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Dr Adequate
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Message 247 of 308 (673777)
09-22-2012 2:53 PM


January 23rd, Mitt said: "I pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more. I don’t think you want someone as the candidate for president who pays more taxes than he owes."
And in August, he said "I did go back and look at my taxes, and over the past 10 years, I never paid less than 13 percent."
This is interesting, because thanks to our wonderful tax code, all he owed for the 2011 tax year was 12.2% of his income. What did he do? He gave the IRS an extra quarter of a million dollars he didn't need so much, so as to be consistent with one of the things he said rather than the other.
The couple chose to deduct only $2.25 million of their charitable contributions. The reason was "to conform" to Romney's statement last month that he never paid less than 13% in income taxes over the past 10 years, Brad Malt, a lawyer who presides over the Romneys' blind trust, said in a statement.
So, according to Romney, he's not the sort of person you want as candidate for President. Well, Mitt, you nailed that one. Though I'm still not sure that you understand the reason. It's actually because you're a giant douche.
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Dr Adequate
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Message 248 of 308 (673783)
09-22-2012 9:45 PM


Herman Cain Still Funny
Herman Cain has explained that if he was the candidate, he'd have a "substantial lead" over Obama. The reason? "The reason is quite simple: I have some depth to my ideas."
This from the man who solemnly quoted the lyrics to the theme song of the Pokemon movie as the work of "a poet" and was worried that China is "trying to develop nuclear capability", something which they've had since 1964. Yeah, Herman, you're a man of real intellectual substance.

  
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Message 251 of 308 (673805)
09-23-2012 5:09 PM



  
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Message 273 of 308 (673842)
09-23-2012 11:17 PM
Reply to: Message 271 by crashfrog
09-23-2012 10:28 PM


Re: Time for a change...
The notion that Obama suffers from a "lack of leadership" is just another one of those contradictory things that conservatives keep trying to pin on him - he's the Chicago insider who's foreign birth estranges him from the idea of America, he's the messianic leader who no one will follow, he's the empty suit with the gift of gab who can't speak clearly without a teleprompter.
And he's been completely ineffectual in advancing his agenda and has turned America into a Communist country.

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Message 274 of 308 (673843)
09-23-2012 11:23 PM
Reply to: Message 253 by Coyote
09-23-2012 7:39 PM


Re: Time for a change...
But one is proud of being a "community organizer" and a redistributionalist, while the other at least has some genuine accomplishments to his credit.
Yeah, let's list them.
(1) Romneycare.
(2) Er ...
(3) ... that's it?

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Dr Adequate
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Message 285 of 308 (673927)
09-24-2012 9:31 PM
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09-24-2012 9:23 PM


Re: Time for a change...
Well, if the fireman with the firehose still hasn't put the fire out, obviously the guy to turn to is the arsonist with his can of gasoline. That's just common sense.

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09-27-2012 4:50 PM



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Message 293 of 308 (674688)
10-01-2012 6:09 PM


Every time you wonder whether conservatives can get more stupid and disgusting than they are already ... they lower the bar.

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