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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #75 on: August 09, 2012, 03:40:57 PM »
yeah, very few people have a vote that matters at all

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #76 on: August 09, 2012, 03:49:54 PM »
yeah, very few people have a vote that matters at all


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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #77 on: August 09, 2012, 05:14:39 PM »
yeah, very few people have a vote that matters at all



swing staters do.  I do.  Kansans don't. 

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #78 on: August 09, 2012, 05:21:02 PM »
yeah, very few people have a vote that matters at all



swing staters do.  I do.  Kansans don't.

Especially these days.  Kansas is swining about as hard line conservative as possible. 

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #79 on: August 09, 2012, 05:29:26 PM »
yeah, I enjoyed the crap out of the KS and MO townie politics political ads last weekend. rough ridin' hicks. 

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #80 on: August 09, 2012, 06:14:39 PM »
my vote in Oklahoma doesn't matter, but I still enjoy going to the polls and making passive-agressive comments to start arguments.

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #81 on: August 09, 2012, 06:29:17 PM »
yeah, very few people have a vote that matters at all



swing staters do.  I do.  Kansans don't.

It would be fun to live in a swing state, except for the ads.

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #82 on: August 09, 2012, 06:38:27 PM »
yeah, very few people have a vote that matters at all



swing staters do.  I do.  Kansans don't.

It would be fun to live in a swing state, except for the ads.

The ads would be the best part.

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #83 on: August 09, 2012, 06:47:56 PM »
yeah, very few people have a vote that matters at all



swing staters do.  I do.  Kansans don't.

No you don't.  Neither candidate cares about ks, ne, sd, nd.  Now MO on the other hand

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #84 on: August 09, 2012, 06:54:17 PM »
NC   :cool:
Ads suck balls. I now try the sd thing in my mind every time there is another ad. He had a thread about voting based on the reasons the ads said to vote. It was pretty good but died out. I guess it didn't play well with KS...sd, I was with you on that thread.

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #85 on: August 09, 2012, 06:55:38 PM »
NC   :cool:
Ads suck balls. I now try the sd thing in my mind every time there is another ad. He had a thread about voting based on the reasons the ads said to vote. It was pretty good but died out. I guess it didn't play well with KS...sd, I was with you on that thread.

I enjoyed that thread but we just don't get those ads here so I couldn't really participate.

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #86 on: August 09, 2012, 07:10:20 PM »
yeah, I enjoyed the crap out of the KS and MO townie politics political ads last weekend. rough ridin' hicks. 

my fave was one that was like, "HE SUPPORTED A COMPANY THAT WILL MAKE BILLIONS OFF OF OBAMACARE".

And it was Cerner, who employs a shitload of KC folks and is led by philanthropists who seem to genuinely want to make Kansas City a better place to live.

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #87 on: August 09, 2012, 07:14:23 PM »
The only ads I've seen have been for people running local townie positions accusing the incumbent, who in most other states would be considered as far right as you can get, of being too liberal.

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #88 on: August 09, 2012, 07:23:19 PM »
The only ads I've seen have been for people running local townie positions accusing the incumbent, who in most other states would be considered as far right as you can get, of being too liberal.

Unfortunately the ultra conservative/tea partiers have found out what most moderates in both parties knew for a very long time. Incumbents rarely lose to a challenger in a general election. It's much, much easier to win a primary where turnout will be low.

That's why you always see the real derp like state constitutional amendments for this or against that in off-year spring elections.

Of course there would have bee one less tea party member in the KS senate if Roger Reitz and Joe Knopp could have settled their pissing match without handing Reader an easy win.

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Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #89 on: August 09, 2012, 08:18:39 PM »
yeah, I enjoyed the crap out of the KS and MO townie politics political ads last weekend. rough ridin' hicks. 

my fave was one that was like, "HE SUPPORTED A COMPANY THAT WILL MAKE BILLIONS OFF OF OBAMACARE".

And it was Cerner, who employs a shitload of KC folks and is led by philanthropists who seem to genuinely want to make Kansas City a better place to live.

Yes, ridiculous. Also enjoyed the one Comparing the guy to a yorkie (and showing a pic of a yorkie). Good grief your constituents are rough ridin' inbred hicks if they are going for this crap.

