches in places such as Singapore, Luxembourg and Switzerland, where taxes are light or nonexistent and keeping clients' illicit secrets is considered a matter of national pride.

But what reason other than evasion could there be for Goldman Sachs Group to set up three subsidiaries in Bermuda, five in Mauritius, and 15 in the Cayman Islands? Why did Countrywide Financial need two subsidiaries in Guernsey? Why did Wachovia need 18 subsidiaries in Bermuda, three in the British Virgin Islands, and 16 in the Caymans? Why did Lehman Brothers need 31 subsidiaries in the Caymans? What do Bank of America's 59 subsidiaries in the Caymans actually do? Why does Citigroup need 427 separate subsidiaries in tax havens, including 12 in the Channel Islands, 21 in Jersey, 91 in Luxembourg, 19 in Bermuda and 90 in the Caymans? What exactly is going on at Morgan Stanley's 19 subs in Jersey, 29 subs in Luxembourg, 14 subs in the Marshall Islands, and its amazing 158 subs in the Caymans? And speaking of AIG, why does it have 18 subs in tax-haven countries? (Don't expect to find out from Fox News Channel or the New York Post, because News Corp. has its own constellation of strange subsidiaries, including 33 in the Caymans alone.)

When the cost of these shenanigans was last estimated two years ago, the U.S. government's annual loss in revenue due to tax avoidance by major corporations and super-rich individuals was pegged at about $100 billion -- considerably more than a rounding error, even today. But of course that is only a rough assessment, as is the estimate of $12 trillion in untaxed assets hidden around the world. Nobody will know for certain until the books are opened and transparency is established.

Whatever the accurate accounting proves to be, it is certain to exceed hundreds of billions annually worldwide. That is money every country will need badly for years, to repay debt, finance reconstruction, and fund services, as the world economy struggles to revive itself. Even in the developing countries, where incomes are much lower and billionaires tend to be scarce, the annual revenue loss could be as much as $50 billion -- enough to meet the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals (if only the money were not stolen by local elites and wired away to numbered accounts in tax havens).

None of these tax havens could exist without the connivance or at least the cooperation of the world's most powerful governments, which remain dominated by financial industry lobbyists even now. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has sought greater transparency from the tax havens for years, hearing promises from most and defiance from a few.

But in reality almost nothing was accomplished until last year, when U.S. law enforcement authorities began to pursue Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) executives with criminal indictments. The UBS probe led to a settlement last month that included a fine of $780 million and an agreement to provide information about tens of thousands of American clients maintaining secret accounts at that huge bank.

Over the past several years, however, the trend has gone the other way, with abuse of bank secrecy and the expatriation of investment and profits growing rapidly. On the tiny island of Jersey in the English Channel, for instance, the authorities responded to political pressure from hedge funds, which have placed more than $80 billion in deposits there, by establishing a "zero regulation regime" last year that literally removed all restrictions and reporting on financial transactions. Jersey's counterparts in Guernsey and the Cayman Islands responded by assuring the hedge funds that they, too, would consider abolishing all regulation.

Perhaps the UBS case indicates a change in that unwholesome trend and a renewed willingness on the part of American authorities to crack the tax havens -- which was not a priority, to put it mildly, of the Bush administration. As a senator, Barack Obama supported legislation to break open the secret financial regimes, by retaliating against countries and principalities that refuse to cooperate. Now Congress and the White House should pass such legislation and make breaking the tax havens a high priority in partnership with the European Union, the OECD and World Bank. They could start by threatening to outlaw transactions between American banks and financial institutions in any country that rejects new rules for transparency and reciprocal information.

If Americans want to make the authors of our misery pay up, then the auditors must go where the money is, as Willie Sutton might have explained -- and take hundreds of billions back....’


Aren’t we the biggest share holders in AIG?  BofA ?  CitiGroup ?

WHY can’t we get that information ?
It belongs to us, now


Let’s hope Evan Bayh and the ‘Blue Dogs’ don’t stick for corporate right to privacy


W.



Thanks!

