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50 Responses to Harry Truman Hates Lobster (and Republicans)
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Harry S. Truman
Hi Chloe,
I heard the same thing and i believed it most of my life..Oh god how i want that party back..The two parties have become such a blur in governing…
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/09/03/lbj-justice-lets-roll/#comment-296779
Nash 2.5…
So True…I stopped thinking about the similarities several years ago since we’ve already crossed that Rubicon.
This is a important election year and I hope and pray that we don’t reach that point, at least not in my time, but instead finally all work together to move our country forward into a better future instead of backward into the past.
Have a great evening.
Truman was great…I disagree with the film comments that use terms such as negative and scare tactics…
Harry S. Truman
Harry was a practical politician, not well loved by the left either.
Jack
Ha, I thought I heard my father in law in that story, the fil was a great story teller and that was one he would have enjoyed telling.
Truman was a great politician, he remembered people, even nobodies such as my father in law. the Fil loved to tell his Truman encounter stories.
Jack
Ya know, I just watched the Big Dawg’s commercial for Obama, 2 thoughts: one Hillary is running in 2016, two, Who gave Bill a bj cause it must have been really fine to get him to do that commercial.
Jack
One of the major advantage that Truman had was he was running against Dewey. A man popular with the east coast elites but the east coast elites never elected anybody.
Jack
Oh, soooo, this is what real Democrats sound like?
Damn, it has been a spell since we heard one.
Jack,
I think that Clinton would do the commercial for a marginal bj.
I expect HRC to make her intentions known in one way or another by early 2014. Chris Christi is about to meet his match.
Oh, you sceptics! I think Bill would have done the commercial with no incentive. He enjoys being such an idol
and he’s jut going to incease his good rep -- why should he let it die?Aside from that. of course he’s thinking of Hillary, but also I think he really wants this for the country. I think he really believes what he says. Just saying.
I agree completely re the lack of effort to fight voter
suppression and have said so here -- I keep asking, What’s going on? Another story that gets so attention, as KGC pointed out, is the fact that mitt had to go back and re-file his mass tax return because he signed in on it “incorrectly”, or one might say, illegaly. Why are these stories left hanging?
jack, when has the modern day left ever loved anyone who’s not rich, handsome and effete (with emphasis on effete)? being brought up poor and practical ain’t their style.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/some-dems-want-betty-white-to-make-their-day/
I’m just wild about Harry…
I haven’t heard a single word about Mittens convention bounce yet…I guess the media is going to ignore the dip and pretend Mittens still has a chance to win
When the GOP says “We”, they mean me me me Fun commentary on Eric Cantor Labor Day tweet by Electablog.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Right Wingers are right wingers simply because they don’t get the jokes. Today has been declared “Empty Chair Day” and they are being encouraged to place an empty chair on their lawn.
You’ve gotta love Harry’s bluntness. I can’t abide lobsters… I have a shellfish allergy… nor Republicans… I have a memory.
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/09/03/harry-truman-hates-lobster/#comment-296792
LOL, Jack!!!!
You’ve “Made my day”.
http://craigcrawford.com/2012/09/03/harry-truman-hates-lobster/#comment-296794
I agree, Jace
New Republic article on Rupert Murdoch’s dislike for Mitt Romney
When Shrub was president (oy) the job creation was largely in the low-end service jobs. Mitt believes that’s fine for most people too.
“You’ve gotta love Harry’s bluntness”
I love when they take away the flowery talk. Then all that’s left is the truth.
Paul Ryan vs Jesus vs Ayn Rand
Mitt’s idea of ‘color blindness’ he doesn’t see people of color… they just aren’t there for him.
It appears only Rasmussen finds a Romney post convention bump -- up 1-2 points over the last two polls they released. Every other poll since Ryan was disclosed has the race a virtual tie. I can’t imagine how naming the darling of the RW as VP pick and a 3 night red, white and blue extravaganza brought the race back to where it was in April. Maybe that’s a bump?
I guess one could argue that the vp/convention effect largely negated what looks like an Obama poll bump of 3-5 points in late July/early August, but you kinda have to squint and hold your head at just the right angle to see it.
What has changed is that since the convention MO has gone from toss up to leans Romney and Wisconsin has gone from leans Obama to toss up on the RCP EC map.
Oh, and Harry, I love lobster.
Rasmussen Liar for the Right and F--ked Up news Sycophant
I don’t believe this race is tied. Only in the minds of people who need it to be a horse race for $$$
I can’t wait to hear the excuses when Romney is a BIG LOSER about why they all got it wrong…or I guess they will blame poor Mittens
I think this guy (538) has it right.
