george will pulls this one out of the left field seats... http://news.investors.com/ibd-edito...bama-re-elected-even-if-hes-failed.htm?p=full Worse, Romney and his advisers must be bewildered by this fact: In October 2011 they would have been serenely confident of victory if they had been told that 12 months later the following would be true: ⢠That President Obama would be waist deep in muddy and contradictory descriptions and explanations of the terrorist (he now concedes) attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya. ⢠That data just released for August 2012 showed that real disposable income had again declined. ⢠That Obama would actually celebrate the fact that for the first month since he took office there were more U.S. jobs than when he took office. ⢠That the most recent figures show a 13.2% decline in durable goods orders. ⢠That nearly 25% â the highest in three decades â of Americans between 25 and 55 are unemployed. ⢠That the second-quarter growth rate was adjusted down from an anemic 1.7% to the stall speed of 1.3%. ⢠And regarding the Investor in Chief, that his Tesla Motors would be troubled. The California firm has received a $465 million loan from the world's most incompetent venture capital fund, the U.S. Department of Energy â source of Solyndra's $535 million â to make electric cars for the affluent. The Model S, unlike Tesla's $109,000 Roadster, is supposed to sell for between $50,000 and $98,000 â after the $7,500 federal tax credit. But Tesla has just received a waiver on the terms of its DOE loan. Tesla joins California-based Fisker, another floundering would-be maker of high-end rides for rich people, which has received a $529 million DOE loan. Obama's administration is in shambles, yet he is prospering politically. This may not, however, entirely be evidence of the irrationality of the electorate. Something more benign may be at work. A significant date in the nation's civil rights progress involved an African-American baseball player named Robinson, but not Jackie. The date was Oct. 3, 1974, when Frank Robinson, one the greatest players in history, was hired by the Cleveland Indians as the major leagues' first black manager. But an even more important milestone of progress occurred June 19, 1977, when the Indians fired him. That was colorblind equality. Managers get fired all the time. The fact that the Indians felt free to fire Robinson â who went on to have a distinguished career managing four other teams â showed that another racial barrier had fallen: Henceforth, African-Americans, too, could enjoy the God-given right to be scapegoats for impatient team owners or incompetent team executives. Perhaps a pleasant paradox defines this political season: That Obama is African-American may be important, but in a way quite unlike that darkly suggested by, for example, MSNBC's excitable boys and girls who, with their (at most) one-track minds and exquisitely sensitive olfactory receptors, sniff racism in any criticism of their pin-up. Instead, the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure â thereby admitting that it made a mistake choosing him â seems especially reluctant to give up on the first African-American president. If so, the 2012 election speaks well of the nation's heart, if not its head. Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-edito...-elected-even-if-hes-failed.htm#ixzz28ACTCB2U
Jem,you used to get your hopes up every time you heard the SC would get in the birther nonsense,dont do it to yourself again
its up to Roberts... I do not think he wants to go down in history as being the author of the weakest decision in Sup court history. And we know he does not want to be considered the weakest chief justice in Sup Court history because he allowed the President to intimidate him with a speech. This is his do over. He was hoping Republicans would take control and wipe out Obama care. If they do not, he will to protect his image for the next few hundreds years. Unless Obamacare is wiped out by him or Romney, law students will be reading his case as an intellectual sellout for as long as they study jurisprudence.
I think that during the SCOTUS break a few people he respects had a little talk with him about what he had done. Maybe his doctor took him off the LSD and put him on some more innocuous meds, too.
Just like I said... the birth certificate - got its day in court. I was right. You had a right to say I got Obamacare wrong... but now... maybe not.
Now you are being obtuse... You know I had to educate you about the difference between a hearing on the merits (georgia) and all the other cases which were tossed out for procedural reasons. I said we would have a hearing on the merits... You said never... Georgia was a hearing on the merits. You were wrong. I was correct.
looking forward to the debate. Romney has so much to choose from. If he does not make a strong showing... it will be sad. I was in my car... guys on AM radio took out Obama 2008 debate transcript with Jim leher... they were just eviscerating him with his own words.