Wednesday February 15, 2012

yabits's past comments

  • -7

    yabits

    How are those sales Chevy Volts working out so far?

    General Motors is a profitable company today, thanks to our President.

    As anyone with more than a bit of maturity and intelligence is aware, it takes time for a radically different technology to catch on with the public. It may not be the Volt, but electric cars will become standard -- big sellers -- well within the next 10 years. I give GM a lot of credit for helping blaze the path.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -5

    yabits

    Still waiting for the good things that OBAMA did, not Bush.

    Preserving over than a million auto industry-related jobs is a good thing to most Americans. Not only preserving them until March 31, 2009, but well beyond by returning a bankrupt situation to profitability. McCain and Romney are on record as opposing President Obama's plan for saving the auto industry.

    America would have lost over a million more jobs under either of them. Herman Cain would not be any better. He does have a fair singing voice, however.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -4

    yabits

    Again, like a fly into the web.... you are claiming a victory for something positive set in motion by the predesessor and yet want to blame him for the ugly things.

    Your article states that the "positive" thing done by Bush was to keep the auto companies alive until March 31, 2009, when a new president would decide on their ultimate fate. From March 31, that fate decided by President Obama's plan has resulted in General Motors and Chrysler returning to profitability, and the preservation of millions of jobs.

    Is it blind hatred or plain stupidity that causes people to fail to spot the obvious?

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -2

    yabits

    DEC 18, 2008 Headline Read: President Bush has approved a $17.4 billion auto bailout, with $13.4 billion in emergency loans to prevent the collapse of GM and Chrysler and another $4 billion to be handed out in February.

    The loans are meant to be a lifeline — and will keep the companies afloat until March 31st. At that point, says the NYT, the Obama administration will "determine if the automakers are meeting the conditions of the loans and will continue to receive government aid or must repay the loans and face bankruptcy."

    And it was implimented by his predicessor. Cant take the credit if you dont take the blame. Cant have it both ways so choose one.

    What was implemented by Bush was clearly a "lifeline" to allow the companies to exist until March 31, 2009. It's called "kicking the can down the road." What Bush did ended on March 31, 2009. Today, GM and Chrysler are turning profits. So, what happened between 3/31/2009 is all to President Obama's credit.

    I keep wondering if it's blind hatred or just plain stupidity that prevents Obama's opponents from recognizing the obvious.

    Well that is because Cain is on the wrong side of the fence and their rules dont apply to Cains type (and I am not talking about his skin tone either so dont try that one)

    Actually, if this was a Democratic plot, it would have been much more advantageous to sit on the story and release it if and when Cain became the national candidate. Let's not forget the Republican smears in South Carolina against John McCain in 2000 when the Bush campaign planted rumors that McCain fathered a black child, among other such slander.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -3

    yabits

    If you support Cain, you'd urge him to get ahead of the story before the blanks are filled in by people not so kindly disposed to him - and at this point, that would be his Republican brethren

    Politico went to Cain ten days before breaking the story. That means Cain had more than ample lead time to "get ahead" of it.

    That he did not proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that he is completely unfit to lead much of anything besides a pizza chain.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -4

    yabits

    He was not forthcoming about his taste in porn movies. You make it sound like this is something incredibly unusual. I disagree.

    Then you clearly do not understand the specifics of the case and the events. Thomas was certainly "forthcoming" about his tastes when regaling the females in the office with stories about "Long Dong Silver."

    However, your suggestion that him not wanting to own up to tastes in adult movies means he is a dishonest person is a great stretch.

    Thomas swore up and down he never watched porn. His lies served to defame his victim, Ms. Hill. And this is the kind of person a certain kind of conservative wants to sit on the bench of the highest court in the land. For shame. And over 20 years later, Thomas's crazy and shameless wife suddenly calls up Anita Hill to demand an apology to her porn-loving husband. (Was she drunk, or just plain stupid?)

    Clinton was never "taken down". He was never impeached.

    Oh, really? You must have been in a coma during his second term.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -1

    yabits

    Really, please just name one thing that has not made the US MUCH worse off. Just one is OK.

