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Anonymous Donation Ends Stalemate Between Town, Obama Campaign

The $20,000 donation will cover public safety costs for the president's visit.

 

DURHAM, NH – The Town of Durham announced Sunday that an anonymous donor has agreed to cover public safety costs associated with President Obama's visit on Monday, ending a stalemate between the town and the Obama campaign.

In a press release issued at 4 p.m., Durham Town Council Chairman Jay Gooze and Chairman Pro-tem James E. Lawson said an anonymous Durham resident contacted Gooze and Town Administrator Todd Selig on Sunday afternoon and offered to pay for town public safety costs up to $20,000.

"The donor wanted us to make public his/her sentiment that our Town had done the right thing in asking the campaign to do its part," the release said. "We are grateful for this generous offer. With this development we have decided to cancel Monday's special Town Council meeting. The issue of proper compensation for public services from any political candidate is a matter for discussion at a future Town Council meeting."

[You can read a copy of the full letter to the right.]

The town had said that the Obama campaign should pay the $20,000 to $30,000 in police overtime costs it will take to provide protection for the president's visit to Oyster River High School on Monday afternoon because it is a campaign event and not an official presidential visit. But the Obama campaign wouldn't pay, which led the Durham Town Council to schedule a special meeting for Monday morning to address the issue.

The press release issued by the town Sunday said "now is not the time to further deliberate the issue," but to look forward to Monday's visit. "It is a privilege for any town to host a sitting President of any party and we do not take that responsibility lightly. Durham residents will welcome the President with open arms tomorrow and the proud members of our police and fire departments will do their jobs with honor."

The press release also stressed that the town's request was not motivated by partisan politics, as the majority of Durham residents are registered Democrats, but by a need to ensure that expenses outside the town budget "are recovered in a fair and equitable manner." It also commended Selig for "respectfully raising the issue."

Related Topics: President Obama and Town of Durham

Jan Schmidt

4:44 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

And now every public event for Romney must be paid for by a supporter or his campaign too?

And in 4 years our first in the nation primary will be bringing in towns and cities a boat-load of money and only the rich or those supported by the rich can do anything more than hold house parties.

This is an interesting turn of events...

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Dennis Taylor

6:54 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

What a wonderful country!!! Yes, if you want to hold a public event while you campaign that costs the peasents money, you must pay for the extra security. This change will force candidates to spend more on security and less on other things. This relieves the people of an onerous burden. Heck, towns might even bid for these visits, if as you say Jan, they are so profitable. If not, then let the candidates' backers pay the bill.

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TB Player

10:18 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

First off, Romney is not the President, therefore the security requirements arent as great. Secondly, I'd wager that if the shoe were on the other foot, the Reps would pay the tab... Obama should be paying the fuel bills for AF1 since he is campaigning out of it. Did you think he actually traveled by bus???

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keymach1

11:52 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

I guess the town didn't consider the revenue that visitors would create when they show up and have to shop and eat while there. Not political? I say someone in town hall is bigoted or suffers from tunnel vision.

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Scott Paul Thrasher

1:00 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

TB even when he did do his bus travel? They would transport those buses by C5 and the President went by AF1 between gigs. He only rode the bus to make it appear that he was on a bus tour. On those buses we HAD to buy that had to be bought from Canada even though we have many manufacturers in the US. Good Ol Obama can't even buy a bus without shipping jobs out of country.

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Gerald Black

8:03 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

What's wrong with campaigns flipping the bill for the extras they want. Clinton and Bush both paid the bill out of the campaign funds, so why not Obama. Oh yeah, how stupid of me, he is the messiah. NOT!! If you wanna talk up votes in small town USA, that do not have budgets for such things, better be ready to pay up.

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Chuxkles

8:19 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

All of this to do about what should have been the case all along. When local tax payers face the burden of the extra expense for someone campaigning and it isn't reimbursed, isn't that in a way no more than a forced campaign contribution?

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Judith Hogan

9:10 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

This hypocrit-in-chief never stops, does he? He has spent the last 18 months (or longer) carousing this country at tax payers expense calling for more police. Yet, when he is expected to pay for the police used to protect him - he says "no way" - "let the little people pay". Another clear case of hypocrisy. I wonder what would happen if he had to pick up the tab for AF One. And, yes his so called "bus tour" was nothing more than a PR stunt. He spent about one hour each day on the bus - just enough time for photo ops. The USA deserves better. Our young men and women sacrificed too much to protect our freedom that Obama wants to destroy.

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Floyd Stegall

9:19 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

@ Scott Paul Thrasher - You may not be aware of this, but there ARE NO American companies that build such buses. Every motorcoach you see on the highways, from Greyhound up to the latest ride by the hottest rock stars, are build either in Canada (Prevost, MCI), or Europe (Van Hool, Neoplan, etc.) There is one company from Mexico that is trying to make a showing in the US, but their buses are pretty much considered to be a joke (Marcopolo). The VEHICLES (there are two of them) were built in Canada, yes - but the CONVERSION (the interior, plumbing, electronics, furnishings, security systems, etc.) was done in Nashville, TN, by good old American workers at Roberts Brothers Bus, Inc. - one of the major players in the bus conversion business. How do I know this - well, for starters, I've been driving in the rock band bus business for about 20 years, and also, the History Channel did a documentary recently on Presidential travel, and they told quite a bit a out those Prevost Model H-3 buses. I was surprised that they used the H-3, since the XL-II is considered to be the superior design.

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Seamus Carty

9:35 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

"a boat-load of money"
I would hope that the towns would be just covering costs and not trying to profit off the politicians' campaigns...

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JIM

9:50 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Keymatch how many ''visitors'' do you think it takes to fill the high school gym ? it has to be a racist in the town hall right ! ...there wont be enough people swooning at this obamafest to cover the towns costs and obama has swindled enough of the tax payers money already

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terry lester

10:15 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Thats why we need election Reform,,,we need a system where all presidential candidates are give an equal chance and not just the one with the most money,I Dont Believe In the endorsements of The Parties,,,I Believe Every Candidate should have equal billing,,,I Believe we should set up an election committee,,and upon filling all requirements candidates should disclose how much money they have and the money should go into the election fund,,,and once the election fund is started and all candidates have met all requirements,,,then all moneys will be split equally and any donations from that point on will go into the campaign fund,,,,,Example,,,if Obama Gets a two minute TV commercial,,,then all get a two minute campaign commercial,,,and it all comes from campaign fund,,,,and once the race has started no candidate is allowed to to personally accept donations anyway except directly into the campaign fund,,,and no candidate will be allowed to participate in any commercial ,,,show ,,,or in public without the remaining candidate having the same opportunity,,,and when the race is over all moneys in the campaign fund will be divided equally between all candidates,,,after paying taxes on said money,,,that way their are no more questionable donation and no one candidate can be influenced by corporations or wealthy individuals,,,,,and all who want to run will have equal billing and exposure and only then will elections be totally fair

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phyllis

11:25 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

don't worry it will all end after the elections--the repukes will find something else to stir up trouble

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TruthBeTold

6:19 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Romney's got the Koch Bros and Karl Rove. Hope that clears it up for ya.

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Maggie

9:51 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

OMG is right. Absurd. Who would do this?

batty1977

5:24 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

I hope there are alot of "generous" donors out there for the next primary season.

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Patriot

4:48 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Obama at a fundraiser at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, after riding on Air Force One with the president.
"I had no idea in my lifetime that we would have an Afro-American guy in the White House," Mays said. "It's so wonderful that he can remember me and invite me to a place like this."
Obama told the audience of about 250 guests, who had paid $5,000 each to attend the event, that "as cool as Air Force One is, it is much much cooler when Willie Mays is with you on the plane."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/07/obama-run-celebrity-packed-fundraisers-continues-on-west-coast/#ixzz1ynEFU1iD

Mark Alesse

5:42 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

This is what good old fashioned Yankee horse sense is about. Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves. A politician is just a politician; out for himself, always and forever, no matter the party. If they want to come and do their dog-and-pony show, fine, but don't leave us with the bill for security. It's your campaign; you pay.

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David Victory

6:00 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

@ Mark

But this is the first time I've ever heard of such a thing. If there is a precedent for this, please let me know. It seems there is always a different set of rules for this President.

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TruthBeTold

6:18 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

There was only one reason for this BS of an issue and everybody knows what it was. There is no precedent for this at all.

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jimbo jones

10:47 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

actauly it is very common for bills to be sent to the campaigns. i know that bush was billed for campaign visits to the area that i live in and the obama was billed for his campaign vists here too

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mike Dayton

11:41 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Joe Edwards

1:31 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Mark, I am truly impressed! Unlike the majority of comments contained herein, yours is spot-on correct. Isn't it a shame that so many of the electorate are ignorant of the actual tenents of their political party, yet they are responsible for the election of so many politicians that are strong on partisanism and short on horse sense.

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Christopher Drescher

7:43 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

David, not really as much as different set of rules as appling the same rules. President Obama is once again tring to call a Campaign trip and offical trip. Thus having the taxpayers and not his campaign foot the bill.

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L MacL

9:50 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

I agree with you, Mark. It is a "dog 'n' pony" show & they should pay for it themselves because they are only for "themselves" & not our country. AND, the majority of Americans these day, have no clue what "old fashoined Yankee horse sense" is, let alone just plain "common sense!" Most are led through the nose by "Hope & Change" that no one has seen to date, except the change that is putting America "in the tank!"

Mark Alesse

6:31 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

I don't know why a town that's got a majority of residents who are Democrats would single out a Democratic president for "a different set of rules." That's silly.

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Dennis Taylor

6:56 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Can we get off the idea that this is a partisan issue and not one of fairness? I would feel the same if Mittens wants to come to my town at my town's expense. These candidates can find a way to pay for the security or they can find another way to expose themselves to their subjects.

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SYLVIA TAYLOR

7:16 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

They didn't. I gurantee you that some racist right wing republican was behind this. Plain and simple they are ignorant and racist.

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politicojunkie

10:56 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

He just happens to be Black. For a lot of people it doesn't matter whether you are Republican or Democrat . . . they treat you with respect. Being Black appears to be a big turn-off for the Durham crowd.

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keymach1

11:54 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Someone in charge made the decision for them.

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m rae

8:01 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Last time I was in Durham, albeit years ago, the only thing in Durham was UNH, the businesses that mostly catered to students, the faculty, staff and their families. The students didnt pay local taxes and most faculty and staff are not exactly highly paid and therefore dont have an excess of money for extra expenses in running the town. Going to this town is a great way to reach a large body of young people to spread your campaign message.

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Gerald Black

8:11 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

They are not as you say trying to single out Obama. Clinton and Bush both paid out of their campaign funds for extra security requested by the Secret Service. "Sylvia Taylor" quit trying to make everything about race, when you do that you show who the true racist is.

Sylvan Tieger

6:43 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Slavery is alive and well in the USA
Yup, Slavery has been outlawed in all civilized countries; but the practice
seems to have a life of it's own. The Civil war in this Country marked the
end of humans owning humans. In spite of the Emaciation Proclamation,
many generations of slave descendents and White Share Croppers have opted to
not leave the security of the Plantation.

Our Government has over the past 80 years re-instituted the practice of
slavery; it does not involve shackles and whippings to achieve their
objective; it has a much more subtle method of monopolizing on the innate insecurity
(or flat out laziness of millions of virtual slaves). Welfare is a curse
that has been honed to a science to separate 5 generations of victims from
their self-esteem and any desire to rise above the life style provided by
the "Nanny State-Social Democrat-Government. Add to the millions on the
welfare roll, add more millions of Flunkies and Paper Shufflers that
administer the plethora of so-called Entitlements to the Welfare Club Membership.

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linda edmondson

9:03 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

When You come down of your soap box and cool some of the anger, channel it toward a solution. Slaves, as you refer to those cursed by social welfare, are the responsibility of ? ,they must be perpared life on their own. Good Health, Good Housing, Good Education. Stop Shouting and find a solution. Angry Criticism is a waste.

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politicojunkie

11:03 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

You have many issues my dear. Calm down or you will have a heart attack or stroke. This advice is for your health. You have gone off the deep end!

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keymach1

11:56 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

If it's going to do you like that, try decaf.

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Tony Gramps

12:20 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

people need to learn how to provide for themselves , the govt. should not be looting others to pay for housing, healthcare unless this person truly cannot help themselves. That;s not what has happened here. We have generations of people who go from cradle to grave on the govt. assistance plan. and our education system spends more then any other nation in the world and it sucks. Now as the word of slave may be too strong, lets call them sheep or cattle, they run to the sound of the grains being shook in the feed pan. and our Liberal elitist intellectual superiors build fences around them. Keeping them forever begging like dogs for the scraps stolen from those who produce. In all we have destroyed of human character in the nation , pride was the first to go.