KGC
He usually does. Silver is my go to person for odds on just about everything and that is a major jump on the Obama side in just 48 hours.
KC, I don’t think it’s tied either -- I’m just talking about polling (mostly done by media orgs that need to sell stuff). While almost all the national general election polls show the race in a statistical tie, RCP shows Obama with a 30 EC vote advantage not counting toss up states, and a 126 EC vote advantage if tossup states are forced based on most recent polling. I’m not predicting anything -- my predictions generally being well known among friends and family to be the kiss of death for my predicted winners.
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Pogo sez
kinda like mine which are less prediction and more wishful thinking --although in keeping with our family motto “Often Wrong Never in Doubt”
Silver has the excuse for the pundit class — “the race was never as close as it appeared” wtf
I think we need a national intervention -- the television industry makes a boatload of money off of political advertising. They need to get a grip and allow storylines that are fact-based. Mittens is a big fat liar and loser and no matter how much lipstick they put on him he is not going to win. And people DO NOT vote for president based on first lady
Silver’s column and site are excellent -- very good explanation of his analysis and the weaknesses of it. btw, Silver’s State-by-State probabilities map is identical to RCP’s “no toss-ups” map.
KC, terrific motto. I’ve got plenty of friends who would accuse me of the same.
Pogo
I think that motto has many family trees
I do get a kick out of the stats -- polling being an inexact science at best. I took stat as a minor in grad school -- one of the first things we were taught was that you cannot average averages to get what a non-sampled result would yield. Something about mixing sources of sampling error or something like that. Of course the only way to figure out what a slew of different polls means is to average them, so we know what the polls say, but we don’t know how they relate to the outcome of the election -- except among the samples in the polls. (Of course after over 30 years of disuse after learning that stuff, I could have it exactly backward).
If they have imprisoned Bradley Manning for releasing documents --shouldn’t the author of the book just released also be detained
I think you have to throw out the obvious ringers
they are factoring in all kinds of whatifs to get to their conclusions
There are some polls which historically have been accurate. In this race for some reason — they are not even close to an accurate reflection of what is going on
Jamie… ROFL! LOVED that Paul Ryan vs Jesus vs Ayn Rand video. LOVED the last line… “if Jesus came back today we wouldn’t be able to hear his message with all those screaming that he’s a socialist”… indeed.
Whereas I hate answering polls, my 80 yr white female registered Democrat friend loves to answer them. Most of them nowadays are automated… you know… press 1 or press 2. She told me the other day that she’s answered at least 4 polls in the last week. Press 1 if male, press 2 if female. She presses 1. Press 1 if caucasian, press 2 if African American, press 3 if other. She presses 2. Press 1 if you’re between the ages of 18-30, press 2 if between 31-45, press 3 if older. She presses 2. If the election were held today, press 1 if you’d vote for Obama, press 2 if you’d vote for Romney. She presses 2.
oh yeah…. ~~~ one can trust polls ~~~~
From Maine… a lobster joke:
Tourist: What’s that green slimey goo inside a lobster?
Mainer: That’s lobster, too.
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By Michael Olenick and Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, September 4, 2012
I used to write letters to President Truman. My first was asking him what the ‘S’ in his name stood for. His secretary replied that it was there because the president thought that it looked nice and that it stood for nothing beyond that.
I know we have a few doom and gloomers that believe we are on a down hill slide. I occasionally point out their disconnect from the real world. This Economist article points to real numbers that back up my general point that as a whole the human race is improving.
If you want a chuckle, you should go to WaPo and read the comments after Jennifer Rubin’s “are you better off” column. Better yet, Plouffe and Axelrod should.
The Fake Election: 10 Arguments The Republicans Aren’t Making
By Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism, September 4, 2012
Jack, the Romney crowd (and Obama as well in all likelihood) only uses a global reference to make the US look like it is weaker than it was when O took office. The arguments are not justified. The answer to the question of the day is yes and no. Here’s one answer …
Depends on who “you” is. The “you” that took the hardest hits from the effects of the Bushian economic policies are not better off. The “you” that benefited are. The “you” that is the country overall IMHO is better off. The “you” that is the economy is demonstrably better off. The “you” that is the republican base -- (the 1%ers) -- are manifestly better off.
I’m one of those who believes that the policies in place now will result in in something like the gradual improvement we’ve seen over the past 3 years. None of this silver bullet stuff is likely to occur. And I don’t think we’ll see any runs at big changes regardless of who wins in Nov. The Senate will be close to even, so (1) dramatic legislation floated by the house will fall to inaction or filibusters (depending on how the Senate control ends up and assuming Reid can gather the gumption to mount them if the R’s take the senate) or (2) the veto pen will kill it if (1) fails and O is re-elected.
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