    Get a grip. The U.S. auto industry is in much better shape today as a result of his intervention. The loss of that industry would have meant many millions more jobs lost. McCain and Romney said they wouldn't have saved it; thank God they weren't in a position to kill off millions of jobs as well as industrial production capability.

    I can name more, but you asked for just one. Time to take off your blinders.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • 0

    yabits

    Yes, because most men are quite up front about their taste for porn movies.

    He lied under oath to Congress in a case involving alleged sexual harassment. Perhaps in your country this is not uncalled for behavior for a judge, but in the U.S., it's unacceptable. What's worse is that Thomas was the head of EEOC, which is supposed to advocate for women in the workplace.

    He was never "taken down".

    He was subjected to all kinds of lies (e.g. the "Clinton death list") and the attempt was make to overturn the results of a popular election via impeachment. You want to play with the semantics of that, be my guest.

    Just as having a Republican succeed would do for you, it seems.

    Strike three. I think Jon Huntsman would make a fine president.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -1

    yabits

    It is idiologs that will bring this country down. Power to Socialism! Obama:s next cabinet will be lead in prayer by Wright, Ayers will be Policy Chief and wont need anyone else.

    This is what I mean about people who've clearly lost a grip on reality.

    The nation needs a strong Democratic president more than ever. But the nation also needs a mentally healthy Republican opposition. Most of these Republicans, with the exception of Huntsman, are crazy.

    Posted in: Confident Cain plans to cut back campaign events

  • -1

    yabits

    Conservatives hate Obama and don't want to work with him because he's black, he's a muslim, he wasn't born in the US.

    No. I don't think conservatives hate Obama for those reasons. They had to concoct and fabricate the birther issue and the muslim thing in order to get others to hate him. It is clear that, after the utterly disastrous presidency of George W. Bush, the right-wing had to pull out all the stops to take down a Democratic president -- just as they did with Bill Clinton. Having a Democrat succeed threatens them to their ideological core.

    Now that there is a conservative with a proven business record and has some massive cahones and conservatives generally like him and especially the independents, how long did it take for the liberals to demonize this man, not long at all.

    Asserting that Cain is not presidential material is hardly demonizing him. I think he did a decent job at Godfather's Pizza. Not so great, apparently at NRA. Perhaps he's in way over his head with this president thing. Is there anyone who actually expects allegations of sexual harassment in one's past not to be a matter worth bringing to the public's attention?

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -3

    yabits

    How can you undeniably claim that Thomas was lying, how? WHERE YOU THERE? NO, YOU WERE NOT!

    I doubt if any members of a jury were ever at the scene of a crime as it was taking place. We also know that any decent person who comes up to testify against a person the Segretti-style conservatives want to put in a key position must be prepared to endure an onslaught of smear tactics and other rat-***king -- as Anita Hill was subjected to.

    Once Thomas was shown to be lying about his taste for porn movies -- via video store rentals -- his entire credibility was shot. On the other hand, Anita Hill was never a liar. She's a far, far better human being than the slime trying so hard to bring her down. This is all germane to the topic of Cain obviously because the conservatives want to reach back to this case as some sort of example that they were right. They were completely wrong about Thomas, and they're nearly certain -- I'd say better than 90% -- to be wrong about Cain now.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -1

    yabits

    Got it. So clueless that if they are actually voting for a Black conservative they are demonstrating they are clearly racist and don't even realize it. Sounds totally logical.

    Conservatives who keep having to harp about their candidate's skin color as some kind of proof of non-racist attitude are duping themselves. "Hey: Look at who I'm supporting! He's black, ergo I can't be racist," seems to be the hopeful train of thought used by the conservatives here.

    The racism becomes rather obvious when you really start to look at it the right way.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -1

    yabits

    Secondly settlements does not mean quilty of squat in most these cases. It means that instead of wasting time going to court and wasting thousands of dollars the company or organization choses to settle it out of court. It also means the parties lawyer up and throw as many allegations as they can at each other to try and get the best deal

    It more likely means where there's smoke there's fire, and that the women had a case.