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Ernest

5:29 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

You got it! Generation after generation are raised in the entitlement mode and kept solidly anchored on the bottom rung of the intelligence ladder.

Sylvan Tieger

6:44 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

The millions of humans living on the Democrat Welfare Plantation Scheme
produce naught but bodily waste, drug trafficking, illegitimate babies,
graffiti, rape, robbery, murder, hatred for the hand that provides the necessities
of life for them. In return for providing for these poor unfortunate
victims with the hard earned tax money contributed by Republicans as well as
Social democrats; IT IS THE DEMOCRATS THAT HARVEST THE MILLIONS OF VOTES FROM
THEIR WELFARE CLASS CHARGES...WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE

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Atlant Schmidt

7:14 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Wow! Just wow!

I'm very glad you're *NOT* in *MY* party!

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dan crabtree

8:36 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Excellent post for those who enjoy hearing the truth...cangrats..

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Monique Greilich

9:50 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

I'm glad that this ignorant commentary is aligned with the Republican Party. I'm sure other Republicans are proud!

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keymach1

11:58 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Well, we'll just let dat new voter ID law get rid o' dem Dems, right bubba?

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Zed

12:39 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

A higher number of those that are on welfare are White and in the Red States. Do read a little more and listen less to Fox.

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weejje E

12:47 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

You obviously don't do much research or have blinders on. There will always be those that abuse the system but you can't see that, just your political and socioeconomic bias. Also, you might want to check the demographics for the last election as you whine on.
The only thing I see wrong with yourpost is you. What a pathetic, small-minded person you appear to be.
Why are people like you so angry and hateful?

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lita

2:34 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

So you must be okay with your overlords who are heading the Republican Welfare Plantation Scheme--you know, the ones who write the regulations that govern their own industry, and saying that closing tax loopholes is the equivalent of increased taxes. They're the ones who like to create low-paying jobs so that people who actually work hard for a living cannot purchase a home and cannot afford the products they themselves make. They're the same ones who pitched faulty financial offerings, and bet against them so that when they failed--as they knew they would--they would make millions of dollars at the expense of nobodies (the "regular people"). But in your eyes, that's different, somehow. I am thankful that I am not you.

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Sherr

3:38 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

It's amazing how you bigots try to paint your racism as concern for taxpayer money, while spreading lies about the welfare system and government programs. Rant all you want, you're very transparent in the truth behind your lies. Just hope you never have the day when you find yourself without a job or the means to support yourself..because I know you'd rather die than take taxpayer money so that your family can eat and keep a roof over its head, right? We'll count on it.

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Sherr

3:39 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

It's amazing how you bigots try to paint your racism as concern for taxpayer money, while spreading lies about the welfare system and government programs. Rant all you want, you're very transparent in the truth behind your lies. Just hope you never have the day when you find yourself without a job or the means to support yourself..because I know you'd rather die than take taxpayer money so that your family can eat and keep a roof over its head, right? We'll count on it.

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Ernest

5:32 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Excellent post! Of course, it's offensive to the democrats who thrive on this stuff.

Sylvan Tieger

6:53 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

I wonder what they were thinking?
Interesting........

City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level

1 Detroit , MI
32.5%

2 Buffalo , NY
29...9%

3. Cincinnati , OH
27.8%

4 Cleveland , OH
27.0%

5 Miami , FL
26.9%

5 St. Louis , MO
26.8%

7 El Paso , TX
26.4%

8 Milwaukee , WI
26.2%

9 Philadelphia , P A
25.1%

10. Newark , NJ
24.2%

U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 A merican Community Survey, A ugust 2007
What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;

Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati , OH (3rd)...since 1984;

Cleveland , OH (4th)...since 1989;

Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St. Louis , MO (6th)....since 1949;

El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

Milwaukee , WI (8th)...since 1908;

Philadelphia , P A (9th)...since 1952;

Newark , NJ (10th)...since 1907.

Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats---yet they are still
POOR

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John Hatchet

7:09 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Hey Sylvan, those towns on poverty also have the largest number out of work and are the largest industrial towns that lost jobs that went overseas. It was your Republican friends that went after Democratic towns that were successful because they never like the middle class ethic communities with factories and work to succeed. So Mittens buys the businesses (wished GM had gone bankrupt), steals the money, sends the work overseas, then gets fools like you to point at a stupid comparison of Mayors and political standing.

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dan crabtree

8:38 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

brillant and soooo true look at chicago as well as the intier state of illinois as well as new york..

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keymach1

11:59 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

You still have to keep your face out from under that funny white pointy hat, bubba.

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keymach1

12:26 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Because the white republican business owners avoid hiring the black man. Racism alive and well.

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weejje E

12:51 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

sylvia-get some current census info ... it was done in 2010.
I'm so glad you area well off Republican who keeps repeating the same thing, over and over again. Isn't it amazing that a group that makes up less than 25% of the population has so much clout.
You dear are a lout.

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Thistle001

3:43 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Democrats ran all industry out of those places with taxes. They ran all of those jobs over seas and replaced them with welfare. There is no dignity in welfare.

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Clyde Mertz

9:31 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

It would be interesting to find out how much these cities would donate to keep obama away.

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L MacL

10:01 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Nice post, yet none of the "left-wing" nut jobs on here will not bat an eyelash about it because it's "All Bush's fault." They never, ever take the heat for the doings of their own party...it's just the way it is. :(

Brian St. Onge

7:00 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

I stand with Durham. Why should the town spend $20,000 for security for a political candidate? They shouldn't. As a candidate, not as the president, Obama and his campaign should foot the entire bill for all expenses associated with his campaign. The taxpayers shouldn't be hit with this bill any more than they should pay for security expenses associated with any other candidate. Now ask yourself, if Donald Trump was coming to town would you be in favor of your property taxes paying for security for the Donald??? I didn't think so!

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SYLVIA TAYLOR

7:21 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

If they can't afford a presidential visit, then they should tell the campaign up front. Not after arrangements and a lot of money has already been been realized. Any
municipality should be able to spend $20,000.

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keymach1

12:01 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Most intelligent people Know Donald Gump is no threat to their way of life.

John Hatchet

7:11 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Hey, who demanded the city hire extra police on overtime? Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses. Let the one visiting take care of their own security. Go about your business as usual. What happens happens.

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Jon Asmund

7:34 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Doesn't the Obama campaign raise funds for just this stuff? I wouldn't think any candidate should use the taxpayers funds for campaining. Obama as president campaigns constantly, if not for himself others in his party. Where does he find the time to actually do his duties between canpaigning and vacations?

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Sondra sdei83

5:26 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Dear Jon, stick it in your ear. Our president spends day and night at the white house, so once in awhile he and his family take a short vacation, Even then it is a working vac. for the president. Your tv news person takes several vacations a year,shouldn't your president be allowed to do so also? Just because he is at a summit meeting doesn't mean its a vacation. All presidents have taken small mini-vacs, including Bushee baby, the worst pres. ever for the working class.

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L MacL

10:30 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Isn't he on another vacation right now, at our expense????

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L MacL

10:34 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Sondra, my tv anchor person does take vacations, but NOT AT MY EXPENSE! Obama Bin Laden plays golf at MY EXPENSE, he goes to HAWAII at MY EXPENSE, while all of the other Presidents take those little "mini" vacations. I would rather have MY EXPENSES done the "mini" way & NOT the I WILL TRAVEL THE WORLD ON YOUR DIME way!!!!!

Dennis Taylor

8:22 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

It is not a question of whether a town can or cannot afford the campaign visit. It is not the town's financial obligation to pay for his highness to roll in and tell them what a great job he is doing. If the fraud wants to come to Durham, he should pay the bill. As far as the statements that a Republican right wing racist nut must be behind this, are there no racist Democrats? I know we all remember the New Black Panthers and their illegal offer of a bounty to kidnap Zimmerman. Again, for me, this should never be a partisan issue but one of fairness to the peasants who would otherwise have to pay for his lordship.

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keymach1

12:04 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

'sides, Mitty did throw coins at the peasants on one of his visits a while back. Way to go, Rom, that'll eliminate poverty. (That's the closest he'll ever come toward doing anything about it.)

k. french

8:23 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Would be nice to see a detailed list of how they came up with A $20,000 price tag?

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keymach1

12:06 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Extra police = 500.00
Inconvenience pay for town administration (to pay for pet causes) = 19,500.

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Karen Davidson

7:49 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

I was thinking of the same thing. The President, will be in town for about two hours. The Secret Service has already been through a few times checking routes, and the building he will be speaking at. They probably met with the Chief of Police during business hours, Campus police and State police. The Durham police will be used during the day time hours, which are work hours. They might have to call in a few officers that were not supposed to work today, for a few hours. If I was the person who said they would donate the $20K, I would ask for a detail bill, and then publish it.

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Sue Mercier Vail

8:52 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Please close this article to comments. There are many remaining unacceptable comments. Allowing this hatred to be displayed here is simply breeding trouble. We have high profile visitors coming to NH this week. Let's help make it safe. All have had several hours to say what they need to say. I see senseless escalation and do not want any citizens or our officials or their representatives to come here in a climate of escalating hate.

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Dennis Taylor

9:42 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Suzanne:
Perhaps you could lay yourself down in the puddles that Obama may need to cross if it rains. He is a high profile person and would no doubt appreciate your efforts to keep him dry and warm.

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Jan Schmidt

9:02 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Dennis this is wrong - Suzanne made a point and you did nothing but make a personal comment.

She commented on the rancor here and you made it worse, Why? What did this do for the conversation? What did it do for you?

rick barasso

9:11 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

To sylvan, using your theory on it is the fault of the majority party in control that is responsible for the welfare or poverty level of those living in an area. I would suggest you visit the very conservative, very Republican deep south.You will find the least educated, least healthy, and poorest people per capita of anywhere in the country. Now tell us about insanity again

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rick barasso

9:15 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Let us hope, that should a huricane come up the Atlantic coastline this summer and cause major damge to Durham and the surrounding towns. That our President has a short memory as to how disrepectedly he was treated

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Pat

9:30 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

You can't be serious...with the millions of dollars raised by all politicians when campaigning, they should be taking care of their own security wherever they travel to. Times are tough out there which may be the reason this is becoming an issue now. Towns cannot afford this expense when budgets are tight even if they are thrilled to have a sitting president visit. The amount of campaign funds available to both parties is disgusting especially when so many are struggling to make ends meet in this country. Common sense no longer exists. Maybe if they had to pay for these expenses and had less monies for discretionary use they would think twice about the existing process and spending obscene amounts on television spots.

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Dennis Taylor

9:40 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

It is time we stopped expecting the fraud in the White House to fix things after a hurricane. He is not likely to come here to do the work himself and pay for the supplies needed, is he? Thus, his feelings towards Durham are less than insignificant, unless we live under a king whose whim is the measure of the law.

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L MacL

10:45 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

So true, Pat, so true! Just think how much our deficit, that Obama has put this country into, WOULD DROP, if he just took HIS ALONE, monies that have been donated to him for his election campaign?

Hope Harris

9:20 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Miami has a REPUBLICAN mayor- Tomas Regalado. They also have more Republican mayors in their history. You just looked at this list someone gave you and didn't fact-check.

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Dennis Taylor

9:35 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Please do not close the comments on this page. The high spending fraud in the White House should read all of these comments to get a better sense of how the peasants feel when forced to waste their life's energies supporting him. This is democracy at its finest and should be left alone, uncensored except in the extreme. If one defames Obama, he is free to sue that user. Any threat of censorship will keep us from revealing our true feelings, feelings that any sensible president would consider--unless he would be a tyrant instead of a leader.

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weejje E

12:57 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

@Dennis:I think your true feeling have been heard for the last 3 years. Can you find another pet project?

Josh Graciano

9:36 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

God Almighty what a load of bull.

THE most important thing to remember is this is a donation to the town of Durham. Donations to towns, states, and the Feds are 100% TAX DEDUCTIBLE. Yes, you can write a check to pay down the Federal debt, and deduct the lot from your tax. Which is, um…. typical.

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JIM

2:18 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

actual its a donation to the obozo campaign and the donors name needs to be made public

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Atlant Schmidt

4:18 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

JIM:

Need to be made public? No, thanks to the Republicans, not anymore; you have no right to know who is (essentially) buying the election. And if you don't believe me, try to find out who the donors are behind the SuperPACs that are burning up NH's television airwaves with twenty anti-Obama ads every hour.

John Hatchet

9:40 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Why do you people think it is costing your town anything if the President visits? I doubt they asked for anything but the secret service would be polite and sit down with the local police so they don't feel like being left in the dark. But it is your local government deciding to spend money then wanting to send a bill without any input from the people being sent the bill? Where are the facts the City was asked or demanded to provide overtime service? Or is it local people trying to stick a fat hog? Now you people fight that politicians are leeches. Your living in a glass house, stop throwing stones.

