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So you think instead of being mistaken about that, he intentionally lied? And to what end?What purpose would it serve for him to deliberately mislead the public about that?The same purpose it served for Libs like you to let him get away with itWinning the election was much more important than the truth,,,,

The same purpose it served for Libs like you to let him get away with it Winning the election was much more important than the truth,,,, I'm trying to follow your logic here, but it escapes me. How exactly does him saying that Planned Parenthood administers mammograms help him win an election?

The same purpose it served for Libs like you to let him get away with it Winning the election was much more important than the truth,,,, You're drunk. He didn't lie. PP provides mammograms thru its network of providers. Get over it and move on. Your niggling and quibbling reflect on YOU, not obama.

Prove it,,,,

there is this process called absentee voting. It is accomplished by mail, no standing in line.

there is this process called absentee voting. It is accomplished by mail, no standing in line. A lot of people don't trust that their absentee ballot will be counted. They have a right to vote in person.

Tea Party: We Put Karl Rove In That Nazi Uniform *By Accident*Tea Party Patriots said that a fundraising email sent out Tuesday showing a manipulated photo of GOP operative Karl Rove wearing an S.S. uniform was a mistake that the organization did not know about or approve.We apologize to Mr. Rove. While we may have strong disagreements with Mr. Rove on the future of conservatism, we want to be clear this imagery is absolutely unacceptable and are working to ensure this type of mistake doesnt happen again, read the statement.Active Engagement, L.L.C., which sent the email, claimed responsibility for accidentally including the image. Read their explanation:An email that was sent earlier today under the banner of Tea Party Patriots included an offensive image of Karl Rove. The image was obviously a photo shopped image of Mr. Rove, a well-known political figure. The image was selected in error from an extensive group of images available publicly online and was adjacent to the image that Tea Party Patriots approved for use. The email that included the image was not approved by Tea Party Patriots. Active Engagement, L.L.C. takes full responsibility for this error and is attempting to contact everyone who received the image to explain the error. More importantly, Active Engagement, L.L.C. apologizes to Mr. Rove for this mistake. Active Engagement, L.L.C. does not believe there is any place in political discourse for images such as these.An accident? ROFLMFAO

How An Over-The-Top Joke Became A Republican Talking Point Against Chuck Hagel A journalist with the New York Daily News has come forward as the unintentional source for a rumor that Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel was receiving funding from the non-existent Friends of Hamas group. Hagel has faced an uphill battle towards confirmation since his nomination in January, a battle aided by the unprecedented amount of falsehoods surrounding Hagels record and finances. One of those rumors, that Hagel was hiding funding from groups with anti-Israeli ties called the Friends of Hamas. Dan Friedman of the New York Daily News believes that he first coined the name, when asking a Republican Congressional aide about potentially controversial groups that Hagel had addressed previously addressed and from whom he had received speaking fees: Hagel was in hot water for alleged hostility to Israel. So, I asked my source, had Hagel given a speech to, say, the Junior League of Hezbollah, in France? And: What about Friends of Hamas? The names were so over-the-top, so linked to terrorism in the Middle East, that it was clear I was talking hypothetically and hyperbolically. No one could take seriously the idea that organizations with those names existed let alone that a former senator would speak to them. [...] The aide promised to get back to me. I followed up with an e-mail, as a reminder: Did he get $25K speaking fee from Friends of Hamas? I asked. Unfortunately, what was supposed to be a confidential question soon escaped into the right-wing ether. The name Friends of Hamas was picked up by members of the right-wing blogosphere starting with Breitbart News on Feb. 7 and expanded outward rapidly. Appearing on Lou Dobbs Fox Business show, National Review columnist Andrew McCarthy brought up the mythical group as an example of what might be lurking in Hagels history. The name continued to circulate until Slates Dave Weigel published a piece firmly establishing that the group doesnt exist last week. If the rumor-mongering was limited to conservative blogs, it wouldnt be as worrisome. Unfortunately, prominent Republicans have been all too keen to go along with the line of questioning started by Breitbart. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was strongly rebuked by his Senate colleagues for his lobbing claims completely void of evidence that Hagel had received money from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and North Korea that he was hiding from the Senate Armed Services Committee. While visiting Israel, former Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said that if Hagels ties to Friends of Hamas proved true, it would disqualify Hagel from being Secretary of Defense. Likewise, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in a radio interview indicated that the Friends of Hamas was just part of a string of new information that was more and more concerning. All of this has yet to prevent Hagel from having locked-up the majority vote necessary to be confirmed when the Senate returns next week as soon as the Republicans drop the filibuster they started to prevent such an up-or-down vote from occurring. Update Ben Shapiro, Editor-in-Chief at Breitbart, is sticking with the Friends of Hamas story, attacking Dan Friedman and the media while never acknowledging that the group doesnt exist: Since the original Friends of Hamas story was written, the media has downplayed or ignored the myriad of borderline anti-Semitic Hagel comments regarding Iran and the State of Israel, as well as the Jewish lobby. They have deliberately obstructed news coverage of Hagels well-documented supported base among friends of Hamas. Instead of asking Hagel to release the requested documents, the media has attacked Breitbart News. No such thing as 'Friends of Hamas'?.....Who cares? We'll just say it anyway.