    Cain was a multi-millionaire businessman at the time and could have easily handled the expenses if clearing his name and reputation in front of a jury was important to him at all. The women could not have found attorneys willing to handle a case for them if they didn't think there was a very good chance at winning it. Unlike Cain, the women were not wealthy.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -2

    yabits

    Let the smear begin. There is no surprise here...

    Let the conservatives' whining and self-victimization begin. No surprise here.

    The wolves are turning on themselves.

    Precisely. Using an outlet with a decent standard of journalistic integrity to boot. One of the next moves will be a Breitbart video of one of his operatives trying to bait a Politico reporter.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -1

    yabits

    They now have serious regrets on their decision [to vote for Obama]

    Most intelligent people know that the alternative -- McCain/Palin -- would have brought far greater misery and suffering to Americans and therefore have no regrets whatsoever on casting their votes for President Obama and the Democrats. The one regret most of us have is that President Obama shouldn't have been so interested in compromising with and working with the Republicans -- i.e. the people who absolutely hated his guts and have actively worked to destroy his presidency.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -4

    yabits

    Being accused of something isn't the same as being guilty of something, and settling a claim is sometimes just following the advice of a lawyer.

    The main fact here is how Cain dealt with the revelations. Politico came to him 10 days -- 10 days -- ago with the allegations, and Cain responds like this? Embarrassing.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -5

    yabits

    Looks like Cain has backpedaled and admitted knowledge. He even recalls what departments the women were from, and roughly the amount of the settlement.

    Normally, one could say, "Stick a fork in him; he's done. Only an idiot would support him now."

    This of course assumes that idiots who would support him now are relatively few in number.

    Also, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Politico was and is well-connected to the Republican establishment.

    This has GOP swift-boat, smear written all over it.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • -1

    yabits

    Liberals hate it that a black person is conservative and successful.

    Strangely, we liberals don't hate rich, successful black moderates and liberals. Also, we don't care too much for a number of rich, conservative white folks.

    They can't stand it because it destroys their race baiting game of accusing every conservative as being a overt or closet racist.

    White conservatives who think that promoting a black person who promotes their values somehow mitigates their own racism is, in fact, an overt sign of that very racism they try so hard to deny.

    If she had come out and accused him when it happened then she might have some credibility.

    It's funny how right-wingers try to apply so many hypothetical conditions about the truth of an issue. Was Hill, a conservative black woman raised by a devout, conservative family in Oklahoma of good character? Absolutely. Did she want to testify? Initially, no. But when her name was identified and she was called to testify before Congress under oath, she didn't have much of a choice. What the conservatives did to her was ugly -- just as they are.

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

  • 0

    yabits

    Anybody seen Rick Perry's latest "performance" in front of a crowd in New Hampshire?

    Imagine Howard Dean's "scream" being drawn out for over 30 minutes. Actually, the thing Perry's rambling nuttiness reminded me of is Ronnie Blakley's crazy rambling character, Barbara Jean, in Altman's movie Nashville.

    A movie, interestingly enough, about a presidential campaign.

    Posted in: Perry to GOP: I could handle Obama in debate

  • -4

    yabits

    Like you pointed out, Anita Hill took the stand and was a credible witness. I challenge these women to do the same.

    There's a great deal of difference between a congressional hearing to confirm a candidate for the lifetime position of Supreme Court justice and a political party's candidate. If the Republican Party wants to hold formal hearings, that is entirely up to them.

    You sure are 100% confident that [Anita Hill] never lied or fabricated this so called harassment.

    I am 100% sure that Thomas was lying -- as the video store rental records confirmed. Anything bad the former right-winger David Brock said about Hill was a lie -- and Brock later admitted it.

    there is NO WAY that Thomas could be innocent of the allegations

    One man who knows well about Thomas's penchant for the lewd and pornographic is former senator John Ashcroft. When Thomas and Ashcroft were staffing for Missouri senator John Danforth, Thomas used to revel in telling the strict Christian all manner of "off-color stories."

    Posted in: Republican candidate Cain denies report of sexual harassment

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