@ Fritz

I guess you chased him away. Post is gone.

I work not far from NCC. In the middle of an important project, so I couldn't take the time off. I stopped into a nearby sandwich shop today for lunch and the people working behind the counter were disappointed that they couldn't go, either. I know several activists who attended. I'm with you, FTP. While I can't say I've been thrilled with every single decision he's made, I'd say President Obama is closer to "one of us" than I ever thought I'd see in my life time. The bi-racial child of a single mother who collected food stamps worked his way up to the top - and was actually in the White House when he finished paying off his student loans! Yet the shrill voices of the right actually try to paint him as an elitist! Santorum says Obama is a "snob" for wanting all Americans to get a college education! Why wouldn't the President want for all Americans the very thing that was key in transforming his own life?

I digress a bit. I support our President as you do. After 8 years of a functionally illiterate, war-mongering, budget-busting, spying, lying, torturing, fake cowboy - it's good to have a decent man at the helm.

@ Jr

If it's spending you're most concerned about, you'd better not vote GOP in November:

"A nonpartisan group says proposals by Romney, Gingrich and Santorum would push the national debt beyond current projections."
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/23/nation/la-na-gop-candidates-deficit-20120224
http://crfb.org/document/primary-numbers-gop-candidates-and-national-debt

@ Mark

"Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story mischaracterized the testimony of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. He did not say that the Energy Department isn’t working to lower gasoline prices directly. Rather, when Rep. Alan Nunnelee asked Chu whether the department’s “overall goal” is to “get our price —”, Chu interrupted him and said: “No, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy,” adding that the administration’s policies will “help the American economy and the American consumers.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73408.html#ixzz1o2MboGYo

Of course, if you had clicked on 'According to politico' [on your own link] and
read that, it would be plainly obvious that your fellow right wing nuts took Chu's statement out of context. Then again, taking things out of context is nothing new for the far right's spin machine.

Arpaio may be a nutjob but his allegations deserve to be answered no matter how far fetched they appear.

A federal employee testified under oath that he was introduced to Barack Obama as a foreign (non-Citizen) student at college, is that federal employee lying under oath and should they be charged with lying?

President Obama's social security number that he claims he used for his selective service registration comes back in a search of the federal database as not issued to a US citizen. It was also issued in CT (where the President never lived) two years after the President started his first job where a social security number would be required. What is the explanation for that?

These allegations have been answered and investigated multiple times. The thing is, all it takes is someone else to make a *hearsay* statement about what the birth certificate "looks like" or what someone else may have said, and we have to relive this every single time. By the way, imagine if court worked this way, where you could retry someone every single time someone made a comment. I'm satisfied that this has been investigated multiple times, millions of dollars have been thrown at it, and every single time it comes up empty.

Of course you are going to find a multicultural ancestry. Most of us have one, too; America is not that old relatively speaking.

Really, this is just because the president is nonwhite and has a foreign last name. That's all it is. It is politically motivated.

@ LJoel

I don't think he's joking. It's sad. It's the Obama Derangement Syndrome talking.

Seriously, if you have a moment, listen to this hilarious PSA on the issue:
http://soundcloud.com/mike-in-raleigh/obama-derangement-syndrome

@ Rick

It's going to be a murder scene.

We should have a viewing party.

Debate? I can't stand Romney, I saw what he did in Massachusetts, and I think he will be almost as bad as a second Obama term, however at least he can speak in public without a teleprompter feeding him his lines.

@ Grass

I've heard it's excellent. I'll try to catch it tomorrow night. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks LJ

A lot of women I know are disgusted by Sandra fluke.

If she wanted to go to a college whose health plan covered contraception she could easily have done so. Instead she deliberately chose to go to a religious university after seeing their plan didn't cover contraception in order to make a stink and try to force her view on everyone.

It isn't good enough for her that people can choose to attend colleges where it is or isn't offered, she wants to force all colleges (and by extension all fee paying students including those with religious objections) to pay for women's contraception.

She isn't a slut, she is a political whore.

"She isn't a slut, she is a political whore."

Doubling down, Mark? You right-wing folks are off your rockers.

ForThePeople: Did you take such offense when the California branch of NOW (National Organization for Women, the self-described largest organization of feminist activists) call Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman a political whore and endorsed her opponent Democrat Jerry Brown?

@ Mark

"Did you take such offense when the California branch of NOW (National Organization for Women, the self-described largest organization of feminist activists) call Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman a political whore and endorsed her opponent Democrat Jerry Brown?"

Meg was running for POLITICAL office, was she not? Sandra was simply a private citizen testifying before Congress. Did you miss that?

David: Sandra is a political activist involved in leftist causes for the last 10+ years, check out her bio - http://www.law.georgetown.edu/pils/CurrentPILS.htm I bet this political whoring is the first step toward running for political office after she graduates.

DV,

"Meg was running for POLITICAL office, was she not? Sandra was simply a private citizen testifying before Congress"

I didn't realize running for Political Office is free license to use derogatory terms to decribe women-- both are women first and such derogatory terms should never be used if one repsects women--

@ Mark

Sadly, sometimes women can be the worst misogynists.

"Talk about her sex life??" She talked about a friend who needed contraceptives for reasons other than birth control - a friend who lost an ovary when she didn't get them (which I'm surprised doesn't horrify the anti-choicers). How disgusting.

November is going to be sweet. The GOP is one big fly-covered pile of dung, and now it's clear. Voters will have a choice between President Obama, and the party of Rush Limbaugh - backwards misogynists, homophobes, religious extremists, - the cave people.

You can get generic birth control at Walmart for $9 a month without health insurance. How can someone pay $23,000 a year for tuition at Georgetown but not $108 a year for birth control?