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JIM

2:20 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

ya that sounds all good and everything John ...till something happens then the town gets sued for millions because they didn't take the Necessary precautions

Rue Marsh

9:50 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

where do u mgeyt that he is high spending do u not remember all the bills he was left with 2 unwarranted wars tax cuts to the super rich just to name acouple where were u when gw was running thru the extra that clinton had left I do not mind people not voting for pres obama but for pete sake do it from facts and not from the rushes and fox programs educate urself ~bottom line we need to kick out every member of congress if they were not being such chilren and throwing their tantrums america would be so much further ahead

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mike Dayton

11:54 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

You should learn to spell and write correctly!!!!!!!!!
You are part of the Obama problem we have.

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JIM

2:22 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

your a shining example of an obama supporter, thanks for making our point

rick barasso

10:02 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

To Dennis Taylor,
When you talk about "the fraud in the white house who does nothing to fix an area after a Hurricane. And the thing about the whims of a king.
You are aware that George Bush is no longer President aren't you?

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Dennis Taylor

10:49 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

With the NDAA signed and no clear definition of an emergency, how can any of us assume we are free. And no, I think that George Bush was an idiot for the way he handled the first hours of 9/11 and possibly criminal in the way he lied about the WMD. Not everyone who is against Obama is for Romney, or Bush.

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keymach1

12:32 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Whoa, now. Georgie boy did do some very effective things while in office:
Started a desert war
Exposed Valerie Plame so she can never work again
"Brownie, you're doin' a hell of a job down here (remark he made when he landed in N.O. after Katrina
...hmmm....there must be other things....

Greg

10:23 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

In the past many cities paid the Pope not to visit because of the cost.

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M. Lee Denton

10:31 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if mindless mitt were to show up there in this racist community that there wouldn't be this problem. I'm sure I, white and 70 yrs old, am one of millions who feel this way. Are you sure this community is not in the mindless right wing south????

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Dennis Taylor

10:51 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Why must we be racist to oppose Obama's burderning the towns he visits on his personal quest for glory??? If he was white, I would feel the same way. The costs of campaigning need to go way down, and having to reimburse campaigning sites is one way to force the candidates to spend their money to help their people, rather than higher salaries for aides and more frequent television commercials.

k vogel

10:34 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

Good luck...my poor town of Thurmont, MD where the Obama decided to hold the G-8 Summit at Camp David, had added costs for that day of almost $10,000. That number is from expenses for the extra police and State road crews for clean-up and from what the community has been told so far, NOT a single dollar given by the Feds to pay for all that extra police security/OT.

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keymach1

12:35 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Wow! $10k for World G8 Summit security in your town.
Yet, one politician going to a small town in NH costing $20k...there must be a mathematical formula here, but the imbalance leaves X = who the heck knows!

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k vogel

11:25 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

My town just didn't pad the numbers but regardless, we will never see it returned to us.

Another Commenter

10:40 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

There is nothing wrong with posting your views as long as they are not obscene, vicious, and maliscious. Whether you are a democrat or a republican, or whatever, BE PROFESSIONAL AND MATURE !!! You CAN do it if YOU try hard enough.

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Dave Smith

11:05 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

With nearly a billion dollars to spend what is Obama's problem? Perhaps he is hoping that in the end he will have a good chunk of change left over for his departure from the white house. Well he did say he wanted hope and change, did you really think that was all for you?

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keymach1

12:36 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

What he was saying was he Hoped Congress would Change.

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Sondra sdei83

5:45 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Dear Dave Smith: Mitt has all the billionaires donating to his campaign, 100 million from one donor alone. And he doesn't have to declare it at all. The president is not asking for the money for security, its his campaign managers. The president gets security anyway all the time from the secret service people. Also, all campaign money stays and is not given to the out going person, whether it is a govenor or Sen. or president. Please do not infer that my president would such a thing. He has been good for the country and the people. Stop listening to the Fox lies and Mitts too.

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JIM

2:28 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Dave ,haven't you heard ? obamas fund raising is in the toilet for the first time in history an incumbent president has been out raised by their opponent. obamas campaign is so hard up for cash he is asking his lemming followers to send him their wedding money birthday and anniversary money ,their piggy banks what ever spare change they can afford and they expect President Romney's campaign to out raise them next month too, the jig is up !!!!

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JIM

2:30 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

obamas hope and change is now ....I'm hoping you'll send me your change

Mark A. Buckawicki

11:26 pm on Sunday, June 24, 2012

How quaint that the hacktivist internet collective anonymous decided to be so generous and handle yet another problem the adults could bear to manage civilly. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

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keymach1

12:22 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Durham, NH population = 14,000
Number of police officers = 20
How can the town spend $20k in a few hours on traffic enforcement?

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John Carter

9:39 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

They had to buy Barney Fife bullets for his gun!

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Hilltopper

11:46 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

I don't think all 20 are on duty at the same time. They probably have to call them in and pay call in or time and a half?. They still have to answer emergency and calls for service in the community

Byron Burchett

12:44 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

First of all, the rhetoric is amazing. I thought the subject matter was the exchange of local funding for federal endeavors. What is new about the sheriff ridng into town to collect money for a righteous cause ? Again.. Clearly blame must be appropriated.
This could all be avoided easily. I recommend a tip jar, or possibly a well dressed man or woman with a collection plate.
On a personal note, Never use DIY to spay or neuter your pets even if successful, they will never come come when you call.

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Sondra sdei83

5:47 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Thanks Byron: You gave me a good laugh!!!

Fran James

1:02 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Did DURHAM’s TOWN COUNCIL bill Ron Paul when he held the Durham New Hampshire Town Hall Meeting on 1/06/2012?

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Mike Healey

9:51 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Ron Paul would have paid in gold.

Freddy Betty

2:25 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

So let's consider a few things for a second. During the last Republican run (House, Senate, and Admin), you as the average American were not allowed to attend any press releases. In fact even during the last Republican presidential campaign even if you were a reporter, you had to submit your question well ahead of time and get approved. Pat here says he feels campaigns need to pay for security details. Where wwere you pay when 2/3 of the fed deficit was being made? Where were you when you wanted to ask that leader a question? Just who the hell do you think will be able to afford to pay the security details on n these stops? Oh yeah the same corporations that just aired that commercial they ran that you wrote how you detest. Wow..see now there again is some well thought out advise. No wonder your happy about still paying Bush jr 1.3 million per year after the 10 it took to ruin it. You should be proud. Well done.

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NHHOMEOWNER

10:33 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Your spreading facts..the Repubs dont like that.

Judi Cook

3:17 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Why would the President need the fire department? Maybe the town would want to have some units standing by but I cannot imagine how they would help provide for the President's security. But still, 20 K seems a bit excessive, considering the Secret Service is in charge os his security. And they don't travel light.

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bkisses

5:29 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

shame on the people of that town.. hes a sitting president i cant understand why someone would do such a thing.. romney isnt a president yet..and i say yet with great hardship, he should be made to pay but obama is president and they should greet their president with respect.. not charge him to speak..

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L MacL

10:56 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

I forgot...when the Messiah speaks...Silly me.

NHHOMEOWNER

6:31 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Romney get secret service that is the same as the POTUS. I will be expecting him to pay also. IF not then this is just a partisan petty attack. I m ashamed to be from NH these days with the disrespect that has been show our President. I can hardly believe it. Obama gave me a tax break enured my kid coudlnt be dropped from our HMOS, Gave my husbands business tax breaks for hiring Vets. What has the GOP done for me. Cut NH state aid which in trn drove up property taxes. Took us out cap and trade and reufsed the gov Subsidy to offset the cost so my electric bill is now 200 a mth.138 laws on abortion and contraception and nothing on job creation or helping us the middle class.. they have become the party of pettiness and do nothing. this go round Ill be pulling the lever D all across the board from town council all the way up to potus

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jo williams

9:30 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

i agree with you nhhomeowner

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JIM

10:09 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

NH homeowner , we are ashamed your from NH too, all Presidential candidates got SS protection what we are talking about is what it will cost the town of Durham. PLEASE feel free to move to massachewsits where we're sure you will be amongst friends.....PS before any of you spelling bee monitors say anything about the way I spelled massachewsits ,it was done intentionally

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JIM

10:42 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

you have been pulling that D lever your whole damn life who do you think your BS

Mark Alesse

7:40 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

It's interesting that the conservative commentary here uses no invective, nor any ad homonym attacks, but the liberal side hurls epithets like "bigot" and "pointy white hats," instead of making a logical argument. You piss us off just as much as we do you, but calling you a liberal is not an epithet, it is a description. Calling us bigots ends the debate and makes me want to punch you in the nose.

One other thing…nobody on the right thinks we shouldn't have a social safety net. We know it is necessary to care for the truly helpless and those temporarily down on their luck. But to ignore the fact that intergenerational poverty is a risk and it is a terrible social problem when welfare becomes a way of life, is just foolish.

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Robert B Butts

11:30 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Nobody wants people to use welfare as a way of life. It's an abuse of the system.

Most large programs have drawbacks, one of the drawbacks of offering aid is that recipients will abuse it. We end up debating endlessly about ending or decreasing aid or increasing it.

I think it's clear that we should have it, and the bi-partisan goal should be to make it more efficient and less abused.

Unfortunately from what I've seen we have "conservatives" that have become regressive and malicious towards our nation. They belittle and demonize anyone with compassionate views. This group is extremely well represented here.

emily

8:26 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

what a total waste of money

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chixrules

8:33 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

ummm . . . wouldn't this then be considered a campaign donation?

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Mike Healey

9:49 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Thank goodness those can be unlimited AND anonymous now.....

Judy

9:04 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Ask your self this question ? who made the donation ? could it have been the White House to end the negative news about his visit ! or Obama himself !!!

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Mike Healey

9:48 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Or maybe it was God himself because he favors Obama in this election.....

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Timothy Harden

9:57 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

I thought democrats abandoned God a long time ago

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NHHOMEOWNER

10:16 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

It was a resident from DURHAM who donated apparently emabarrassed by Todd Selig and his petty antics

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Mike Healey

7:51 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Why would you think that Timothy? There is no better guide to a life of a liberal than religion, God is obviously a liberal.

Hardy Har Har Har

9:11 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

The Obama-Durham Boondoggle. Famous way Obama increases local property taxes in New Hampshire.

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NHHOMEOWNER

10:56 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

My property taxes went up cuz the GOP controlled congress Cut state aid! Which leaves the bill on the back of the state and they pass the cost onto the homeowner. But Its good Exxon got to keep its subsidies and Off shore tax havens for billionaires were allowed to continue. Right?

Rick Watrous

9:26 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Gas prices down to $3.19 in Concord. Time for all those who blamed high gas prices on Obama to praise him for low gas prices.

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JIM

2:33 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

if you think 3.19 is a low gas price you probably dont even have a drivers licence yet

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Tony Michael DeLano

10:49 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

I can't believe that you think 3.19 is a low cas price.

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Mike Healey

2:49 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

$3.19 is more than a dollar lower than it was during the Bush administration.

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David Pittelli

8:40 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Given that drilling is down on the federal lands which the President controls -- despite high prices and increased drilling on state and private lands -- No, I do not think that the President deserves any praise for recent reductions in gasoline prices.

Eileen Latimer

9:35 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

The next time you see disrepect from a youngster, re-read these comments as a primer of what "not to pass on". We are talking about OUR PRESIDENT visiting Durham for 2 hours. Where is the respect for this office and the concern for what he has to say? After all he IS a candidate in the next election! For those making this a money issue ...look around...we need to hear what the candidates & our leaders have to say before we struggle through another 4 years! Durham should be honored not burdened. If this issue was really about police overtime, as a resident of Hampton let me know where to send the bill for $1.5 million in overtime & additional costs to take care of the beachgoers ....every year!

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tony walls

10:38 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

do not get you undies all twisted up. obama is your president,,i did not vote for this guy.i respect the office ,not the guy in it .teach respect to your kids,,make them say yes sir or no mame. wash out their mouth when you hear them using the f-bomb.and your,s to when you use it it is a money issue,using the air force as a personnel travel service to CAMPAIN . lady ,your are talking to a wall..you must be a red hat groupie, or a generation X er.. look around you ,see whats happening. this guy is taking us to the cleaners,and will probably leave the country when he,s done

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JIM

2:36 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

BS.... obama himself has no respect for the office of president ...if he did he would never have let himself be put on the ballot ,he is nothing but a usurper a fraud he is not a NBC of our country he is not a legitimate president

Timothy Harden

9:36 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

$810 is what Obama costs YOU per year
Now 3.19
Then 1.84
Increase 1.35

Average miles per year 15,000
Average miles per gallon 25
Gas used per year 600

600 times 1.35 equals $810

However, look for it to go down as we get closer to the November election. If Obama gets reelected he will resume the march to $10.00 per gallon. That is the European model he adores so much.

Oh by the way this is one of the biggest reasons the US economy has not recovered.

