fuman wrote on Jun 30^th, 2009 at 5:50pm:


She was chosen for the most cynical reasons possible and it blew up in their face. At least this time we have plenty of advance warning on the kind of person she is. It's not like Bush who came out of nowhere and raised enough money to bury the competition before ever opening his mouth.

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Huh? Is this a joke? It was a three way race with Hillary Clinton possibly annoited the nominee before being defeated by a better ground game.

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Well, he DID come out of nowhere as far as most voters are concerned.

I watched most if not all of his Iowa caucuses, and he said EXACTLY the right thing for me.
I was SO proud of Iowa (my family comes from Iowa). Didn't they favor Pat Robertson years ago?
Wow, they have come a long way.

Very little of what Obama said in Iowa was going to directly impact my life, but what an impressive mind. Same for Michelle.
It was so different than any pol I have ever seen. All with the proper emphasis. They get it. Now lets see what they can accomplish.
I know there are some here who think he's got it all wrong, and I listen to these comments. But nothing has been written that shakes me. It seems at times like EVERYTHING will be throw against the wall to see what sticks, and that in and of itself tells me there isn't a point being made, just frustration. Same for the current Repub leadership.


Palin said NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. I agree that she was the most cynical choice, for sure.
After seeing the crowds she drew, it started to get a bit scary for me. Could they pull it off? Shit . . .

In the end, the best person was elected, but who knew America could do the right thing in an election.
I for one was skeptical. Thanks to the youth vote, and it really was a crossroads for their future.
Good for them  . . .

:smile. All together now:  SENATOR AL FRANKEN!

The Brevity Act: Time for a 28th Amendment

by Bob Gale
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bgale/2009/06/29/time-for-a-28th-amendment/

Earlier this year, Congress passed a “Stimulus” Bill.  It was 973 pages long. This past Friday, the House passed a “Climate Change” Bill.  It was more than 1200 pages long.

This got me wondering: how long, exactly, is our Constitution?  How many pages did it take our country’s founders to lay out the structure and functions of our Federal Government?

Easy to answer.  I found the Constitution online and copied it into a Word document, in Times New Roman 12 point type. So how long is it?

Including the preamble, all signatures and all 27 amendments, it’s 20 pages.

Without the signatures and amendments, it’s 11 pages.
Think about that.  The entire foundation of our country - the complete design for our entire government — is clearly explained in only 11 pages.

No single Amendment is a full page.  Many are only a single sentence.

Yet the bill that was passed on June 26, 2009 by 219 of our elected representatives — people to whom we’ve entrusted our Constitution, men and women who have sworn an oath to uphold it - was more than 1200 pages long.  That’s over 100 times longer than the U.S. Constitution!  And not one member of Congress, NOT ONE, read the whole thing!  

A word comes to my mind to describe this: “INSANE.”

I cannot believe that this type of legislation and legislative behavior is what the signers of our Constitution intended when they invented Congress.

Therefore, I am respectfully proposing a 28th Amendment to our Constitution.  I call it the Brevity Act.

No law, bill, resolution or any act of Congress shall exceed 2000 words, including all footnotes, amendments and signatures.  Congress shall not vote on any item longer than that.  Each item requiring a vote shall be read aloud in its entirety in session to a majority of members.  Those not in attendance may not vote on the item.  

2000 words is about 5 single spaced pages in a 12 point Word document.  If it’s longer than that, then it’s too complicated to be a single law or bill, so it must either be cut or turned into multiple bills, each requiring a separate vote.  

Furthermore, a Brevity Act should be part of every State Constitution, County Charter and City Charter.

To those who would oppose this Act because it would require Legislatures to vote separately on every single item in the budget, I say, it’s about time!

And to all challengers to the 219 Congressional morons who voted to pass a bill which they never read, here’s your campaign speech:

My opponent voted for a Bill he/she never read.  Only an idiot would do that.  Would you walk into a voting booth with a blindfold on and just push some buttons?  Or would you read and consider what you’re voting on before you vote?  I promise I will not vote for anything I haven’t read in its entirety.

Let the debate begin!

Joe biden predicted this economic crisis he has created.

I bet Obama busts out a Moonwalk at some point this week.

the dude can do it all.

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don't be jealous

you're obviously still bent out of shape about the time he beat you in tennis

he aced you didnt he?

fuman wrote on Jun 30^th, 2009 at 7:40pm:


I liked Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo.

The youth vote was a fluke. Those are people who don't vote regularly and in mid-terms. Unfortunately they also don't have a grasp of the issues. They also have more a desire for instant gratification. So in 4 years when those people are unemployed, struggling and frustrated, they are less likely to vote for him and even vote at all.

For as well spoken as he was during the highly controlled environment of a national campaign, he is starting to sound like a functional retard. A few weeks ago I had to answer the phone at work just after staggering in on a 3 hours of sleep and was saying "ah..." and "ummm..." a lot and said to myself, dude, get it together, you are starting to sound like Obama.

"alphabet soup" ---> that cracked me up!

Ho hum, just another day in reign of Obama.

ADP Estimates U.S. Companies Cut Payrolls by 473,000

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5utvno88qDM

Home prices post 18.1 percent annual drop in April

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-home-prices-down-181-apf-801285894.html?x=0&.v=...

U.S. mortgage applications fall to 7-month low

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-mortgage-applications-fall-rb-4099573864.html?x...


I could go on and on....


Riffy