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LDS Living - MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell apologizes for anti-Mormon comments
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LDS Living - MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell apologizes for anti-Mormon comments
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As he works to energize the conservative base ahead of the general election, Mitt Romney came to the annual gathering of the National Rifle Association on Friday seeking support from a powerful group that has not always embraced him. His backing while Massachusetts governor of key laws opposed by the national gun lobby--an assault weapons ban and a waiting period to buy firearms--has engendered skepticism, if not hostility, among many gun owners.
But in the speech he delivered here, Mr. Romney breezed past those issues to touch a more fundamental nerve: the gun lobby’s fear that a second term for President Obama would give him another Supreme Court appointee. The 4.3-million-member gun group fears that a remade court could lead to restrictions on firearms. “In his first term,” Mr. Romney’s said, “we’ve seen the president try to browbeat the Supreme Court. In a second term, he would remake it. Our freedoms would be in the hands of an Obama court, not just for four years, but for the next 40. That must not happen.’’ Before Mr. Romney spoke, a spokesman for the gun lobby, Andrew Arulanandam, said it was looking for exactly this kind of statement. Mr. Arulanandam said that the biggest fear of NRA members was that an altered Supreme Court might reverse two 5-to-4 rulings since 2008 interpreting the Second Amendment as guaranteeing a fundamental right to individuals to bear arms. The most recent ruling, the McDonald case in 2010, is seen as opening the way for challenges to local laws restricting gun ownership.
Another goal for Mr. Romney here is to close some of the cultural gap with gun owners. He was lampooned during his 2008 run for the Republican nomination for exaggerating his hunting career, at one point, when pressed, saying that the game he had experience with were rodents and rabbits, “small varmints, if you will.’’ More recently, Mr. Romney revealed that he owned a couple of firearms, and in a debate in January he described a hunting trip to Montana. His guide on that outing was a respected sportsman, Rob Keck, who in an interview described taking Mr. Romney for two days of hunting elk and for one shooting pheasants on a private ranch. “He admittedly didn’t grow up hunting,’’ Mr. Keck said, “but let me tell you, he accounted for a number of birds on that day.’’ So it was probably no surprise that Mr. Romney has been accompanied here by Mr. Keck, the director of conservation for Bass Pro Shops.
It remains to be seen whether hunters who view gun rights as a top issue will enthusiastically support Mr. Romney in November. David Ross, a longtime NRA member from Reading, PA, who has been a grass-roots organizer for conservative candidates in his battleground state, was skeptical. “Romney needs to get people like me passionate enough for his campaign to win in November, and I think that’s going to be heavy lifting,’’ said Mr. Ross, who was attending the convention with his son, Clinton, an Army reservist. “He was for an assault weapons ban when he was Massachusetts governor. What changed? And how do we know he’s not going to change back? This is the chameleonlike thinking that is my biggest fear.’’
“I think it’s really simple. It’s because government’s now telling them ‘stop dreaming, stop striving, we’ll take care of you.’ We’re turning into a paternalistic entitlement society.”
“That will not just bankrupt us financially, it will bankrupt us morally because when the American people no longer believe that this a place where only their willingness to work hard and to act with honor and integrity and ingenuity determines their success in life then we’ll have a bunch of people sittin’ on a couch waiting for theirnext government checkObama Bucks.”
--Chris Christie April 2012
INDY500 said:“I think it’s really simple. It’s because government’s now telling them ‘stop dreaming, stop striving, we’ll take care of you.’ We’re turning into a paternalistic entitlement society.”
“That will not just bankrupt us financially, it will bankrupt us morally because when the American people no longer believe that this a place where only their willingness to work hard and to act with honor and integrity and ingenuity determines their success in life then we’ll have a bunch of people sittin’ on a couch waiting for their next government check Obama Bucks.”
--Chris Christie April 2012
The truth of this matter is that those benefits are temporary and not eternal.
Why do they always put blacks as the typical lazy stereotype on things like this?