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Mike Healey

9:47 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

$600 is what Obama SAVES YOU per year
Gas Prices peaked at at 4.19 under the Bush regime.

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Timothy Harden

9:56 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

You would have to as stupid as a democrat to believe that.

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Timothy Harden

10:13 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

You would have to be as stupid as a democrat to believe that.

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tony walls

10:46 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

how did you come-up with those figures? A.F. 1 cost somewhere around two thousand $ ,just getting it warmed up., the armored cars ,est, cost@5 miles per gal unknown. marine one (chopper ) not cheap , plus security , where did you get your no,s

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tony walls

10:56 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

reply to mike : gas prices PEAKED here on the west coust at $4.50, thats a obama savings? in june 2012

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Atlant Schmidt

12:01 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

You keep posting this yet gasoline prices seem to be counter-cyclically going down of late. If Obama is having any effect on gas prices at all (a debatable point), it seems he ought to be credited with having a **GOOD* effect.

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Mike Healey

8:05 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Oh Tony,
We are talking national average, not the highest gas price I ever "allegedly" saw.
Under Bush gas reached $4.58 avg. in California and recently peaked at $4.29
http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx

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LJoel Hackbart

7:35 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

T.H.
Are you really, truly, seriously trying to say that after all your ridiculous threads on
gas prices that you don't get the sarcasm in Mikes post????????????????????
You've been had son.

rick barasso

9:57 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Where is GW living now? Because using GOP logic, we should be able to send him the bill for tbe Iraq war, which we fought for NO apparent reason other than because GW was in a mood. And then we have his trillion dollar, no strigs attached bail out to his friends on Wall street. I see all these desparaging words some say about our president. Why is it they never give specifics? Could it be, because there is no truth to what they say?

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NHHOMEOWNER

10:19 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

He is living in Texas getting round the clock secret service on our dime. 3 mths before he left office he upped the Security for out of office Potus. His daddy also gets it. Why arent they getting the bill? I say send him and cheney to one of the many nations that have warrants out for thier arrests for war crimes..and save us the cost of SS detail.

JIM

10:31 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

what are you race card playing cry baby commiecrats going to do in Nov when we vote out this clown obama ...oh the horrors of it all !!!!!!! you will actual have to go back to debating actual facts instead of your made up racist crap, its funny how you race card playing commiecrats continually degrade every black conservative there is with no problem at all..... but disagree with obozo or any of his socialist agenda and your a bigot

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Atlant Schmidt

12:07 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

"commiecrats" -- My, how imaginative!

> you will actual have to go back to debating actual facts instead of your made up racist crap

Why should we on the Left have to do that? The Right Wing hasn't done it for decades! Sauce for the Goose and all that... On the other hand, we probably won't abandon our long-standing position of using actual English spelling and grammar.

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JIM

2:42 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

comrade atlant , thats all you lefty's got is the race card ..hell you losers got a whole deck of the damn things , and like i said you hypocrites continually say racist things about black conservative men and women and call it political statements ....F O ya commiecrat

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Atlant Schmidt

4:23 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

JIM: In other words, your intellectual quiver's empty so you need to resort to calling me names.

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Mike Healey

8:06 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Jim is one of the website clowns

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JIM

9:22 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

comrade mike , you say that about anyone who doesn't tow the obama garbage barge, so I'll take it as a complement

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Mike Healey

2:52 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

No Jim,
Very few people post as moronically as you.
Very few meet "Clown" status.

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JIM

3:41 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

comrade mike, its not that my posts are moronic its just that you have had a frontal obotomy that went wrong and it has left you dumb as a stump

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Mike Healey

4:18 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Simple Jim,
You keep proving my point.

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Atlant Schmidt

11:51 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

You cite these sites as if they were actually reporting *FACTS*.

Important hint: Most sites cited by the Right are nothing but the Vast Right Wing Noise Machine's echo chamber.

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Toni Gianelli

4:36 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

BREAKING NEWS: President Obama is half white... if you ask his wife, she'll say more than that. Seems "y'all" are the only ones concerned with his race.

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Toni Gianelli

4:36 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

BREAKING NEWS: President Obama is half white... if you ask his wife, she'll say more than that. Seems "y'all" are the only ones concerned with his race.

rick barasso

10:37 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Did anyone else noticed, during the Republican primary period, every candidate including Romney, every conservative pundant, and every leader in the Republican party were telling us, "the reason oil prices were rising was because President Obama was not allowing the pipeline to run (unchecked) from Canada to the Gulf. That President Obama had not drilled enough oil wells during his term."
Now, I've noticed over the past several weeks oil prices have been in a free fall. What can we learn from this?
Either:

#1 The Republicans have no idea what causes oil prices to fluctuate.

#2 The Republicans do understand how the oil markets work, but chose to lie to us.

#3 President Obama has pulled off yet another miracle and run a pipeline across the country and drilled a vast number of oil rigs in a few short weeks.

Should we take a poll to see which one of the three explanations is accurate?

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NHHOMEOWNER

10:38 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Jim are you 12? Grow up! if you are what the Republican party has become I won't be coming back for a LONG time. Just nasty! What happened to the party of Buckley and Rockerfeller..Intelligence was key. Now its the party of Rush and Beck..No thanks I like my politics with a bit of intelligence and common sense and less hate and fear! Yikes!

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JIM

2:46 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

NH dont even think your going to tell me you were once a republican that's pure BS besides even if you were ...WE DONT WANT YOU BACK , stay with the commiecrats. if you liked your politics with intelligence and with out fear and hate you would never have left the republican party

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NHHOMEOWNER

4:21 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Jim go away... the adults are talking! take your meds kid!

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JIM

5:51 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

what adults , you cry baby commiecrats are not considered adults till the age of 26 the rest of us mature much earlier.

Hardy Har Har Har

10:44 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Q: How many democrats does it take to come up with ONE, JUST ONE accurate FACT.
A: More than reside in the state.

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Atlant Schmidt

11:54 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

> Q: How many democrats does it take to come up with ONE, JUST ONE accurate FACT.

"1+1=2".

I just disproved your point.

Not that that will stop you from repeating your assertion ad nauseum, of course, because endless repetition of unsupportable (and even disproven) assertions seems to be the stock-in-trade of most Right Wing posters.

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JIM

2:48 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

comrade atlant what you posted was a theory not a fact

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Hardy Har Har Har

4:08 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

1 illegal vote + 1 iilegal vote = 2 votes for democrats. Democrats the party who sold out our country.

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Atlant Schmidt

4:25 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Hardy:

Unfortunately for your side, the *ONE WELL_DOCUMENTED CASE* that we have of election fraud is Republican Speaker of the House O'Brien's own son. I'm sure you remember: he was running for political office in one state while voting in another.

Perhaps your "voter fraud" charge is aimed at the wrong party?

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LJoel Hackbart

6:22 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

So 1+1=2 is a theory not a fact?
LOL LOL LOL

Bob

11:00 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

It is pitiful that the standing President or in this case a sitting one who won't stand for his own flag is so cheap he can't publicly announce he is going to have his campaign cover the costs. He has to have an anonymous donor step forward who does not apparently want his or her name attached to the President since the donor is doing the right thing. How safe would the president be if the locals were not there to spot the troublemakers? Does this town have an cheap hookers in it for the SS boys? If so then the president might have to have locals fill in for a while. the locals might serve/protect with pride and honor but I will bet it won't go down well.

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Atlant Schmidt

11:55 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

> It is pitiful that the standing President or in this case a sitting one who won't stand for his own flag...

Which Right Wing "make stuff up" site supplied you with this "fact"?

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Tony Michael DeLano

10:55 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Well put Bob. If this is what all NH home owners think I am suely glad that I live in Texas

rick barasso

11:22 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

Someone earlier made a good point, "What in Durham is worth $20,000 to protect? Outside, of UNH which has it's own security, I cant think of another thing in Durham that would be worth securing. Well, maybe that wagon that sits up on the hill.

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rick barasso

11:52 am on Monday, June 25, 2012

I'm no magician, but watch this.
Could the conservatives with all their negative comments get specific on what he has done that is so terrible to cause you to talk as you do about your President. Now here is the trick! You must only give us verifiable factual examples.
Watch this...... The silence from the right will be deafening.
Now second test for those that are still playing along...
Give us your list of the major accomplishments of Mitt Romney when he was Governor of Massachusetts and how his policies differ from those of the man you all want us to forget about, George Bush.
Let me apologize in advance for giving the conservatives a nearly impossible task.
TA DA

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JIM

2:55 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

comrade rick i can give you 6 trillion reasons why we talk about obozo like we do.
and I'll tell you what, for every accomplishment ,it doesn't even have to be a major one either, that you site that obozo accomplished as an Illinois senator,I'll give you a Romney accomplishment. TA DA on that comrade

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Atlant Schmidt

4:27 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

JIM: Six trillion? really? 'Better start typing!

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salem mom

5:55 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Pres Obama:
Solyndra - a good investment of our tax dollars
Guantanamo Bay prison is still open
Promising more transparency into legislative process
Obamacare - current estimates show it is nearly double the original cost estimates and the plan improperly incentivizes employers to shut down their current plans and pay the penalty.

Gov. Romney:
MCAS and the Adams Scholarships for top performers
Got rid of Billy Bulger
Did not accept compensation for term
For 3 years in a row eliminated the $3b projected (actual was more like $1.5b) budget deficit without raising personal income taxes.

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Tony Michael DeLano

10:59 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Lets see, given away the entire middle east to our enemies, obmacare, full on class warfare, fast and furious,put us in deep dept to the Chinese, list goes on and on

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Mike Healey

2:54 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

You should pick up a book someday Tony.

Atlant Schmidt

12:21 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Rick:

It would even be fair to ask how Romney's policies during his tenure as the Governor of Massachusetts differ from Obama's policies during his tenure as President. That they both implemented Romneycare isn't their only similarity!

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Sylvan Tieger

3:53 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

We need to stop drilling for gas or oil and coal in the USA and strictly use imported products from known terrorist /America hating countries.

How else can we "Spread the wealth" is we allow American born people to have jobs . This not being a "citizen of the world" We must increase gasoline taxes and give as many jobs to India/ Pakistan / Mexico as it is the right thing to do.

Also social security should be used strictly for handout money for baby makers who are 4 generation slaves of the system. The democraps have the right idea "Reward the lazy and punish over achievers" ANYONE thinking of demanding the military to start treason trials against the politicians that are in the senate and congress who looted this country blind? Mrs Bama also said "Thank you American Tax payers for making me proud to be an American for the 2nd time in my life AFTER the wonderful multimillion dollar vacations I had"

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Atlant Schmidt

4:28 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Sylvan: You serve as a shining beacon of what modern-day Republicanism means.

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JIM

6:00 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

and comrade atlant your a shining example of what it means to be a commicrat

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Atlant Schmidt

8:00 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

JIM: That's right! We "commicrats" even know the difference between "you're" and "your", a skill that apparently completely escapes you!

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JIM

9:53 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

comrade atlant ,its not a skill that escapes me, its just one that's not needed to post here , this is all you commiecrats have is the race card and the spelling bee card, ya carry on comrade

rick barasso

5:09 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

You'll notice JIM failed miserably when it came to taking on my challenge.
Some vague reference to some 6 trillion dollars. I have no idea to what he is referring. Obviously, neither does he, or I'm sure he would have elaborated. He called me a name (comrade), very original. I hope he didn't take to long to come up with that. He called the President a name (obozo), this guy is amazingly talented when it comes to name calling!
Yet, he could not give ONE example, of why he has such distain for the President!
He could not give ONE example of a Romney accomplishment!
He could not give one example of how Romney's policies differ from Bush's!
If not a magician, perhaps I am an incredible mind reader.
To be honest, I am neither. I have asked these same questions on many occasions and NEVER, I repeat, NEVER, have the conservatives been able to answer them.
So Jim don't feel any less intellegent then others here have made you appear. No Republican seems able to answer the questions. So keep making up those (clever) names you like to call people and the rest of us will continue to make adult conversation.
Sincerely,
Rick

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JIM

5:37 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

comrade rick ..some vague reference to 6 trillion dollars ???? if you have no idea to the 6 trillion dollars your carnival barker obozo blew in the last 3 1/2 years then your beyond help, and your such a marvelous talker but you failed miserably to answer my question to you ,fair is fair why should I answer your questions if you refuse to answer mine . I will now name two Gov Romney accomplishments.for every one senator obozo accomplishment you name, come on comrade you such a thinker !!! .... your all talk like the rest of the commiecrats,

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JIM

5:54 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

comrade rick i will make this easy for you, tell us the correct number of times senator cop out obama voted present and i will give you one Gov Romney accomplishment.

