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What Democracy Looks Like? [9-10-08]

The Joel Connelly piece "Obama takes the 'low drama' approach" certainly contrasts his campaign with McCain's. It shows the value of community organizing while McCain/Palin seem to knock heads together and too few roll, unless you don‘t "contribute" to their cause. But I quibble with his claim, Obama has "left the right wing smear machine so bereft of material that Swift Boaters of 2008 have been forced to concoct stories." That is "not exactly"-"change you can believe in".

Real change would be if the Swift Boaters could be remembered for the courageous vets their name high-jacked and if they could ever tell the truth. My concocted label for the difference is "Flip-Flopper Crafters"- us and them. One might call this campaign, "Burger Wars": Wendy’s vs. Burger King or "Where’s the beef?" vs. "Home of the Whopper." No con-notation intended, but it has leaked that the Republican Convention was not about issues, but a "composite view". Irony of ironies, the Big Mac lacks the "special sauce" of nuance and straight forwardness, let alone any ingredients of the Bull-Moose Party or Teddy Roosevelt.


Who Gets It? Oh, Right. [9-13-08]

Let’s get this straight. Palin jokes in her acceptance speech: What is the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom? Answer: lipstick Who got up in arms about that remark? I guess it is not a sexist joke if a woman (and hockey mom) says it. Am I applying too much meaning here, like lipstick. Oops, did that cross a line? I don’t worry about pit bulls, or at least their feelings. I wonder if hockey moms are proud of the comparison? Taking offense at Obama‘s use of "like putting lipstick on a pig" seems to be far fetched in comparison. Especially, when McCain has used it so many times, and seems to have a leash on it. You know? The phrase that is. I don’t know about pigs or pit bulls, but issues and attack dogs? (a leash that is) Do we really need a vet? Apparently the media needs one. A closer look that is.

Oh and what is the difference between Sarah Palin and a Neo Con? I don’t think it is lipstick. Apologies to Neo Cons, but they are proud of her. I wonder what the lipstick feels. Oh, and just what did the Palin nomination, do for the ticket? A new leash on life, or at least meanings. And let me vet myself here; McCain's excuse for all this? "...this is a tough campaign." I think he has smeared his own makeup, let alone "change". And speaking of taking offense, no use of the term "vet" here, disrespects anyone's service, I am sure both the military and the medical are tougher than that, while the media needs to get a grip.

CAD (Culturally Aided Design)

That was not my original insult.  I mean intent.
Nor the original CAD or (under)mine,
speaking of Cause Affect Deficiency: (updated Cause Affect Disorder)

I feel like Ann Romney, with an early Birthday present.(ala CNN and the Hilary Rosen War) Yesterday someone tossed an expletive at my Obama bumper sticker. Speaking of CAD, Ted Nugent is a Raw Money reincarnation of the Swift Boaters. Only he needs a vet for his Cat Scratch Fever. More on CAD, it is not computer-aided design, it is cause and affect deficiency. 


BTW: it is still our turn,(thanks Ann) if Bush could get a second one in the middle of a war, no matter who started it.


CAD-2.0: more or less

[Not to demonize or capitalize on catholic and deficiencies*, but if government is a business and corporations are people, what is bankruptcy, let alone where is the death penalty?]

*not to decapitalize

[Clue to the G'Ribble.]
[update decapitalize: Huffington Post throws journalism in the pit.]

UPDATE 4-24-12 (images)

Connecting the Dots

Yesterday's post was a bit too way out,(Way, Too Point Oh?), from the Campaign for America's Future's Star Wars attack to the Institute for New Economic Thinking's flip-flop of the free market fantasia. By way of explaining the stretch, from the Wall Street Bull to the Statue of Liberty there is the Bully Poor Pit.

Obama is no Trekky or cable guy, but he is more bullish than just hat. I was recently reminded that the "bully" in "bully pulpit" is not the bully of the school yard but was Teddy's term for good. Bully for him. President Obama is no messiah, no FDR and no Teddy, but he is also no bull nor bully. He will be at the Bully Pulpit, and that is a good thing. No pun.
[See 1st Comment]
[update Chris Matthews: more links and follow-up today.]

FOOTNOTES PAGE ONE SEPTEMBER 2014

Footnotes Page
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Re:labels & other blog spots.

A K A / August missing Footnotes Page
Categorical Empiricists ?**
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** CAD (To be or not 3d) ?






9-9-14 Original Intent or in tent
(AM IT: [tan gent(~)] Andrea Mitchell ISIS Threat /-/ Witt Gen Stein/Jihadist  Defeating IS IS?
This is not to pun or purge, but to more carefully review later, the word.)


