Republican nominations - Page 568

On March 30 2012 16:25 Velr wrote:


pro-Santorum will hear nigger and be happy about it?

At lesat thats the vibe i get when i listen to his rallies...

On March 30 2012 16:45 TOloseGT wrote:
Maybe he meant niggard?

On March 30 2012 17:22 acker wrote:
I doubt he'd say nigger publicly, even disguised in a stutter. There's plenty of better ways to blow dog whistles without risking total campaign meltdown.

Then again, this is Santorum.

On March 30 2012 17:16 Falling wrote:
Eh. I strongly dislike Santorum and will be glad to see him gone. But to me this is similar to that ridiculous controversy on whether or not Obama fingered Hillary. Too much interpretation on too little content. As far as I`m concerned it was just a tongue tied moment.

On March 30 2012 17:26 zalz wrote:
End of the day, politicians are still human.

If you are giving a long winded speech and constantly see your views enforced by cheering people, it isn't unrealistic to let yourself go for a fraction of a second.

On March 30 2012 16:44 TrickyGilligan wrote:


Yeah, I googled "santorum n*****" right after I heard about this.

I was fucking shocked by the results that I got back. Nothing about this incident, but lots of racist assholes out there looking for Santorum to win.

On March 30 2012 15:11 liberal wrote:
There are claims going around the internet that Rick Santorum almost dropped the N-Bomb during a speech in Janesville, March 27. He says "We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like... The anti-war government nig- the uh, er uh..."

Not sure it's a legitimate claim or not but I found it pretty amusing at least. Hear for yourself:

NEW YORK -- In 2008, Mitt Romney's political action committee made a $10,000 donation to the National Organization of Marriage at a time when the anti-gay rights organization was seeking repeal of a California law legalizing marriage equality.

While neither the donation nor Romney's opposition to same-sex marriage were a secret, the precise way in which he contributed to NOM remained under tight wraps until Friday. One of the only public comments on the matter came when the former Massachusetts governor's top spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, told the Deseret News that Romney supported California's Proposition 8, which would reverse the state law allowing for same-sex marriage, and that he would be writing a check to NOM.

"The governor feels strongly that marriage is an institution between a man and a woman, and one of the most high-profile fights on this subject is happening in California," Fehrnstrom said at the time.

But when Romney eventually made his donation, he did so quietly, and through an unusual channel. Records filed by Romney's Free and Strong America PAC with the Federal Election Commission did not include details of that $10,000 donation. Nor did NOM's public 990 form. In fact, record of the payment was only uncovered Friday when the pro-gay rights Human Rights Campaign was sent a private IRS filing from NOM via a whistleblower. The Human Rights Campaign shared the filing with The Huffington Post.

Every weekday at noon inside a North Dallas shopping mall, the 43rd president of the United States sits down at his usual table in the food court with two plates of magic fries, a jumbo Mello Yellow and a grande chimichanga with extra queso. “When he first started showin’ up at the mall, people would always come over and ask for his autograph or whatever,” said Daryl Vanderveen, a 19-year-old cashier at Sbarro Pizza. “But now that he’s here so much nobody even looks up from their lunch.”

Sources interviewed for this article said that Mr. Bush spends at least eight hours of each day at the Preston Hollow Shopping Center, a popular retail destination near his home in suburban Dallas. “Other than that chimichanga lunch he doesn’t really have a set routine,” said one source. “Sometimes he’ll hang around Lenscrafters trying on glasses or head over to Abercrombie & Fitch and watch the girls fold pants. Last week I saw him inside Pottery Barn sleeping in a leather recliner.”



But some mall employees are beginning to complain about the former president. “The other day I was taking a smoke break near the fountain and he just kept asking me stupid stuff like, ‘Guess how fast I could get a hot dog in the White House,’” said Amber Kaul, who works part-time at the T-Mobile kiosk. “So finally I’m like, ‘I dunno, ten minutes?’ And he’s all like ‘more like two minutes’ and then he snaps his fingers and gives me this cocky look like I’m supposed to care.” Donna Simpson, a barista at the mall Starbucks, said the former president is often a distraction from her work. “He sits down over there with a pencil and a piece of paper and supposedly starts working on his ‘Freedom Institute,’” said Ms. Simpson. “But after about five minutes he comes over, takes a seat at the counter and starts telling how there’s Milk Duds on Air Force One or how Dick Cheney has a glass eye. I’m like, ‘Dude, there’s about 50 people in line right now, go away!’”

Nestor Martinez, a 20-year-old mall security guard, confirmed that on at least two occasions he’s had to speak to the former president about his behavior. “We started getting complaints that he was hanging around the men’s room asking guys if they wanted to have their picture taken with him,” said Mr. Martinez. “When I told him to stop, he said, ‘Let’s go sort it out over a game of Donkey Kong.’ So after my shift we went over to the arcade and I beat him in a best of three. Then he got all pissy and said Donkey Kong sucks anyways.”

Two sources have confirmed that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was recently enlisted by friends and former aides to speak to Mr. Bush about the situation. “She asked him point blank if it was true that he’d spent an entire afternoon doing nothing but riding up and down the escalators,” said the source. “The president got really defensive and refused to give Condi a straight answer.”

When the president left office nearly three years ago, it was announced that he would establish a “Freedom Institute” and work full-time toward promoting democracy and human rights throughout the world. But some close friends and former advisors admit privately that Mr. Bush has not made progress on either front. “He told me he was going to dedicate the rest of his life to confronting tyranny,” said one prominent GOP fundraiser. “I’m not sure how you do that by hanging around the mall challenging strangers to games of Ms. Pac-Man.”

In response to questions about the president’s schedule, a spokesman released the following statement. “The president continues to work towards advancing freedom around the world.”

On April 01 2012 07:57 BioNova wrote:
Frequent thread browsers might appreciate this...slightly OT , but worth a giggle.



Source

I figure love him or hate him, some articles are not worth missing.

On April 01 2012 07:57 BioNova wrote:
Frequent thread browsers might appreciate this...slightly OT , but worth a giggle.



Source

I figure love him or hate him, some articles are not worth missing.

On April 01 2012 09:16 BlackJack wrote:


that was so funny I had to read a couple other articles written by the same guy