Read Daly

6:11 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Can't wait to see the $20K line-by-line itemized list of costs for the POTUS visit. This is a black eye to Durham to have to go begging for operating-expenses. Extremely petty for a (cough-cough) world-class university town. Todd Sigel is just looking for publicity and playing partisan politics with these cheap tricks.

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rick barasso

6:23 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

JIM
After reading your convoluted post, all I can say is:
I rest my case....
Thank you

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JIM

6:28 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

comrade rick ,your a cop out just like your dear leader. I knew you were all talk

I rest my case......thank you comrade cop out

salem mom

7:01 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Pres Obama:
Solyndra - a good investment of our tax dollars
Guantanamo Bay prison is still open
Promising more transparency into legislative process
Obamacare - current estimates show it is nearly double the original cost estimates and the plan improperly incentivizes employers to shut down their current plans and pay the penalty.

Gov. Romney:
MCAS and the Adams Scholarships for top performers
Got rid of Billy Bulger
Did not accept compensation for term
For 3 years in a row eliminated the $3b projected (actual was more like $1.5b) budget deficit without raising personal income taxes.

The obvious/easy difference between Bush and Romney is the health care act for MA. Clearly, as Republicans Bush and Romney's differences would be subtle, so the question is a bit redundant. However, Romney is not Bush and the world and the economic environment is not the same as it was under Bush. I think that Romney is more effective/assertive than Bush was, so I would have higher hopes that he could work with the Democrats in Congress. I think Obama has been a bit petulant about the loss of the Congress in the mid term elections and rather than working with the hand he has been dealt, he is looking at us and saying "it isn't fair, give me a new hand"

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rick barasso

7:52 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Salem Mom,
Welcome to the Discussion,
Before we reveiw your examples, Let's put things into perspective. When O came in office, he face 2 unpaid for wars, no budget surplus, an economy on the brink of collapse, banks not lending, a bankrupt American auto industry, 750,000 Americans losing their jobs every month, and America's most wanted criminal on the run.
Now, lets see what you have:
Solyndra- you are right on this one. Does seem to be a bad investment. However, they were a very small part of a program to invest and develope an energy program where tens of thousands of jobs were created and lower our dependency on foreign oil.
Guantanamo Bay- Are you blaming Obama for this? Anyone with knowledge of the debate knows, it was the GOP that refused to close it.
More transparency- Are you saying there is less than there was under Bush? I remember watching hours of coverage on the health care bill on cspan. I'm going to throw this in here, Obama is not a member of congress.
"Obama care"- Keep in mind that every president since T. Roosevelt has admitted the need for healthcare reform, and many of the initiatives were originally GOP ideas. 40 million Americans will have access to heathcare, will no longer be dropped for pre-existing conditions, students will be covered under their parent's plan. Health care cost were out of control and companies were dropping it as a benefit. Your major concern is an "estimate", in other words, something that has not even occured yet.

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salem mom

8:26 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

My examples are without regard to what Obama inherited as clearly he got a mess!
Solyndra - while some jobs were created, our dependency on foreign oil has decreased due to the economy, pres obama, bush and even clinton's policies combined. This is not something that Pres Obama can claim solely for himself. Solyndra is 100% is choice as that was a pass from Pres Bush.
Guantanamo Bay - This was a Pres Obama campaign promise that was not fulfilled and I seem to recall a speech where he agreed it was not possible/prudent at this time. i'll see if i can find a link
Transparency - i'm not saying there was less under pres. Bush, i'm saying that Pres Obama promised more and did not deliver.
Obamacare - again, not saying that health care did not need some reforms (please read your original ask). are you saying that you think the revised estimate is less accurate than the original estimates? my major concern is the size of the change in the estimate even if it goes back to the last estimate, i thihnk the original estimate Pres Obama gave was that it was cost neutral. more companies will drop health care as a result of obama care than were doing so prior. But there will still be expensive options for us along with the 40million who will have access (but not necessicarily purchase coverage). Students are already covered under their parents plans until age 23, it is children ages 24 - 26 without regard to student status (and even if they are not living at home)

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rick barasso

8:28 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Salem Mom continued:
After 4 years as Governor of Mass. Let's see what his "MAJOR" accomplishments are:
MCAS and Adams Scholarships: I had never heard of these programs, so "major" might be a strech, but let's see what they are:
MCAS- The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) is designed to meet the requirements of the Education Reform Law of 1993. It was a Federally Mandated program. Not an original idea, something he and every Governor was forced to do.
Adams Scholarship: According to this study it along with MCAS are failures.
http://www.epi.soe.vt.edu/perspectives/policy_news/pdf/meritbrief.pdf
Now this may be an educational institutions opinion. Are these Mitt's "major accomplishments" after 4 years as Governor.
Billy Bolger- Not sure what you mean here.
Did not take salary- This appears to be true, the Billionair did not take the $135,000 salary. About $100,000 less than Obama gave to 36 charities last year.
Romney on spending and taxes: Lets look at what Ben Smith of Mass had to say.
"I lived in Massachusetts when R(money) was Governor we were 47th in job production, unemployment was through the roof, taxes were increased several times on the middle class. and he created -OBAMA/ROMNEYCARE"
also,
It is documented, that debt in Mass under Mitt rose by over 16%. Taxes and fees raised by over $750,000,000 a year and the tax burden increased by nearly a third on every Mass. tax payer
And if you liked Bush you'll love Romney says a lot

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Toni Gianelli

2:21 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Please let me know if you ever run for office & need campaign staff.

salem mom

8:47 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Sorry i missed the "major" requirement for Gov Romney's accomplishment. To that, I would say that ANY accomplishment by a republican in a state as blue as Mass is major. Your reliance on a very liberal Univ's opinion of MCAS doesn't really hold that much weight. It was not a popular program, but Gov Romney got it passed.
Salary - Gov Romney is not a billionaire and unless we also consider his charitable donations, we cannot include Pres Obamas.
Similar to the MCAS comment, i'm not at all sure that Mr. Smith is bipartisan? I do not recall unemployment being "through the roof" in fact it was significantly lower than it is now. state taxes were not increased on the middle class. Fees and corporate taxes were increased, but i do not believe the state debt rowse by 16% during Gov Romney's tenure.
Billy Bulger was the disgrace of a head of the Univ of MA system

I don't remember saying I liked Pres Bush, nor that i love Gov Romney. Both men have accomplishments and both men have failures. I'm just trying to bring this back to a discussion rather than mudslinging. Pres Obama told us to make him a 1 term president if he didn't turn things around in three years. I'm not saying that Gov Romney is my first choice (or possibly even my 10th). I'm saying, that in my middle class, suburban, soccer mom in a swing state existence, Pres Obama makes me worse off than the alternative Gov Romney.

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rick barasso

9:10 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

I think if you look at all the things I listed that you would prefer to "disregard" and you can still say "he didn't turn things around". Given a choice, I'll take a prison in Cuba if it means a vibrant American Auto Industry. I'll take a loss of money in Solyndra compared to the waste of thousands of American lives in Iraq. I'll take an improvement in transparency to outing a CIA agent and Lies about hurricane damage and WMDs. And I'll take an attempt at getting Americans affordable healthcare to once again kicking the can down the road.
As a matter of fact, the reasons you give for voting against Obama and for a man you admit "Clearly, as Republicans Bush and Romney's differences would be subtle," is beyond my comprehension.

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salem mom

9:38 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

And I would submit that Pres Obama did not give us a vibrant American Auto Industry, we have a recovering auto industry that was not cause by or saved by Pres Obama.
Can't even touch the 2nd statement. I would not trade one life for the loss of money in Solyndra (let alone the thousands of brave men and women who died in Iraq).
My point was that there was no improvement in transparency, but again to compare that to not one but three items seems a bit unsporting. And Im not sure you can lay the Katrina mess at Pres Bush's feet.
We will be decades unraveling 98% of Obamacare that made the problem worse for the 2% that is an improvement. Per Ms. Pelosi: "We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It" - REALLY? I guess she didn't watch that cspan coverage you referred to earlier.

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ForThePeople

10:32 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

I think what this is, you're just partisan. You're married to the idea of a Republican, not the reality. Obama did save the auto industry (the bailout that Romney didn't want). Obama did invest in the country.

If you want to talk about George Bush, this discussion is going to become extremely lopsided. He is widely renowned for being the worst president in modern history: the destruction of our personal rights, the demolition of our economy (and which Obama was handed), multiple unpaid wars, and a tax cut that disproportionately benefited the wealthy (please read that last one twice).

If Romney makes your life easier, selfishly speaking, that's one thing. Just be honest and say it. However, the big picture, the majority of the country, Republicans are all about the rich. Good for you if that's you.

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salem mom

11:36 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Okay. Just to go on record. I do not want to talk about Bush. i've not made any claims that he was a great president. I am not rich, but I would like to be. Democrats never made anyone rich.

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Mike Healey

8:27 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Mitt Romney says he "deserves a lot of credit" for the auto industry recovery....

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Atlant Schmidt

8:55 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Salem Mom:

As Harry Truman said, "If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic. The stock market routinely does better under Democratic Administrations than it does under Republican Administrations. Employment usually does better as well (and is, in fact, doing better under Obama than it was doing under Bush, Romney's television ads notwithstanding).

I will never understand why anyone in the 99% votes for Republicans; it's like the chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.

rick barasso

10:25 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

chevy out sold toyota
Romney would have let them go bankrupt
Bush said he was unaware of what could happen in New Orleans, then a video of him being told exactly what could happen turned up. I'd say we could could call him a liar and put some of those deaths as well at his feet.
Not sure about your "Obamacare" statement. I guess you are reffering to the healthcare bill that was passed after having been watered down to tey and get the Republicans on board/ Even though it was pretty much their plan to begin with. As we know, the Republican's number priority was not a meaningful healthcare bill or people back to work it was, destroying the Obama Presidency. And lord knows they have tried and yet He had all those accomplishments. Oh sure, they might mot be as impressive as a highschool test and a scholarship, but still pretty impressive all things considered.

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salem mom

11:54 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012

Thanks for the laugh. This is the first time i have heard Obamacare being watered down to get republican votes. I wonder what Cao got for his vote in the house (
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll887.xml). He appears to be the only R to vote for Obamacare on both sides of Congress. Here is the roll for the Senate vote. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00396.
I will give you that it is hard to compare any accomlishment of an R governer with a 85% D legislature to a D President with D majority in both houses of Congress. Lets not forget Pres Obama's additional accomplishments like "fast and furious," cash for clunkers, vast number of approved shovel ready TARP projects, keystone pipeline (oops strike that one), chevy volt and the overwhelming rejection of the administration and D-led Congress policies at the mid-term elections.

it was nice sparring with you let me know when you have a list of the obamacare provisions that were watered down to get Rep Cao's vote.

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JIM

8:11 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Salem Mom thanks for pointing out some of gov. Romney's accomplishments ,rick will say no one else could or would but I just refused to play his game on his terms and asked him to state some of senator obamas accomplishments ,which of course he couldn't do because there weren't any to claim, unless voting present 103 times is some sort of accomplishment ,solyndra was a bad investment from the get go, the Bush administration would not support them because they were told it was a bad investment ,obama got the same heads up but he didn't listen and threw our tax dollars at a losing proposition anyway ,along with a doz other companies that failed after his administration backed them with our money, no one in the obama administration has any experience in the real world their all career politicians or ''professors''. Guantanamo bay not being closed was no surprise to anyone with half a brain it was never going to happen obama just wasn't smart enough to realise it or he knew it couldn't be closed and just told his followers what they wanted to hear, GM should have been left to go into bankruptcy it would never have folded it would have gone into bankruptcy like thousands of other private companies taken some loses ,restructured ,refinanced with private capital and come back why should the tax payers support a company that the unions and management screwed up but,obama had a better idea give em taxpayer money, and now the tax payer is out billions we will never recover,

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JIM

8:13 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

some one said GM out sold Toyota , but I guess they forgot about the tsunami that wiped out Japan, Toyota has plants in America but most of the parts are made in Japan,and thats why GM out sold Toyota, some one said most of obama care was republican ideas that's true enough but the reason the republican legislators would not support them were because they actually listened to their constituents who called them by the thousands demanding they not support them so when the democrats put them in obama care hoping for republican support the people made their voices heard again and again the republicans came back and did what their constituents told them to do and they didn't support them in obama care the republicans listened to their bosses , us. while the democrats did what they always do,they think they know whats best for you and did what they wanted not what the people wanted. obama is a dismal failure and the democrats continually tell the world we wont support obama because hes black but race has nothing to do with it we support black conservative leaders like Col Allen West and Herman Cain and the democrats talk down to them continually but we don't call it racism we call it what it is petty party politics besides the democrats think black conservatives aren't real black Americans because their conservatives,its not now nor has it ever been about race but the democrats play the race card because its all they have , they cant play obamas economy card because its a joker

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ForThePeople

10:23 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

1) I highly doubt Obama has personally suggested giving weapons to druglords. It's on operation gone wrong, but I you don't have the evidence to say that he did this.
2) cash for clunkers, what is your objection here? That was part of a multipronged approach to the stimulus. Maybe you preferred the Bush tax cuts?
3) TARP was signed by GEORGE BUSH, heh... you're proving my point.
4) the Keystone pipeline is well known to be a potential threat to the nation's water supply. I'm sorry, I'm not trading our water supply for an oil benefit.
5) What is your objection to the United States manufactured award-winning Chevrolet volt? Is it the jobs created in the United States?
6) JIM agrees with you. That's nothing to be proud of.

