Excellent post...finally some sense and truthful facts about Obama,. Loved it when he compared what his campaign staff goes through for him with what our military troops go through over in Afghanistan. Actually compared the situations. Disgusting.

The President pledged to bring those responsible for the attacks to justice.
"We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done."
Given Obama’s track record, justice will very likely be done indeed.
Barack Obama condemned the attacks, he spoke against violence and expressed sadness for the dead and sympathy for their families and friends, he told us what he was doing to protect our people in similar situations around the globe, and he promised us justice. About what you would expect from your President in such a situation.
Mitt Romney attacked his own government and his fellow Americans.
The President was coldly angry, but determined in his public response to prevent further bloodshed, further violence.
Mitt was outraged.
The President’s concern was for the dead, for their families, for people.
Romney’s concern was that somebody touched our stuff.
Obama responded like a president.
Romney acted like a businessman.
Do the math for yourself.
"When our grounds are being attacked and being breached, the first response of the United States must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our nation."
Outrage.
As a first response.
Our first response shouldn’t be to stand together as Americans. Oh hell no, wouldn’t want that.
No, no.

Step 1: Outrage! Outrage, by God! Outrage, because that’s what Angry Jesus would do! Outrage!
Step 2: Blame our fellow countrymen.
And then what?
Based on the recently adopted GOP platform and past performance by Republican administrations I suspect Step 3 is probably “bomb some random brown people.” Then a year or so later realize that we killed the wrong people, but stubbornly pretend that they had it coming anyway, because, well, you know, brown people. Screw ‘em.
Conservatives have a self esteem problem.
They’re terrified of apologies. They’re so damned afraid on having to admit a mistake, of having to apologize, of appearing weak or unmanly – despite the very specific admonishment of their avowed lord and savior to turn the other cheek and to act in humility – that they see apologies where none were ever given.
Today is a perfect example, Mitt Romney knows that his response was wrong. He knows his attempt to make this terrible event into just another campaign sound-bite is crass and beneath anybody, anybody, who would aspire to the Oval Office. He knows it. Look at his eyes, read his words and watch him keep shifting the goal posts and tell me that he doesn’t damned well know that his comment last night was wrong.
Both conservatives and liberals alike have condemned him for it.

But he is too insecure, too immature, too afraid, too filled with self doubt and little man syndrome to admit it.
Instead, like a petulant child, he’s doubling down, feet spread, bottom lip out, arms akimbo.
And like a child, he’s outraged.
Come November, Americans have a choice.
They can chose a guy who wants you to be outraged over an apology that never happened, and who would allow himself to be goaded into war over the “rights” of an anonymous troll (who might not even be an American) in the guise of shallow patriotism.
Or they can chose the guy who behaves like an actual statesman.

Many still wonder why they shot their mouth off at the DNC convention. We get Osama incensed the Muslim extremists. It lead to these attacks.

Joe ...if you had half a mind ...you would realize the idiocy of your statement

CTT, can you tell me how many wars America has been in that were started by republicans? I will seed you the progressive Bush 1 and his progressive son 2
Wile your at is maybe you g down the list of right wing political assassins because the right are suposed to be gun maniacs too right? I'll wait for your answer.

What is the law about exactly? What is the negative impact of requiring voters to present ID, similar to what they do in Canada and Netherlands? Keep in mind that in most recent elections and polls, Hispanics are nearing the 50% mark in voting Dem vs Rep. So, if you would like to insinuate that the push for voter ID is to shave some votes from the Dem side, then I suggest you read past the misleading headlines and one-sided sound bites. Voter ID fraud was talk of the town back in Bush's 2000 win. Now the Dems fear Obama might be on the chopping block and all of a sudden, catching fraud is now an act against civil liberties? Who has the bigger agenda you think?

No its to keep dead people from voting for obummer, oh and people from voting several time for obummer.Got a problem with that?