No such thing as 'Friends of Hamas'?.....Who cares? We'll just say it anyway.Why not?There's no such thing as "assault clips" but the Lying Liberal Left is still trying to ban them,,,,

Why not?There's no such thing as "assault clips" but the Lying Liberal Left is still trying to ban them,,,,Once again I seem to be having trouble following your logic.How does that equate to accusing Chuck Hagel of receiving funding from the non-existent 'Friends of Hamas' group?

Mitch McConnell falls for parody news report about Guantanamo Bay prisoners being eligible for GI Bill benefits. A fake news story claiming that Guantanamo Bay prisoners can apply for GI Bill benefits found a credulous victim in Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who posed a serious query to the Pentagon about the unbelievable report.Wired reported that McConnell fell for a far-fetched story on The Duffel Blog, a parody news site with fake reports about the military.One sample headline on the faux-news site: “Infantry battalions commanded by females more likely to stop for directions, arrive late.”Another example: “Pope Benedict resignation tied to Paula Broadwell affair.”The October story joked that the Defense Department had approved a “controversial move” letting prisoners apply for Post 9/11 GI bill benefit, in part to “completely crush their souls with bureaucracy.”But when a constituent passed along the fake news report, McConnell’s office didn’t get the joke.Wired obtained a Nov. 14 letter written by Mitch McConnell to Pentagon’s congressional liaison that appeared to take the joke story seriously.“I am writing on behalf of a constituent who has contacted me regarding Guantanamo Bay prisoners receiving Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits,” McConnell’s letter read. “I would appreciate your review and response to my constituent’s concerns.”“The very idea that the U.S. government would extend GI Bill benefits to enemy detainees is a patent absurdity,” says Army Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale, a Pentagon spokesman, told Wired.McConnell spokesman Michael Brumas defended his office’s question about the fake news.“The senator’s office had a request from a constituent asking us to inquire about an issue,” Brumas told the technology news site. “Our office forwarded the constituent’s question to the Defense Department.”First of all, it's hard to believe that anyone on McConnell's staff would be so stupid as to believe such nonsense, and second of all, you would think they would have at least Googled it before they sent the letter to the Pentagon.I wonder if they would have fallen for a letter inquiring as to why Bigfoot was collecting unemployment benefits?

