RelentlesslyOptimistic

Newt's bumper sticker

 

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Ron Paul's job interview for President

Interviewer: What interests you about our company?

RP: I hate it and think it should be dismantled.

Interviewer: What are your primary qualifications for the job?

RP: I would systematically destroy your company.

Interviewer: Why do you want to destroy our company?

RP: Your company has a successful and diverse market line and a global presence. But when it was incorporated, the founders had envisioned a little mom and pop operation. I think we need to return to their vision.

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Chart of Republican candidates' policies for the 1%

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“Progressive” is viewed more positively than "Conservative"

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If this is class warfare, we're losing!

• "from 1980 to 2005, more than 80 percent of [the] total increase in Americans' income went to the top 1 percent"¹
• "income distribution in the United States is more unequal than in Guyana, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and roughly on par with Uruguay, Argentina, and Ecuador"¹
• "the path of income inequality over the twentieth century is marked by two main events: a sharp fall in inequality around the outbreak of World War II and an extended rise in inequality that began in the mid-1970s and accelerated in the 1980s [emphasis added]"²
• "Income inequality today is about as large as it was in the 1920s"²

Elizabeth Warren explains in clear and simple terms why taxing the rich at higher rates is not class warfare.(at :50)³

Meanwhile, Republican John Fleming of L.A. explains how hard it is to get by when he ends up with only $400,000 of the $6 million his businesses gross each year to invest in more businesses.⁴

And there's this chart that I posted last week showing that most people believe that income is distributed more equally than it actually is, and want a far more equal distribution.

Sources:

1. Paul Krugman in Slate
2. The Library of Economics and Freedom
3. thedailywh.at
4. ThinkProgress

President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate made public

Yes, people should be occupied by the important issues, but this just allows the conspiracy-believers to focus on some other nutty thing. Also, there's this.

So by tonight the cable news shouters will have an explanation that denys the validity of this for some other crazy reason. But the real question is: "What will The Donald" do now?

via www.whitehouse.gov

E.E Cummings on the election

“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.”

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The Mr T Party

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Unfortunate names, episode 2: Change is Cumming

As we saw recently with our extreme real estate guy, it's usually a bad idea to play off of your unfortunate name in ads.

via www.soberinanightclub.com

Obama must be doing a good job

Winston Churchill said it best: "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

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Because their lips are moving:* McCain claims "I never considered myself a maverick"

"I never considered myself a maverick," McCain told Newsweek's David Margolick in an interview..."I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities."

*How can you tell if a (lawyer/politician/etc.) is lying? Because their lips are moving.

Via www.huffingtonpost.com, which includes several videos in which McCain refers to himself as a maverick.

Sarah Palin's 2012 bumper sticker

From For Your Entertainment.

Weirdest Obama product EVER!

Available here for $35, via: Missouri Politics.

 

Don’t Wanna Be Obama’s Elf

This very short and fun video is another bit of fun from the wonderful Art of Obama site.

Yes We Did

From Michael Buchino Via Waxy.