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I watched this clown obfuscate and bloviate for over 5 minutes before he even addressed what he called the news conference about...then he glossed it over, blamed the press for misquoting him and his opponents for blowing the whistle on him, and spent another 20 minutes wrapping himself in the flag. What a phony. :mad:
 
Yeah, this is pretty much unforgivable for a candidate for statewide office - the Dems better get someone else in that race now, or it's just giving a Senate seat away to the Republicans. :mad:
 
And Specter's loss is additional evidence for my claim that incumbents of both parties are in trouble this year.
 
While we're calling out politicians for lying about their war service, let's not forget some others:

[...]Whatever the ultimate verdict on the Blumenthal story, however, it's worth noting that he was hardly alone in misstating -- or falsely recollecting -- the facts about his stint in uniform. Leaving aside Lindsey Graham, who has puffed his "wartime" service for years, such mythmaking is indeed characteristic of the politicians most revered by the GOP.

Take George W. Bush, whose controversial service as a Texas Air National Guard pilot was shrouded in mystery, evidently because he wanted to conceal the basic facts of his privileged admission to the TANG and his strange departure from its ranks. In his 2000 campaign autobiography, ghosted by Karen Hughes, Bush claimed that after completing his training in the F-102 fighter plane, "I continued flying with my unit for the next several years." That simple sentence was entirely untrue, according to records eventually released by the Bush campaign, which showed that he had never flown in uniform again after his suspension from active duty in August 1972 for failing to show up for a mandatory physical examination.

In the same book Bush also suggests that he tried to volunteer for service in Vietnam "to relieve active duty pilots" fighting the war. But, of course, the entire purpose of his privileged (and questionable) enlistment in the TANG was to avoid the Vietnam draft, as he hinted in a 1998 newspaper interview when he said: "I don't want to play like I was somebody out there marching [to war] when I wasn't. It was either Canada or the service and I was headed into the service." Two years later, under the tutelage of Hughes, that momentary candor evaporated.

Yet Bush's self-serving revisions cannot compare with the fantastic recollections of the late Ronald Reagan, whose veneration by Republicans was never diminished by his bizarre utterances. In November 1983, he told Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir during a White House visit that while serving in the U. S. Army film corps, his unit had shot footage of the Nazi concentration camps as they were liberated. He repeated the same tale to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and other witnesses. Reagan had indeed served in the Army and worked on morale-boosting movies for the War Department. But he had done so without ever leaving Hollywood for the entire duration of the war.

Bush's phony account of his Guard service seems to have been a calculated prevarication by someone who just didn't expect to be caught. Reagan's false memory could be regarded in a more generous light, perhaps as a signal of his later dementia. (At FAIR, Jim Naureckas notes that the New York Times dismissed the Nazi camp fantasy as a "flight of imagination.")
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Rep. Hank Johnson: Guam could 'tip over and capsize'
March 31, 2010, 4:23 pm by Christina Wilkie

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is afraid that the U.S. Territory of Guam is going to "tip over and capsize" due to overpopulation.

Johnson expressed his worries during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the defense budget Thursday.

Addressing Adm. Robert Willard, who commands the Navy's Pacific Fleet, Johnson made a tippy motion with his hands and said sternly, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize."
 
Obama's will improve as the economy slowly winds back up again. That is, of course, if the Euro doesn't tank and take the entire world economy with it. The former is quite possible and the latter, while less likely, could happen. But given that those events don't occur, there isn't a Republican out there who will be able to beat him. Mitt Romney is the least repulsive choice and even he is no match for the Big O.
 
Boxlicker101 said:
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I also know that W's approval ratings were higher at this point in his presidency than Obamas's are now.
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They were high because we'd been attacked and everyone had yet to realize the extent of Ws incompetence. The country was being drummed into war, despite the huge tax cuts that had just taken effect, setting the stage for the doubling of the national debt.
 
Huckleman2000 said:
They were high because we'd been attacked and everyone had yet to realize the extent of Ws incompetence. The country was being drummed into war, despite the huge tax cuts that had just taken effect, setting the stage for the doubling of the national debt.
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In May 2002, we were at war in Afghanistan, and meeting success. The Second Iraq War was still ten months in the future.
 
Boxlicker101 said:
Satisfaction with whom? Congress or the president? I thought The Big O's approval ratings were teetering around 50%, but I'm sure they are higher than 23%.
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According to the poll aggregator sites like Pollster and RCP, he's been steady at 48-50% since December.
I also know that W's approval ratings were higher at this point in his presidency than Obamas's are now.
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It was also falling, and fast.

Due to the 9/11 bump, W's rating was higher at this point in his presidency than any other president from the last century. Only JFK were close at this point.

Obama's approval more cosely matches Reagan's and Clinton's.
 
Someone let HUCK know that W isnt running for office this year. Huck and Obama think he is.
 
Originally Posted by JAMESBJOHNSON
Someone let HUCK know that W isnt running for office this year. Huck and Obama think he is

Liar said:
Neither is Obama.

And it was Box that brought up W.
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The Big O is not running for anything, but many of his supporters are, and the November election will reflect the public attitude toward his policies. Those supporters have not had much luck in special electons so far this year, and November will tell a big story. As I have said, I expect the Reps. to control the House and they will be close to a majority in the Senate.

All I did was compare Obams's approval ratings with those of his predecesssor at the same time in their respective terms.
 
Boxlicker101 said:
The Big O is not running for anything, but many of his supporters are, and the November election will reflect the public attitude toward his policies. Those supporters have not had much luck in special electons so far this year, and November will tell a big story. As I have said, I expect the Reps. to control the House and they will be close to a majority in the Senate.[...]
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What elections are you talking about?

House:
Florida 19 April 13, 2010 Ted Deutch (D)
Pennsylvania 12 May 18, 2010 Mark Critz (D)
Hawaii 1 May 22, 2010 Charles Djou (R)

Senate:
Massachusetts January 19, 2010 Scott Brown (R)

There were five special elections in 2009, all won by Democrats, including NY23, which flipped from a secure (R) because of the Tea Party splitting the vote.
 
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Originally Posted by Boxlicker101
The Big O is not running for anything, but many of his supporters are, and the November election will reflect the public attitude toward his policies. Those supporters have not had much luck in special electons so far this year, and November will tell a big story. As I have said, I expect the Reps. to control the House and they will be close to a majority in the Senate.[...]


Huckleman2000 said:
What elections are you talking about?

House:
Florida 19 April 13, 2010 Ted Deutch (D)
Pennsylvania 12 May 18, 2010 Mark Critz (D)
Hawaii 1 May 22, 2010 Charles Djou (R)

Senate:
Massachusetts January 19, 2010 Scott Brown (R)

There were five special elections in 2009, all won by Democrats, including NY23, which flipped from a secure (R) because of the Tea Party splitting the vote.
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I probably should not have mentioned special elections, but just referred to elections, in general. Specifically, I was referring to the defeats of Obama-supported gubernatorial candidates in VA and NJ and the election where a Rep. won the Senate seat formerly held by the Kennedy brothers. There have been other Dems who lost, such as Arlen Specter, and there will be many more in November.

In special electons in the House, either party gained one seat formerly held by the other and lost one seat they had held.
 
Why do you keep calling Arlen Specter a democrat? In all the political circles I know, he's spoken of as a "former republican." It's pretty well assumed that Specter switched sides to prolong his career.

He lost to an actual democrat.
 
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