John McCain Response To Gun Control Pressure 'Appalling,' Says Mother Of Mass Shooting VictimCaren Teves, mother of a victim of the Aurora, Colo., mass shooting in July, said Thursday that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had responded reprehensibly to her gun control question earlier in the day, when he told her that she needed some "straight talk."Teves' son, Alex, was 24 years old when he was gunned down alongside 11 others inside a movie theater. On Thursday, Teves, of Phoenix, attended a town hall held by McCain with hopes of encouraging the senator to support an assault weapons ban, which would restrict the sale of weapons such as the semi-automatic rifle used by the Aurora shooter.McCain responded sharply to Teves' attempt to push the legislation."I can tell you right now you need some straight talk. That assault weapons ban will not pass the Congress of the United States," McCain said, drawing cheers from the crowd.In an interview with Talking Points Memo, Teves expressed disappointment in the way McCain handled her question.I was very surprised that a senator, who has been in office for over 30 years, would address a grieving mother, who just lost her son exactly seven months prior -- yesterday was the 20th, I lost my son on 7-20-2012 -- to tell me that I needed some straight talk, Teves told TPM.Teves also said she was "surprised" at the continued indifference McCain and his staff had shown her, both at the town hall event and in response to a previous attempt she had made to reach out to the senator.It takes a lot for me to just get out of bed every morning," Teves said. "I mean, this is still so new and so fresh, that my son was murdered. And I just expected a little more respect from someone whos been in office over 30 years, and his staff. Between that and the form letter that we received, its just, its appalling.(Read TPM's whole interview with Teves here)In the wake of the Aurora shooting, McCain appeared to suggest that he'd be open to discussing the merits of an assault weapons ban. When such a bill was revamped and introduced after December's school massacre in Newtown, Conn., however, McCain took a more rigid tone, saying that it would have no chance of passing in Congress.McCain came under fire from constituents on both sides of the spectrum in sessions held during the congressional recess. On Tuesday, McCain was forced to defend his position on comprehensive immigration reform to a number of disgruntled voters who pushed back with extreme views on undocumented immigrants.Putting aside my feelings about the ban on any type of weapon, I find it extremely callous for John McCain to have told a Mother whose son was murdered,that she needed some 'straight talk'.He never offered her one word of sympathy for her loss, and he did not chastise the crowd for cheering.I am so disappointed in the man that John McCain, who I once respected, has become.You can watch the video of that exchange here.

Yeah right, he should have lied to her and told her a ban was coming even when it wasn't That's what Obama has done about jobs and everything else. It's the Liberal way, No wonder you're pissed about a little straight talk, you can't handle the truth,,,,

Yeah right, he should have lied to her and told her a ban was coming even when it wasn't That's what Obama has done about jobs and everything else. It's the Liberal way, No wonder you're pissed about a little straight talk, you can't handle the truth,,,, All I'm saying isa little compassion for a woman who lost her son would have been nice. There wasn't one word of it. I'm sure when they told her that her son had been murdered, she had her fill of 'straight talk' for a while.

A lot of people don't trust that their absentee ballot will be counted. They have a right to vote in person. >>> One of those people. I went home to vote.

We just wanna poop in pieces, contards.PLEASE! Stop flirting in toilets!ROFLMAO!