William you forgot a couple like to keep the poor from voting for Obama and keeping the elderly from voting for Obama. The republicians have so little faith in their canadate that they feel they have to cheat in order for him to win.

Election fraud does exist, but hasn’t been shown to be widespread. The New York Times reported in 2007 that a five-year crackdown on such fraud by the Bush administration’s Justice Department had produced 70 convictions at the federal level, including 40 campaign workers or government workers convicted of vote-buying, intimidation or ballot forgery, and 23 cases of multiple voting or voting by ineligible voters. But the Times described these as unconnected incidents and said the Justice Department had turned up no evidence of "any organized effort to skew federal elections."

"When I heard it is a US. policy not allowing embassy guards to have ammunition for their weapons I was outraged." That happens a lot, doesn't it.

Funny, how it seems to happen when Fox gets the Fax wrong.
You're getting whipped up, just like the Muslim mobs.

In short, your outrage is a handy tool.
Do you like getting used, Joe?

http://world.time.com/2012/09/13/did-the-u-s-consulate-in-benghazi-not-have-enough-security/

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/09/13/3527976/no-protest-before-benghazi-attack.html

Joe,
You know this is a lie.

Joe is not on the intelligence gravy train. Thick is as is thick is

more propaganda naome?

Listen here Elsworth Toohey you are a dark person and your propaganda is going to draw you out. Working for media matters will expose who you are.

William what do you have against dark people whay are all you conservatives so racist.

Um... wrong, again.

Don't you get tired of being wrong, Joe? Maybe your source isn't reliable.

"It turns out the Marines in Cairo were armed. Both Mother Jones magazine and Fox News -- two news sources at opposite ends of the political spectrum -- talked to Marines spokesmen who confirmed there were no restrictions on weapons or weapons status.

In Libya, the consulate in Benghazi did not have Marines stationed there -- the security was supposed to be provided by the Libyans."

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20120917/ELECTIONS01/309170024/Campaign-fact-check-Were-embassy-Marines-unarmed-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1

So quick to jump ugly, so frequently wrong, so rare to print a retraction -
way to go, Jethro!

They were so armed that they were taken

Maybe someday strong defence will make sense to those who want to cut the military defences. You know, like bubba did.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx

The filmmaker has apparently gone into hiding. Why am I not surprised?

Now, here in America, that kind of idiocy is permitted under the First Amendment. In America we have the right to freedom of speech, and freedom from having to be responsible for the consequences of what we say. Somebody else will do it for you, suffer the consequences that is. You make a film or burn somebody’s holy book and generally act like a moron , and somebody else, a soldier or a diplomat or even just some random American who happens to be in the wrong place, why they’ll be happy to step up and take responsibility for your freedom of speech. And you? Well you can hide behind your rights and your internet anonymity and your God and bask in your patriotism. Good on you.

Ironic, isn’t it?

Ironic that the very people who scream loudest and demand that the “poor” and the “socialists” and the “liberals” and the “parasites” start taking responsibility for their lives are the very same florid patriots who never seem to take responsibility for their own actions, for their own words, for the consequences of their hatred and bigotry. They’ll condemn the violence inspired by the Occupy movement, but defend the violence inspired by Right To Lifers or some hateful bigot on Talk Radio. One has to wonder if Romney and his followers would be so quick to defend freedom of speech if that YouTube video depicted Jesus gay marrying Brigham Young.

Speaking of “Yee Haw” foreign policy moments-

If heading for “Sin City” within 24 hours of the killings of 4 Americans in Libya is considered an appropriate “measured response” to that violence, we can only wonder what Mr. Obama’s next "measured" foreign policy move will be.

As to public displays of “Yee Haw”, the Obama administration’s “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” slogan is about as “Yee Haw” as it gets. "Measured" indeed.
...

"If heading for “Sin City” within 24 hours of the killings of 4 Americans in Libya is considered an appropriate “measured response” to that violence..."