P.S. Barack is taking heat from his own for turning up the war in Afganistan. But he's soft on Iraq. No leadership here but you already know that.


The only margin of ERROR is Tedisco and The RNC's fundraising has is --  that they can't see They (Republicans) are are falling backwards and can't look forward?

As long as the Party of NO turns a blind eye to the real issues for US of America like AIG-- the Bush administration last fall approved billions of dollars in aid to it (AIG) without requiring the company to nullify its bonus contracts.
 That ... was a Huge Mistake!
W.



Thanks!

P.S. Barack is taking heat from his own for turning up the war in Afganistan. But he's soft on Iraq. No leadership here but you already know that.


Teleprompter Republicans on Obama
http://blogs.chron.com/nickanderson/
The blimp has spokem.
Teleprompter puns, pleeeaaassseee...Don't you have anything else to say?
If they lose the seat, what would they say?
As long as the Party of NO turns a blind eye to the real issues for US of America like AIG-- the Bush administration last fall approved billions of dollars in aid to it (AIG) without requiring the company to nullify its bonus contracts.
That ... was a Huge Mistake!
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And Obama made sure the bonus provision was in legislation he signed as well, Beverly.  Was that...a huge mistake?  Or-let me guess-you have some excuse for Obama.  
First, you gotta use a fair and balanced poll to see what the REAL numbers are. We all know the Dems have a real strong tendency to cheat so all of this is moot.
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Moon Dawg, you've been waving around the same Rasmussen poll for a week now and everyone and their grandmother knows Rasmussen always trends upward for Republicans.  The Siena poll has always been pretty accurate.  Also, I can't help but notice you also ignore the CNN Poll of Polls (a combination of 4 different national polls) that shows that President Obama's popularity is actually up 2 points in the last 2 weeks.  Yeah, you wouldn't want to take an AVERAGE of polls, would you?  Better to just find one that you like and say it's the only fair one out there.
Bet Silly Sarah wish she had used the teleprompter for her subsequent interviews after the use of a speech writer and the EVIL TELEPROMPTER at the Repuke Convention!

ENOUGH of this craziness over the teleprompter....
I sure hope Jim Tedisco can find someone to pray with.
Republicans don't get it yet. their governing philosophy was not only soundly rejected at every level last fall but the trendlines show not many new folks are signing up for a backward looking, racist at its core, homophobic, christian based, war mongering and nationalistic party. No thanks says America!
You can guarantee if Tedisco wins, the party line in the media will be 'well, it's a heavily Republican district, so we didn't expect to win.'  If Murphy wins, it will be hailed as the upset of the century.   And First Read will be happy to push that.  
I am glad the Dem is leading, I hope he whips the Repub's a$$, big time.  NY wants a candidate that supports president Obama.
NY-20 Dems need to vote. I hope the ground game for the Dems is still pretty solid for this special election.

I really don't understand how Repubs could win after that stunt they pulled yesterday; a news conference to discuss their 'alternate budget=biggest tax cuts yet for the wealthy.'
First, you gotta use a fair and balanced poll to see what the REAL numbers are. We all know the Dems have a real strong tendency to cheat so all of this is moot. --Moon Dawg

How can I tell when you are being facetious?  Could you put a winking emoticon to help us out.
the voters think Tedisco is running a negative campaign
That may not be helpful for him

From WashingtonMonthly:


'...    Tedisco's campaign is viewed by voters as more negative by a 44-25 percent margin, while Murphy's campaign is seen as more positive. Regardless of who they are supporting, by a 45-35 percent margin, voters think Tedisco will win the election.

   "While the percentage of likely voters supporting Murphy has risen about three points per week for the last four weeks, the percentage supporting Tedisco has dropped three points. In the last four weeks, Murphy turned a 12-point deficit into a four-point lead," said Steven Greenberg, spokesman for the Siena New York Poll.

Every couple of weeks, it seems Tedisco's lead has shrunk just a little more, but this is Murphy's first lead.

