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[Flashermac]

Former Joe Biden aide writes angry tell-all

 

 

Adding another wild-card to the 2012 campaign’s final days, a former aide to Vice President Joe Biden has written a tell-all Washington memoir in which he lacerates the former Delaware senator as an “egomaniacal autocrat†who was “determined to manage his staff through fear.â€

 

The book is hardly an objective study of the vice president, however. Author Jeff Connaughton, a Biden Senate staffer turned lobbyist, is by his own admission deeply disillusioned with the capital and embittered about his experience with the man who inspired him to enter politics.

 

“I came to D.C. a Democrat and left a plutocrat,†he confesses.

 

As chief of staff to former Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.), Biden’s successor, Connaughton was radicalized by his unsuccessful experience trying to get an amendment to the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that would have broken up the country’s largest banks. So he left Washington politics and wrote what he believes is the unvarnished truth about the country’s political system. The big reveal: Big banks control both parties.

 

“It’s time people understand why – and how – Wall Street always wins,†Connaughton writes at the outset of his book.

 

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My link

[kamui]

Of 8 national polls (ABC, Gallop, ect.) only one has Obama ahead.

 

http://www.nationalp...m/national.html

 

It looks that they are in a tie now. Obama seems to have gained in 5 of 6 polls now. Considering the margin of error the pollsters have no idea who will win.

 

 

 

Momentum wars

By: Glenn Thrush and Jennifer Epstein

October 25, 2012 07:25 PM EDT

 

In the past 10 days, Mitt Romney’s campaign has gone from Big Mo to Slow Mo.

 

Like a shark that must swim forward and fast, the Romney campaign needs to maintain its forward momentum — and its heady narrative of an irresistible finish-line surge — despite an increasing pile of polling data pointing to a race that has stabilized since Barack Obama’s disastrous performance at the Oct. 3rd debate in Denver.

 

“Narrative†is an overrated and perishable commodity in politics. But maintaining the perception of momentum has become critical to a challenger banking on a wave of last-minute enthusiasm to defeat an incumbent with a distinct electoral map advantage and small leads in Ohio, Iowa, Nevada and Wisconsin.

 

(See also: POLITICO's swing-state map)

 

The problem: despite a dramatically improved Romney position following the third and final presidential debate on Monday, his momentum in recent polls has slowed discernibly, owing, in part, to Obama’s stronger performances in the face-offs on Long Island and in Boca Raton.

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http://www.politico....2902.html?hp=t1

 

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[Flashermac]

Flip a coin. I have a feeling the public loses either way.

[Steve]

Sarah Palin says there is nothing remotely racist about describing Obama's handling of the Libyan situation as "shucking and jiving".

 

Maybe she learned that when she allegedly banged NBA player Glen Rice years ago.

[Flashermac]

"shucking and jiving"

 

She didn't really say that, did she?

 

I've never heard it outside the South, and she grew up a long way from there.

 

And the only people I ever heard say it were a lot older than I am. That goes back to my grandparents' generation.

[Steve]

She certainly did. It just doesn't sound right. At the risk of sounding over sensitive, its a very poor choice of words to use a Black phrase applied to Obama in that manner. It comes off very bad even if she didn't mean anything by it which is a litte hard to believe.

[Steve]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/sununu-suggests-powells-endorsement-of-obama-was-based-on-race/

 

Sununu Suggests Powell’s Endorsement of Obama Was Based on Race

 

That actress, Dash, who supported Romney did a brave thing. It was seen as brave and it was. I applaud her for it. Powell endorsing Obama is equally as brave being a Republican but its seen differently and viewed as Powell being motivated by race when his whole career suggests otherwise. He has more than earned it.

[Bangkoktraveler]

"shucking and jiving"

 

She didn't really say that, did she?

 

I've never heard it outside the South, and she grew up a long way from there.

 

And the only people I ever heard say it were a lot older than I am. That goes back to my grandparents' generation.

 

 

Sarah should have been President

and then sold her panties to the highest bidder.

[gobbledonk]

Vietnamese Dong take the cake for me, and that would be a million Dong cake .....

 

Getting back to the US Election, the talking heads are telling me that it will come down to the US Electoral College vote and rolling their eyes about the infamous GWB/Gore debacle. If our last election in Oz is anything to go by, you will have at least half the country pissed off that 'I didnt vote for that clown and the ship of fools that now runs the country !'. You have a different system of government, granted, but I would argue that your President has more power than our Prime Minister in terms of dictating policy.

 

If Romney wins, you will have a President who has been described by a former business partner as a 'sociopath' (not alone - Palin and Cheney spring to mind), and if its Obama you will have a President who continues to shoulder the blame for GWB's mismanagement, Wall St greed and the continuing disaster in Europe. The 'sociopath' may well get business back on track, but I'd prefer the Devil We Know.

 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/13/1131181/-Mitt-Romney-Sociopath

 

http://www.politicususa.com/hell-mitt-romney-smiling-about.html

 

http://mittromneysociopath.blogspot.com.au/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist#As_Lucifer

 

http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/the-case-for-the-muslim-errrr-i-mean-the-mormon-antichrist.html

 

OK, so that last one is a more than a little wacko, but its all way more interesting than the Presidential debates I've seen to date !

[unit731]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/sununu-suggests-powells-endorsement-of-obama-was-based-on-race/

 

Sununu Suggests Powell’s Endorsement of Obama Was Based on Race

 

That actress, Dash, who supported Romney did a brave thing. It was seen as brave and it was. I applaud her for it. Powell endorsing Obama is equally as brave being a Republican but its seen differently and viewed as Powell being motivated by race when his whole career suggests otherwise. He has more than earned it.

 

This is how many of these Republican men think. It is a sad commentary on some Republican men.

 

"Men favored Akin in the poll by 48 percent to 43 percent. The margin of error is higher for the gender grouping, Mason-Dixon said. (Akin is the "legitimate" rape candidate).

LINK

 

"Republican Mitt Romney's campaign says he still supports Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after Mourdock said "God intended" pregnancies that result from rape. The campaign has not asked Mourdock to pull a TV ad featuring Romney." LINK

 

The comments from Sununu about Colin Powell are just icing on the cake of these radical, obtuse, and insensitive right wing idealogs.

 

All claim for individual rights but all want to probe every womans vigina.