
Obama our “Warrior President”?
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/29/celebrating_our_warrior_president/
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/04/obama-spikes-bin-laden-football
More: http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/04/29/obamas-death-panels-jeremy-scahill-at-the-drone-summit-video/
After damning Obama for the auto bailout (“Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”), Romney’s advisor now says Obama got the idea from Romney: "The only economic success that President Obama has had is because he followed Mitt Romney's advice"
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/liar-week-mitt-romneys-brain-fehrnstrom-say
[Karoli] Welcome to the 2012 general election campaign, where up is down, right is left, wrong is right, and whatever you said yesterday is yesterday's truth because today is a new day with a new truth. This is the cynical Romney campaign at it's lying-est best.
This is an outright lie, and it wasn't Fehrnstrom going off the reservation. It was planned, it relies upon a gullible and uninformed public to accept the lie as truth because memories are too short to remember yesterday and for the most part, the part of the press that reaches the most viewers hasn't bothered to actually call a lie a lie or to pull them up short on any of the lies they've told, so why not?
This is who Mitt Romney is . . .
The campaign ahead
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/robert-gibbs-romneys-slogan-obama-didn-t-cle
"I think sometimes you listen to the Romney campaign and they do think a lot people in this country are stupid," Gibbs told NBC's David Gregory. . . . [read on]
John Boehner tells Marco Rubio that his “DREAM Act Lite” has no chance in the GOP-controlled House. But guess who Rubio is already blaming for its defeat?
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/obama-romney-rubio-dream-act.php
NOT the guy you want defending the GOPers on the “war against women”
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/alex-castellanos-denies-war-women-bei
Alex Castellanos
A look back: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/29/alex-castellanos-gender-wage-gap-equal-pay-women_n_1462795.html
Alex Castellanos Denies Women Make Less Than Men
http://crooksandliars.com/2008/05/21/gop-operative-alex-castellanos-its-ok-to-call-some-women-bitches
Alex Castellanos: It's OK to call some women bitches
Sigh
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-democrats-divided-over-who-to-best-oust-walker-in-recall-election/2012/04/29/gIQATJ0QqT_story.html
Wisconsin Democrats organized the protests that gripped the state. They turned Gov. Scott Walker’s plans to strip public unions of their collective bargaining rights into a national Democratic cause. They got the signatures they needed to force a recall election, and then some.
They are now just a little more than a month away from the big showdown with Walker they have been craving for over a year — but rather than excitement, there is growing fear within the party that they just might blow it.
The problem for Democrats is that before they get their shot against Walker, they have to get through a divisive primary between an establishment pick and a union favorite that is threatening to undercut their unified front against the governor.
“We’re nervous,” said Julie Wells, who works with the grass-roots group United Wisconsin. . . .
More: http://www.salon.com/2012/04/29/whos_better_to_beat_scott_walker/
http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/04/26/who-does-walker-want-to-face-in-the-recall/
Who Does Walker Want to Face in the Recall?
The theocrats’ war on science
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/29/1086413/-Pat-Robertson-explains-which-parts-of-science-you-re-allowed-to-believe
Can YOU tell what his position is?
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/pastor-joel-osteen-being-gay-sin
Houston-based mega church minister Joel Osteen said on Sunday that same sex marriage should be illegal, but insisted he was "not for discriminating against gay people."
In an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked the pastor if being gay was a sin.
"I believe that the scripture says that being gay is a sin," Osteen smiled. "You know, every time I say that, Chris, I get people saying, 'You're a gay hater and you're a gay basher.' I'm not. I don't dislike anybody. Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world. But my faith is based on what the scripture says, and that's the way I read the scripture."
Wallace also pressed the preacher on the issue of marriage equality.
"I don't think we should discriminate against anybody," Osteen replied. "There was an issue where somebody couldn't go visit a gay loved one in the hospital. I don't think that's right. I think they love each other. So, I think there should be some [rights]."
"I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people."
The kind of people they are (sick twisted pervert edition)
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/screwed-straight-god-these-people-are.html
Cleveland radio personality Dominic Dieter, a surely sonorous voice that squawks to every morning to listeners of the Rover's Morning Glory Show on "The Buzzard" 100.7 FM WMMS, gave a father who wrote to the station worrying about whatever to do about catching his daughter kissing another girl some of the worst advice ever, facetious or otherwise. Dieter responded to the letter on-air, telling the father, "You should have one of your friends screw your daughter straight." [read on]
More: http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2012/04/29/shock-jock-to-dad-of-lesbian-daughter-you-should-get-one-of-your-friends-to-screw-your-daughter-straight/
In case you missed the Sunday talk shows
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/29/tv-soundoff-sunday-talkin_n_1462468.html
More: http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/04/29/abcs-this-week-continues-the-dumbing-of-america/
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/jousting-with-vsps.html
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