Comments on: The Democratic National Convention https://thenewneo.com/2012/09/05/the-democratic-national-convention/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: John Dough https://thenewneo.com/2012/09/05/the-democratic-national-convention/#comment-411862 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:43:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19778#comment-411862 What disgusted me so far was the tribute to Teddy…

Ted Kennedy is the only politician with a confirmed kill in the War on Women.

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment on the tribute

]]> By: Capn Rusty https://thenewneo.com/2012/09/05/the-democratic-national-convention/#comment-411840 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:13:33 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19778#comment-411840 I was struck by how much yesterday’s WaPo headline about Mrs Obama’s speech

“Being president . . . reveals who you are”

is reminiscent of N. Pelosi’s

“We’ll have to pass the bill to see what’s in it.”

In neither case did the Democrats want the voters to know what they were getting.

]]> By: texexec https://thenewneo.com/2012/09/05/the-democratic-national-convention/#comment-411820 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:23:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19778#comment-411820 “texexec, as to Clinton’s surplus, don’t forget the serendipitous internet boom. Around ’97-’98, things really started taking off businesswise. That was a technology that even 10 years prior to that time was a fantasy. The internet/tech boom had nothing to do with Clinton’s policies, just dumb luck.”

I agree and it was W’s bad luck to be in office when several decades of easy money and several kinds of bubbles had to be terminated by Mr. Market and Mr. Strained Economy.

]]> By: RickZ https://thenewneo.com/2012/09/05/the-democratic-national-convention/#comment-411782 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:24:28 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19778#comment-411782 texexec, as to Clinton’s surplus, don’t forget the serendipitous internet boom. Around ’97-’98, things really started taking off businesswise. That was a technology that even 10 years prior to that time was a fantasy. The internet/tech boom had nothing to do with Clinton’s policies, just dumb luck.

]]> By: texexec https://thenewneo.com/2012/09/05/the-democratic-national-convention/#comment-411766 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:27:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19778#comment-411766 Another thing about Clinton’s wonderful record of balancing the budget…it was not only achieved because we had a Republican Congress but it was also achieved by fudging the books. The budget was balanced based on external money flows…but the expenditures during those years were supported by transferring funds internally from the Social Security fund.

If you count intramural cash flows, the budget WASN’T balanced.

The big financial blow-up of 2008 occurred because of excessive speculation, excessive leverage, and excessive optimism in the financial markets. The last phase of that was the housing market bubble which started and was poorly, even fraudulently managed during the Clinton administration.

]]> By: texexec https://thenewneo.com/2012/09/05/the-democratic-national-convention/#comment-411761 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:15:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19778#comment-411761 I just haven’t been able to watch the Dem’s convention…can’t stomach it. I heard that the first day had a lot about abortion (probably in disguised terms like “health choice for women”). I also heard that the gay turnout was huge.

Do the Democrats ever support and promote anything that is NORMAL?

(I don’t think gays are terrible people but I don’t think their sexual preferences are normal…so sue me.)

]]> By: Jim Kearney https://thenewneo.com/2012/09/05/the-democratic-national-convention/#comment-411748 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:47:33 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19778#comment-411748 It will be fun watching the press try to cover the crap in their litter box and make everything smell so nice. They’re all as genuine as Michelle’s vegetable garden, Target shopping trips and professional wrestling. I’m still waiting for Obama to go Lonesome Rhodes after his landslide loss. The leftist consumption of anti depressants will leave massive shortages.

]]> By: Gary Rosen https://thenewneo.com/2012/09/05/the-democratic-national-convention/#comment-411715 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:06:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19778#comment-411715 “But for a party that claims to champion women’s rights to let this serial sexual offender and philanderer have a place of importance at their convention shows how phoney their policies really are.”

Then there was the tribute to Teddy Kennedy. Mary Jo was unavailable for comment.

]]> By: Gary Rosen https://thenewneo.com/2012/09/05/the-democratic-national-convention/#comment-411713 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:04:36 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19778#comment-411713 “IMO Slick Willy was not up to his usual slickness. I suspect this was on purpose”

Maybe, maybe not. He loves the sound of his own voice. Remember how he droned on and on at the 1988 DNC? It took him a couple of years to recover from that.

]]> By: parker https://thenewneo.com/2012/09/05/the-democratic-national-convention/#comment-411693 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:20:29 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=19778#comment-411693 I’ve had a bit of difficulty going to sleep tonight so I watched (on c-span) the DNC convention tonight. What at circular firing squad of clowns. IMO Slick Willy was not up to his usual slickness. I suspect this was on purpose. No love lost between Clintons and the Chicago thug.

You have to embrace this as a great opportunity for the R&R campaign: http://tinyurl.com/9xqfbee

So what’s next…. a barbecue of partial birth abortion “fetuses” followed by a Cherokee pow wow?

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