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One might conclude that people seeing the moral decay around them (teen births, porn addicts, marital infidelity) find family value candidates more appealing because they are sickened by what they see around them, therefore the GOP polls stronger in the places where those are the greater problem.

The things iterated-teen pregnancy, porn sales, high divorce rates- are usually symptomatic
of low incomes and under educated populace which fits the Southern red states and some Western states.

Face it, it requires a dumbed-down population in order for an R to convince them to vote against their own self-interest. I mean most chimpanzees can make choices which favor their self-interest. That being said, perhaps we've reached the apex of evolution and the process is reversing.

What kind of shape are we in when a president can claim he heard god's voice which told him to engage us in a war? Over forty per cent believed a Village Idiot who had been selected by the R Supreme Court.

Last Days indeed!

Here's an advance copy of Obama's Resignation Letter. Enjoy:

http://rightsquared.com/?p=510.

NYT's Blow referred to NC's Post and Courier "Sanford Fallout Seen as Severe.."

"During former President Bill Clinton's scandal, Sanford chimed in, "I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign). ... I come from the business side. ... If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone."

So by that time everyone should have known that Sanford is either (a) a hypocrite, or (b) stupid.
All he need to do was look to NWA and the worlds largest protein corp for evidence that business leadership and infidelity have nothing to do with each other. King Rooster strutted his mistresses often. Oracle chairman Larry Ellison became famous for dipping his pen in the company ink well.

I wonder why R's can't find better empty suits? I mean the Demos have a good one in BHO.

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Oh catfish, how truly pathetic. If your side had wee bit of wit that could have been interesting but considering that Red States R SQUARE, it's not.

And who was it that had as official policy "STARVE THE BEAST?" Recall that one?
The scheme was run up federal deficits so high and reduce taxes so low that ensuing administrations could not add new programs. No problem back in the Golden Years Clinton handed you but your favorite Village Idiot screwed the pooch. Now BHO will someday need to increase taxes back to what they were during Raygun's reign.

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I have a vision of Catfish Eater posting his wit-less link while simultaneously IM'ing a 26 year old Argentina girl, talking bad about his wife, while downloading kiddy porn in hopes of finding a good one starring a pregnant teenager doing her brother....all the while holding the Bible in his lap to hide his erection. Yeah....pure Republican family values at work.

I mean the Demos have a good one in BHO.
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I love John Cole's defense and rationalization of Obama's plan to issue an exec order for Indefinite Incarceration.

Cole "completely missing (the point) that the executive order will be issued in order to help Obama repudiate Bush's handling of Gitmo."

Uhhhh..I get it, take away civil liberties in order to same them...Kinda like fu*king for chastity

HenryS you often make outstanding blog posts but I need some help with your latest, above.
I realize "same" means shame but for those of us who are not familiar with Cole how's about a
link.

Maybe the heat is just getting to me, but bottom feeder actually praised Snyder as the best Ar has to offer in DC today... and now has learned to leave a link/addy instead of cut and pasting entire KKK articles.

Maybe there is hope... for the 32nd century (at this rate).

Catfish Bleater- you should find the chart at my blue name interesting. Notice how the annual federal budget deficits shot up during first Gerald Ford, then Ronnie Rayguns, Bush 1 and finally the pro Bush II who could bust a budget like nobody else in U.S. history. It's even worse during the period after 2003 where the chart stops. Under both Repub and Demo presidents we had relative budget stability until the mid-1970s. Then came the astounding shift to record budget deficits under Ronnie Rayguns and Bush I followed by record budget surpluses under Clinton and then back to even mindblowingly bigger budget deficits under Bush II.

When Republicans say government should be run like a business, they must mean Enron, Lehman Brothers or maybe Madoff Enterprises.

George W. Bush is not only a miserable excuse for a human being, he was an even worse excuse as president. He never met a business or country that he wasn't capable of plunging into despair and ruin.

I realize "same" means shame but for those of us who are not familiar with Cole how's about a
link.
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http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=23248

I posted Cole's comment as an example of the contortions that people will go to to excuse the in-excusable. Cole, I think, is in the same category as Huffington, Markos, Avarosis etc. former Republicans that are big Obama supporters. With wiretaps, Afghan war, Health care, maybe they knew something that Old time Dems didn't.

This study relies on the FCC's old methodology for determining broadband statistics, which have been discredited - especially for rural states. I'm not sure if that makes the true situation better or worse.

I read this and got: "blah blah blah abstinence education failed blah blah blah". The blahs do not deserve a response - that people who vote to uphold a moral standard are somehow responsible for those around them who fail is ridiculous and deserves no further attention. No one is a hypocrite for voting for what they believe is right - regardless of any mistakes they have made. It only means that they have realized what is right and good and best for themselves and society and have bothered to show up and support their convictions at the polls. The thing about moral ground is that once you give it up, as a society or as an individual, it is almost impossible to reclaim, and therefore worth fighting for with your vote.
As for abstinence education - a pregnant teenage unwed girl would probably tell you that she wishes she had listened to abstinence education. That she is pregnant does not mean that abstinence education failed, it only means that abstinence education failed to reach that particular child in time. As for others entangled in addiction, I believe that when the smoke clears, and the pain and destruction caused at their hand is evident, they wish they had chosen another path. Any person, at the moment they realize the consequences of their failure to abstain from risky behavior, has forfeited "best", and now must patch things together for something less. And that is the goal of abstinence education - to glamorize and promote abstinence among our young Americans so that they may enjoy what is best: a life without poverty, healthy relationships, a chance to pursue their dreams with strength and dignity, free from disease.the list is long.
When one recklessly mocks abstinence education for political points, or gives thoughtless license to kids to stroke their rock star ego, all they are really doing is denying a classroom of eighth-graders, in Anytown, USA, a caring message on the deal killers and game changers of life, the positives and negatives of decision making.