The race certainly has multiple angles, but it's hard not to wonder if Tedisco's quick reversal on Rush Limbaugh criticism was one of those costly errors the candidate would love to take back. It also probably didn't help that Tedisco refused to take a position on the stimulus package, only to denounce it a month after it passed.

Obviously, it's still a very close contest, and even if the Siena poll is right, neither candidate is above 50%. Keep an eye on the significance of the White House's efforts in the district, with Obama having endorsed Murphy this week, Joe Biden recording a radio ad for the Democrat yesterday, and a new televised presidential endorsement set to air.

Also remember, there was quite a bit of speculation recently about whether RNC Chairman Michael Steele will be able to keep his job if Republicans lose this race. While Tedisco might still eke out a win here, it's something else to keep an eye on...'

"In the end this race is coming down to voter intensity and turnout, and our internal polls show us with strong leads in both areas."

Okay I can understand how turnout can increase the vote but intensity? If the voter marks the ballot extra dark or hits the touch screen extra hard or screams and stamps his feet how does that translate to more votes?
As long as the Party of NO turns a blind eye to the real issues for US of America like AIG-- the Bush administration last fall approved billions of dollars in aid to it (AIG) without requiring the company to nullify its bonus contracts.
That ... was a Huge Mistake!

Beverly, Chicago

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Here, Beverly...read this.  

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=7121125&page=1

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Also, I can't help but notice you also ignore the CNN Poll of Polls (a combination of 4 different national polls) that shows that President Obama's popularity is actually up 2 points in the last 2 weeks.  Yeah, you wouldn't want to take an AVERAGE of polls, would you?  Better to just find one that you like and say it's the only fair one out there.

Brian Crooks, Naperville, IL

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What is the point of arguing about President Obama's popularity?  Is this high school?  Who cares?  
Hey RS - Thanks for letting me know that my pro-Obama posts are making you see red.  Mission Accomplished!  You're probably too young to remember the saying Better dead than Red.  Keep posting your clueless whines so that you support our wonderful Liberal First Read website!

In Obama We Trust!
In First Read We Trust!
What is the point of arguing about President Obama's popularity?  Is this high school?  Who cares?  
Jill F., Tulsa, OK
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Maybe because the Repukes always like to lie about his "tumbling" numbers.......the only thing that's tumbling is America's hopes in the GOP. Specifics? Just leaf through the 19-page brochure fake budget. Defend that, Jill.
The GOP has no future plans, and will win no new votes in the future either. The poll numbers do not mean a thing because they change so often. It is the people who get out and vote that make the difference. The idea that his very intelligent President needs to read off a teleprompter is mentally ill! Now you want to talk about a President who could not even spell teleprompter correctly. Well! That would be "Brainless Bush." "Chump-Change-Cheney" wrote most of his material for him anyway, and he still could not pronounce words correctly. So do not even go there "Gross Odd People" (GOP)!
In case you couldn't tell from his posts, JAWILLIE is a fat old black guy who is extremely desperate for someone to listen to him and take his opinions seriously. Sorry to tell you JAWILLIE, no one cares about your opinions and no one wants to read your blog. In other words, no one cares what you have to say.


Andrew Cuomo a 'Genuine Communist'

Good, cause I HATE those foam filled phony Communist


From HuffPost:

‘...Most Amazing Jim Cramer Clip Yet: He Calls Andrew Cuomo a 'Genuine Communist'

Somehow Jon Stewart missed perhaps the most damning Jim Cramer of all from the CNBC archives.

A truly embarrassing, and revealing, video has been posted on YouTube for well over a year, showing Cramer railing against New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for his early mortgage crackdowns, including going after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In fact, he calls "this guy" Cuomo a "genuine Communist."

He gesticulates wildly and practically screams throughout the clip, posted by the Business and Media Institute at businessandmedia.org in November 2007.

Cuomo had just delivered subpoenas to Fannie and Freddie calling on them to review their appraisals and mortgages with Washington Mutual. Fannie and Freddie later became insolvent--and WaMu went under. So Cuomo looks pretty damn good today.