Wow, it's like they tailor-made a clip to support Indy's viewpoints.
Must be nice to ignore all the white families receiving unemployment benefits. Drive around Michigan sometime and you'll see Whitey getting his Obama Bucks as well, in order to feed his two children in his 20,000 $ home.
As one of the 51% of Americans who works hard and pays taxes, why should i continue to support the people who are freeloading off of the system?
There you go what? What does that prove?You know who made that video, right? It was Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, and it originally aired on Bill Maher over a month ago. They also had a video of racist, toothless white rednecks in Mississippi who refused to take handouts from the govt / Obama "cuz he's black" or whatever. So there you go..
But why does this point seem to get completely lost in today's narrative?You can take Obama out of the equation even, because this has been going on long before he was POTUS, and will continue to do so long after he's done.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE !! YOU COULD MAKE THE SAME VIDEO INTERVIEWING PEOPLE OF ANY SKIN COLOR IN ANY CITY IN THE COUNTRY.^What a load of crap.
Does what Obama actually says matter at all, or are you just content to make it all up?
As Newt Gingrich said in the campaign, "these programs aren't safety nets they're spider webs" that trap people in dependency, keeps them in poverty and at the bottom and deprives them of the dignity of a job.
As Newt Gingrich said in the campaign, "these programs aren't safety nets they're spider webs" that trap people in dependency, keeps them in poverty and at the bottom and deprives them of the dignity of a job.
As Newt Gingrich said in the campaign, "these programs aren't safety nets they're spider webs" that trap people in dependency, keeps them in poverty and at the bottom and deprives them of the dignity of a job.
What politician honestly fits that bill though?
Barack Obama? Mitt Romney?
it shocks me that we're thrilled to drop bombs on Tehran but the idea that a black woman with two kids living in New Orleans who gets $250 a month from the government is somehow indicative of moral decay.
Yeah, I am trying to figure out if Indy is advocating a Shah-gets-all-the-oil-money model of plutocracy.The drastic solution is to completely eliminate all kinds of unemployment benefits, healthcare benefits and anything that is associated with receiving aid from the government.
Third-world style, spread the wealth but keep it in safe places.
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE !! YOU COULD MAKE THE SAME VIDEO INTERVIEWING PEOPLE OF ANY SKIN COLOR IN ANY CITY IN THE COUNTRY.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's a reason I put in bold “That will not just bankrupt us financially, it will bankrupt us morally." Because that is exactly what is happening.
As Newt Gingrich said in the campaign, "these programs aren't safety nets they're spider webs" that trap people in dependency, keeps them in poverty and at the bottom and deprives them of the dignity of a job.
As I've said, it's not just the loss of monetary capital its the loss of human capital these programs bring on.
My issue is with making up absurd stances/attitudes and attributing them to Obama.
And what of the stereotype that anyone wishing to reform or restore fiscal sanity to an entitlement program "hates" the poor or sick or women or whatever? Would you like some quotes from the Welfare Reform debates of the 90's?I thought we left the debunked "welfare queen" stereotypes back in the 1980's? or at least with welfare reform in the 1990's?
Again, too bad a reasonable discussion of the issue is impossible in today's polemic environment.the amount of people who actually use the safety nets in the way that they were intended to be used dwarfs the small amount of people who abuse them. of course we want things to work better, but this is quite different than going back to the brutal pre-great society era where the elderly died alone and in poverty and children starved in Appalachia.
3/4ths of government spending you mean? Which ones are driving the debt today? In 10 years? In 50 years? And in the future you can add another expenditure... interest on the debt. Who benefits from that spending?what's consumes 3/4ths of GDP is the following: defense, social security, medicare and medicaid.
They all have different challenges. Medicare; soaring health costs, Social security; demographic realities and so on. But if you need an answer you could google "Social Security disability" and "explosion."please, tell me, which of these programs are "spider webs" that trap people into cycles of dependency?
and let me know what in defense you want to cut. because a serious conversation begins there.