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yabits
It is somewhat strange to read you shunning "claims" and holding out for "actual facts." After all, when you claimed that Barney Frank was primarily responsible for the collapse of the housing market and U.S. economy, and I asked you how that was possible, given the fact that Frank was in the minority party of a Congress and White House controlled by Republicans, you further speculated that it might have something to do with some gay sex-for-hire activities that occurred at Frank's Boston apartment -- something that the available facts indicate Frank had no knowledge of.
As for the "actual facts" of the matter of sexual harassment, I am convinced that a person of genuine character knows what the facts are, and can report them honestly when asked. A person who "wills himself" to forget, or who claims he wanted to "push it out of his mind" is clearly trying to deny or cover up something. But that's how most CEO's roll. They constantly present a false picture of "positivity" when reality is altogether different.
Just as I know that, deep down, you don't seriously believe for one second that the U.S. economy was taken down as a result of some sex acts in a Boston apartment that Frank was somehow able to "hold over" his Republican opposition.
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yabits
Yeah, I know who. The right-wing loons who brought up FDR "spitting" on George Washington and Woodrow Wilson.
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yabits
No, it was the "bone-in-nose" witch doctor, Obamacare posters and T-shirts prominently displayed at Tea Party gatherings.
Are you saying a candidate's character should not be fair game just because he's black? That would prove the point about the latent racism of the right-wing.
Hypocrisy is best viewed in a mirror. Plenty of racism and sexism exists on the left. It is the right who keeps denying it exists within their ranks. That might be the main difference. I have learned to be, as a white American, more conscious and aware of my own feelings about racial and cultural differences. If I were to pretend those feelings didn't exist, I would be as blindly racist and sexist as your average right-winger.
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yabits
What is admirable is how the Republicans/conservatives can eat their young like this and still blame the other side for causing them to commit cannibalism.
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yabits
What we also see being bandied about are continually shifting stories about payments. The latest news has one woman receiving an entire year's salary to buy her silence.
You can tell the conservatives are taking a defensive position in hole that's getting deeper and deeper by the hour when they start playing the "was it really harassment?" game, before quibbling and obfuscating that to death. Whatever it was, it was serious enough to award a person an entire year's salary over.
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yabits
As this has been compared to the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas matter of 20 years ago, it is important to point out one of the key differences: Hill was faulted for not reporting Thomas at the time the behavior happened. In this case, however, both women reported Cain's behavior promptly.
Now we read that one of the women received one year's severance pay. Cain kept changing that part of the story too.
Based on the total smear job that the right-wingers unleashed on the person and character of the modest and conservative Christian Ms. Hill, it is understandable why any woman might want to hesitate before coming out in the open with their side of the story against these monsters. Nevertheless, the NRA has to withdraw its condition of confidentiality before Cain's accusers can legally come forward -- and that step they have not taken to this point.
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yabits
Let's not lose sight of the real scandals here:
Herman Cain's inexplicable shifting, shucking and jiving in his version of the events. Remember that he initially never recalled any such incidents of harassment, never heard of any payoffs, etc., and then suddenly, throughout the day, all the details started to change, as his "memory" improved. And this was a guy who was given well over a week's lead time on the story before it broke.
The far more serious legal and ethical scandal are the felonies committed by the Cain campaign in setting up a non-profit "charity" that has "loaned" money to it on multiple occasions -- in violation of federal election laws.
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yabits
Glad to see this honor being rendered to the veterans. Also very proud that a Medal-of-Honor winner and 442nd regiment veteran, Daniel Inouye has served for so long as a U.S. Senator from the Democratic Party of Hawaii. Another U.S. Democratic Senator from Hawaii, the late Spark Matsunaga, also served in the 442nd combat regiment.
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yabits
The "ties" and "personal friendship" are not born out in the Politico link. It is titled: "Obama once visited..."
Once visited?
Quoting from it: "but there’s no evidence their relationship is more than the casual friendship of two men who occupy overlapping Chicago political circles and who served together on the board of a Chicago foundation." The foundation also had conservatives on its board -- who were in the same "casual friendship" and proximity as Obama was to Ayers. We assume by "casual friendship" that the two were able to do board work without coming to blows -- just as the conservatives on the board were able to do.
