Mitt takes his 'opportunity'

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 8:14 PM PDT

2012/09/18 · 20:14

Thought I'd include this that I also posted on my blog.

The release today of the full Q&A session Mitt Romney held with supporters — thinking no cameras were on site — seems to me to clarify something about his behavior last Friday.

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Friday September 10, 2010 · 6:58 PM PDT

2010/09/10 · 18:58

I suppose I'm a bad person, but I'm tired of it. Yes, I remember 9/11. I remember thinking the world would be forever changed as I knew it. Honestly, I don't think I've watched the Today Show since, just because at some level I associate it with the tragedy.

I remember watching the planes hit the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon. I remember grieving. And I still grieve for all those who died in such horrible circumstances.

But the world did not forever change as I knew it. Bad things happened. Good things happened. Life happened. For me, for my kid (now two), for the country, for the world.

Magenta

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 2:49 PM PST

2008/11/05 · 14:49

Sometimes, like any parent, I think I do the worst job ever. They watch too much TV. I don't always find proper time to read with them. I don't always think I'm a great example.

And then ...

Poll

38 votes Show Results

Are my kids the coolest ever?

38 votes Vote Now!

Are my kids the coolest ever?

You're their mom, you have to say that.

5 votes

Kids are inherently uncool.

2 votes

They're smooth, but 40s kids were better.

0 votes

Cool cats, but 50s kids cooked.

0 votes

Groovy, but 60s kids were far out.

0 votes

Outta sight, but 70s kids were copacetic.

1 vote

Totally awesome, but 80s kids were tubular.

3 votes

Phat! But it was those 90s kids who kicked it.

1 vote

Pretty damned cool kids.

26 votes

And here is where they've put us ...

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Monday November 03, 2008 · 4:29 PM PST

2008/11/03 · 16:29

So, at dinner today, we had our usual pre-election discussions. And my son, who today proudly chose Barack Obama on the front of the Scholastic magazine, was clearly embarrassed. He had heard news about Barack Obama. And he worried it might change our mind, and we'd already voted.

Turns out Barack Obama is a baby killer.

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Monday September 08, 2008 · 8:41 PM PDT

2008/09/08 · 20:41

I have found enormous comfort today in the "gloom and doom" diaries. People are bemoaning that Democrats aren't wielding the bat, and I would have agreed. Yet, in reading the specific criticisms, I find myself heartened by the brilliance of the Obama Team. I find myself making comments and realizing that the Democratic Party is reviving rhetorical forms we've nearly forgotten in the decades since the 1980s. We're so used to the techniques that have worked for the Republican Party since the days of Reagan that we don't understand that there are other effective ways of attacking the opponent that have worked for millenia.

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Monday April 21, 2008 · 11:08 AM PDT

2008/04/21 · 11:08

Given that the idea that race will be a bigger factor in Pennsylvania than will sexism, I thought I'd share my perspective as a native of the Pittsburgh area. The issues of racism in that state are different than those in the South, I think, and I have seen many people confused by it. This is my take on things, so grain of salt and all of that.

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Wednesday March 19, 2008 · 7:52 AM PDT

2008/03/19 · 07:52

I have long liked Obama, although was never fully in his camp, but I have to say that his speech yesterday was deeply moving to me.

There was something so refreshing about hearing someone admit that they love someone, count them as family, embrace their good points and still recognize that the person can have deeply flawed views of the world. And it made me cry as I thought of my very special great-aunt.

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Monday February 11, 2008 · 1:49 PM PST

2008/02/11 · 13:49

Randi Rhodes has never been my favorite among liberal talk show hosts, I'll admit, but her show used to be OK. But I listened for a half hour today, and she was just terrible and way off the rails.

There were a bunch of things that annoyed me about her little diatribe today. Being an Edwards supporter, the last annoyed me the most, but I'll go as I recall things in chronological order.

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Tuesday January 29, 2008 · 10:44 AM PST

2008/01/29 · 10:44

I am still for Edwards. I prefer his rhetoric and attitude about what's to come in the general and in changing the country. Please don't use this diary to try to persuade me onto the Obama bandwagon. I'm strapped in and happy where I am, at least unless my candidate leaves the race. If y'all can dream and hope, so can I.

Nonetheless, I like to share news that will make people happy, and as mad as I get at some of the Obama supporters (and other candidate supporters, for that matter), some of you are quite nice and will enjoy this. :)

So, a "real-life voter" story my mom shared with me follows.

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Thursday January 10, 2008 · 7:47 AM PST

2008/01/10 · 07:47

I don't often write diaries. I certainly never thought I'd find myself writing one that would get me into the candidate wars. But this Edwards is playing Nader nonsense seems to be spreading, and I feel a need to respond.

The great irony of equating Edwards to Nader because he is staying in the primary is that it buys into the greatest fallacy of Nader's own third-party run: That if we elect a Democratic candidate it will be just as bad as electing the Republican.

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Wednesday October 31, 2007 · 11:35 AM PDT

2007/10/31 · 11:35

OK, I realize that 9/11 was supposed to kill irony, I didn't realize it had to kill all understanding of sarcasm and humor.

I watched the Kucinich answer. He was joking. Yes, I saw something I couldn't identify, aka a UFO, and now I'm opening campaign offices in two of the best known sites of UFO lore. It was a sarcastic answer to one of the stupider questions in debate history, a high bar indeed, but that one shattered it.

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Wednesday August 15, 2007 · 10:59 AM PDT

2007/08/15 · 10:59

According to the Columbus Dispatch, my U.S. representative and one of the worst of the Bushbots may not seek re-election in 2008.

Mary Jo Kilroy nearly won this seat in 2006 (it was in recounts for weeks), and she would be the favorite against anyone the GOP might put up. One possible candidate, Steve Stivers, however is an Iraq veteran. With luck, the GOP will turn instead to former Attorney General and Auditor Jim Petro.

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