{Stop.} At this point, I will change the heading of this link from #(9-3-14) to "FOOTNOTES PAGE ONE SEPTEMBER 2014"\
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9-9-14{nexus}
PIT Spot? 1.  T= A. PIT Schtick, B. Clause Wits (3.0)?, C. There is no Savior, :D, E: Three Clauses for ...  [any body love Rice?  Ronan Farrow Daily?]
2. Spoiler Alert? Not yet M-bed ed.
3. C-O.I.? = A.Original Intent?, B. GOP Plan to Hurt Economy, C. The Exit Strategy, D~?.  vOO due: vCR, E. Where everyone needs to read..., F. Table of Contents, G. Health Care Summit, H. Progressive Poll  I. What are the Frackin' Odds..., J.Happy Earth Day!, K.Try Angle,  L. Mess Age Monger,  M. Post-Turkey Day,  N. Nadir, O. Clause Wits, P. Romer Resigns,  Q. Go Purple!,   R. Give an inch..., S. Temporal, T. Back to "The One Thing?". @  {(~)} Future Bubble?


~: OH REALLY FOG / Catch-44
4loreMat[?]: labels 3~ NFRY, meta/slash, P.C.? [/]4Ribble! 
TRP/RBTL: 

Loose Lips and Sinking Metaphors

Footnotes PAGE Under Construction:

1-25-12

From loose lips to sinking ships. The Last Word hits the nail on the arc. Actually that is not the nail, but lip schtick, was on the horizon. It regards the history of the Republican Taxpolicy visa-vi debt policy. Not to mention Paw-lenty of Pie and Metaphor On.

1-26-12 [spin off of above...]

On the horizon, from G.H.W. Bush's "read my lips" to Bruce Bartlett's point: "1990 is the last time you had a leading Republican figure or President who cared about the deficit..." It is ironic he points out that the US is under the lowest tax burden in history compared to GDP.

More on Pit Bullies, in con text. Not that the gap in context is part of the con text, but the in con text(links) provide tripartite context**. In less embedded prose, bully for the Clemons piece, the Austrian pitting of Obama/Brewer, in relation to the Bush years, Iran con, and economics texting. While the final con text is the Standard and Pours[!] of the Neo-perspectivism on flip-flop and nuance. One try angle, another try angle. Not to call an odd man out, nor 4wo***man, but under the con I(above)ran a Just Foreign Policy sample, that takes a look at the dynamics of diplomacy. *

* not to be fair and balanced, nor brush off or in women,

the last three links reference; Hillary Clinton, Joan Walsh and Susan Rice.

** there by allowing 3 links to follow the pit bullies dynamics (2+3=5)

*** not to con grew an arc

(I plead the 5th in regard to irony[!])

[1-27-12: Related irony or booked signing?]

< previous post >

Rubber/Glue "Unhinged".

The debate we want to have ? !
Scroll up the trickle down*:
The Bully Pour** Pit.

* links bottom up
! Daily KOS
? USA Today
The Ed Show - Ryan v. Ryan: Who to believe?
TheLiaisonReport: Republicans Cuts and Runs
MSNBCTV: Chain Reaction
TheLiaisonReport: Now the Un-Voodoo Math
OurFuture.org - The Latest Lie: Obama Cut Medicare
MSNBCTV: Breaking News Ryan Choice

** Taxing Questions: Ammunition***Ann
(See Poor Pit # WOE WAY)
*** MO for * not extended to other links,
though scroll over will help ** pour[!]

[Some people can't handle the pour.  It is a viscous cycle.]
[Ideology Lost or Found ?]

[AM: Re-hinged from the fire into the pan, or from New Economic Thinking to Old Milton Friedmanism.  Or "going4(cf)broke" where(cf)= Ctrl F "boon"= business / governing .]

Buy In or Sell Out

Red Lines and Towing the Line(on Syria). 
The President is not putting America's credibility at stake, he is staking out the credibility of International Law and Globalization. This is a far cry from the Bush Era "war" president and unifier.** 
Pre-title or heading: Rogers' Soap Box, might read "Pit Lip Schtick ".

Related: The Vatican, Steve Clemons, Steve Benen, Maddow Blog, [Boehner let her.]

8-30-13
From Thomas* Roberts, on Crisis in Syria: Re-Bolt On / Bring Em On [!]
(scroll click) Bay of Pit Bulls or Bay of Lip Schtick?
Wiping the Floors @ the UN[!]
* Italics reminder re:(un-bolds too)
** ibid[!]

(FP!)
(b.s.) read Make it so.