He wasn't in Las Vegas to hit up Sheldon Adelson for ca$h, now was he?
http://tinyurl.com/9etrso6

His detractors will pounce regardless of his actions. What would you have the Obama adminstration do, occupy Libya? Didn't we just participate in liberating them from a dictator? Pick a side, MW.
http://tinyurl.com/98w9ltp

You're either for us Americans, or against us.
Which is it?

It's not as if a sitting President has ever passed up a catastrophe to raise money...
http://images.politico.com/global/bush%20and%20katrina.jpg

"As to public displays of “Yee Haw”, the Obama administration’s “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” slogan is about as “Yee Haw” as it gets."

Umm.... did he land on a boat with a big banner?
Nice try.

You mean, the whole of the Arab world was watching the DNC and just decided to show up at the local US embassy to see what happens?

*In his interview, Mohamed Yusuf al-Magariaf, the president of Libya’s National Congress, said Libya had arrested 50 people, many connected to al-Qaeda. That would certainly bolster the notion that the date — Sept. 11 — was not a coincidence. He also said a few of those arrested were from other countries.

It is in Magariaf’s interest to emphasize that this tragedy does not reflect anti-American feelings by the Libyan people, especially because Stevens was a well-liked diplomat in the country. But he was also emphatic that “the way these perpetrators acted and moved” and the “specific date for this so-called demonstration” make it clear that the attack was planned.

“It was planned by foreigners, by people who entered the country a few months ago, and they were planning this criminal act since their arrival,” he said.*
http://tinyurl.com/9fvcxke

On one hand you lot claim Obama is an apologist, on the other he's belligerent and taunting our enemies. It may surprise you to find that in a chaotic place like Libya (where the Kaddafi dictatorship ruled for 42 years) the situation is complicated and not entirely under local control.

It seems to me when the US is under attack, you're either with us or against us.
Which is it, MW - are you with us Americans or with the mob?

Can we stop trying to blame each other and put the blame where it belongs at the feet of murderous Muslim extremists. No one had to worry about anyone dying after someone put a crucifix of Jesus in urine and called it art. While we continue to tear each other apart they continue to plan more jihad. Let's focus on the real enemy.

The violence was planned you say?

So did the Obama administration not get the memo or did they just intentionally ignore their own …uh… “intelligence”?

According to a few sources (Reuters being one of them) yes it was planned and a memo was sent to the American embassy in Cairo. We have an enemy that wants to ruin our way of life at best or destroy us completely and we keep bickering amongst ourselves and putting the blame on a movie or a song and dance. Neither one of them was the cause that was just an excuse.
For the record Naomi, just because someone disagrees with Obama'a policies that does not make them a racist. That is silly nonsense. That would be like saying if you disagree with Allen West's policies (which I'm sure you do) that would make you a racist. I wish all of you would stop the name calling.

Pam - who's calling anyone names?

Stupid is as stupid does, calling that out is the responsibility of America's too-long silent educated people that sat on the sidelines while the Tea Party dragged us back to the waiting arms of Joe McCarthy.

The fact that so many posting here have openly called President Obama
"Osambo" and worse makes charges of racism accurate.

This is not only off-topic, but directly lifted from YET ANOTHER wingnut blog:
http://obamaism.blogspot.com/

Neither original, nor on-topic, Joe.
Why not redress the earlier assertions (also false) that were taken directly from one of your right-wing "We Hate Obama!" blogs that make this stuff up from whole cloth.

Not a word about the Embassy in Cairo? Nothing about Romney and "47% of the electorate are victims" - just one more pointless, baseless screed?

Forget helmet laws, RI needs online posting restrictions...

Most of Obama's major "accomplishments" are just carry overs from Bush. The one notable exception is Obamacare, which he stole from Romney.

