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Ketira shena Pretarasedrin
said, 8 months ago
Oh, that’s going to go over with the Education-minded folks…. but it is basically what Romney said.
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I’d take killing off Terrorism than killing off Educational subsidies any day. Without the Arts (including music), how can we express ourselves?
jmattadams
said, 8 months ago
Sycophancy is truly an ugly thing. Here we see Obama’s only “accomplishment” (sitting quietly in a corner in the situation room) versus a threat Romney didn’t make. All the libs with any shred of dignity left in them had to admit that O stunk up the entire state of Colorado this week and his only retort was “that wasn’t Romney” Yeah and that wasn’t Obama the other night. The guy on stage looked nothing like the guy Clint Eastwood grilled.
dtroutma
said, 8 months ago
Obama had many positive accomplishments, and worked hard NOT to come off as a jerk (too hard for an American audience beaten down by Faux,Rush, and "shout ’em down ignorance to comprehend). Mitt killed lots of companies, just like he would do PBS, and our economy, and is a jerk…
Machado
said, 8 months ago
after the beating the messiah took on Policy and facts, all leftist cartoonist can talk about is Big Bird?
Jeddidyah said, 8 months ago
Oh, Ho, ho that is even better than Danziger !
MortyForTyrant said, 8 months ago
@dtroutma
That’s a problem now for the President. If
he comes out fighting (2. debate) he will look
unpresidential and in damage control mode.
If he stays his cool, calm self people will say
he’s weak. He should open with a line like
“…i will not lower myself to the level of my
opponent…”, that should clear things up!
narrowminded said, 8 months ago
That was the real Obama. Vapid.
zoidknight said, 8 months ago
@Ketira shena Pretarasedrin
What makes you think the liberals and democrats want you to? Besides they cut that funding years ago.
Harleyquinn
said, 8 months ago
So Mitt used Bushes structure, contacts and methods to get Bin. Obama is going to cut 12% out of Birds birds budget.. so what? wait reserves that.
tauyen said, 8 months ago
Actually given Obama’s performance he served up his OWN head on the platter
TheTrustedMechanic said, 8 months ago
@zoidknight
It is the reDUMBlicans who don’t want you to express yourself. Why do you think they give you your thoughts, beliefs and ‘approved’ talking points? And as for cutting funding for the arts “years ago,” a little substantiation please. The reTHUGlicans are always pushing cutting funding for education, of any type, because after all an ignorant populace is easier to control.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 8 months ago
Given the elimination of OBL or Big Bird, which do you think was the greater threat to the welfare of this country and its citizens? Whereas government funding of NPR & PBS is a very small portion of their revenue, it is important for smaller rural stations and it is indicative of what we as a society value. But because it isn’t a mouthpiece for the reDUMBlican party it has to go. Think what you wish, the facts won’t change a reDUMBlican’s mind, but the fact is that NPR & PBS are NOT liberal entities. NPR in particular cites sources recognized as liberal 40% of the time and sources recognized as conservative 50% of the time according to recent studies. Also since January 2012 the Diane Rehm show has had two hour long infomercials for two different radically CONservative personalities, one of which was the traitorous and treasonous grover norquist, and when a caller accused him of being a traitor Diane hung up on him. The local NPR station had another hour long episode of assaulting our intelligence with another prominent reDUMBlicans as well as an hour show with our reDUMBlicans corporate shill of a governor. So four hours of unquestioned reDUMBlicans and guess how many hours were dedicated to Democrats? None, not one hour was devoted to a prominent, or even a local level Democrat without a partisan counterbalance opponent. No Democrat has been given the same exposure as the reTHUGlicans enjoyed. So do not lie and say that NPR or PBS are liberal, it all comes down to the reDUMBlicans can’t stand the truth and facts. When confronted with contradictory evidence they go into attack mode with lies, obfuscations, personal attacks and just simple changing/ignoring the subject. Why? Because the truth and facts are not kind to the reDUMBlican agenda, and NPR & PBS stand for the truth and facts, not manufactured innuendos.
Robert said, 8 months ago
coffee through nose funny!
Bruce4671 said, 8 months ago
@Ketira shena Pretarasedrin
The “arts” have always relied on the “rich” for support. Where would Michelangelo.have been without Lorenzo de’ Medici and it is true that patrons of music and the arts were connected to government of the time – read again “the rich”.
PBS would survive on contributions alone.
Archimedes said, 8 months ago
@Ketira shena Pretarasedrin
Well to start with no one is talking about killing off the arts. What we are saying, which you seem to be agreeing with in part is that the requirement in the constitution for the federal government to defend this country should be financed and the non existent requirement to fund Big Bird should not.