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Zogby Poll
512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points
97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College GraduatesResults to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions
57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).And yet.....
Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes
Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter
And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.
Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we "gave" one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)
- KwesiJ0
you have zero concept of real politics
- ukit0
Even you have to admit, JazX, Obama did not exactly turn out to be the socialist terrorist radical you told us he was gonna be. The entire right wing acted like kids during the election, with little concept of what was really going on.
- TheBlueOne0
It's now JazX's thread. We just post in it.
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I have my MBA from Wharton. I know what a recession is.
- Let me state this in language you can easily understand. Fuck You.TheBlueOne
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Since when do we have two consecutive quarters of positive GDP growth during a RECESSION?
- TheBlueOne0
You know who just said we're in a recession Mr. Make Believe Wahrton MBA? The goddamn National Bureau of Economic Research.
"The NBER is the largest economics research organization in the United States. Sixteen of the 31 American winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics have been NBER associates, as well as three of the past Chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers, including the former NBER president, Martin Feldstein. NBER research is published by the University of Chicago Press."
How many Nobel Prizes do you have? You got stuff ublished by University of Chicago Press?
No? Shut the fuck up and go troll somewhere else you fucking waste of sperm.
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- Private organization.
It's not the BEA.******** - Fuck You.TheBlueOne
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Russia to upgrade missiles to evade US space arms
http://www.breitbart.com/article…
Russia's military is planning to upgrade its missiles to allow them to evade American weapons in space and penetrate any prospective missile shield, a Russian general said Monday.
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"The NBER — a private, nonprofit research organization — said its group of academic economists who determine business cycles met and decided that the U.S. recession began last December."
"The NBER — a private, nonprofit research organization"
"a private research organization"
"a private organization"
"private"
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Okay TBO, find me one recessionary period in U.S. that included two consecutive quarters of positive GDP growth. Just one. The private organization you quoted likely has personal agendas influencing their decisions. Who gave them the authority to change what economists have always defined in textbooks as a "recession": criteria that has not been met this year or the last.
- yeah dude, the economy is doing great, call it what you want.DrBombay
- Not a recession.********
- TheBlueOne0
"The private organization you quoted likely has personal agendas influencing their decisions. Who gave them the authority to change what economists have always defined in textbooks as a "recession": criteria that has not been met this year or the last."
his is the fucking NBER. University of Chicago. For fucks sake this is the home of Milton Friedman. Friedman was a fucking Member! Van Mises was a member! ...you can't get anymore free market neo-con kool aid than these guys.
You guys, Hedge, JazX..you all know absolutely nothing about economics or politics. You just troll inflammatory right wing agitprop. I'm simply not engaging you intellectually any more because you're just a fucking propagandist and an asshole.
"Fuck you" will be my one and only response to you. It's all you merit and it's all you deserve IMHO.
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- I'm not losing any sleep over it.TheBlueOne
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- Fuck You.tommyo
- hahahahahah! :Ptommyo
- Same to you, pal.
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"find me one recessionary period in U.S. that included two consecutive quarters of positive GDP growth. Just one."
- yeah dude, the economy is doing great, call it what you want.DrBombay
- Not a recession.********
- Not a recession.********
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The Obama presidency begins to emerge
http://www.americanthinker.com/2…If O attempts a direct confrontation -- and his disciples will demand it -- he will learn, as Jimmy Carter did in 1978 when he moved against the Southern evangelicals, that in America one does not attack religion, motherhood, apple pie, or (in the millennial context) talk radio and the blogosphere. Carter's error resulted in the creation of the religious right, liberalism's deepest nightmare. What an equivalent error on Obama's part would give issue to is worth speculation. Liberalism has a record of creating problems for itself -- and opportunities for conservatives -- through such abuses of power. So we should welcome efforts such as the "fairness" doctrine, universal abortion liberalization, even an attempt at creating an Alpha-Omega private army. As occurred in 1964, 1978, and 1993, such gratuitous kicks will serve to bring conservatism back to life, and in doing so will go a long way toward setting the political dynamic for the coming decade.
- DrBombay0
I have never, in my 36 years known this many people personally that are unemployed. If you want to say it isn't a recession that is fine. But to act as though everything is fine and dandy is dishonest. When even Bush says it is a recession now.
- kona0
*walks into thread carrying cookies
well hey guys i brought you some cookie.... AAAAAAAH!
*drops cookies and runs out of thread before getting thrown over the ropes of the NT Royal Rumble that is the Politics thread
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kona - me ninja rolling out of thread to safety. notice the nice tuck in my arms.kona
- *picks up cookies.TheBlueOne
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- DrBombay0
There is a lot of this around these days:
We agree pollution is bad and that "greening" up energy is the way to go, but global warming isn't real or it isn't the fault of pollution. Bottom line is we all agree that pollution is bad and we should do it less, but get caught up in other issues.
Same thing with the economy, we all can agree that the economy is in the toilet, but certaqin people just keep saying "it isn't a recession" and other such nonsense. When in reality we all agree that it is in the shitter.
THis is retarded to me.
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I hear many whispering, "Terror on every side! Report him! Let's report him!" All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, "Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him." - Jeremiah 20:10