Be careful Joe...you never know what is out there...
" FBI documents name Reagan as a member of an organization aligned with the ACP, and tagged "subversive" by the FBI" House Committee on Un-American Activities

ACP= American Communist Party

Oh NO! I have been learning to speak russian...that must make me a socialist or something!!!!! Oh the horror......

And RobertE, voter ID laws may keep illegals from voting too, that's not fair, right?

Wow, naome, you are a strident and hateful person. Think about toning it down a bit. I am a tea party person and I am none of those things. People are allowed to have differing opinions. It is not necessary to be miserable.

But Katherine, Naomi doesn't stoop to name calling, just elitist condescension ;)

Elitism is the belief or attitude that some individuals, who form an elite — a select group of people with intellect, wealth, specialized training or experience, or other distinctive attributes — are those whose views on a matter are to be taken the most seriously or carry the most weight; whose views and/or actions are most likely to be constructive to society as a whole; or whose extraordinary skills, abilities or wisdom render them especially fit to govern.
So I would rather be an elitist then an uneducated uninformed Moron. You show you lack intelligence by using a complement to try to insult someone. Get yourself an education and learn what the words mean that you use and maybe you will be able to join the rest of us elitists.

Hi Pam...wish there was a like button:)

Robert's definition straight out of Wikipedia. Actually elitist has come to be defined as someone who THINKS they are smarter or better than everyone else. That's what gives them the right to call others morons. Pitiful.

@pam - it's not elitist to call out idiocy in print. Facts matter, and those afflicted by Fox Geezer syndrome are rebroadcasting what is all too often propaganda.

prop·a·gan·da

information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/proptech.htm

If by elitist you mean people that read books and peruse points of view that differ,
then I'm guilty as charged.

"Wow, naome, you are a strident and hateful person. Think about toning it down a bit. I am a tea party person and I am none of those things."

Really, katherine? You're telling me that the regular retelling of false doctrine
on this opinion page (lifted DIRECTLY from conspiracy sites) is defensible?

Do I hate the deluded among the Tea Party faithful? No.
Do I detest the way you're being turned against your neighbors? Yes.

Will I tone it down?
You lot first.

Robert, I don't usually point out spelling errors as I am prone to them myself but I couldn't help pointing out the irony here. After calling me and anyone else who doesn't agree with your superior intellect an uneducated, uninformed moron you then go on to spell compliment wrong.

If by "A Free America" you mean Fascist - sure, the shoe fits.

This is a solution to a significant problem; excluding people likely to vote against you. Because voter fraud is such a huge problem that during the five year period under the Bush Administration, when 196 million votes were cast, the number of cases of voter fraud reached 86. Not 86,000; eighty-six. Here's what that number looks like as a percentage of votes cast: Four one hundred thousandths of a percent [.00004%]. This would be called a solution without a problem, but it's not. It's just a solution to a different problem.

Republicans have a hard time getting certain people to vote for them, so life would be a lot easier if certain people just weren't allowed to vote at all. I'm ashamed to say that 32 of the 33 voter I.D. laws were proposed by Republican legislators and passed by Republican controlled state houses, and signed into law by Republican governors.

It's a baseless claim. and oddly funny - ACORN closed shop in 2011.
How does it feel to have Karl Rove pull your strings, Chmn?

http://www.good.is/posts/twenty-five-percent-of-republicans-still-fear-acorn-which-doesn-t-exist-anymore/

Don't forget about the 47% bankrupting America......

"Don't forget about the 47% bankrupting America......"
That was awesome, I've never heard the sound of rats leaving a sinking ship, before. Off the cuff comments from someone born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Epic.

I thought the people stealing my 401k and cheating on their taxes were the problem
it must be that Enron-style accounting, coming back into vogue at Chase.

But what do I know?

"Remember when free markets existed ?"

Like in Russia, under Yeltsin?
That worked out well...

You have a spin for every situation .To bad no one buys the big lie. We see the result of Big Government with a $16 trillion dollar national debt. $120 trillion unfunded liability ,and high unemployment for half a decade. This President is a failure.