Bolt On: A. Toning Down the Lines. , B. Waiting for [Calm Cast] , C., D. Trick Question of the Day? , E.
Bring
Em On: a., b., c., {}D. Congress- - to boldly go... , E. Everything is on the Table! {Why not Hagel?}
{Will Obama declare the end of a war?/ Fix of war powers?}

*** (b.s.) 
[(NOW) SOS Kerry]{..."standing on ceremony"}, }by Ghosh{, ^ un-telegraph/playbook

Clear segue: Secretary of State Kerry begins w/ my running notation
["read", un-Rumsfeld "know", smoking "social media", ^ }pinnacle of our perdicament{, "risk"/"do nothing","matters"..."know what we know", "respect" ...  }general body/China-Russia-Arab signators/jury{ "ultimately".] close. [SOS]

Note: Quotation "marks" =Kerry comments, ^ marks= tangent to NOW,  }{ = marks/highlites my comment/{urgency of now} AM "telegraphing"

[Juxta Position? ... AM numbers?/Clemons/Congressional Bane or?(letter) }I cannot say there should not be a debate, or a vote, or that it won't matter, but it is very important how the resolution is worded and if we can imagine congress krafting it?]

A Penchant for Leaning

Meaning squared*, or cubed**.

* words with frenemies
(not original in tent (off the cliff and ledership/following/tides)

Not to mention a day that will live in infamy. A day of REnown.
[What is the antonym of penchant? The slippery slope of indifference.]

** (x,y,z)
}*{ (C or Sea "words") not exactly Baldwin
Note: sequence of asterisks and references }within{ asterisks

Post comment: Speaking of Triggers(Reich/Boehner & The Place for Politics) Ad Hominem is kind, Lyin'ization is the reality.



[Speaking of Daddy(papa]
[Care2-Raw Story-Move to Amend/ 12-6 Thom Hartmann]
[Lewis Black on Trump.

12-8-11
[Don't Think of an Elephant/DawnKeyOT As for the conventions of the GOP 2012: it may go down the un-Gingrich, un-Romney, un-Koch Brothers or Rove. "Make or break moment for the middle-class." President Obama]
[Jansing and Wassermann-Schultz, Wagner and Steele***(Counter attack, count down, Trump panel.)]
[Capitol Punishment?, Founding Resources ]

*** Is Steele on the edge of the pit e full? Speaking of ledership and X-mass lists & F=ma.

[Sunrise, sunset? Ctrl F tides... and gyro scopes? Note the irony that Germany and France are involved in saving Italy and Greece. Note the balance of the un-bubble-up of the GOP. And the "Reich", "Place" are not the Right Link, but here is the Coffee Party. Which Teddy?]

Notes on anachronism, labelism, seg way, Com Pro Mises[!] (dot, dot, dot...Dylan ? )
[Churned Media]
[Rough Reader/Swift Rider)<-Links Retro-actively inserted. But here is the deal. Also inserting sunrise, sunset, or so not found yet.]
[Speaking of apPEASmeant, see Ed Schultz and Senator B.S.(It seems that both Romney and Perry really want to, but something Trumps them debating on Newsmax.)]
[Last Word / First Word or not, at Rest.]

PIT

T g if ?
I
P
?
Connecting the Dots

PIT Schtick

No lip service.







Pragmatic.
Incremental.
Transparent.





Talk about ditches !

It's the Economy Stupid!

It's Stupid's Economy!
And stupid is as stupid does.
And in most cases it is stall.
Life is like a box of cherries.
And Bush is the pit picker.

OK! Now that that rant has rambled.
Democratic Leaders Delay Contempt Again
By Matt Renner t r u t h o u t | Report

So as long as there is room for failure there is room for delay, as a bargaining chip for unaccountability. Democrats and the people will have a long haul. I hope that it works out for us. The administration and its supporters, meaning those that will not be bipartisan to help the economy without giving Bush a free pass have the constitution and the economy over a barrel. And the people are taking it in the shorts which is a barrel and keep getting kicked and rolled.

No wonder they can't see the spin.

Speaking of spin, here is an interesting turn:
Bush budget won't fully fund Iraq war

Looking back, the great irony of this administration will be that the only time Bush asked for a full year’s funding for Iraq was in his 2008 request -- in the first months of a new Democratic Congress. He succeeded in getting what he needed but also used the war expenditures as a hammer of sorts to squelch other spending demands. Yet again Wednesday, the House failed to override Bush’s veto of a bill adding $35 billion over five years to expand health insurance for children of low-income families.

Speaking of interesting and speaking of irony.

