dayman

What is the apology tour deal why does this actually resonate w/ you? You engage in diplomacy and get facts and act rationally to advance American interests. Is this the cold war? We need to beat our chests in 2012? Is the rest of the world blind? They know how superior we are. They know we can basically reign hellfire on any building in the world and that we'll tople a regime if we feel like it. This "talk tough" BS is just stupid. We need to publicly "rah rah" ourselves? What is this? Why is this something that gets you so worked up...I understand a lot of the GOP meme-attacks...this one I don't get why it's so popular.

then says !@#$ all yall and spikes the mic

Gary Johnson, and most libertarians probably have it right. Thing is we're sort of entrenched and have made our enemies already so do we want to leave our position of leverage to drone them (perhaps making more or irritating the situation). As for Democracy itself...it's fine and good for them most of the people are not maniacs Dante...hell the actual PEOPLE of Iran are a lot more pro-America than most American's know (a point Gary Johnson made today in his slew of interviews)...obviously the more rural Iranians may be a bit sketchy but the city folk don't hate us in mass...

Another interesting bit: http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2012/09/unknown-and-known.html We also don’t know as much as we thought we knew about the film that sparked the first round of protests. Reporting before and immediately after the protests identified an “Israeli” or “Jewish American” film producer, Sam Bacile, who had posted on YouTube an incendiary trailer for a film, funded by “100 Jewish donors” and promoted by Terry Jones, the Florida pastor of 2010 Koran-burning fame. Subsequent reporting has brought his religion, nationality and very existence into question, and the only thing that seems clear is that someone was eager to fan the flames of sectarian hatred – and not eager to be identified. The actors and crew now say they were misled, thinking they were making a film about a “generic Egyptian” named “Master George,” with the most incendiary lines appear to have been (poorly) overdubbed after filming. In one scene, the dubbed voice says “Mohammed” while the actor’s lips appear to say “George.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-cairo-and-libya-attacks-point-to-radicals-jockeying-for-power/2012/09/12/d0d687d2-fcff-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html Another (domestic) article expanding on the one from the German international section. Seems the consensus among major media outlets is that radical Islamic groups in both Libya and Egypt are not happy with the "more" moderate regime in Egypt and largely secular regime in Libya. . This mixes with pervasive anti-Americanism that is ever present in all radical communities (probably with good reason ... given that they are radical Islam) ... local political opportunism mixed with radical Islam anti-Americanism combine to create a powder keg set off by some stupid video (which really just gave them an excuse). Some reddit links to pictures of pro-American counter rally in Libya http://imgur.com/a/tlCyI

Salafists in Egypt, whose Al-Nour Party, or "Party of Light," emerged as the second strongest force in Egypt's 2011 parliamentary elections for the now dissolved People's Assembly, called for protests. Storming the embassy in Cairo was also a show of force aimed at President Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who the Salafists find too pro-US. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/muhammad-film-triggers-violent-protests-in-cairo-and-benghazi-a-855484.html

In poker terms, Romney is on tilt

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/foreign-policy-hads-voice-disbelief-at-romney-cai Mixed responses regarding Romney responding about the same way LABillz does

I also like POTUS. Although it is clearly left leaning but not in an obnoxious way and not in a "trying to program people way"

This topic has some of the stupidest posts I've seen on PPP in a while. Pathetic responses from a few people in here.

European Obama! Ha! Not here! Not in America! If they like him he must be toxic! America!

Everywhere went Obama in '08....Loudoun was back to Red by '10. I'm not saying it's Richmond..flying confederate flags and whatnot...I'm saying it's very Republican....not very redneck...gay marriage probably less of an issue than say...cutting the military budget....

Nothing like a little anti-Europe, anti-rest of the world talk to get PPP going in the morning. America! !@#$ ya!

By the numbers, Loudoun is one of the most Republican counties in N. Virginia.

Ya gotta use those buzzwords, ya gotta say socialist - Bill O'Reilly

http://en.wikipedia....nt_and_politics Loudoun County, Virginia. The richest county in the nation measured by median income. Home to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman the #1 and #2 military contractors in the country. Republican mecca http://en.wikipedia....irfax,_Virginia Neighboring Fairfax, a close second in terms of wealth...home to General Dynamics...another top military contractor

Honestly wtf is this? ...just do whatever you think will win Romney... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx612rDA_q8&feature=player_embedded EDIT: Just finished the Factor...Chuck Norris (yes, literally Chuck Norris) came on at the end and talked about how the Dems have gone further to the right and the GOP has gone where the Dems were. I'll think that one over for a bit...

Virgil Goode factor!

If I pay you 1 million bitcoins will you leave the board forever and never come back?

Highly paid union employees? You mean highly paid military contractors and lobbyists?

I'm saying it happened at the Libya American embassy...the death...there were two separate embassy stormings today.... catch up

You sure it doesn't fund the trust? Also...is there a rule that says they can't hoard cash or was the Greenspans view...that it was somehow bad b/c it would then invest it and !@#$ up markets? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/07/992184/-Greenspan-in-2001-We-re-paying-down-the-debt-too-fast-VIDEO This is what I was referring to w/ the Greenspan comment: TEXT: The most recent projections, granted their tentativeness, nonetheless make clear that the highly desirable goal of paying off the federal debt is in reach before the end of the decade. This is in marked contrast to the perspective of a year ago when the elimination of the debt did not appear likely until the next decade. TEXT: But continuing to run surpluses beyond the point at which we reach zero or near-zero federal debt brings to center stage the critical longer-term fiscal policy issue of whether the federal government should accumulate large quantities of private (more technically nonfederal) assets. At zero debt, the continuing unified budget surpluses currently projected imply a major accumulation of private assets by the federal government. This development should factor materially into the policies you and the Administration choose to pursue.

While that is necessary (by a lot it should jump closer to $200K), that all goes into trust funds to pay out SS benefits. It's not going to solve the deficit...although it will help the short term borrowing to fund SS now that it looks to run red for the first time either this year or next (and since the t-bonds it holds would effect the bottom line if it came time to dip into those more heavily).

My only point was that the blanket statement "half of Americans pay no taxes!" doesn't take into account "loopholes" for the rich, payroll taxes lower income people do pay into, state and local sales tax, etc...a person making $50K can easily "pay taxes" at the same rate as someone like Romney. But to say "federal income tax is the only way to look at it" in terms of Americans "paying taxes"...that's not an approach that makes very much sense unless you are hell bent on just reaching the conclusion that all things point to a group of moochers sucking the teet of the top 10% of Americans. And the entire debate is framed in an environment that is (as linked in posts on previous pages) subject to an unhealthy inequality level in this country.

Stop going off script his high point was the moment he was elected. DId you not watch the convention? Stop being a terrible surrogate you'll blow the party up if you drop the ball this year for them.