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SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/04/2012 10:32 PM Report

If what Ed says about assault rifles and a hundred round clips has any positive impact on you then please watch this video and sign the petition:

http://www.mycuentame.org/gunwar

IRISH  08/04/2012 06:02 PM Report

Most comments solidifies my impression that Amuricans will never have the intelligence to avoid the great sucking sound of the toilet taking USA down the pipe. Only a dictator can knock heads in the USA political and economic environment. Corporate Amurica owns government and courts and will be the only winners and remainders will be exemplary wusses.

tabs  08/03/2012 06:56 PM Report

Posted to the Charlie Rose Board on 07/27/2012 11:20 AM

American Society promulgates the use of violence as a means of resolving ones problems. At the core of the Liberals abdication of moral responsibility is their blaming inanimate objects for this malaise instead of dealing with the core causality. To the Liberal mind it is as if an inanimate object supercedes an indivduals responsibility as it has control over the actions men take. Further passing more Gun Laws serves as political theater rather than a useful recourse in solving the core issue of violence. This in the end is just more Liberal delusional thinking, hypocrisy and or just plain being disingenuous.

Dasein  08/03/2012 04:53 PM Report

So Mr. Democrat thinks BO'B wins in the electoral college. When are we going to have Mr. Republican on? And Mr. Republican's opinion on the election. And especially who is the "smartest man" he knows. I'm not holding my breath.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/03/2012 02:28 AM Report

"Wuss" in the urban dictionary:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wuss

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/03/2012 02:24 AM Report

Yes, if I put $150K into Medicare and get $450K out then it won't last very long.

Go to CNN and watch Fareed.

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/16/watch-gps-special-saving-health-care/

Pay special attention to Taiwan and their Medicare-like-system with a smart card.

COST CONTAINMENT!

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/03/2012 02:17 AM Report

Ed, it is not just the tax cut in payroll taxes of about $800 for the average American.

It is only the insurance refunds with Obamacare's 80/20 rule.

I got almost $500 last month.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/03/2012 02:15 AM Report

Ed--Guns, Gays and God.

Trigger points win elections.

Go against these trigger points and what happens Ed?

People eat a record amount of chicken sandwiches in one day.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/03/2012 02:12 AM Report

Ed is a good guest and has lots of interesting things to say.

Perhaps he does not understand that in the Republican Party you have to run as a two-face or you lose.

Perhaps he needs to be reminded that in many red states the primary is the election and that which follows is a waste of time and money.

marxthegreat2  08/02/2012 11:23 PM Report

Neulich ich lerne Schokolade Eisbombe machen.

richard-lipscombe  08/02/2012 09:20 PM Report

America lacks guts? America lacks leadership? no! no way!

America lacks a sense of urgency - it has become complacent about its position in the world... why and how? simple, it continues to rework bad public policy decisions in the hope that this time they will be successful...

what Rendell says here is largely self-serving nonsense...

there are many great leaders throughout America... Governors, Mayors, Senators, Congress representatives, etc...there are school teachers, community workers, union officials, public servants, fire fighters, police, christian, muslim, etc .... all leaders...

BUT the American people have become too 'self centered' and too willing to receive a handout...who can lead a rabble of people who think that not taking a government handout is to rob their family of what is rightfully theirs..the notion of rights and entitlement has become a modern disease that is rotting America from the top down...

Obama is a leader - he is good leader for his poltical base - that is why he remains popular and could win this election even though he should not given his stated goal to change Washington and his abject failure to do so...Obama have proven himself to be an incompetent President because he is a naive and a weak politician...Pelosi, Reid, and Emanuel ran the show for 2 years now the tea party does...

Rendell is a show pony Democrat who potentially has a great future in the American media...he says a lot that seems to make sense until you sit back and unpack it and then you find it is just more of the same... blah, blah, blah.....

cheers, richard.

Phil_Ehrezz  08/02/2012 09:05 PM Report

Let me start by saying that I am astonished that anybody would care what Ed Rendell thinks, let alone consider buying that book that he's been hawking. I'm truly amazed that his 'alleged' sordid antics from his 'Philly daze' have not caught up with him,..at least yet.

Maybe it is the 'democrat thing',..where no matter what a democrat may do,.. it is either instantly forgotten or chalked up as normal democrat politician behavior. How he got from DA to mayor and then to governor without his past haunting him still amazes me,..more accurately,...it scares me.

Back in the late 70s and 80s, I had heard from more than one person that Ed Rendell loved his cocaine and hooker parties. I had heard these stories from a number of different and unrelated sources at different times. As I recall - none of those sources seemed to have any kind of axe to grind. It was all just presented as 'matter of fact' small talk back then. I could not then, or even now figure out a motive or malicious intent to cause these sources to lie. As I said before - it was just part of the 'small talk' that surfaced during any conversation about Ed Rendell's antics 'back in the day'. I did not personally witness Mr. Rendell snorting and cavorting, but the 'word' back then was that he was very friendly with certain drug dealers, pimps and hookers in Philly. Allegedly, Ed wasn't into highline hookers back then, he preferred the 'nasties'. Then again maybe that's all he could score,.. the same goes for his 'pals', no high echelon hoods for Eddie,..he went 3rd class all the way,...allegedly.