Is Senator Ted Cruz Our New McCarthy?Last week, Texas Senator Ted Cruzs prosecutorial style of questioning Chuck Hagel, President Obamas nominee for Defense Secretary, came so close to innuendo that it raised eyebrows in Congress, even among his Republican colleagues. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, called Cruzs inquiry into Hagels past associations out of bounds, quite frankly. The Times reported that Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, rebuked Cruz for insinuating, without evidence, that Hagel may have collected speaking fees from North Korea. Some Democrats went so far as to liken Cruz, who is a newcomer to the Senate, to a darkly divisive predecessor, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, whose anti-Communist crusades devolved into infamous witch hunts.Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, stopped short of invoking McCarthys name, but there was no mistaking her allusion when she talked about being reminded of a different time and place, when you said, I have here in my pocket a speech you made on such-and-such a date, and of course there was nothing in the pocket.Boxers analogy may have been more apt than she realized. Two and a half years ago, Cruz gave a stem-winder of a speech at a Fourth of July weekend political rally in Austin, Texas, in which he accused the Harvard Law School of harboring a dozen Communists on its faculty when he studied there. Cruz attended Harvard Law School from 1992 until 1995. His spokeswoman didnt respond to a request to discuss the speech.Cruz made the accusation while speaking to a rapt ballroom audience during a luncheon at a conference called Defending the American Dream, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a non-profit political organization founded and funded in part by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch. Cruz greeted the audience jovially, but soon launched an impassioned attack on President Obama, whom he described as the most radical President ever to occupy the Oval Office. (I was covering the conference and kept the notes.)He then went on to assert that Obama, who attended Harvard Law School four years ahead of him, would have made a perfect president of Harvard Law School. The reason, said Cruz, was that, There were fewer declared Republicans in the faculty when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.We are puzzled by the Senators assertions, as we are unaware of any basis for them, Robb London, a spokesman for Harvard Law School, told me. London noted that Cruz had contributed warm reminiscences of the school by video for a reunion of Latino alumni. We applaud the fact that he has pursued public service, as so many of our graduates have done. We are also proud of our longstanding tradition of freedom of speech and the robust range of views and debates on our campus.Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried, a Republican who served as Ronald Reagans Solicitor General from 1985 to 1989, and who subsequently taught Cruz at the law school, suggests that his former student has his facts wrong.I can right offhand count four out Republicans (including myself) and I dont know how many closeted Republicans when Ted, who was my student and the editor on the Harvard Law Review who helped me with my Supreme Court foreword, was a student here.Fried went on to say that unlike Cruz, or McCarthy, who infamously kept tallies of alleged subversives, he had never tried to count Communists. I have not taken a poll, but I would be surprised if there were any members of the faculty who believed in the Communists overthrowing the U.S. government, he said. Under the Smith Act, it is a crime to actively engage in any organization pursuing the overthrow of the U.S. government.Fried acknowledged that there were a certain number (twelve seems to me too high) who were quite radical, but I doubt if any had allegiance or sympathy with anything called the Communists, who at that time (unlike the thirties and forties) were in quite bad odor among radical intellectuals. He pointed out that by the nineteen-nineties, Communist states were widely regarded as tyrannical. From Frieds perspective, the radicals on the faculty were a pain in the neck. But he says that Cruzs assertion that they were Communists misunderstands what they were about.It may be that Cruz was referring to a group of left-leaning law professors who supported what they called Critical Legal Studies, a method of critiquing the political impact of the American legal system. Professor Duncan Kennedy, for instance, a leader of the faction, who declined to comment on Cruzs accusation, counts himself as influenced by the writings of Karl Marx. But he regards himself as a social democrat, not a Communist, and has never advocated the overthrow of the U.S. government by Communists. Rather, he advocated widening admissions at the law school to under-served populations, hiring more minorities and women on the faculty, and paying all law professors equally.Sounding like a disappointed professor, Fried said that Cruzs willingness to label the faculty Communist lacks nuance. He said he remembered Cruz well, as very bright, very hard-working and very conservative, in a well-mannered, agreeable way. So he said, This surprises me. It suggests hes changed.So too, perhaps, has the U.S. Senate.Looks like the freshman Senator from Texas is not winning anyone over with his McCarthy like tactics, even those on his own side of the aisle.

Ann Coulter Booed During John Stossel Debate After Criticizing Libertarians, Gay Marriage (VIDEO)Ann Coulter was booed by a crowd of students this week after she made comments criticizing libertarians and gay marriage.Coulter appeared on Fox Business Network's "Stossel" on Thursday, during which she got into a heated debate with host John Stossel and a roomful of libertarian students.The show was taped at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C.; around 1,400 students were reportedly in attendance.The conversation took a bitter turn when Stossel -- an outspoken libertarian himself -- and Coulter began discussing the country's drug war and marijuana legalization. She said libertarians spent way too much time talking about drugs when they should be talking about government regulation and employment policy and that they were just "sucking up to liberals.""Libertarians and pot," said Coulter. "This is why people think libertarians are p-ssies."(Mediaite's Andrew Kirell, who was at the debate, wrote that though the word was bleeped out in the broadcast, Coulter definitely dished out that particular insult.)Stossel went on to ask Coulter about gay marriage. Why cant gays get married? he asked.Well, they can, Coulter said. They have to marry a member of the opposite sex.At this point, the room erupted in boos.