Footnotes Page4 August 2013

8-5-13 [?]: (s.c.) a.  Fiddle Sticks^ , b., c., d. e., f. Moos Room /?
A for August need to ReVamp Heading {see brackets next}

{8-9-13} The Oh Gen Duh?(b.s.) a.(Brackets and the Debt Clock), b., c.(The Curve or Nuance Thing), d.(Woof Woof?), e. Two Evils? Or flippin flop?, f., g., h.Game+Lock, i., J. Trouble with the Curve?  { ! )

8-22-13  Teddy Bull and Pit Bull @ UOB: U- A.Connecting the Dots, B, C,  D.No Teddy[!], The Straw Bear / B-. A., b.Connecting the Dots, C. /// Tool Shed- A.Inconvenient , B., The Real B. S. of the F. C., Nail Meet F--C---[!], E.Irony versus Hypocrisy

8-26-13: Lemon Ship *** Pun on Aster Risks (To Ctrl F Initialism) A. Conservative Foray (4A) B. Initialism, C. Democracy Upheld! (5-4) (R/x)** , D.Child's Play   

8-28-13 A Black and White Chat is not about colors or races, but spectrums, polarities(knot exactly), and dimentions.

Previous post may take unwinding.

Things may change, but the real story in the previous post, had a link where Bush was claiming that "They hate our freedoms". Ironically in a separate search of those words, the link at the top of the search was for the current administration's briefing room. Conspiracy or prank? Not likely, but just the way the Internet and maybe change works.
[No previous posts or links updated here -
- only the mental links or lack thereof.]

[This could be an overuse of irony or irony of my own embedding as in(also from previous post): "I guess it is the way the tube* crumbles." While the rest of the article apparently expired at www.CapitolHillBlue.com, in re-searching that I just unembed this one, on The Jon Stewart Solution. No Kidding! But here is another unembedded irony. That someone would still pit Jeffersonian Democracy against Hamiltonian Finance.]
* tube again is a reference to Stevensownian technology or government.

Legislation not politics!

[Can't Or Bane Or...]
(10-17-11 or change: added sub-heading with links only)

Was it Cant or Bane or, who said such.
Well, I paraphrase, but it was an attack on President Obama and the American Jobs Act. The idea that he was playing politics by giving them a jobs plan, while it is the legislature's job to create legislation. Sure there is a disagreement as to what creates jobs, but there should be no disagreement that it is legislation and it is political.

Plan B? Walking the Plank? Take up or down votes:

If Republicans want to walk the talk, of Where are the Jobs?* Then vote on every last one of these, as well as the American Jobs Act[*], and see who will be left on the ship of fools.

[*] The American Jobs Act.

[This is Truman's kitchen and Teddy's stick or carrying a lever but no pit bully.]

[Sorting it out: It was Eric Cantor who accused the President of politics over legislating. That is a ridiculous line of argument. As someone said about the market operating on society, like Siamese Twins performing brain surgery on themselves. But taking it to the bank or kitchen or pulpit,(the ridiculus line that is), the answer is in one word. VOTE! Up or down, package or separately, limit the filibuster, use reconciliation, WHATEVER! A vote is taking a stand. Take it and run on it, not from it. BUT THEN WE HAVE THE MESSAGE TO GET THROUGH THE MESS AGE OF THE MEDIA, not even punning on ledership. The American Jobs Act did not get voted down, it failed a cloture vote(50-49). That means that even if three more Democrats had voted with the rest, it would have been 53-46, but it takes 60 votes people!]

F(ootnotes) P(age)3 A(ugust) 2013

8-5-13: $knot=  a. Take Back the American Dream, b. WHERE DO YOU FALL...OWS!
A for August need to ReVamp Heading {c b low}

8-9-13 NOW "The O-Genduh"? {adjust(ing) time stamp(s) and headings here}

8-20-13 More to till [!] ?

8-22-13  [...] NOW UOB "Buffalo is on the move!" Teddy Bull and Pit Bull

8-26-13 Kant+we+all A. Rubric's Cube and Rhetorical Realmifications., B., C.Between Iraq and a Hard Work!, D. Connecting the Dots, E.Our Story, F. THE COUNCIL OF NICE [!]  Note: Sarcasm insert updates earlier nexus or should read as Irony. Not to mention NOW and ealier M-bed.  (The "I" word, Knot independence.)"