Yet the video finds Cramer starting by calling Cuomo the most powerful guy on The Street and "most important man in America" just then - but he means this "negatively" and is "tired of it." He goes on to argue: "Cuomo's about confiscation -- genuine communist...The Chinese are capitalists, we got a communist." He hits him for holding up sales of more houses still on market.

"Can I give you the real headline? Cuomo says, let's make it harder to get a mortgage, let's make it harder to lend.....Is this really the intent of this Democrat who wants to be president of the universe?... Well thank you Mr. Cuomo....Who is this guy? Did you vote for him? ....Cuomo, wow.

"This guy is going to shut down the mortgage market." He calls him "General Cuomo." And : "Cuomo is about losing money."

The host at least pushes back a bit. She says Cuomo has been invited on but has not yet accepted. Cramer says, "Come on, he would walk a mile for a camera."

The New York Times' City Room blog has just linked to the video, meaning more exposure to come....’

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/most-amazing-jim-cramer-c_b_179974.html


Cramer waited until the Daily Show was on break to respond to them....
Clever dude
Hey RS - Thanks for letting me know that my pro-Obama posts are making you see red.  Mission Accomplished!  You're probably too young to remember the saying Better dead than Red.  Keep posting your clueless whines so that you support our wonderful Liberal First Read website!

In Obama We Trust!
In First Read We Trust!
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Eric, your posts don't make people see red.  They make people wonder why there are no mental health clinics in Salinas.  
What is the point of arguing about President Obama's popularity?  Is this high school?  Who cares?  
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Well, if you would have read the first part of my post, you would realize I was responding to Moon Dawg who has been trumpeting the same Rasmussen poll for about 2 weeks now, claiming that all other polls are biased and that he has the secret information that nobody else knows about.  I'm not arguing about his popularity, I'm rebutting false information.
Sorry to tell you JAWILLIE, no one cares about your opinions and no one wants to read your blog. In other words, no one cares what you have to say.
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Actually, I find his posts pretty interesting a lot of the time.  Speaking of NO, LA, have they gotten the lower 9th ward cleaned up yet?  Maybe Governor Jindal should use some of the stimulus money to clean up the rubble and rebuild the city?  I'm just sayin'.
>>>In case you couldn't tell from his posts, JAWILLIE is a fat old black guy who is extremely desperate for someone to listen to him and take his opinions seriously. Sorry to tell you JAWILLIE, no one cares about your opinions and no one wants to read your blog. In other words, no one cares what you have to say.
Lee Kimes, NO,La. (Sent Friday, March 27, 2009 11:54 AM)

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Usually, when I don't care for a particular poster, I simply ignore them.  Yet you go out of your way to write about little ol' me, telling everyon how you don't care what I have to say.  I must say that I am truly flattered.  Thank you.

BTW.  How did you figure I was FAT.  I know I've been gaining weight lately and have been going to the gym, but does it really show through the INTERNET.  Gosh!

http://jawillie.blog.com
Maybe because the Repukes always like to lie about his "tumbling" numbers.......the only thing that's tumbling is America's hopes in the GOP. Specifics? Just leaf through the 19-page brochure fake budget. Defend that, Jill.

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Wow, pretty defensive on here today.  Just so you know, I am not a Republican.  Repeat: I am NOT a Republican.  Therefore, I don't have to defend anything.  All I said was that it was pointless and meaningless to argue about popularity.  And it is...this guy is our President, a position that should be taken seriously and not reduced to how many kids want to sit at his lunch table.  And yes, Brian, I read your entire post.  Again, I repeat that I could care less how "popular" the guy is.  I want him to work and stop campaigning.      
The problem for the GOP is that Obama's getting credit for fixing their messes.  

