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Rachel Maddow, ''New'' Face of the GOP is looking stagnant (Steele, Palin, and Jindal)
http://tinyurl.com/dzysbl
Piece Taken from http://www.hicktownpress.com/
"The Republicans have decided that white men are out of style. Therefore, they chose two men of color as their spokesmen:
1. Michael Steele, who is so out of touch that he thinks that feeding hip hop to the masses will help the Republican image.
b. Bobby Jindal, who is laughable at best.
The white Republicans chose the brown Jindal as their puppet and he stood there and delivered. But my question to Jindal is, WHERE WERE YOU when a man with a low I.Q. named George W. Bush was in office pushing war after war and driving our economy into the toilet?
Jindal said:
The way to lead is not to raise taxes and put more money and power in hands of Washington politicians,. [The plan will] grow the government, increase our taxes down the line, and saddle future generations with debt.
Its irresponsible,.
Oh, really? And all those trillions spent on Bushs wars did not fall into the category of irresponsible? GET REAL!"
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Comments about this Video
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That doesn't mean she didn't face discrimination in her life. And you, like other racist conservatives, fail to understand what affirmative action is all about. Just proves Sotomayor's point - you really can't get it into you brain that without affirmative action, no Hispanic at that time would have even been considered for an ivy league school, and not because of their abilities, but because of a built in discrimination against them.
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They sample more Republicans than there are in the population.
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Well? It wasn't exactly a close call, was it? He won hands down.
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My point is that he didn't win by double digits. In other words, those polls were full of crap.
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They sample the percentages of Democrats and Republicans who VOTE, not who are simply registered. Rasmussen still polls more Democrats though. Obama's numbers have gone down because he's losing independents.
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Maybe some kids called her the "s" word in school, but she didn't encounter institutionalized prejudice. From what I've heard, her SAT score wasn't high enough. How was that due to racism?
I'd also like to point out that if a Republican president nominated a Hispanic to the bench and all the Democrats voted "no," they wouldn't be called "racist" by the media.
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How do you know she didn't encounter institutionalized prejudice? Were you there for every job interview, every school application she ever had? Her SAT score wasn't high enough because she didn't have access as a low class Hispanic to same education that middle class white people had. Her scores IN Prinston were more than high enough, so obviously she was good enough for it and proved it when she got the chance.
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Democrats would have never voiced objection based on race, which is why they wouldn't have been called racist.
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Nobody objected to Sotomayor based on race. Nobody said, "She's a Hispanic, and we can't have a Hispanic on the Supreme Court."
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But Obama's approval ratings have nothing to do with elections polls, and there is no need to sample likely voters in a poll designed to answer the simple question: are American citizens pleased with their president? I believe Obama is losing more of the left than the center. They are disappointed of the lack of progress on gay rights, the wars and healthcare, and they tend to be far less patient than independents.
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Yeah, but an approval rating is more relevant to the next election cycle if it polls likely voters. When you get down to it, if you don't vote, your opinion doesn't count.
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Of course not. That would be political suicide. They can't say "I don't want Hispanics at the Supreme Court" and get away with it. But you can stock racial fears with in your constituency, and make a nice political profit. It's impossible to be an out racist in today's politics (though it is still perfectly fine to be an out homophobe), but there are codes to get your message through, and "overt racism" is one of them.
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There is no affirmative action today. And low income doesn't require affirmative action, it requires money. Besides - the low class in America is disproportionally made of minorities.
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The next presidential elections is 3.5 years away. Any approval rating is irrelevant now for Obama's chance of getting reelected. And while different polls may show different results - they usually show the same trends. Obama's approval ratings picked up again after a short slump.
PS - who's to say now what the likely voter would look like 3.5 years from now? More unlikely voters voted in the last elections than ever, so maybe "likely voter" is a term that needs to be reevaluate.
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Okay, the big election is 3.5 years away, but the midterm elections are less than 15 months away. 2010 will likely be a referendum on Obama.
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Can you name me one Republican in the Senate who you think opposes Sotomayor simply because she's Hispanic and not because of her liberal leanings? If Sotomayor were a conservative, every Republican would have been happy to confirm her. Her race wouldn't have meant anything.
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That may be true, but it seems unfair to me, even if it's just an anecdotal example, for a poor white kid who attends public schools to get screwed over in favor of a wealthy minority who attends private schools.
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There is no affirmative action today, so that's not going to happen. And your chances of finding a "wealthy minority" member when there used to be AA, was close to nothing.
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And yet they based their objection on racial issues. Sotomayor is far from the raving liberal they are painting her to be. In her rulings with conservative colleagues, she agrees with them 90% of the time.
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No, it is likely to be a referndum on the congressional candidates. How are Republicans doing? Not so great.
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Well, the GOP actually has the momentum in the polls right now, although anything can happen come November 2010.
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Well, they had to go up. There was no other direction for them to go...
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Hey, So if you don't think Obama approval rating is dropping, pull your head out of his ass and look at the un-biased current RCP poll data. You man is dropping. The Obama party is over, the music has stopped playing but your still dancing for now. Here's some advice, go buy a box of Extenz, I don't need it but it may give you better luck with the ladies and and the mens. Question, When Obama finishes a speach, do you lay back and light up a cigerette?
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Nah! The way to lead is to put more money and power into the hands of those who already have too much! The ones who put us here in the first place!
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