As it relates to Herman Cain, Barack Obama never had to commit felonies by transferring money from a private charity set up by his campaign aides. Barack never had to pay off Ayers or anyone else to buy their silence.
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yabits
Herman Cain: Felon, or abettor of felons.
It will soon be all over, Mr. Cain. Your campaign has been discovered to have blatantly disregarded federal tax and election laws. A non-profit "charity" was set up by two of Cain's top aides -- called "Prosperity USA" -- and funds from the charity were transferred to Cain's campaign. Violations of these laws are felonies.
One of the aides, Mark Block -- who appears in a recent Cain ad blowing smoke into the camera -- is Cain's chief of staff.
Buh-bye.
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yabits
Whether he was acquitted or not is irrelevant. He was impeached, making him an impeached president. One of two impeached presidents in U.S. history.
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yabits
False. Clinton never lied in court. (You should verify this before making false, idiotic claims.)
False. Thomas never faced a court of law. He lied to Congress, which is also perjury.
Bill Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998. An easily verifiable fact in response to your ignorant claim that "He also was not impeached." Whether he was acquitted or not is irrelevant. You should have verified that before responding.
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yabits
Well, I can speak only for myself in that regard. I really dislike liars and slimeballs, regardless of race or gender. Why are so many liars and slimeballs conservative?
No. You managed to take a very simple point and dishonestly twist it into something else completely.
Baloney. Conservatives assess the content of people's character by their political views. That's why white conservatives will trot out a black conservative and stress that it is proof they are color-blind.
Baloney. Character did not require reporting sexual harassment -- not "abuse" -- to the police. That's a false requirement imposed by dishonest conservatives who want to rationalize away their own lack of character.
Anita Hill grew up in a small Oklahoma town, an evangelical Christian, and honors student. After leaving the Reagan Administration, she taught at the OW Coburn School of Law at Oral Roberts University. After the savaging to her good character by Republican slimeballs and liars, I wouldn't blame her for re-examining her conservative beliefs as did David Brock -- who came out and admitted that he did a complete hatchet job on Hill on behalf of right-wingers.
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yabits
The facts are that either Hill was lying or Thomas was. Hill took an FBI-administered polygraph test and passed with flying colors. Thomas refused to subject himself to a lie detector. Wall Street Journal investigative reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson checked the stories thoroughly and concluded that Thomas lied under oath.
Some "facts" you bring. Bill Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998. An easily verifiable fact.
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yabits
I believe that saving over a million jobs during a time of high unemployment was definitely a good thing. Had two of the Big Three gone under, the unemployment rate would have shot up even higher.
Cain and Willard are not job creators. Both destroyed jobs. You vastly over-inflate Cain's abilities. I happened to work for one of the world's largest and best managed companies for much of my career. I've had the opportunity to observe many managers and leaders, good and bad. Cain does not impress me at all. He's nothing but a salesman for Herman Cain.
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yabits
Well, Ann Coulter, commenting on the issue exclaimed: "Our [conservative] blacks are better than their blacks."
If Coulter is going to use the possessive pronoun to describe Herman Cain as one of "her blacks," I would like to see the ownership papers. Perhaps this is why the crazy right-wingers use the word "plantation" so much.
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yabits
Only to the clearly and easily deluded.
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yabits
Since he did a great job as our nation's ambassador to China, selected by President Obama, one can very sure he's a lot better than the circus clowns who the Tea Party seem to favor. The Republican base is far too whacked out by their own ideology of hatred to realize what a fine candidate (and president) Huntsman would make.
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yabits
Really don't care about the alleged harassment as much as I do about the payoff -- which Cain himself has acknowledged.
What is most important is how Cain kept changing his story throughout the day. What started out as "no way no how," morphed into "well I was telling her she was about the same height as my wife." What began as "there was no payout that I'm aware of" suddenly changed into "I think she got two or three months of salary."
This much, everyone can see.
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yabits
It was a taxpayer loan -- paid back in full, with interest. The million-plus jobs saved mean people contributing to the tax base rather than drawing unemployment compensation.(Several prominent Republican leaders were opposed saving GM and Chrysler.) All that is too much for the simple-minded who follow the Herman Cains of the world to grasp. It's probably why they keep wanting to change the topic.
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