New York Man With Liberal 'Hit List' And Tank-Piercing Ammo ArrestedPolice in Clarkstown, New York have confiscated a cache of high-powered weapons and body armor from a man who was arrested for posting death threats against against many Democratic politicians and every liberal supporter of President Barack Obama.According to WCBS, 49-year-old Larry Mulqueen was arraigned on Thursday on charges of making terroristic threats, illegally possessing weapons and harassment.Mulqueens landlady had tipped off police after she found a hit list posted on Facebook that threatened Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) and all members of the Congressional Black Caucus.The Facebook posting said that all of the presidents followers were traitor scum and promised death to them all.Nyack-Piermont Patch reported that police searched Mulqueens home and found two high-powered rifles, two bayonets, a sword, a knuckle knife, body armor and ammunition. Included in the 100 rounds of ammunition were 27 so-called tank buster .50 caliber armor-piercing shells.Previous criminal convictions meant that it was illegal for Mulqueen to possess the weapons.We didnt want a situation where something did happen and we looked back and it was said well, that law enforcement agency had information and warnings, why did they do nothing about it? Clarkstown Police Sgt. Glenn Cummings explained to WCBS.I think what may have particularly have gotten his ire in the past month or two were the various legislation enacted with respect to the rights to possess a firearm. I think that was particularly upsetting to him, Cummings added. One posting which was posted about a month ago said that if anybody ever came to take the arms, they would suffer the consequences.Just because we're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not really out to get us!

Indiana Bill Would Force Women To Undergo Two Transvaginal Probes To Take A PillAn abortion pill, officially known as RU-486, is the earliest available abortion option for a woman. A patient could be as little as one week pregnant and take the pill to terminate. But despite the incredibly early stage at which the pill is administered, a new bill proposed in the Indiana State Senate would require women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound before they are permitted to simply swallow the medication.Indianas effort follows a sweeping national trend to mandate the medically unnecessary and invasive procedure as a way to create barriers to abortion access. And theirs goes a step further, by also forcing clinics that administer the pill to meet all of the same requirements as a surgical abortion clinic:The provision is included in Senate Bill 371, which also would require any clinic that dispenses the drug known as RU-486 to meet the same requirements as a clinic that performs surgical abortions, though physicians offices would be exempt.Those requirements, opponents say, potentially would force the Planned Parenthood clinic in Lafayette to close. That clinic offers the abortion pill but does not perform surgical abortions. If the bill passes, the clinic would have to widen hallways and doorways to meet state specifications for surgery and install anesthesia, surgical and sterilization equipment.Twelve states already have unnecessary ultrasound laws on the books, and over a dozen more are being considered in state houses across the country. But the theory that legislators are peddling that such laws might change a womans mind ignore the simple fact that 90 percent of women feel very confident about their decision to get an abortion before seeing a doctor. A transvaginal ultrasound may cause a woman discomfort and cost her more money, but it's unlikely to change her constitutionally-protected decision to get an abortion.UpdateIndiana's bill is actually twice as invasive as most forced ultrasound bills, the Huffington Post reports. The version that advanced out of a Senate committee today would require women to undergo two transvaginal probes before and after taking the abortion pill. Theres no medically necessary reason to require an ultrasound after an abortion procedure, since women can simply take a blood test to see whether their hormone levels have returned to normal to verify that they are no longer pregnant.I'll let Rachel Maddow comment on this one:How about it, Mike Pence? Do you want to be the new governor ultrasound when Bob McDonnell retires the title? This time with 100 percent more unwanted vaginal probing.If you're looking for a good argument as to why you should be able as governor of Indiana to force the women of your state to be vaginally probed twice for no medical reason, maybe the legislative director of your localanti-abortion group in Indiana (Sue Swayze) can help.Here's how she answered critics this week, who say that the forced ultrasound requirements might be a little invasive.She told Indiana public radio, quote, "I got pregnant vaginally. Something else could come in my vagina for a medical test. That wouldn`t be that intrusive to me. So I find that argument a little ridiculous."There's the argument for it in Indiana. If you've ever had anything in there, you can't really object to the governor putting something in there, too -- twice, against your will.VIDEO