"You have a spin for every situation ."
You mean facts? You should try some.

"To bad no one buys the big lie."
You did - "The Tea Party will rebuild our country!"

You're either with us Americans, or against us Joe.
Which is it?

Yes, join the Tea Party.....Free white sheets to the first 100 that join today!!!!

"...stand up for the people like me who have watched our country go to hell and I have the fortitude to use my real name."

So that you can apply a 2nd amendment solution, or find my IP address?
I thought you knew stupid when you saw it, Joe.

(FYI - I was defending your 1st amendment right to make an ass of yourself.)

"I stand up for the people like me who have watched our country go to hell..."

You just don't have a clue why it's really happened, do you?
It's that Fox IV drip - better than morphine.

You've been used, Joe - by the same people you choose to trust.
They'll line you up at the barricade, yell "Charge" and watch from the balcony.

The Tea Party is cannon fodder for the Fascists.

Naome-You'll have to excuse Joe Sousa, as any time someone puts up a post contrary to his teabagger beliefs, he accuses the posters of all being the same person using multiple screen names.

This accusation comes from the same individual who along with his partners in crime Dan Gordon and Jack Baillargeron, were responsible for the eastbayri.com website being shut down, as he used multiple screen names such as "jethro", "crimeboss", "notorious", and "bikerhd1998" just to name a few.

Face it Joe, every reader with a half ounce of intelligence can see right through your facade and realize you're just a misguided soul who had been brainwashed by the TCC.

Who are you, Kate Smith?

You're not the only one. The problem? You think you're alone.
I want my country back from your tribe of bumpkin, tribal, halfwit Tea Party cranks.

Don't wrap yourself in MY flag, and claim it as your own.

He might say that old people are siphoning off wages of the young...

"Seniors. People 65 and older were the only group to prosper during the decade. Household income rose 7.5% adjusted for inflation over the decade, helped by Social Security."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-09-13/census-household-income/50383882/1

He might ask why the equivalent of Germany's GDP sits on US corporate balance
sheets - instead of putting people back to work...
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-5-trillion-stash-us-corporations-money-hoard-is-bigger-than-the-gdp-of-germany/260006/

This is what an oligarchy does - it takes public sponsored benefits (like roads, bridges, ports and military protection) and shirks taxes and wages.

Why do you think there are more poor people today?
Like that's something they want?

They want a J-O-B, d-u-m-b-a-s-s.

Have you had yourself checked for Fox Geezer syndrome?
http://www.frumforum.com/fox-geezer-syndrome/

It's treatable - read an independent newspaper.
Discount any blog that can't site sources.

Think for yourself.
For once.

While I'm wishing, can I wish for a pony?

Although schoolchildren are usually taught that the American Revolution was a rebellion against “taxation without representation,” akin to modern day conservative taxpayer revolts, in fact what led to the revolution was rage against a transnational corporation that, by the 1760s, dominated trade from China to India to the Caribbean, and controlled nearly all commerce to and from North America, with subsidies and special dispensation from the British crown.

A pamphlet was circulated through the colonies called The Alarm and signed by an enigmatic “Rusticus.” One issue made clear the feelings of colonial Americans about England's largest transnational corporation and its behavior around the world: “Their Conduct in Asia, for some Years past, has given simple Proof, how little they regard the Laws of Nations, the Rights, Liberties, or Lives of Men. They have levied War, excited Rebellions, dethroned lawful Princes, and sacrificed Millions for the Sake of Gain. The Revenues of Mighty Kingdoms have entered their Coffers. And these not being sufficient to glut their Avarice, they have, by the most unparalleled Barbarities, Extortions, and Monopolies, stripped the miserable Inhabitants of their Property, and reduced whole Provinces to Indigence and Ruin. Fifteen hundred Thousands, it is said, perished by Famine in one Year, not because the Earth denied its Fruits; but [because] this Company and their Servants engulfed all the Necessaries of Life, and set them at so high a Price that the poor could not purchase them.”

