It was the President and Democrats crowing about job creation for the last 3. How the $840 billion dollar stimulus would create millions of jobs and "green" jobs. Well down here on Main St in So Cal, unemployment is still over 12%. You just missed paying a PF donation of $25 by 2 seats when I bet the Republicans would pick up 65 in 2010, they got 63. The number of people employed DROPPED by 1.8 million just between Nov '11 and Jan '12. Ya'all can pump up all the sunshine you want, however getting votes for four more years of what we got so far is going to be too tough a climb. Over 8% unemployment for the longest sustained time in the history of this country since the great depression. 16+% underemployment (stimulus jobs), $4+ trillion dollars in new debt in less than 3 years, home foreclosures continuing unabated by any Obama plan, gasoline heading over $4 a gallon driving up prices of all consumer goods, food prices hitting the stratosphere and GDP growth below 2% which means we're losing ground. That's the platform the Obama and the Democrats have to run on? Sorry, the blame Bush platform is outta gas after almost 4 years. You can blame this or that on Republicans all you want. The democrats problem is the average American struggling to make ends meet, feed his kids and pay his bills on a part time job after having his non sub prime house foreclosed. While he did nothing wrong and played no mortgage shenanigans, his employment situation put him out of his house. That's the guys you have to worry about voting. He listened to Obama and all his campaign rhetoric back in 2008. He really believed this Obama had the plan to get the jobs rolling again and just maybe he could find a good job and catch up on his mortgage (before he was foreclosed on). After 3 years he's still waiting, his house is gone, his pride is gone, working part time and living with his wife and kids in an apartment he can barely afford or worse yet moved his family in with his Mom and Dad. These are the folks not caught up with a sub prime loan, but their jobs got buried under the fall out. They voted for Obama and the Democrats because they believed, hoped Obama could save them from financial disaster by getting this country off the floor in time. Good luck, Obama's going to need it.
LOL! Did you see where I said "last century"? And you bring up religious wars from 500 years ago? Thank you for making my day with that epic failure. I knew you wouldn't let me down.
Reading comprehension isn't your best trait. You explicitly stated that intolerance and bigotry was as its worst this past century. That is hardly the case, intolerance and bigotry has been around forever, with dogma even worse in the past. What got better was the killing machines and the methods to wage war. After WWII, there were few large scale wars, compared to previous times, e.g., the British vs French, their wars were fought all over the globe.
I'm not sure exactly......all I know for sure is that Santorum is going to be the subject of one hell of a South Park Episode.
You're exactly right. And it won't matter whether Santorum wins or not - women have just had a nasty slap in the face from the fanatic RW Cons in the state legislatures - the latest in Virginia - that clearly shows their agenda as far as women are concerned. If they can pass laws giving a fertilized egg "personhood" and requiring women to endure unnecessary invasive procedures before getting an abortion, how far behind will be laws denying the use of BC or preventing women having bank accounts in their own name? That would be EASY compared to the things they're already trying to do. The Republicans/Cons/RWers have openly declared war on women and as the president of NOW said - they have awakened a sleeping giant. Bring 'em on!
I agree that most women will pull away from Republicans because of this. More and more women in the US want/demand their independence and their own personal choice on how to live their lives. These RWers want to control women not that much removed from the Taliban philosophy.
Wrong again, here is what I said "Last century" is clearly limiting my statement to within the last 100 years. You intentionally twisted what I said because you are desperate to bring dark ages era Christianity into the discussion in order to satiate your red-meat urge to sink your teeth into Christianity. If you want to dig through history, though, we can invite in the stories of the marauding tribes of Muhammad and the rape and bloodshed in their wake, but I have a feeling you don't want to explore that topic.
Other than the Crusades I never mentioned the dark ages. All nations have practiced intolerance and bigotry, with the US being one of least bigoted, yet very far from innocent. Yeah I do want to bring it up, in fact let's start a whole new thread on it, and juxtapose all the atrocities from all nations. For the record.
