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Both of you know better. Discuss and/or attack the position, not the person.
GOP Nominee 2012 - Who Will It Be?, Pt. 4
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Also out of line.
Both of you know better. Discuss and/or attack the position, not the person.
MrsSpringsteen
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You gotta love Mitt's childlike wonderment at all his new discoveries of how the little people live. See Mitt, it's like when you push buttons for your car elevator in your mansion in La Jolla. Or maybe you pay someone to do that for you. So eliminating a human cashier is good for the economy?
By Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News | The Ticket
CORNWALL, Penn.—At the final stop on his bus tour here, Mitt Romney expressed confidence that he'll win Pennsylvania this November.
"I am going to win Pennsylvania," the Republican nominee told a crowd of several hundred people at the Cornwall Iron Furnace, a historic foundry that once was the source of cannonballs and other iron products.
But Romney nearly alienated some in his audience by dipping a toe into what has been a tense local debate among Pennsylvanians for years: Wawa or Sheetz?
The question of which Pennsylvania-based convenience store/sandwich chain is better has divided residents here for years. But that did not deter Romney, who had visited his first Wawa earlier in the day, from polling his audience on where they get their sandwiches.
"Where do you get your hoagies here? Do you get them at Wawas? Is that where you get them?" Romney asked.
"NOOO!" several members of the audience shouted in response.
Romney grinned. "No? You get them at Sheetz?" he said.
When the audience replied in the negative again, Romney seemed surprised. "No?" he said. "Where do you get them?"
As his audience threw out names of local delis in response, Romney paused and then proceeded to tell the audience about his trip to Wawa—acknowledging that it might be a tense topic for some in his audience.
"I'm sorry," he said. "I know it's a very big state divide."
But Romney said his visit there had been "instructive" because it personified the difference between innovation in the private sector and the ability of the government to do its job.
What inspired him: A computer at Wawa that allows customers to type in what they want on a sandwich, as opposed to ordering it through a human cashier. It was a technology, he said, that had been fostered by competition—competition he said the federal government lacks in delivering its services to Americans. He said the government's lack of competition and bureaucracy was hurting the United States in keeping jobs that are moving to other countries.
But more than anything, Romney seemed blown away by the Wawa computers, which he raved about.
"You press a little touchtone key pad… You touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, and there's your sandwich," Romney said. "It's amazing!"
By Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News | The Ticket
CORNWALL, Penn.—At the final stop on his bus tour here, Mitt Romney expressed confidence that he'll win Pennsylvania this November.
"I am going to win Pennsylvania," the Republican nominee told a crowd of several hundred people at the Cornwall Iron Furnace, a historic foundry that once was the source of cannonballs and other iron products.
But Romney nearly alienated some in his audience by dipping a toe into what has been a tense local debate among Pennsylvanians for years: Wawa or Sheetz?
The question of which Pennsylvania-based convenience store/sandwich chain is better has divided residents here for years. But that did not deter Romney, who had visited his first Wawa earlier in the day, from polling his audience on where they get their sandwiches.
"Where do you get your hoagies here? Do you get them at Wawas? Is that where you get them?" Romney asked.
"NOOO!" several members of the audience shouted in response.
Romney grinned. "No? You get them at Sheetz?" he said.
When the audience replied in the negative again, Romney seemed surprised. "No?" he said. "Where do you get them?"
As his audience threw out names of local delis in response, Romney paused and then proceeded to tell the audience about his trip to Wawa—acknowledging that it might be a tense topic for some in his audience.
"I'm sorry," he said. "I know it's a very big state divide."
But Romney said his visit there had been "instructive" because it personified the difference between innovation in the private sector and the ability of the government to do its job.
What inspired him: A computer at Wawa that allows customers to type in what they want on a sandwich, as opposed to ordering it through a human cashier. It was a technology, he said, that had been fostered by competition—competition he said the federal government lacks in delivering its services to Americans. He said the government's lack of competition and bureaucracy was hurting the United States in keeping jobs that are moving to other countries.
But more than anything, Romney seemed blown away by the Wawa computers, which he raved about.
