Via or from BuzzFeed comes an opposition research file compiled by the McCain campaign in 2008. The document is 194 pages long. These are pages from the top of page 25 to page 29. This may not be complete or there may be some duplication left. Pages 27, 28 and 29 had two documents of different font size, one overlaying the other.
I have bolded the first word in each entry for ease of reading.
Via or from BuzzFeed comes an opposition research file compiled by the McCain campaign in 2008. The document is 194 pages long. These are pages from the top of 19 to the bottom of page 21.
I have bolded the first word in each entry for ease of reading.
So, from what I have read, Romney spoke of his 5-point plan (my bolds)
History will not remember Mitt Romney’s speech, except possibly for the back-to-back interruptions by protesters on opposite ends of the hall shouting “people over profits” and the out-of-thin-air promise that Romney would create 12 million jobs in his first presidential term. His five-point plan to save small business—“small business” is code for “big business” in Republican speeches—involved school vouchers, balancing the budget, lowering taxes and regulations, killing Obamacare, and drilling for oil in America, which he promised would create energy independence by 2020.
And he got cheers for the “drilling for oil in America” part. Bu, apparently the audience does not understand that what ever oil is drilled for “in America” will be sold to the consumer at the going market rate. The oil will be the property of Valero or Exxon-Mobil or, gawd forbid, BP. Actually, it does not matter where on the planet the oil comes from, it will be sold for the ‘going rate’ in the market place.
“Not as Ostriches”
We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well being is dependent upon the well being of other nations, far away.
We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.
We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that “the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust – or with fear.
We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding and the confidence and the courage which flow from conviction.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fourth inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
I am privileged. For the first part of my life, I may have realized but didn’t understand.
First, go read this by Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is the best piece of writing I have seen in decades, maybe my whole life.
I am white. I am a light skinned Celtic-American, second generation without even a hint of Spanish Armada troops in my phenotype.
Except for the first half of the 9th grade, there were no people of color in any of my classes. The 9th grade thing is that the town in which we lived did not have a high school, so we went to the city next door for high school. On Christmas break, my family moved to a different state. My dad got a better paying job.
I graduated high school, joined the Navy and had a slow immersion into a different culture. In the 50s and 60s, African-Americans in the Navy were restricted to just a few rates such as cook and steward.
I served 21 years and still did not understand how by just having ‘white’ skin I was able to advance in rate.
Slowly, by going to college, by reading (a lot), by continuing to educate myself, I am able to see a much different world than I saw in the 1970s.
I am proud of the work I did four years ago helping to get then Senator Obama elected President.
I am working again to help re-elect President Obama. Not out of a feeling of guilt that I should have done something different forty years ago, but because I am a Progressive and believe what President Obama is trying accomplish is much better for the country than what any Republican would do.
Also, this just out by Mr. Coates.
I posted here and here on the subject of circumcision.
Finally, McClatchy is reporting that the American Academy of Pediatrics is changing their policy re: circumcision.
But on Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics backed the Arensbergs’ decision when it altered a 13-year-old policy that said there was not enough medical evidence to warrant routine circumcision. Now the group, with some reservation, supports the procedure for health reasons.
“Evaluation of current evidence indicates that the health benefits of new male circumcision outweigh the risks,” the new policy states.
The group’s policy, however, does stop short of recommending circumcision for all newborn boys and includes parental choice:
“Parents ultimately should decide whether circumcision is in the best interest of their male child. They will need to weigh medical information in the context of their own religious, ethical and cultural beliefs and practices. The medical benefits alone may not outweigh these other considerations for individual families.”
But, you already know my views on the subject.
You like sea food, right? And at the super market you spot a package of two salmon fillets, on display, in the meat case just begging you to take them home.
But did you know that these farm raised fish are grown in cages suspended in the ocean? And instead of eating their natural diet of krill, which gives salmon the pink color, they are fed fish meal. The fish meal produces a white fillet which then has an additive applied to make the meat pink.
This deserves a much longer post about the sorry state of the nation’s food supply.
But this is all that I have time for now. From Al Jazeera via Hullabaloo is this stunning and virtually unbelievable story.
Does anyone in a position of authority, in an election year, give a shit?
A little (more like a lot) snark from The Hillbilly Report about poor Ann Romney.
While moms across the country are working one, two or three jobs just to get by, provide shelter for their children and put a little food on the table, poor Ann Romney has it even worse. She, Ann Romney, not only has the duties of a mom, she has to take care of her many homes, supervise her under paid housekeeper moms, protect and grow the family wealth, select a private school good enough for her children (Belmont Hill School for Boys in Belmont, Massachusetts at $25,440 per year), prepare for Fox News interviews, supervise her La Jolla home rebuild plan to include an elevator for her cars, etc, etc, etc. Poor Ann Romney.
As far as I’m concerned, the Romneys are the ‘poster children’ for the top one/tenth of one percent of the top one percent who do not know what it is to have to put up with what the bottom 99% have to put up with, but I am convinced that they do not give a shit about the bottom 99%. All they care about is hood-winking enough dirt-poor wingers so they can win the election.
Gawd, are we stupid, or what?
Hilary Rosen’s comment(s) were mis-taken, probably on purpose. And my previous post addressed that.
But.
Mrs. Chief never had a jot outside of the house. She never worked for wages. None the less, she was the principle parent for our four children while I was deploying as a 21 year member of the U.S. Navy. It was hard work and she did a damn good job of it, I’m proud to say.
Mrs. Chief could not afford the luxury of having a nanny or any butlers. She even had to drive herself and the kids to the commissary on base, to the dispensary, if any of the kids got sick, be the sole parent at parent-teacher meetings . . . well, you get the point.
Mrs. Chief even had to learn how to put gas in the car, not having a chauffer.
And, because we do not have even one gardener, Mrs. Chief plants the garden, with my help. and she weeds the garden, too.
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When it comes to money, when it comes to the day-to-day cares of raising a family and running a household, Mrs. Romney does not have a clue what Mrs. Chief had to contend with.
But, I suspect that Mrs. Romney and the rest of the Republicans, know that.
Kathy
Chief