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #90 on: August 09, 2012, 09:14:37 PM »
yeah, I enjoyed the crap out of the KS and MO townie politics political ads last weekend. rough ridin' hicks. 

my fave was one that was like, "HE SUPPORTED A COMPANY THAT WILL MAKE BILLIONS OFF OF OBAMACARE".

And it was Cerner, who employs a shitload of KC folks and is led by philanthropists who seem to genuinely want to make Kansas City a better place to live.

im not sure cerner stands to make any more money with obamacare than without obamacare.  if the government sucks at paying hospitals for healthcare then hospitals would have less money to buy crap from cerner.  but hey, who really knows, amirite guys?

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #91 on: August 09, 2012, 09:25:17 PM »
yeah, I enjoyed the crap out of the KS and MO townie politics political ads last weekend. rough ridin' hicks. 

my fave was one that was like, "HE SUPPORTED A COMPANY THAT WILL MAKE BILLIONS OFF OF OBAMACARE".

And it was Cerner, who employs a shitload of KC folks and is led by philanthropists who seem to genuinely want to make Kansas City a better place to live.

im not sure cerner stands to make any more money with obamacare than without obamacare.  if the government sucks at paying hospitals for healthcare then hospitals would have less money to buy crap from cerner.  but hey, who really knows, amirite guys?

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #92 on: August 09, 2012, 09:39:25 PM »
the reasons for cerner's current and future success were in place before obamacare came along.

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #93 on: August 09, 2012, 09:39:54 PM »
yeah, I enjoyed the crap out of the KS and MO townie politics political ads last weekend. rough ridin' hicks. 

my fave was one that was like, "HE SUPPORTED A COMPANY THAT WILL MAKE BILLIONS OFF OF OBAMACARE".

And it was Cerner, who employs a shitload of KC folks and is led by philanthropists who seem to genuinely want to make Kansas City a better place to live.

im not sure cerner stands to make any more money with obamacare than without obamacare.  if the government sucks at paying hospitals for healthcare then hospitals would have less money to buy crap from cerner.  but hey, who really knows, amirite guys?

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ok, well then i guess the ad is legit

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #94 on: August 09, 2012, 10:26:12 PM »
the reasons for cerner's current and future success were in place before obamacare came along.

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #95 on: August 09, 2012, 10:37:16 PM »
Hey guys, the point isn't whether or not Cerner benefits from health care reform, the point is this candidate was a dumbfuck becuse he was talking crap on Cerner (in tiny letters).

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« Reply #96 on: August 09, 2012, 11:01:53 PM »
Hey guys, the point isn't whether or not Cerner benefits from health care reform, the point is this candidate was a dumbfuck becuse he was talking crap on Cerner (in tiny letters).

eff cerner

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #97 on: August 09, 2012, 11:27:18 PM »
carnes gonna carnes

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #98 on: August 09, 2012, 11:41:35 PM »
the reasons for cerner's current and future success were in place before obamacare came along.

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Re: Reid v. Romney Tax Returns
« Reply #99 on: August 10, 2012, 08:37:11 AM »
Speaking of political ads

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The spot features a Missouri steelworker called Joe Soptic, who recounts how Bain Capital bought his plant and eventually closed it, costing him his job and health benefits. "A short time after that," he says, Ilyona Soptic was diagnosed with cancer. "I don't know how long she was sick and I think maybe she didn't say anything because she knew we couldn't afford the insurance."

He continues: "There was nothing they could do for her. And she passed away in 22 days. I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he's done to anyone, and furthermore I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned."

It's a sad tale, affectingly told. The production values are also excellent, courtesy of Priorities USA Action, Mr. Obama's super PAC that ostensibly doesn't coordinate with his campaign. But its notions about cause and effect are, well, novel.


Bain bought the struggling company GST Steel in 1993 and held the investment in a turnaround bid throughout Mr. Romney's tenure as CEO, which ended in 1999. He had been gone from Bain for two years when the mill went bankrupt, in 2001, amid a larger competitive upheaval that reshaped the U.S. steel industry. Mr. Soptic's wife died five years later, in 2006.

Mr. Soptic also revealed to CNN that when he worked at GST, his wife had her own health insurance policy through a thrift store job, which she lost after an injury in 2002 or 2003. By then he'd been hired somewhere else, but that plan didn't cover spouses.
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