"You press a little touchtone key pad… You touch this, touch this, touch this, go pay the cashier, and there's your sandwich," Romney said. "It's amazing!"
PhilsFan
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Those touch screens at Wawa are great. So much better than Subway, where they judge you for not wanting cheese on a meatball hoagie.
INDY500
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Even President Obama must have chuckled at that as he commuted from George Clooney's $40,000/person Hollywood fundraiser to Sarah Jessica Parker's $40,000/person Hollywood fundraiser.
MrsSpringsteen
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That's Barack Hussein Kardashian for ya
Mitt doesn't take any money from celebrities? It's just kept on the down low cause it's not cool in Hollywood to support Republicans. There's probably a secret weekly meeting of Mitt supporters somewhere near the Hollywood sign. Or in La Jolla. They eat hoagies and push buttons and say "it's amazing!". And make fun of George Clooney and SJP behind their backs.
Mitt doesn't take any money from celebrities? It's just kept on the down low cause it's not cool in Hollywood to support Republicans. There's probably a secret weekly meeting of Mitt supporters somewhere near the Hollywood sign. Or in La Jolla. They eat hoagies and push buttons and say "it's amazing!". And make fun of George Clooney and SJP behind their backs.
INDY500
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MSNBC Romney Edit Draws Fire; Andrea Mitchell Briefly Addresses Controversy (VIDEO)
And you wonder why I asked you to please reference the source of your articles a few months back. Because of this crap.
MSNBC... again, and yet it's Fox News that gets the thread 51 pages long and running.
And since I'm grumpy, where's the "let's talk issues" police that flag me for talking about Obama's radical associations when the subject turns to Mitt's car elevators?
PhilsFan
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1. Mitt is calling it "Wawa's." Huffington Post is calling it WaWa. It is neither. It is Wawa. It's named after a local town where the store originated and its headquarters are located.
2. Mrs. S is incorrect. It is not eliminating a human cashier. Think of when you go to a local deli and you take a number and wait for a person behind the glass to get your meats and cheese. Instead of doing that, you enter in what you want on the touch screen and you get a receipt. Your order ends up on a queue on a computer screen for the people making the food behind the glass. Then you can take your receipt, continue shopping, pay for everything all at once at the normal cashier, and when you're done, it'll be right around the time they have your sandwich ready. No jobs are lost, it just makes getting the food more convenient.
In the picture, you can see the touch screens and then the screens on the other side showing all the orders that need to be made for the employees. The register is on the other side of the store, where they do employ cashiers.
The place also has great prices on gasoline and cigarettes. It's pretty much the best thing we do here in PA.
3. The edit is pretty disingenuous, since it totally obscured his point. His point was to make this about private-versus-public using a local example. Obviously, it's slightly cheap political talk, but it's certainly par for the course. The edit is clearly meant to make it seem that he never goes to the store to buy food.
2. Mrs. S is incorrect. It is not eliminating a human cashier. Think of when you go to a local deli and you take a number and wait for a person behind the glass to get your meats and cheese. Instead of doing that, you enter in what you want on the touch screen and you get a receipt. Your order ends up on a queue on a computer screen for the people making the food behind the glass. Then you can take your receipt, continue shopping, pay for everything all at once at the normal cashier, and when you're done, it'll be right around the time they have your sandwich ready. No jobs are lost, it just makes getting the food more convenient.
In the picture, you can see the touch screens and then the screens on the other side showing all the orders that need to be made for the employees. The register is on the other side of the store, where they do employ cashiers.
The place also has great prices on gasoline and cigarettes. It's pretty much the best thing we do here in PA.
3. The edit is pretty disingenuous, since it totally obscured his point. His point was to make this about private-versus-public using a local example. Obviously, it's slightly cheap political talk, but it's certainly par for the course. The edit is clearly meant to make it seem that he never goes to the store to buy food.
Irvine511
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shouldn't you be pointing to Fox's comparatively enormous viewership as not just the proof positive that conservative ideas are way more entertaining and salacious than liberal ones but also the reason for the increased scrutiny? that along with their consistent track record? who do you mean to indict other than a bunch of U2 fans who, surprisingly, aren't entirely colonized by Ailes?