8-28-13:  A Black and White(correct link) Chat. 1. A., b. / 2. A. B. / 3. a., B., c. If Only It Were Black and White., D., e.(s.c.)  / 4. A. (...)  Ctrl F a. The New Compendium,  b., c. Not to make light..., d. Monkey Business , e. The Hope'd4 Campaign , f.  Not to Follow-Up... , g. The other ground game..., h. What Obama can't say., i. Checking In: , j. k.Churned Media,  l.Co-Op-Ed , M. On any given day? , n.Post "don't ask, don't tell"^ ? , o. "so you don't have to" , p.That's the Ticket[!] , q.The Groove Back  r.Who are they calling , s. t. The Place for Politics Note: Ctrl F not adequately locating/bolding the ticket(b.s.).

Humpty Dumpty...

Sat* on a wall, and the yoke is on us.

[THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN: Tikkun Magazine Man/June 2009]

[Saved in draft 6-16-11, redated as published with addendum, The Daily Rant on The Dylan Ratigan Show(Mark Ames: Exiled No More: IPO for America**). Where are the tin-foil hats now? If only this were only Fable TV.(To be clear, I am not suggesting second amendment solutions, but there is a difference between Sharon Angle exploiting fear for the sake of exploiting the people and the media, and a Ted Rall expounding upon and exploiting his solutions. Then there is a third tier, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow(and Dylan Radigan) exploiting and expounding upon the issues for ratings and our consideration.)]

[I had no idea this*** might be the e pit o'me (2).]


* William Grieder under Humpty Dumpty

** please excuse the "bat frackin'" language

*** or this
[footnote? [!] Draining the swamp, versus raising 'gators.]

6-19-11 High8US[!]
6-20-11 Bib Leo File Roar[!]Reread: THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN: Tikkun Magazine Man/June 2009 The Wall? [!] "dark sarcasm"

Pit Charts

Investment?
Revenues?
Spending?
Debt Charts?

Rob Johnsons?
Rob Johnsons!
Really.
Bowles Simpson.*
Rob Johnson.
(special thanks to Stephanie Miller and Jared Bernstein.)

*(huh?)(Speaking of M.B.eh?)

Double Down on Blue Print!
Double Down !
(Bumper Snicker ! )
[NOT!]

Speaking of charts.

GOP-GAP

NOT!
Whether it the Grand Old Party or the Grand Oil Party there is no GAP filled by Governor Palin. OK, some executive experience. And she's human, they had to say.

OK, maybe we are both stretching things a bit. But this is serious. She did a fine job presenting a fine speech and a fine life story, after Reverend Rhetoric ** presented his fine rendering.

All in all it was a fine show that was very inspiring to the base who have faith in something beyond facts.

Governor Palin[*] has an inspiring way about her. It is the energy and her certainty that is her strength. Unfortunately, her selection seems to be aimed at the Plexiglas ceiling. There may be cracks in it, but when you are on top, you can say anything and still be standing on it. My original panic was that Biden's fire and humor would be tempered against a woman. But given her own fire and humor, and my original panic being sexist, he should give her all he's got. They are already complaining about the media, and unless she expects some affirmative action or pity, she should be able to stand on her own.

[*][9-4-08: Heck, even the above link has fallen for the flip-flop on the press ***. Granted the press was in McCain's corner or they were off the plane and missing the barbecues. (I have no confirmed reports of either.) But the flip-flop that the "mother lacked the soaring oratory skills of Obama", to the "calm, TV-friendly tones reminiscent of Ronald Reagan", belies her joke about "the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull" and her "beat and a smirk" lipstick.(I took liberties to finely edit this.)]

[I watched most of what I watched on C-Span, and bounced in and out of MSNBC, but did catch a bit of grousing about the timing of the speeches, not allowing for the media filtering. While I did not watch equal amounts of the two conventions or networks, they were probably right that the speeches were more tightly timed, but it seemed that MSNBC had filtered and missed several of the Dem ones anyway. So I could not tell if MSNBC gave equal time or equal filtering for both convention's speeches. Imagine, the convention speeches were getting in the way of the pundits "filtering". I noticed with the first convention the flip-flop, but they actually brought it up. Deleted reference to "moose gun" here. Audience: Aahhhh. Sarcasm there, but to the point, I don't know if the media is falling for or intentionally validating, the whining that comes from the Good Old Patronizing Party, but I think the brilliant selection of Palin was to preempt and to stay the course.]

** [these are chronologically added and I use the word Rhetoric as a compliment. Huckabee had a zinger of his own and Biden "Whoa"good show, fine "lines" and "heckuva" job.]--[I must add between the lines or just plain more lines: it is about leadership, not just being an executive, and intelligence, but more about who and how it is filtered.]

*** bold added and where I may have gotten fine but was filtered through MSNBC.