You have no idea what you're talking about, but thank you for playing.

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JIM

11:12 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

for the sheeple
you highly doubt obama had anything to do with Fast and Furious ? why then did obama invoke executive privilege ? why didn't holder just turn over the documents? they both knew what was going on and because of their incompetence two of our hero border patrol agents were killed by guns this administration let walk into drug dealers hands and hundreds of civilians on both sides of the border were killed.Both holder and obama names are all over this op
cash for clunkers cost the tax payers millions ,every time a new car was sold who do you think paid for the 8000 dollar govt incentive to buy the car ...GM ? no the tax payer .
TARP was bad deal ? I thought you lemming loved giving handouts to save companies that are too big to fail
the Key Stone Pipeline was no more a danger than the thousands of other miles of pipe line that were run in the same corridor where it IS going to be built, the only danger is the OWS clowns who will try to blow it up.
the chevy volt ...BAWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA, its a bomb that hasn't blown up yet, give it some time it will fizzle out of memory just like obama

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salem mom

1:51 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Ms. Mr. For The People....
1. of course Pres Obama did not suggest we give guns to drug lords, but I think it is niave to think he did NOT know about the program. He also did not write Obamacare nor vote on it, he also did not hunt or kill Usama Bin Laden, but he rightfully gets all the blame and the credit. The buck stops here....
2. Cash for Clunkers was a failure. It took dealers months to get any money back and many of them stopped trying. It drove used car prices up making cars harder to afford
3. I know that Pres. Bush signed TARP, but Pres Obama was responsible for the approval process of the shovel ready projects and they approved FAR fewer than hoped and therefore far less $ was released into the economy.
4. The final environmental impact document did not identify risks to watersupply. please provide your source for this.
5. How many volts have sold? what is the likelihood of a volt owner buying a 2nd green vehicle? does GM make sufficient/sustainable $ on a volt?

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ForThePeople

2:36 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

1. So you are accusing the president of knowing about the druglords, or what exactly? I think you're getting your current events confused, because the president did approve a risky assassination attempt inside of Pakistan. He should be commended for that courage. Only a Republican would find a way to complain about killing the number 1 wanted criminal in the world. I think it's preposterous you're crying about that.
2. Cash for Clunkers was a successful program that allowed folks to get into fuel-efficient vehicles with a rebate. If the bureaucracy was too difficult for certain dealers, I'm not sure what to say about that. By the way, this was a legislative proposal (with lots of bipartisan support and alternative bills to the same effect); it was not Obama. You need to learn how to criticize the president instead of just taking every event in the world and saying it's Obama's fault. You're beginning to sound like JIM.
3. Hint: Henry Paulson . This was not Pres. Obama. It was George Bush's Treasury Secretary!
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline#Environmental_issues
This was also advertised in the Denver Post, the New York Times, and newspapers across the country.
5. Why am I doing your homework to figure out why you are unhappy about the Chevy volt? I don't know why you're complaining about that car, much less blaming the president for it...

This is like every other discussion, I give facts, and you stick by your Fox news talking points.

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salem mom

3:00 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

I 100% think that Pres Obama should and does get credit for the death of UBL. He should be and IS commended for that courage. I meant that the way it works is that right or wrong the sitting president gets credit for positive and blame for negative. Thanks for your comment on this item as i want to be clear that I give Pres Obama full credit for authorizing the mission to kill UBL. Good for him!

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Mike Healey

8:34 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

"some estimate 200k" there is some quality conservative spin.

rick barasso

6:38 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

I think we have a quote for the Romney election signs and banners
"I do not want to talk about Bush."

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JIM

6:42 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Anti Obama Video Hits 10 Million On YouTube
This patriotic video has over 10 million hits on YouTube: President Obama, We The People stated resolutely that we have rejected your vision for our country. We The People have assembled across America resisting your efforts to subvert our Constitution and undermine our liberty. Watch it !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JVAhr4hZDJE

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rick barasso

7:00 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Salem Mom,
Well, I have to give credit where credit is due.
Every time I've asked for Romneys accomplishments as Governor, I have been met with silence. Not one of his "supporters" could come up with anything in his defense. Now, that has changed. We now know that he did not feel he deserved to get paid for the job he was doing (sounds like one of those Democrats). He came up with a test for high school students, a scholarship, and did something to some guy named Billy.
In the trying times ahead I guess these accomplishments are enough to give us hope. I have no doubt that as a woman, a member of the middle class, and a parent, you would definately see some change.
So maybe Romney's election mantra should be:
" I'm for Hope and Change but, I do not want to talk about Bush."

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Seamus Carty

8:25 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

When he took office, MA had a deficit of $600M and a projected deficit for the next year of $1.3B. He reduced spending, eliminated some tax loopholes and raised some fees. The state had surpluses of $600M+ in the last two full fiscal years Romney was governor.

He took control of the Big Dig project from the MA turnpike authority after the tunnel death.

He also fought the state legislature when they wanted to water down Melanie's law (DUI).

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JIM

9:37 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

every conservative in America is now hoping for change ...in Nov

while obama is floundering, hoping you'll send him some change

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Atlant Schmidt

12:41 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

JIM: It's possible that "every conservative in America is hoping for change" but I think you may find that they're not all hoping for the same change as you are.

Many *TRUE CONSERVATIVES* seem more than a bit disillusioned with where the Tea Party has taken the Republican Party and what the antics of the Tea Party have done to the reputation of the Republican Party and I think you'll find that more than a few Conservatives are hoping to take back the Republican Party and the overall conservative movement from the Tea Party loons.

rick barasso

9:21 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Atlant
I like to think of it, as being like slaves fighting for the confederacy

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ForThePeople

10:12 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

And if you look at the voting map, the Confederate states vote resoundingly for Republicans. Hmm!

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Hilltopper

10:18 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Mr./Ms. For the People,

But the Confederate States also gave us President Carter, President Clinton and Vice President Gore to name a few

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ForThePeople

6:29 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Hilltop, go look at a voting map. I didn't ask nor comment on their birthplace.

Bob Samson

9:33 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

N.H. critics blast secrecy of donor
“This scheme raises more questions for the Obama campaign than it resolves, but aside from any potential legal concerns, the most troubling part for the president is that he’s become so unpopular that donors don’t want their names to be associated with him"-Tory Mazzola, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1061141453

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Mike Healey

10:07 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

What? A conservative opinion piece hopes to make more of this mundane thing? Who would have thought. You would think that anyone could write their opinion on a website.....

Atlant Schmidt

10:30 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

"the most troubling part for the president is that he’s become so unpopular that donors don’t want their names to be associated with him"-Tory Mazzola, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party."

Ahh, just like all the donors to "Americans For Progress" and "Citizens United" and the various anti-equal-marriage PACs. Yes, I've always found the conservative big donors' need for anonymity troubling, whereas I'm entirely comfortable with people knowing that I routinely give to Democratic candidates as well as to Bernie Sanders, a known Socialist.

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Toni Gianelli

2:45 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

<<<<Ahh, just like all the donors to "Americans For Progress" and "Citizens United" and the various anti-equal-marriage PACs.>>>>

Well done.

Timothy Harden

11:17 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Barack Obama: The Most Arrogant Man in the World

With thanks to Granite Grok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhp4KxfdSrE

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JIM

11:33 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Thanks Tim ...funny and true !!

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Mike Healey

8:06 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Simple Jim think that funny

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JIM

10:52 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

simple mike talk like cave man

rick barasso

11:26 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Someone tell the folks on the right, there is a diference between fact and opinion

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JIM

12:27 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Hey You Elite Racist Obama ZOmbies! Don’t Forget Your Picture ID!
by Steve MacDonald

In the Live Free or Die State you need a Photo ID to get a sticker to use the town dump (in my town). You need a Photo ID at the age of 16 or up if anyone in your family wants to collect Food Stamps*. And you need a Photo ID to go to the Obama Campaign Rally in Durham New Hampshire. But you don’t need an ID to vote on million dollar town budgets or to elect the people who spend your money at every level of Government.

ID required to see Obama. Sounds Racist.

So NHDP CHair Ray “I want to F you hard” Buckley, former state Dem Chair Kathy “Lawsuit” Sullivan, Democrat Maggie ‘The Red” Hassan, Jackie ‘The Socialist” Cilley (Candidates for Governor), Carol SEIU Porter, and all the rest of you racist left wing Hypocrats–you have a good time at the Obama Rally while people of color and those “most vulnerable”–whom you insist will be prevented from voting if we require Photo ID in New Hampshire–are prohibited from seeing their chosen one as he visits the Granite State.

And I’ll be looking for the headline…”ID required to see Obama in Durham NH- Women And Minorities hit hardest.”

http://granitegrok.com/blog/2012/06/voting-no-id-required-so-what-will-it-be-for-obamas-durhams-event-on-monday

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Toni Gianelli

3:09 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

PATRIOT JIM:

You have single-handedly proven Comrade Rick's Theory. Thank you.

Mr. Obama does work on behalf of the people of America more before 8am, than Willard Romney has in his life... the key phrase being for the American People, as opposed to for himself & his chums.

It must really burn your b___ to know that he was duly elected by the Majority with no signs of a rigged election. It must be killing you to know that the only way we will ever see "Mitt" in the White House is by purging hundreds of thousands of eligible voters, redrawing boundaries & buying votes.

If you had any valid points to make, or validation of your comments herein, I am sure you would have posted them by now, so I will not bother soliciting them.

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Atlant Schmidt

3:55 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

JIM:

> So NHDP CHair Ray “I want to F you hard” Buckley...

You're projecting again.

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JIM

4:35 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

comrade atlant, I know its hard for you obots to read and comprehend . I wasn't ''projecting '' anything I was posting an article.

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JIM

4:53 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

comrade tony cry me a river.....awwww you poor lil commiecrat, your illegal voters, dead people and felons wont be able to help elect the fraud obama again ..booo hoooo

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Jan Schmidt

12:56 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

hmmm, perhaps people are upset that the state just made equality against the law?

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Hilltopper

1:01 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Dang 'ol Confederate States

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Mike Healey

5:54 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Not "Drop", MOVED event back to downtown and closer to the two other convention venues.

rick barasso

2:14 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

I have 2 suggestions:
1. Anyone who voted for a second Bush term not be allowed to comment on who should be President or be allowed to vote ever again.
2, They also should not be allowed to judge anything but a Trump beauty pagent

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Toni Gianelli

2:20 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Exactly. But mostly it was just machines that voted for Bush' 2nd term...

rick barasso

2:50 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Think about it. If only ilegal immigants,midgets,felons,and non english speaking Americans were the only ones allowed to vote in that election, how much worse could they have done?

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JIM

4:46 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

if those were the only people voting the democrat would have won

rick barasso

3:36 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Now, now I can't imagine very much being sadder the how the President children must feel when they hear people make misleading statements about their father. The only thing that must be worse, is being Jim's mother. At least the Obama's can deny most of the accutations about their Dad. What can Jim's mother say in his defense? Not to mention, she has to face him every time he comes up from their basement to eat!

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JIM

4:43 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

comrade rick let me guess your mothers name is ...Goverment

Hardy Har Har Har

4:04 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Obama bungled his NH Campaign trip. Just like he has bungled the management of the US Economy. The first being rather funny. The last, painful for everybody

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rick barasso

4:12 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Anyone else wondering if Jim and Hardee are sharing a futon in Jim's mother's basement?

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JIM

4:40 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

comrade rick that's funny, because we were just wondering if you ,atlant and comrade tony were sharing mike healey at some OWS love fest in a plastic tarp tent.

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Mike Healey

5:36 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Poor simple Jimmy got his feewlings huwrt.....

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JIM

5:47 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

comrade poor simple little mike , dont you worry you Petty little head off about me son ,i can take anything you OWS commiecrats can spew ..carry on comrade

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JIM

5:51 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

comrade mike, why dont you have your cell block leader rick help you think of a new line , perhaps you should both take a nice hot shower together ..it might help get your creative juices flowing

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Mike Healey

6:03 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Hey Simple Jim, why don't you have your nurse loosen up your restraints next time she changes your bed pan, I think it is making you cranky.

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Atlant Schmidt

7:31 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

JIM, you've been on a real roll with homophobic remarks lately.