MrsSpringsteen
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It says Yahoo news, do you not see that? I'm not clairvoyant, so I can't tell if yahoo stole it from MSNBC. I can't be bothered to read the MSNBC link-I have a colossal headache and shoulder pain and frankly I don't give a rat's butt. Some people are into grumpy gotcha back and forth here, not me. This used to be an enjoyable place for me, it isn't anymore and hasn't been for quite a while.
Mitt's care elevator is an issue for ME, because it's perfectly symbolic for ME of who he is.. that he's never had to struggle financially for a single thing. I know, and I don't have to reference any source, the type of politician he is because he was the governor of MA- not Indiana. So dare I say that I do know more than you do about that. I know his m o and I'm not impressed. Ditto for the job he did as governor. Did I think he was the least offensive candidate? Yes, but a smaller piece of horse crap in a big steaming pile of horse crap is still a piece of horse crap. He never made my life better then and he's not going to do it now. If I thought he could make one iota of difference in this country as President, I might actually be tempted to vote for him-even though I disagree with most of (if not all, if I actually cared enough to research all of them) his positions on issues and think he's pretty much a hypocritical fake opportunist.
I don't have a car, an elevator, or an elevator for my car. The biggest splurge I've made recently was a nice pair of sandals on the clearance rack at DSW for 17 dollars after three coupons. I have to enjoy the simple pleasures in life, and honestly most days I struggle to find a reason to want to get up the next day. Everyone's got problems and many people have it worse off than I do. I don't begrudge Mitt one cent of his wealth or expect him to give me any of it, believe it or not. Good for him. I question how he made it at Bain, what went on there. He's one of many who made lots o' money off of people losing their jobs. But he's a master job creator. And I do know that he can't relate to someone like me at all, despite all his two bit embarrassingly laughable attempts to be "real" and "regular". That I know instinctively, without CNN MSNBC or Fox.
So that's pretty much it. You are free to start a 51 page thread about MSNBC, no one's stopping you. I'll look up some news stories about them and reference the sources. I don't watch MSNBC at all, I read and walk and watch my tv shows and sports.
maycocksean
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My favorite line of one of my favorite posts of yours, Mrs. S.
Hang in there . ..
deep
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I have a couple of friends that have elevators for their cars.
you see it occasionally where land values are very high, such as ocean front in California
you see it occasionally where land values are very high, such as ocean front in California
PhilsFan
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What the hell is a car elevator?
maycocksean
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I was wondering the same thing.
I'm guessing cars are stored in some vast underground lair and are brought up to ground level on the elevator?
maycocksean
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When you think about it, that would make Mitt Romney like Batman.
Sort of.
Well, a little bit anyway.
Sort of.
Well, a little bit anyway.
maycocksean
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And Obama would be the Joker. . .
aha, got there ahead of you INDY!
aha, got there ahead of you INDY!
Moonlit_Angel
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Because, as MrsS alluded to, we're actually focusing on things related to the candidates' actions now. Romney talks about how he sympathizes with everyday people, and if there's any situation that might indicate otherwise, we're going to discuss that. If it turns out we are mistaken, which seems to be the case here, feel free to correct us and we will acknowledge the mistake (I for one hadn't heard this story in the news at all until just this moment).
If Obama actually IS involved with some "radical" person or group currently, and his involvement would have an actual impact on his presidency, then, believe it or not, we here would discuss such a thing. But then again, your idea of what constitutes "radical" is vastly different from most people's, so it's hard to know how accurate the accusations are. Who was it a while back that made the insinuation that Obama (may) have read socialist or communist literature when he was younger, therefore, GASP, he's clearly a socialist or communist, or at least has sympathies with such political beliefs.
Or, he could just be reading random stuff, along with a zillion other things. I've been scanning through an interesting book on my breaks at work lately about the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, but that sure as hell doesn't mean I'm plotting to blow up any federal buildings anytime soon.
Plus, the whole "radical" thing is just beyond played out and is basically inflammatory speech at this point. We're tired of it. If you find something legitimate on the issue, fine, we can definitely look at it and talk about it, but until then, it'd be really great if we could let that argument go.