No offence there Robert. Don't know where you took history, but it sure was not in the US.

Ever read the Declaration of Independence? Particularly the Indictment section?
A bill of particulars documenting the king's "repeated injuries and usurpations" of the Americans' rights and liberties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

I suggest you read it as taxation without representation was the least of the charges against the Crown. The Boston Tea Party was merely a prelude to a revolution that only 6% of the Colonist fought and won against a tyrannical Empire. Now that’s real history. On another note; they do not even teach that anymore it seems. That is a sad statement indeed.

We know Robert ,Corporations are bad ,Government is Good. The Socialist propaganda machine . I guess we should all dump our 401k's and go on assistance. Those evil Corporations that employ millions should be banned. Nationalize all businesses and appoint Obama the King . It worked so well for the USSR.
The United Socialist States Of America.

"The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence."

That's an interesting take on the event.

Socialism In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.

no regr allia b,
Great point, here is one for you,
What one generation tolerates, the next accepts as reality.
The 16th amendment has been in place for 100 years. When will that be repealed. Taxing a mans toil is evil and was never part of our doctrine. All it has done is give congress emence power over us.
If the US government was forced to live withing the limited powers given to it in article one section eight, Federal taxes, progressive as they are and named in the communist manifesto in 1850 by Carl Marx as a plank in communism, are not needed, we could return the powers to the states and the local governments.

I agree lot more to this story for sure. But I have to wonder why the obama and hilary allowed the security to be only libya people for the consulate, along with an unarmed staff. Somthing is very wrong in this preplanned attack.

"Somthing is very wrong in this preplanned attack."

Or maybe, it's a blowback from deposing a dictator.
Funny how a boiling vessel explodes, with the lid off...

"Those evil Corporations that employ millions should be banned. Nationalize all businesses and appoint Obama the King . It worked so well for the USSR.
The United Socialist States Of America."

That's a false assertion. A basic propaganda technique.

If I claimed that all red-headed men over 50 riding motorcycles were Klansmen,
would that be provably true?

Who printed this script for you, Roger Ailes?
"Those evil Corporations that employ millions should be banned. Nationalize all businesses and appoint Obama the King . It worked so well for the USSR.
The United Socialist States Of America."

Right - if someone else gets government funding, it's socialist.
If YOU get some - it's framed in the Constitution somewhere.

"What really lead to the shrinking middle class. It was the American people who did the most harm. When we went to the store to purchase items we forgot to look where it was made. "

At last a kernel of truth.

The problem? American workers need more than $12,000 per year to stay above the poverty level. The Chinese need $290. Anyone that would suggest the core of the problem is that Americans should only need $290 per year is a tool.

You're right about the problem, wrong about the source.

Remember Ross Perot?
Free trade ain't free.

We pay.

I did. Three years in the People's Republic of China immediately after Tiananmen.

I wanted to see what a nascent democratic movement looks like.
The lid was clamped down so tight, even the mice couldn't fart without a police escort...those people died at the hands of their countrymen -

so we can have cheap iPhones?

The truth about redistribution is that it goes one way - UP.

SHOW ME SOMEONE WHO HAS SPENT TIME AT A KEYBOARD - and can find
the CapsLock button on the left....

"SPOUTING TEXT BOOK AND MEDIA INFO"
We are constantly on the prowl for someone postings here that are original,
rather than provided by Fox and lesser propaganda outlets.

How's the weather in the PRoRI?
I understand the Quahogs are nice, this time of year - during the annual migration.

We just get the wingnuts flying around the house, prior to election theater,
ova heya.

Actually, half my family lived in the CCCP...and they understand capitalism better than you ever will.

You already posted that response several times. More rhetoric.