Have you seen this video? Because it might teach you something about yourself.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1CQg9f7z9eg

JIM

5:38 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

" We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism ,but we can assist their leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism, until one day they suddenly awake to find they have communism ''
Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev 1959

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Mike Healey

6:00 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Quoting your hero Simple Jim?

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JIM

6:10 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

comrade mike that's a quote from one of obamas favorite leaders

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LJoel Hackbart

7:38 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Still fighting the cold war Jim?

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JIM

7:13 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

comrade LIl joe da hack with the election of comrade obama you commies have been crawling out of the woodwork and started it all over again, perhaps you didn't catch the open mic episode with obama and the Russians or perhaps you haven't noticed all the red flags waving and seen your union members marching side by side with the communist and socialist parties at your OWS protests or perhaps your not aware of any of the treaty's hitlery is trying to push through the senate and give our sovereignty away to the UN,your dear leader has given the communist and socialists parties in America new HOPE....but that's about to CHANGE

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LJoel Hackbart

6:48 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Jim the whack,
No. I most certainly didn't notice! I don't have paranoid delusions like you do.
After several months of you posting your rants on these pages you still haven't
taken five minutes of your time and looked up the meaning of communism.
Because you still don't have a clue what it means. How’s that LSD working out for you Jim?

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JIM

8:27 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

comrade Lil joe da hack ,I might not know the meaning of communism , but I'm sure you and your party does .

Communists Stumping For Obama Re-Election
Marxist John Case, who writes for various CPUSA publications sent out an urgent call warning the Communist Party USA rank-and-file that re-electing Obama is absolutely essential.

In reality, the CPUSA’s endorsement of Obama for a second term is not surprising. Various CPUSA officials, including Jarvis Tyner and Joelle Fishman, have openly expressed support for the U.S. President and his agenda.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/47655

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LJoel Hackbart

7:47 pm on Friday, June 29, 2012

Do notice-
Jim the whack not only uses nutcases from the crazy extreme far
Right for his "sources" but he also uses nutcases from the extreme far left as
well. Maybe someday, who knows? He may actually site a LEGITIMATE source.
Hope springs eternal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mike Healey

7:45 am on Monday, July 2, 2012

Canadian Free Press?
No wonder your insane.
Filling your head with all that garbage.
Other Canadian free press headlines:
NBC Uses Che Guevara-Loving Illegal Immigration Activist to Denounce Arizona
and
Serious Questions and Answers on the Coming of Antichrist

Rosemarie Rung

5:54 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

This is the first time I've read this article and comment thread and it leads me to one clear conclusion: those people that oppose President Obama are more hostile and angry than other commenters. They also have more spelling and grammer errors and employ more accusatory and inflammatory language. If you are among this group, I suggest you try to calm down and reduce the hatred you feel. Believe me, it's hurting you a lot more than those you hate.

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Mike Healey

6:00 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

And use Chrome or Firefox, they will spell check your postings live.

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Mike Healey

8:03 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

An Anti Obama Blog has something negative to say about the President? Now that IS noteworthy......

rick barasso

6:54 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Jim,
If you missed last nights Daily show, you missed a chance to get something to wiggle just a little bit. It's as if you wrote the first segment of the show.

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JIM

7:43 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

sorry comrade rick I don't rely on john stewart and the daily show for my '' news ''

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Mike Healey

8:02 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Simple Jim gets told what to think by the talking heads on Faux "News"

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JIM

10:41 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

comrade mike, I see the boys let you up for air ...I bet your jaws sore and your bellies full this morning

rick barasso

7:58 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

No doubt. But this one would have made you tingle

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rick barasso

8:19 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Does anyone else find it ironic, how easy it is for the right to believe our president is a socialist,comunist,nazi,born in Kenya, who somehow spent 6trillion dollars on his own in an effort to keep Americans unemploeed? Yet evolution and climate change are inconceivable!

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rick barasso

10:16 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

But wait,during the NH primaries, wjen gas prices were on the rise. Every GOP candidate was claiming Obama was soley responsible for the gas prices. Wete they wrong or lying? I believe those are the only 2 choices available.

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Just One Vote

10:36 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

No Rick your beliefs are wrong, it is completely plausible that Obama caused prices to go up while other forces caused them to go down. But given your biased myopic point of view it is completely understandable that you would frame the argument in such a way. after all Obama is without question the best Commander in Chief we have ever had, just look at his approval ratings.

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JIM

11:02 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

comrade rick is this how they teach you to spell on the daily show comedy hour learning channel with your left wing talking head professor john stewart...wjen ,Wete

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LJoel Hackbart

8:36 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

OMG_ OMG _ OMG- For real????????????????????????????????????????
Jim mocking someone who made a typo is like a wolf lecturing a rabbit on the dangers of red meat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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LJoel Hackbart

5:05 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012

Just One Vote,
Oh do tell. I can't wait to hear this latest GOP whopper.
Obama made gas prices go up but had nothing to do with them coming down.
Please explain, Please, Please. And then tell me that Bush should get all the
credit for getting Bin Laden, and how Romney saved the auto industry. And how
the moon landing was a faked democrat led conspiracy.........

JIM

10:50 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

does anyone else find it ironic that obamas family on both his mother and fathers side are known socialist and communists,that the usurper can write in his book that he sought out the more marxist professors like bell while in college, that he can travel to Pakistan as a college student with another known terrorist , can chum around his whole life with socialist,marxist ,communist and known domestic terrorists and avowed communist like bill ayres and his wife , be a registered dues paying member of the socialist party while he was an Illinois senator who had a bio by his literary agent stating he was born in Kenya, get elected to the highest office of our country and his very first executive order that he makes within hours of being sworn in is to permanently seal every known record of his life from kindergarten to the day he is sworn in, then surround himself in his administration with communists like van jones, leak US secret Intel to make him self look good to help with his faltering reelection bid, be part of a failed op by his AG to sell guns to Mexican drug lords which result in hundreds of civilian deaths in America and Mexico and the deaths of two border patrol agents are also a result of this op , get caught in an open mic moment whispering in the communist Russians ear to just give him some time to get the sheeple to reelect him so he can finish throwing us under the bus, and his lemmings still think this POS is an American looking out for Americas best interest

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Fran James

4:31 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

It is funny how Republicans have such short memory. It was during the Reagan administration, that senior Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, even though their was an arms embargo. This sale was an arms for hostages deal. What types of arms were sent to Iran? Iran's courtesy of Reagan and later the Bush administrations created an enemy more dangerous to our safety than Mexican drug lords could ever be. In addition some of the funds were diverted to the Nicaraguan Contras which were prohibited by Congress. ou want to lives lost, how many Americans citizens were killed or maimed by the actions of Reagan and how many millions of dollars have been spent trying to correct the problems that Reagan created. Plus we are still feeling the effect of his decision. So Before you point the finger at President Obama look at your poster boy. Was he looking out for America's best interest?

rick barasso

11:26 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Jim
My problem is small keyboard and big hands. You know what they say about someone who has big hands....
I bet your Mom has big hands!

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rick barasso

11:30 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

I'm sorry Jim, we really shouldn't pick on you. It's like picking on the kids who take the short bus to the special olympics

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JIM

11:46 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

That's alright comrade rick , I know I've been pretty hard on your three boy toys, comrades atlant,mike and tony ,so its only natural you would feel the need to retaliate the only way you can with those big hands and your tiny pe...i umm I mean keyboard and show them your willing to step up and protect them from all us big bad Americans , no hard feelings, carry on comrade

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LJoel Hackbart

7:17 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Yet another republican conspiracy theory shot down today. Nonetheless Jim
will remain in denial and will continue to throw his right wing crazy
dribble out there. Tell Jim Denial is not a river in Egypt.
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2900048/posts

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JIM

7:19 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012

comrade hackbart if your made up dribble was true why would obozo use executive privilege to hide the facts and let holder go down. why not release the documents to prove the republicans are full of ...obama, they could always redact anything in the documents that didn't relate to the Fast & Furious op , but they wont , because their both guilty
Fortune Magazine Tries to Tell The “Truth” About Fast and Furious, Fails Miserably
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/06/27/fortune_magazine_tries_to_tell_the_truth_about_fast_and_furious_fails_miserably

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LJoel Hackbart

5:22 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012

Katie Pavlich, Miss Michelle Malkin wanta be in denial just like Jim????????
No can't be!!!!!!!!
www.thedailybeast.com/.../the-truth-inside-the-conspiracy-theory.ht...

JIM

4:29 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

this is obamas America !! please check your rights at the door .....unless your an illegal

‘Obama Truth Team’ Orders Website Shut Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6G_DNs4OlrQ

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rick barasso

4:57 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Just thinking, there is nothing,NOTHING!!! That you can pin on Obama that Bush did not do multiplied! Go ahead, I challenge anyone to try!

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LJoel Hackbart

7:25 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

They do try!
According to the republicans, Bush got Bin Laden; Romney saved the Auto Industry,
and deregulating them will force the banks to behave!

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rick barasso

10:18 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012

Conservative supreme court gives "huge victory" to President Obama and the American people!

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JIM

8:38 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

your head line should read :
Conservative Supreme court outs Democrat party LIES . Democrats lied to the American people for three years denying that the obamacare mandate was a tax , the largest tax increase on the middle class in Americas history and with out the lie it would never have become law.

''huge victory for obama ' = HUGE TAX INCREASE FOR MIDDLE CLASS

rick barasso

11:11 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012

Someone grab the defribulator and get over to Jim's house. On second thought,in the true spirit of the Republican party that he supports so strogly.... Let him die!

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JIM

8:47 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

no,no,no you cant do that comrade rick ..that's not how it works under obama care , first some goberment bureaucrat has to give my doctor permission to send the defibrillator and by then it will be to late ....for all of us

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LJoel Hackbart

12:20 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012

You mean as opposed to having to ask insurance bureaucrat for that
Defibrillator? [Who must decide how much money he pays on it?] Right Jim

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JIM

8:03 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012

comrade hackbart, I know your a goberment puppet boy and its hard for you to do your own decision making without the collective goberment puppet masters brain doing your thinking for you.so this will probably go right over your pointy Lil head .
The insurance company tells you how much money they will pay toward the defibrillator not whether you will receive it or not now with obamacare we have added thousands of other bureaucrats to the equation, now befor the insurance company has any input it will first be determined by the govt if you are worthy of the defibrillator and if they think you should receive the defibrillator then they will tell the insurance company its OK for you to receive the treatment and then the ins co will tell you under your plan how much you will have to pay.
How any American who has seen how this govt functions can think that an entity that cant even run the post office efficiently will somehow be better at making life and death decisions for you or your family is a wonder to me , but then again , at birth democrats are bent over and have the govts arm inserted into their rectum and they become a virtual sock puppet for the remainder of their miserable existence doing and saying what ever the puppet master bids them to do....carry on comrade puppet boy hackbart.
Obama care was designed so that before the worst of the plan was implemented the goberment threw its serfs a few bones so it would look like a good idea but give it a couple years

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LJoel Hackbart

10:41 pm on Sunday, July 1, 2012

Jim
You are such a total idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!! You right about one thing and one thing only.
I'm glad I am no longer feeling sorry for you and your undeveloped [non] brain
because this is just too much darn fun!!!!!! Until now Insurance companies HAVE been able to selectively deny coverage. So you’re wrong again. Yes I'll take
government over Unregulated Big Insurance and Big Pharma anytime.
You are so wrapped in your nutso right wing bubble and so out of touch with reality
that you didn't even know that the U.S.Postal Service was a profitable successful
business until Bush and the republicans in 2006 forced a poison pill on them forcing them to pay out 75 years of benefits in 10 years. [Imagine the hysterical reaction
you righties would have if the Democrats did that to Oil Company!!!!!!!!!!]
So Jim god luck removing the boot from your throat. Or Not.
www.just-say-why.com/blog/index.php/tag/rich/

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JIM

6:51 am on Monday, July 2, 2012

comrade hackbart, once again reading and comprehension are not your strong points .
The Ins Co's sometimes do deny coverage, and I never said they couldn't, what the Ins Co CANT do is deny the procedure, are you with me so far ?
Coverage and procedure are two Different things, look up the words D A . Now with obamacare long befor the insurance co even tells you how much or if they will COVER your procedure the govt will step in and a committee will tell you if your going to get the PROCEDURE , so now there are twice as many bureaucrats standing between you and your doctor, the real difference is now one body of these bureaucrats can and will make live or death decisions where as befor the bureaucrats in the ins industry could only say they weren't going to cover your procedure.
Just because an Ins Co denied you Coverage under your plan did not mean you wouldn't receive the care you needed.
And thanks for making my point about the post office your absolutely right the GOVERMENT screwed it up.
Your so wound up in your party that you cant see the forest through the trees, both parties are corrupt both parties have destroyed SS both parties have destroyed medicare and medicaid and every other GOVERMENT run scheme , like I said your a govt sock puppet you need and rely on the govt for every aspect of your miserable existence and now you have given them the tools to deny you even that ,...you poor simpleton.