Anywho,
to you, MrsSpringsteen-let it be known I for sure definitely appreciate having you around here. And to you as well, INDY-I hope whatever is causing your grumpy mood changes for the better soon.INDY500
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Holy fast & furious Batman.
deep
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Marco Rubio Not Being Vetted to Be Mitt Romney’s Running Mate - ABC News
Rubio is a loser, if Romney picks him, the contest is over.
Rubio is a loser, if Romney picks him, the contest is over.
INDY500
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Rereading my post I might have given the impression I was upset with you when I said "this crap." I was not and I do appreciate that you give links for your articles. I did see that this was sourced from yahoo but note that the reporter did not mention where she got her info?
Both sides do this but have you noticed "the machine" that gets cranked up where a "story" is disseminated instantly through "friendly" sources in all media (electronic, TV, talk radio, blogs, web sites, etc)? I think it's a disturbing trend, especially when being first with the story trumps fact-checking and a manufactured lie is passed on as news. And you're very right, who the hell has time to check all this yourself?
So, please continue to give us topics for discussion and maybe we'll find something to agree on down the road. Maybe.
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Irvine511
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i hope Mitt ordered toast with that scramble.
no women on the list either. Our Sarah has set back GOP women for a generation -- sorry ladies! and please stop talking about vaginas in Michigan!
no women on the list either. Our Sarah has set back GOP women for a generation -- sorry ladies! and please stop talking about vaginas in Michigan!
Moonlit_Angel
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That still seriously floors me. I keep thinking that HAS to be a joke.
INDY500
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deep
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once again Indy
proof that you did pick a quality person, sounds like this is one politician with a bit of class (no pun)
INDY500
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Thanks but still a bitter pill when one lives in Bloomington.
BVS
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Why oh why would he go to the dark side? Higher education is liberal!!!
financeguy
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I'm not sure if I'd agree with that, TBH. We have had posts from posters here admitting that part of the reason they advocate for Obama is that they fancy him. Maybe they were joke posts, maybe not. All I know is I saw posts, maybe not here but on other forums, circa 2003-2005, saying Bush is going to save us, Bush is going to defend us from the terrorists, Bush is such a strong cowboy, and don't he look swell in his cowboy hat and riding out on his ranch. And it didn't seem like they were joking, certainly not in the febrile atmosphere that existed in the years of the Great War on Terror (remember that?)
America. much as I love it (from a distance) has a big problem, IMO, with investing too much in its presidents, in hagiographing these figures, when they are really just men, with feet of clay, like all men.
The current mood on FYM, if you ask me, is so dismissive of anything vaguely suggestive of conservative opinion, so ready to accuse any philosophy slightly right of centre of being borderline fascist, so ready to convict anti-Obama people of racism and all sorts of prejudices, that it's vaguely disturbing. There's a sense that people sitting on the fence might almost be afraid to voice an opinion lest they be accused of thought crime! That's just a personal perspective, btw - I can't claim to speak for others on the right wing here.
I agree that it's no big deal that Obama has read communist literature, if that's the case. Anyone of above average intellect and learning will have done so, at some stage, one hopes - all the great economists that I am aware of are well-versed in Marxist economic literature - mainly in order to critique it, granted.
The evidence for condemning Obama of being a closet commie on the basis of books he may or may not have read is, I'd grant you, pretty suspect. If one wants to accuse Obama of socialism, one is better off looking at his record - and that record, from where I'm sitting, is profoundly pro-statist and not at all friendly to the business owner class. He has displayed little or no evidence of any level of common feeling or sympathy with entrepreneurs and small business owners - you know, the people that actually will eventually create the jobs that will get this godamn economy back on its feet again.
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On this much we are (perhaps shockingly) in complete agreement.
Moonlit_Angel
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I fully agree we have a tendency to see presidents as gods sometimes. The right goes nuts over Reagan to this day, the left won't stop obsessing over the Kennedys or Clinton.
However, on here, at least, the "fancying Obama" stuff I think is mainly lighthearted joking commentary. This place gets awfully heated sometimes, so a bit of light fun fluffy talk every now and again is welcome, I think. And besides that, you can find someone attractive and still not always agree with their actions. I'm pretty sure nobody here is voting for Obama simply because they find him cute.
