The tale of two tapes
The tale of two tapes
Both of these speeches are not new, yet both got pushed out there tonight. You may well ask yourself, which one are you better off with running the country for the next four years?
And so God is asking us today to remember that miracle of that baby. And He is asking us to take that bullet out once more.
If we have more black men in prison than are in our colleges and universities, then it's time to take the bullet out. If we have millions of people going to the emergency room for treatable illnesses like asthma; it's time to take the bullet out. If too many of our kids don’t have health insurance; it's time to take the bullet out. If we keep sending our kids to dilapidated school buildings, if we keep fighting this war in Iraq, a war that never should have been authorized and waged, a war that's costing us $275 million dollars a day and a war that is taking too many innocent lives -- if we have all these challenges and nothing's changing, then every minister in America needs to come together -- form our own surgery teams -- and take the bullets out.
Today, 70 percent of Americans get more benefits from the federal government in dollar value than they pay back in taxes. So you could argue that we're already past that [moral] tipping point. The good news is survey after survey, poll after poll, still shows that we are a center-right 70-30 country. Seventy percent of Americans want the American dream. They believe in the American idea. Only 30 percent want the welfare state. What that tells us is at least half of those people who are currently in that category are there not of their wish or their will.
Say what you will about the 2012 candidates, and about the state of American politics. But you can't say the American people don't have a real choice.
Wake me up when Romney finds a clue....lolz— The Fundamentals of the Economy are Fine- Lame post, dude. Will and you both like dog whistles. So when Obama says no more roads "in the suburbs" and we need more "in the cities" that is a patently racist statement that white people get too much. Paul Ryan will be in the White House for the next 16 years. Get used to it, dude. — CD75
- I did not know whites were not allowed in City and black were not allowed in Suburb. Cities have denser population and needs more roads and facilities than suburbs. Where is the race issue in that reality?
Paul Ryan can't get a simple math right. He is only qualified to be Tea Bagger; he is not presidential material. It's the math stupid$— Seed - "if we have all these challenges and nothing's changing, then every minister in America needs to come together -- form our own surgery teams -- and take the bullets out".
Obama is clearly the bullet, and its time to remove him.— Mr. Smith - You are right, Obama started the Iraq war and he started the incarceration of youths for drug violations.
Live happily in your alternate universe. You can't handle the truth!— Seed - Since the democrats started the "War on Poverty", have things gotten better - or worse? Those who figured out that there is no barrier to success are doing well. Those who believe they can only make it with a government habdout - or worse, those who actively stay in poverty to keep receiving the benefits - promote decay. Why would you want more of the same?— Mirror
- War on poverty was originally started by a guy named Jesus and his likes.
As far as democrat's adoption of that policy is concerned, it went well from 1992 to 2000. And the whole country was better off for it.
Then Scalia stole an election for Bush......— Seed - There is something wrong with a section of the black population in this country. Just look at what happened in Chester this week with the beat down of an innocent woman. Or look at Detroit where the brothas have continuously harassed the owner of a gas station, trying to make a living. Forget about speeches and political rhetoric it's about time we took those who bring nothing but heartache and mayhem to peoples lives and put them away......... forever well not forever but lock these bit@#$s up!!!!!!!— RufusG
- Bush lied 5,000 Americans and 100,000 Iraqis died.
Is there anything wrong with white people? No.
Violent act of uneducated teens is reprehensible. Purposeful slaughter of 105,000 people by an educated adult is unimaginable. But it happens.— Seed - No wonder Obama refuses to release his academic records. He thinks the best teacher he ever had was Jeremiah Wright. What, Obama didn't learn as much from his terrorist mentor Bill Ayers?— Mr. Smith
- Will must be getting worried. You can tell when the libs try to get the first narrative out there and when they pull the equivalency test trick. Basically he's saying Obama may be bad but look at Romney...PLEAAASE!!!— Phillies2008WSChamps
- He must really be worried that because ever since the republicans declared war on education people like yourself hae become...yikes...even less intelligent. So bad that you actually think Paul Ryan was once a blue collared worker cause he got a part time job as a teen in a burger joint. Yeah then he quit and went home to his Mansion. Then he read some science fiction, got tons of handouts from his dads uber rich friends, got handed a congressional seat in a district he could only loose if he had sex with a male or african american in public (we know you all love the closet guys though), wrote some jiberish that every economist in the world said would sink our country and that same jiberish actually was a reason Moody's downgraded our credit rating. Yeah he is a real hard worker that understands the blue collared backbone of the country...sorry not by a long shot. — Atlas
- Hey. Republicans are back to the Reverend Wright campaign tactic.
Understandable - seeing as how it worked so well in 2008. No wonder you think this is a turning point in the 2012 election.
You boyz are hilarious.— Talking point sleuth - if republicans really did care about people out of work, they would debate the ideas Europe initiates to avoid permanently unemployable people. instead republicans have made it entirely obvious that they feel considerably substantial disdain for certain americans and really would prefer to incarcerate and starve these americans then do what governments do to make the country function well.
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