GOP spent 3 decades promoting deregulation.  Now, everyone agrees that deregulation led to the 2008 economic disaster.
The GOP ran a surplus into the worst deficit in history.
The GOP controlled Congress dramatically increased pork spending.  GOP leader McConnell brags about the pork he gets into bills.
Yesterday, the GOP ran in front of the media with a budget and said see Mr. President, here's our budget.  But the budget had ZERO details.
Then we learn one of the GOP budget writers, Cantor, goes to a Britney Spears concert instead of working on the budget.
What is the point of arguing about President Obama's popularity?  Is this high school?  Who cares?  
Jill F., Tulsa, OK
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Jill, one thing you have to understand is people like jawillie, Eric in Salinas, and Beverly in Chicago is they got beat up a lot in high school and didn't have any friends.  Now that they're grownups, they've perfected the art of victimhood (a specialty of liberals), and they've discovered they can enjoy popularity vicariously through their hero.   So the polls matter a great deal to them, and if Barry slips a little bit they're quick to discredit the particular poll in question and screech something about Fox News or George Bush.  
In case you couldn't tell from his posts, JAWILLIE is a fat old black guy who is extremely desperate for someone to listen to him and take his opinions seriously. Sorry to tell you JAWILLIE, no one cares about your opinions and no one wants to read your blog. In other words, no one cares what you have to say.
Lee Kimes, NO,La.

So jawillie is similar to nashville_fan - or are they the same?
Bad Moon (from another thread) ~

>> Anna Molly: Get off your anti-Bush campaign. Stop the hatred. The Obama Trauma and his Cabinet of Crooks think much like President Bush, except THEY think Afganistan is the proper place to do the killing.  I bet you have no problem with that, which makes you a hypocrite. <<

Hypocrite?  Oh, no.  Just typical mindless liberal silliness.  Being an experienced neo-conservative, well-schooled in how liberals think, you already know how THAT goes.  

Hatred?  Well.  If I hate anything, I hate killing;  but if there HAS to be killing, then Afghanistan IS the proper place for it, and it ALWAYS was.  

And wow.  I certainly managed to get a rise out of you.  Do I see trouble on the way?  You probably shouldn't go around tonight.  Could be in for nasty weather.  ;)  
In Obama We Trust!
In First Read We Trust!
Eric, Salinas, CA (Sent Friday, March 27, 2009 11:33 AM)

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Eric are you completely crazy.  Have you gone over to the dark side with all the repukes.  Defending First Read - Please

I used to think you were a Democrat - Now I see you are just another of those Obama Bashing Repukes.  Next you will be making fun of Obama's telepromptor.

Shame on You - turncoat.
It should be interesting and hope Murphy wins. It's  a good sign that his numbers are rising close to the election and the republicans are falling. MSNBC will get to use their election music and background again next Tuesday.

Guess the folks ranting against the teleprompter were watching Glen Beck again yesterday.  As Keith Olberman so aptly pointed out after showing Beck's comment: Glen Beck was using a teleprompter for his complaint.  Bush used a teleprompter, McCain and Palin used teleprompter, so who cares; apparently it's only ok to use if you're republican.  I'd much prefer someone using a teleprompter for prepared speeches than see someone shuffling through a bunch of papers or cards which is distracting.  We know the Congressional GOP is void of ideas; surprised they haven't picked up on the "teleprompter" issue to add to their standard "no" comments, might have helped them with their non-budget budget conference yesterday.
MSierra, SF

Obama is coming up with a new tax - its called the copy and paste tax.

And according to Turbo Tax Tim you owe 1.2 trillion for all the copy and paste that you do in your blogs.  Cant you come up with your own ideas instead of just stealing from the Hun Post (as in Attila the Hun)

Get a real life and a real job - we need your money
Sorry to tell you JAWILLIE, no one cares about your opinions and no one wants to read your blog. In other words, no one cares what you have to say.
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I for one think he has some of the best posts on this blog.   My God...you Obama bashers really do not have a leg to stand on, do you.
Sorry to tell you JAWILLIE, no one cares about your opinions and no one wants to read your blog. In other words, no one cares what you have to say.
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I for one think he has some of the best posts on this blog.   My God...you Obama bashers really do not have a leg to stand on, do you.
What's with the teleprompter crap? Do any of you realize that Bush used one too? Geez! They all do! What's wrong with that? I don't get it.


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