The Bush comments, I don't know how much of it was joking and how much was serious, but I do know people legitimately thought that way. But people actually think that way about the president they voted for. I've said it many times before, but the left is guilty of it, too-there were many that thought Obama would come in and fix everything, and he hasn't, at least, not to their satisfaction. When we talk about criticism of a president, we often focus on the opposing party's comments, but we also need to remember that the supporting party can have its own complaints, too. And some complaints are nonsensical and based in merely nasty rhetoric or kneejerk hatred of the other side, but some complaints also do have value, and those should be heard.
Personally, if you want to see the left here bring up some criticism of Obama, I think it'd be great if we started talking about things like his drone program, or this latest "fast & furious" situation, or his continued ties to Wall Street, or not shutting down Guantanamo Bay, or things of that sort. You could definitely find Obama supporters who would have some problems with those scenarios, and those are legitimate issues worth discussing. I'd be happy to participate in those conversations.
I know it seems like the right is being ganged up on here because there aren't a lot of you on here to begin with. But while some people may overdramatize one's viewpoint, I think it's fair to say we don't have a problem with conservative thought in and of itself and will listen to actual, thought out comments.
But the way some conservatives here present their opinion, intentionally or not, comes off very wrong to us. Your comment, for instance, in our recent immigration discussion, insinuating my viewpoint on the topic was simply because of liberal middle-class guilt and fear that I'd "offend a brown person somewhere". That's simplistic, blatantly untrue, and the whole "brown person" remark, um...wow. Couldn't have found a better way to phrase that? Really? The whole thing a while back about people on welfare scamming off the system. Nobody denied that that happens, but some here also pointed out instances where that was not true and why such programs exist to begin with. But it seemed to go in one ear and out the other.
People on this board may not be racist, but the right seemed to be totally oblivious to the racism that occurred within the Tea Party, or with those who supported the Tea Party (or the GOP in general). They seemed to forget about the signs with Obama as a voodoo witch doctor, or the "haha, watermelons on the White House lawn, teehee, funny!" e-mail an actual government official sent out, the signs where Obama was called racial epithets, the stupid Hitler moustaches. The whole moronic birther thing has its roots in racist beliefs. But most right-wingers here seemed to deny that was as common as it was, or wanted us to actually show proof it happened.
And then the anti-gay sentiment among some right-wingers here throughout the years, well, that's never going to get support, because there's nothing about it worth supporting to begin with.
I agree the left has been guilty of overreaction and oversimplification of one's viewpoint on here many times, and I agree that the right's voice does sometimes get drowned out amongst the voices here. But the way the right vocalizes their beliefs sometimes, some of it they kinda brought on themselves.
I agree that it's no big deal that Obama has read communist literature, if that's the case. Anyone of above average intellect and learning will have done so, at some stage, one hopes - all the great economists that I am aware of are well-versed in Marxist economic literature - mainly in order to critique it, granted.
The evidence for condemning Obama of being a closet commie on the basis of books he may or may not have read is, I'd grant you, pretty suspect. If one wants to accuse Obama of socialism, one is better off looking at his record - and that record, from where I'm sitting, is profoundly pro-statist and not at all friendly to the business owner class. He has displayed little or no evidence of any level of common feeling or sympathy with entrepreneurs and small business owners - you know, the people that actually will eventually create the jobs that will get this godamn economy back on its feet again.
Agreed on the whole thing regarding what he reads. And I agree that he hasn't done as much as he should to help small businesses and such. There are people still struggling job-wise in this country, and more could be done, should be done to help them.
But I would point to his continued ties to Wall Street and corporate interests as the reason why that is, and that doesn't strike me as socialist, that strikes me as very much capitalist. He hasn't gone after the super rich and corporations as much as he should, and that's a big part of why we're having the economic problems we're having. Corporations have way, WAY more power now than they should be having, and the super rich are whining because, oh, my god, they might have to pay a bit more in taxes and they can't get their 10th home or yacht or something, the horror! We're tired of the rich people complaining, and think more needs to be done to deal with them.
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