Mitt Romney: "Pinhooker"

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Monday October 29, 2012 · 10:46 AM PDT

2012/10/29 · 10:46

I grew up in the 1950s in the heart of the bright leaf tobacco belt in the Carolinas. As a boy (8 to 12 years old) I spent my summers working on my grandmother's small tobacco farm near Mullins SC. Tobacco was a labor intensive business in those days, so we relied extensively on migrant "colored" help during the peak tobacco cropping season. Hard work but the pay was good.

The men worked in the field, cropping tobacco leaves and putting them into the mule-drawn "drag" -- which was a crude high-sided sled, narrow enough to fit between the rows and large enough to carry 1,000 pounds of wet tobacco. The women and children worked at the barn stringing the wet leaves onto tobacco sticks using cotton twine.

I was the "drag boy" (yes, that's what we were called) who drove the empty drag to the field, exchanged it for the waiting full drag, which I drove back to the barn and unloaded the wet tobacco for the ladies at the barn.

Did I say the pay was good? Croppers were paid $4.00/day, barn help (including me) got $3.00. Everyone got paid the same: family, sharecropper, neighbors, and migrant workers. More after the knotted tobacco leaves...

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Monday October 26, 2009 · 11:26 AM PDT

2009/10/26 · 11:26

Perhaps a better question is, "Did the opt-out idea begin in my shower?" Like so many ideas, this one came to me in the shower. After drying off, I told my wife about this new idea I had about healthcare reform. Her response as usual was, "So, what are you going to do about it?" She knows that I am very good at coming up with ideas, but not so good at acting on them.

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When do you get most of your best ideas?

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When do you get most of your best ideas?

In the morning

9 votes

At work

2 votes

While sleeping

5 votes

While in the bathroom

3 votes

While having sex

2 votes

After sex

0 votes

While drinking

7 votes

While smoking

4 votes

While listening to music

0 votes

While exercising

6 votes

While eating pie

8 votes

So, what happened to the WMDs?

EdinPHX

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Thursday October 07, 2004 · 5:56 AM PDT

2004/10/07 · 05:56

The Bush-Cheney gang staked it's entire case for war on two assumptions:

That Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, including a program to develop nuclear weapons.
That our biggest security risk was for terrorists to get their hands on these weapons.

Most thinking people now accept that these assumptions have been proven wrong. Yet, many Bush supporters still insist Saddam had WMDs, we just haven't found them yet. What if they are right? Read More

We authorized surgery, IF NECESSARY!

EdinPHX

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Friday September 24, 2004 · 5:19 AM PDT

2004/09/24 · 05:19

Here's a visual metaphor I'd like to see Kerry use in response to claims that he voted for the war.
(Not my original idea, but one that deserves visibility.)

"They said the patient had cancer.
We authorized surgery if absolutely necessary.
The patient is dying from the wounds inflicted by an incompetent surgeon.
Infection has taken over.
No cancer was ever found."

What if Bush tanks? (Poll)

EdinPHX

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Thursday May 13, 2004 · 8:19 AM PDT

2004/05/13 · 08:19

What if Bush is down 20+ points by the Rep. convention?

Will he stay the course and go down in flames?

Will he stay the course and win in November?

Will he voluntarily step aside (like LBJ) and give someone else (McCain) a shot at Kerry?

Will his base turn against him and force him out?

Will he and Karl orchestrate a dirty trick (like a phony terrorist event) to give Bush a last minute bump?

Bush's dirty little religious secret

EdinPHX

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Friday April 30, 2004 · 6:52 AM PDT

2004/04/30 · 06:52

The most alarming thing revealed on Frontline last night was Bush's deep-held belief that only those who are "born-again Christians" will ever enter the kingdom of heaven. (George's religious conversion resulted from his earlier contact with Billy Graham.)

Frontline reported an incident where George W and his mother were debating whether it was possible for anyone else (other than born-again Christians) to go to heaven. Barbara (an Episcopalian) held a more ecumenical view that we should all do our best on earth and leave it to God to decide. Bush disagreed. They picked up the phone and called their friend Rev. Billy Graham who said, "I'll have to agree with your mother on this."
But George W Bush flatly rejected Billy Graham's position. Read More

Finally, a real reason to vote against Kerry.

EdinPHX

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Monday April 26, 2004 · 11:37 PM PDT

2004/04/26 · 23:37

The "fair and balanced" Boston Herald sent its entire "editoral staff" on an exhaustive quest to find a compelling reason why Kerry is not the right person to be our next president.

Here's what they came up with... "Now, it turns out, Kerry's wife hasn't even filed her 2003 tax returns and has an extension until August."

Can you imagine a future first lady doing such an unpatriotic thing as to file for an automatic extension? Next thing they're going to accuse her of not flossing.

http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/view.bg?articleid=545

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Mitt Romney: "Pinhooker"

Did the Opt-Out idea begin in Senator Snowe's Portland office?

So, what happened to the WMDs?

We authorized surgery, IF NECESSARY!

What if Bush tanks? (Poll)

Bush's dirty little religious secret

Finally, a real reason to vote against Kerry.