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JIM

7:17 am on Monday, July 2, 2012

comrade hackbart, once again you have no understanding of how private company ownership works. Do you know why the government cant do to the oil companies what the government did to the post office ? Its because one is a private industry owned by American citizens and the other is a government run business owned by the government !! so the govt can do what they did to the post office because they own and run it, now imagine what the govt can and will do to a health care system run by ....the government and comrade the only boot to my throat is the government jack boot.
The difference between you and me comrade is, with me, their boot is on my throat and with you their arm is up your rectum playing you like a fiddle...carry on comrade, you government sock puppet you.

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LJoel Hackbart

9:18 pm on Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Jim the whack,
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jim the idiot with the undeveloped brain is right for a change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This could be
a major breakthrough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE of course draws all the wrong conclusions
from those facts but when educating something like this thing, you know what they say, baby steps!!!!! The poison pill legislation put on the Post Office WAS indeed a
horrible government action. But Jim it was most certainly NOT an action perpetuated by both parties you big dummy. It WAS an intentional, totally partisan action initiated
by the REPUBLICANS with the purposeful intention of destroying the then successful
Post Office. Get it you big Dummy??????????? See the difference????? Anyone
home upstairs? My reference about putting a poison pill on an Oil Company was
what we people that have developed brains call an analogy. That is a concept
that is clearly way over your ability to comprehend so I recommend you go ask your mother to explain what an analogy means.!!!
[No time now to comment on that stupid insurance rant of yours, for now just ask mommy about the analogy thing] Carry on Jim. You poor soul.

LJoel Hackbart

5:40 pm on Thursday, June 28, 2012

To paraphrase his like minded people in that audience -------YA!

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JIM

1:35 pm on Wednesday, July 4, 2012

two videos... the first one is a prime example of the 2012 obama supporter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l8ZXsO66b24

and this second video is a prime example of the BS obama spewed in 2008 to the people in the first video to get himself elected and why intelligent people know he is full of ...obama !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1kuTG19Cu_Q

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Timothy Harden

9:42 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012

Do not believe someone donated until we see the cash

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rick barasso

12:12 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012

News flash
NEWS FLASH CALLS LIBERALS "EXTREME"
In a related story,
POT CALLS KETTLE BLACK

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Sylvan Tieger

4:29 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

When the savage loses the election Or when his time is up watch the presidential "pardons" that will be given ( sold) like the Clinton regime feeing NJ cop killers.

Anyone want to guess which low lives will be given a get out of jail free card from the Bama?

By the way so far the "spread the wealth" folks spent slightly over 1 BILLION dollars on vacations as your asked to tighten your belts

"Let them eat cake" Mrs savage stated when hearing more people are on food stamps then any other time in this nations history

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David Victory

6:07 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

"The savage"? Nice.

Today's GOP voter. It's all they have left.

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Atlant Schmidt

7:24 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

"The savage"?

You folks on the Right don't even *ATTEMPT* to hide your racism any more, do you?

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JIM

10:39 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Don't mind the commiecrats S T, the race card is all they have .......and they have decks of them. Where was their outrage when President Bush was called names much worse than savage, oh thats right , President Bush is a republican and its perfectly acceptable to degrade a republican President....meanwhile we have another ''bump in the road'' for obungler, as a border patrol agent is killed by the democrats lack of border security, illegal immigration and sale of weapons to the Mexican drug lords with their Fast and Furious gun running deals

Atlant Schmidt

7:23 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

"The savage"?

You folks on the Right don't even *ATTEMPT* to hide your racism any more, do you?

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Ernest

5:59 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Racism? You democrats refer to any term used to describe Obama other than "His Holiness" as racism. There's nothing racist about calling Obama a savage, a socialist, a Marxist, anti-American or a failure. The problem is you democrats have no rebuttal when confronted with the truth about your idol. So you resort to screaming "racism" whenever anyone hits a raw nerve with you. Keep in mind that no matter what you or anyone else calls Obama, his administration and his policies are a complete failure.

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Sylvan Tieger

4:18 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

A Savage such as the Clinton / Bama is a mind set they are above any laws

"We are the president" allowed an unarmed child to be shot in the back and no one was brought to justice

Then there was the unprovoked massacre at Wako Texas Yet Hellery Clinton called NYC police "murders"

President Bush brought Sadam to trial the savage in the oval office had an unarmed man assassinated because SAVAGES do not believe in due process

Savages will also use American Army tanks to attack civilians and use drones to kill 15 people hoping that possibly one terrorist may be taken out of the gene pool

A save like a wild animal is kept inside a zoo AKA "city housing" an animal needs to be feed by its captors like three generations of people on hand outs

A slave depends on their master to house them, feed them, give them some kind of limited health care but never would allow these bottom feeders to actually improve their lot in life

It was a republican name Lincoln who freed the slaves and it was the southern democraps that stated the KKK

Dr, Rice, or General Powell would have been amazing presidents.

Fly on the Wall

7:46 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Obama is a career politician... Romney, while I think the GOP could have done better, at least held a job and ran a business. Over a trillion dollars in cash is sitting on the sidelines because big business is willing to wait for a new president...

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Sylvan Tieger

4:18 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Dr, Rice, or General Powell would have been amazing presidents.

We have in the oval office a savage who is amazing at spending other peoples money.

Look at the donations the Bama's gave before holding public office

Think about how Mrs Savage spent over 1 BILLION dollars on vacations that could have build hospitals, schools used to hire police ,fire and teachers

1 BILLION on vacation that could have been used to help the elderly, helped people start their own business

History does repeat itself as Mrs Savage stated "let them eat cake" while on her $135,000,000 vacation to Spain.

The top poorest states have voted for democratic over and over and yet their lot in life remains the same. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

Anti Gun laws where placed in effect to keep blacks from obtaining a firearm legally, Feinstein (D) Schmuer (D) Boxer (D) Pelosi (D) Hellery Clinton (D) It is not actually a gun control issue it is CONTROL as a FREE Man does not have to ask permission to own a firearm to protect his family and his home

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Sylvan Tieger

4:46 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 A merican Community Survey, August 2007
What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;

Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati , OH (3rd)...since 1984;

Cleveland , OH (4th)...since 1989;

Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St. Louis , MO (6th)....since 1949;

El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

Milwaukee , WI (8th)...since 1908;

Philadelphia , P A (9th)...since 1952;

Newark , NJ (10th)...since 1907.

Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats---yet they are still
POOR

Stupidity is forever

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Sylvan Tieger

5:08 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

To: President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature,
It is now official you are ALL corrupt morons:
The U.S.
Post Service was established in 1775. You
have had 234 years to get it right and it is
broke.
Social
Security was established in
1935. You have had 74 years to get it
right and it is broke.
Fannie Mae
was established in 1938. You have had 71
years to get it right and it is
broke.

War on
Poverty started in 1964.
You have had 45 years to get it right; $1
trillion of our money is
confiscated each year
and transferred to "the poor" and they only want
more.
Medicare
and Medicaid were established in 1965. You
have had 44 years to get it right and they are
broke.
Freddie
Mac was established in 1970. You have had
39 years to get it right and it is
broke.
The
Department of Energy was created in 1977 to
lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It
has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a
budget of $24 billion a year and we import more
oil than ever before. You had 32 years to
get it right and it is an abysmal
failure.

You have FAILED in every "government service" you have
shoved down our throats while overspending our
tax dollars.

AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU
CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE
SYSTEM??

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Shar

11:33 am on Monday, December 10, 2012

There is nothing new here, because Communists and Socialists have been doing this for the past hundred years. The only thing new, is that they now have power in American and plan to destroy our economy, our prosperity, our wealth, our success, our superpower status, our freedoms, our religions, our families, our hope, and our self worth. Why? To enslave us. That’s what they always do. It’s about the acquisition of power.

Will they succeed? The outcome is still in question. They have pushed our nation very far down that road to totalitarianism. Only “We the People…” can stop it. The Tea Party Movement has come a long way, because they are proclaiming the truth and the direction we need to go. But they need our support and our votes.

Do you want to live in Detroit? If the Progressive Liberal Communists are not stopped, that will be our future. Not just for the inner cities, but for every city, town, and village in America.

Sylvan Tieger

5:07 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012

""The savage"? You folks on the Right don't even *ATTEMPT* to hide your racism any more, do you?"

Oh my So when the police or news casters state "someone was savagely beaten" the democratic mentality is "it had to be a black doing the crime"???

Talk about RACISM the democratic party needs to look at their voting records on civil rights and whom they consider a "savage" as I never mentioned Color the democrap did
My,my LEFTY your saying all savages are black or SEMI white?

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Sylvan Tieger

3:13 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012

Someone gets a "savage beating" as stated on CBS , CNN, ABC are they raciest channels?

No place did anyone mention color.

The Oklahoma bombing some "raciest democrap reporter " stated it was a savage attack

One has to love the diseased min set of the democraps who think people cannot provide for themselves they are and have a need to be taken care of from birth until death going on 4 generations

When the savage in the oval office along with HELLery Clinton are tried for war crimes for the mass killings of civilians using drones hoping to kill one terrorist without due process it should be interesting to see all the excuses these low lives come up with

Reverend knock them up Jesse Jackson telling Wild Bill Clinton about the vows he took for marriage is another case of democraps telling others what to do but it is not for them

Chuck Schmuer has a full carry permit like Feinstein yet they are against "savages" from obtaining a firearm legally

Eric Holder thus far has the blood of three border agents on his hands plus countless Mexicans citizens that were killed because of fast and furious . The very least is manslaughter charges should be levied against Hellery and Holder as there will be a lot more killings with the firearms that were sold to drug cartels under the Bama blessings

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Sylvan Tieger

11:22 am on Sunday, October 7, 2012

WE must allow Mr. Bama to have another 4 terms in office as these fine citizens depend on him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5tqH7UrzOw&feature=player_embedded

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Timothy Harden

5:16 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012

Nashua mayor expects Obama campaign to pick up tab for Saturday visit

Nashua officials, who covered the costs of Obama’s last visit to the city in February, will ask the president’s campaign to cover the expenses of this weekend’s visit, Lozeau said Monday.

this weekend, Obama will appear as part of his re-election campaign, which Lozeau said should not, and will not cost local taxpayers.

Obama’s Nashua visit will be his second to the state in as many weeks, and his sixth this year.

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/980422-469/nashua-mayor-expects-obama-campaign-to-pick.html

Good luck to Nashua taxpayers in collecting.

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Shar

11:37 am on Monday, December 10, 2012

There is nothing new here, because Communists and Socialists have been doing this for the past hundred years. The only thing new, is that they now have power in American and plan to destroy our economy, our prosperity, our wealth, our success, our superpower status, our freedoms, our religions, our families, our hope, and our self worth. Why? To enslave us. That’s what they always do. It’s about the acquisition of power.

Will they succeed? The outcome is still in question. They have pushed our nation very far down that road to totalitarianism. Only “We the People…” can stop it. The Tea Party Movement has come a long way, because they are proclaiming the truth and the direction we need to go. But they need our support and our votes.

Do you want to live in Detroit? If the Progressive Liberal Communists are not stopped, that will be our future. Not just for the inner cities, but for every city, town, and village in America.

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Atlant Schmidt

11:56 am on Monday, December 10, 2012

And so another anonymous kook checks in...

> The Tea Party Movement has come a long way, because they are
> proclaiming the truth and the direction we need to go. But they
> need our support and our votes.

You're late to the Tea Party; it's already fading from the American political scene.

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Steve From NH

12:30 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012

Lots of accusations, no evidence - got anything to back up your BS? And I mean facts, not the made up stuff from the usual raving paranoid lunatic web sites.

Shar

12:19 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012

The Tea Party IS the American People, the Dimo's are a carbon copy of the Communist Party

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Steve From NH

12:39 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012

The Tea Party is a few American People. As far as being THE American people or representing us, I think your color palette is a little too monochromatic for that.
You know you can fight change, but you're not going to win - it's one of the inevitables...
Let go of all of the hatred you have for those that don't think, act or look like you, use what's left. Stop reading those emails you get with all the hate speech. You might be happier.

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Atlant Schmidt

9:06 am on Friday, December 14, 2012

Shar:

Seek help! You need it! One of the clearest signs of mental illness is an inability to tell reality from fantasy.

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skram bled

1:38 pm on Friday, December 14, 2012

A good first step for the Tea Party would be to stop claiming that you're the "real Americans". It makes members of the party look ignorant, foolish, prejudiced, racist, and hateful of their own neighbors.

We're all real Americans here (except for illegal immigrants of course, but that's not who I'm talking about). And calling Democrats communists is about the same as calling Republicans fascists. Neither accomplishes or proves anything except that all you're capable of is resorting to childish name-calling when you don't have a real argument.

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