I am not anonymous. My name is Still Hope and I have plenty of contributions to these forums. If you want my birth name it is Samuel Clemens, but I don't see how that validates any of my work. For the record, my merchandise comes mainly from Europe (mostly Germany, Italy, and Spain) since in my industry, the domestic product is underwhelmingly inferior. However, I have kept some US based lines in my shops, even after they outsourced manufacturing to China.

Tell me more about buying American. You have a name and an avatar so your opinion holds more weight.

I don't blame any one president for our current economy. Each of their policies has its own pros and cons. It is up to the market to best use those new policies. Sorry I can't be as polarizing as Joe Sousa and try to drum up contempt for a man that I only know based on headlines and bullet points. However, I probably will not vote Obama this election, but at least I can appreciate his motives.

"WAS IN BEIJING PRIOR TO, AND THE NIGHT OF TIANANMEN, AND THE NEXT DAY.....
OH! AND PUBLISHED........."

No, you weren't and neither was I. The authorities ran off anyone with a camera or blond hair or a foreign passport. Do you have anything to actually offer, is it just more TS?

Is there any hope of staying on topic, up to the election?

We, the loyal opposition chime in to insist on factual bases for argument.
If we wanted to watch the foam fly, we would tune in Fox.

It would appear that the most adamant posters have a direct feed...

Hmmm...How do we know that is your real name? Or are you really Joe Sousa?

LOL....

No, I'm Spartacus.

Which Terms of use, I am confused, yours or the Patch. You seem to require it.

Joeseph Hutnak Flag as inappropriate

1:59 pm on Saturday, June 16,2012
To our readers:

Patch Terms of Use require full names for posting comments. Prior
Comments that did not meet these terms have been removed.

@Joe Bremen:
Our Terms of Use have changed. Thanks for helping illustrate this evolution.

If you say so I guess.

Joe Sousa blabbed: "Thanks to you I picked up several votes this week."

Sorry to disappoint you Joe, but Dan Gordon, Jack Baillargeron, and Osama Bin Laden are not registered to vote in Tiverton.

A useful companion site is opensecrets,org - which catalogs campaign contributions.

The only way to get representative back into our democracy is to wash money out.
How I hate it when I agree with Joe.

Hate to burst your bubble but Romney is going down he trails Obama by 35 points in his home state of Mass. Republicians trying to get elected are running from him like the plage. Scout Brown in Mass. just sent out a mailing and nowhere in it does it even say that he is a Republician it has Democrat in it 6 times independant 2 times but not once Republician. Several Republicians are running on the platform that they are not Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan gave a speech before a group of senior citizens yesterday and got booed several times. Romney is all done people are not falling for his crap anymore.

and go see Snow White and the Seven Dwarves....I hear it is about 7 communist/socialist dwarves all living together in sin with some future welfare mother.

If, and I do say "If", the author's assertion is correct about President Obama and the anti-colonial views he got from his father, then we as Americans should be thrilled that he is our President.

that's pretty much why America exists, because our founding fathers held anti-colonial views and started that little dust up called the American revolution. You knw, against that other country...over on that little island...the one with all those pro-colonial views.....

William Brank:
Hate to disappoint you, but I was born right here.

I could say the same about your rommney and ....and...I would be far more truthful than you

Mike, you could but why would you want a repeat of the last four years? No matter who wins in November, this country is going back into a recession and RI will be driven further into the hole. You have no leader in the WH right now. The danger you have if this guy is re-elected, he is no longer answerable to the people - the Congress would have to throw him out....why would we want to go down that road when the people and toss him now?

I think that BO had done an admirable job.....not to be cliche ,...but...inheriting 8 years of incompetence and mismanagement from the bushies...has been a huge undertaking. The fact that his damage control and policies have prevented an even more damaging mess than would have been if the status quo had been maintained.

Instead of a generation of healing from gwb....maybe only 10 years.

Huh?

Oh. Now it makes sense.