As one young lady had put it - Old Ed (allegedly) loved him some 'chocolate' girls. "So what,..it was such a long time ago", some might say. Granted,...it was a while back. Besides, what's the harm in a District Attorney 'allegedly' frolicking with drug dealers and hookers? Yeah,..let's cut him some industrial strength Kennedy-type slack.

So what is my motive in writing this comment? Well 'Ol Ed just made another needlessly snarky comment about President Bush - 'hiding out in the National Guard'. Now had Charlie Rose challenged that remark, instead of smirking his silent approval,... I probably would have held back on writing this comment. I respect anybody that has been in any branch of the service, but playing by Ed's rules one could say 'Ol Ed hid out in the Army Reserves back in '68. President Bush 'only' flew fighter jets, while "Rompin' Rendell" worked in the "Area Studies Team" - a sort of a lightweight planning commission that 'examined how foreign nations can rebuild after times of war or crisis'. Sounds pretty dangerous there Eddie,..the paper cut casualties must have been tremendous back in '68. Ed Rendell also tried to 'puff up' his own service record. Back in 2002 there was a Rendell commercial that showed a U.S. Army Class A dress uniform emblazoned with ribbons and medals, as some faceless narrator mentions Edward G. Rendell's service in the Army Reserve. The commercial directly implied that those were Fast Eddie's medals. Ed was trying to cash in on all that post 9/11 patriotism, so what if they tweak the facts. A pretty sleazy commercial, considering that those were not Eddie's medals or uniform. Let us again purposely forget all that, because,..well Ed's like a uh,..you know a democrat, and they can get away with that kinda thing.

Ed, we've heard more than enough crap spill out of that ripped pocket, and we're tired of looking at that white spittle that collects in the corner of your lips - Come on man,..it's been there since 1977. Now don't go and get all emotional there Ed, prove that you're not one of the 'wusses' that you wrote about,...take it like a man.

cinemafred  08/02/2012 08:50 PM Report

Ed Rendell is a person saying a heap of true stuff about our federal elected staff that they and every voter should listen to twice. I think the government stagnation would breakup and we would would be able to progress in a great manner. Good thoughts Governor.

REMant  08/02/2012 11:39 AM Report

The 2nd Amendment exists to protect American liberties through force. It ought to include tanks and warplanes. I am confident an amendment to change it would never get anywhere, and if the courts ever move to whittle it further, they will likely be on the receiving end. The fellow in Aurora, as in Blacksburg, was under psychiatric care, and I think if it weren't for political correctness and the great liberal concern for privacy, he would have been encountered long ago, likely never received the grades and funding he did, and this is what really rankles the do-gooders.

The Democratic ex-mayor, ex-governor and DNC chairperson I find would also like to scrap the Electoral College to benefit urban concentrations of largely Democratic voters.

A flat income tax coupled with negative provisions would take care of all of our welfare needs, simply and fairly. But would cross all sorts of vested interests, and we'd soon find we couldn't afford it without some sort of inflation besides.

No matter what else he did, Kerry spent damn little time as a "swift boat" captain, and IMHO he did it with a political career in mind, the latter offending me more than the former. I felt compelled to vote for him to stop the war Mr Rose, et al, started, and I'm sure I was not alone. "Wuss" himself or not, Rendell spent the Vietnam war in the reserves as well.

Obama deferred to Congress IMHO because ppl like Reid, Pelosi and Kennedy left him no choice. I sometimes wonder whether he has any control over the depts of state and defense yet.

The reason for the collapse of the middle-class is the very same as the Democratic remedy for it, the principle of which no election is going to change. Does he propose a national chain of slot-machine parlors to make us great again?

The book appears to be mostly a memoir despite the title, which, of course, derives from the snowstorm football episode, though wussification appears in his mind to be synonymous with building railroads and interstates, the lack of maintenance of which I'd attribute not to taxpayer rebellions, earmarks, or lack of sexiness, but simply that it is cheaper to build new somewhere else, and we've never thought ahead enough to figure in repairs anyway, as Tocqueville observed 150 years ago. I suspect that's exactly what he wants us to do: build shiny new stuff, much like "the greatest generation," who also built the suburbs and shopping malls to which city dwellers fled, when the money printed money to do it raised city rents to astronomical levels, simultaneously creating the commuting problem.

But I understand where he's coming from. I complained myself a generation ago that Americans had stopped building things except ballparks in corn fields, however this is not a problem govt can solve, except by ending welfare patronage and inflationary economics. As I said the other day, national socialism benefits from such crises.