Casual Observation

17 Comments

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   BooMan on October 24, 2013 at 5:27 pm

   Again with the “some of my best friends are black” thing?

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     seabe on October 24, 2013 at 5:40 pm

     Lol I still need to see that segment.

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     Geov Parrish on October 24, 2013 at 10:46 pm

     How’s that minority outreach program going?

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     Marie2 on October 25, 2013 at 2:36 am

     But did he “resign” because he made racist comments or admitted that the SC voter ID law was to suppress Democratic votes?

     Indiana was years ahead of SC on this one.

     …Indiana’s new voter photo ID law. The law had been found to be constitutional by Federal Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
     …
     It was Posner’s decision that first allowed states to return to the Jim Crow vote suppression tactics that we thought had vanished with the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

     Now he’s pulling two McNamaras:
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     In his newly released autobiography, the aging Posner, hearing the wings of mortality and the gavel of Judgment Day coming down, admits that he was stone cold wrong. Posner now concedes that that the voter ID rule was a Republican partisan ploy in intent and viciously racist in practice.

     Posner, seeking forgiveness, says it wasn’t his fault. He wasn’t “really given strong indications that requiring additional voter identification would actually disfranchise people [who are] entitled to vote.”

     2.

     In yet another recent book, the prolific Posner blames the 2008 collapse of the world financial system on the elimination of the Glass-Steagall Act, on banking deregulation and on “hostility to taxation and to government in general.”

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   The Voice In The Wilderness on October 24, 2013 at 5:34 pm

   Love that comment, “Their “big tent” is a deer blind with guns poking out of every window. “

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   BooMan on October 24, 2013 at 6:32 pm

   So much awesome.

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     MikeInOhio on October 24, 2013 at 6:37 pm

     That is the most awesome freaking thing I have read this week.  Unfortunately, I am the only on I know who appreciates its awesomeness.  Well…..other than all the wonky folks here.

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     Geov Parrish on October 24, 2013 at 6:38 pm

     Wow. Maybe he didn’t care about his very public “deep background” because he assumes all his phone calls are listened to anyway. He would know.

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     seabe on October 24, 2013 at 7:28 pm

     The fact that he dissed the admin makes me think more highly of the president.  

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       MNPundit on October 24, 2013 at 8:57 pm

       Oh I have no illusions that the president is fully in control on this. None. He’s made it worse than it has to be, the but the intelligence agencies are in large fully rogue in terms of accountability.

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         ishmael on October 24, 2013 at 9:10 pm

         I don’t buy that.. it lets the President and both parties off the hook. They all get the briefings in the closed room meetings and simply turn a blind eye to the shadier stuff. The agencies are rogue because they’ve been let off the leash.

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           MNPundit on October 25, 2013 at 5:23 am

           Certainly past presidents let them off the leash. The problem didn’t just appear out of whole cloth. But I don’t think it’s possible for any single president to stop the intelligence agencies. A president might get briefings but things are hidden from them if for no other treason than plausible deniability.

           I also have no doubt the NSA and other agencies have complete dossiers on the Obamas before and after 2008. I have no doubt that if a president were to say order them to stop monitoring Angela Merkel’s email, they would say “Yes Mr. President” and then ignore the order. The information would just quietly sit in a database somewhere readily accessible.

           I go back and forth on just how hard the intelligence agencies are willing to play if any president made a serious effort to rein them in.

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           MNPundit on October 25, 2013 at 5:24 am

           And let me add to the above:

           And all the while telling themselves and perhaps even worse, BELIEVING it’s for the good of the country.

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   The Voice In The Wilderness on October 24, 2013 at 7:03 pm

   I think you will find this LA Times Op-Ed very interesting.

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   Marie2 on October 25, 2013 at 12:05 am

   Interesting that they seem unable to identify why so many teabaggers fall short on their anti-Semitic scale.  Not like the old days when US racists hated all non-whites and Jews.

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   ddnwmj on October 25, 2013 at 4:16 am

   thanks for this info guys

   Mesin Jahit

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   Don Durito on October 25, 2013 at 7:55 am

   “What a ridicules thread,” the poster observed. “Saying Tea partyiers aren’t WNists is like saying Ron Paul supports aren’t WNists. While it’s true not all are, it’s also true many are.”

   That one jumped right out at me (emphasis added).