Tuesday’s column: How to exploit the media bandwagon
AP Photo | Words by Dan
M E M O
From: The Democratic National Committee.
To: The millions of small retailers who voted for Barack Obama.
Re: A new way for you to increase sales while fooling the president’s opponents into funding his re-election campaign.
Dear business owner:
As you no doubt have heard by now, there’s a new cottage industry that’s blooming among small businesses. The most recent example occurred at a humble Radford, Va., cookie shop.
Last week, its owner told a Secret Service advance team he didn’t want Vice-President Joe Biden to visit during a swing through. The cookie baker went on TV to talk about that, and to criticize the President, after which his store was flooded with so much business it ran out of cookies.
This has sparked an idea for a clever new campaign strategy that will separate conservatives from their money while helping the president’s re-election campaign. It’s easier than taking candy from a baby.
READ THE REST OF THIS COLUMN HERE.
August 21, 2012 - 6:00 AM
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ~Aeschylus
Let the requests for your head on a platter begin.
Dan, do you honestly believe the bakery denied VP Biden thinking it would bring them business? Apparently, the Secret Service had no problem with the bakery’s decision, since they ordered food from that establishment.
Sounds a bit like sour grapes. Kind of like the Chick Fil A boycott.
I have a feeling if the shoe had been on the other foot and democrats were enriched by boycotting a conservative, you may feel differently?
There was a “boycott” of Disney because they had “gay day” (I am sure they called it something else), but the mere thought Mickey Mouse might cater to gays was an OMG moment for conservatives. Last I checked, Mickey Mouse and all his kingdom are still doing great.
“When musicians demand that Republicans stop playing their music, they are pandering to the kook left-wing fringe in order to separate liberals from their money”…said no journalist ever.
Just one teeny tiny problem with this plot: You’ll sooner find a unicorn munching a patch of four-leaf clovers than you will a business owner that supports President Moron.
Major league sour grapes here. It highlights just how unpopular Obama and Biden are.
BTW Dan, what state is Danville in? What century are we in?
And where is the blog on gas prices going UP (you know, like the one you did when they came-albeit very very briefly- down)?
All you libs can mount is ineffective demonstations at Chik Fil A’s and ineffective “occupy Wall Street”. Conservatism trumps liberalism again!
Dan, As usual just a little fact-checking would be helpful for everything on news-pages, even columns like yours. I think if you would check, the facts are that an advance team-member of the Biden staff asked about the cookie shop visit, not the secret service. The service agents may have checked out the place for safety, but not to arrange the visit. After all the agents are employees of the government and paid by tax dollars.
Thanks, John Cook
Good article as usual. I would like to add number 11. Some of that windfall should go to repay the creditors who were cheated out of their money in the 2009 bankruptcy which, horror of horrors, was authorized by our government for the protection of small business.
Barbara Peters
Young Radford Bakers Balk At Biden At Own Peril
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/08/young-radford-bakers-balk-at-biden-at.html
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A very young couple starting a bakery business in Radford VA were asked to host Joe ‘Put y’all Back in Chains’ Biden. They graciously declined the invitation based on comments recently made in Virginia by Barack ‘You Didn’t Build That Business’ Obama.
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Apparently word about this rebuff went public and viral and the young couple are having a short-term rush of good business.
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I hope they realize the peril they’re in. This slight will surely be repaid by the most vindictive politicians ever to occupy the White House backed-up by a street-army of the most unpleasant activists since the brown and black shirts of 1930’s in Europe.
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We can be sure that the modern equivalent of the SDS at Radford U and VT as well as those local good-old union folks will be cooking up unpleasantries as we type.
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The Wisconsin Governor Walker siege is proof positive of the capabilities of Obama’s Street Army.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/06/walker-wins-obamas-army-loses.html
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Dan
I LOVE your writing. You are by far the best in Roanoke and probably one of the best in the country.
That is the worst article you ever wrote(which still makes it good for the RT).
Satire has to have a hint of truth to be funny or effective. The Cookie Baker, contrary to your “marxist” and “birther” rant, was quite calm and rational about the Biden snub. He went out of his way to compliment the Biden staff as friendly and professional. He just had a philisophical and political difference with Biden and he didn’t feel comfortable having his store used as a Biden prop.
This guy would have been your hero if he had done this to George Bush because of opposition to the Iraq war.
Go after the car repair shops. They deserve it. Leave the cookie baker alone.
The two-party system has gotten so out of controll that where you eat and what you buy makes a poltical statement. Do you sheep realize what you’re being led to do? Quit polticizing every darn thing we do. We’re all Americans not brand promoters. Quit acting like two-year olds and being so vitriolic – its’ disgusting!
#1 – Great Quote, but that is the way liberals think. Selfishness. They would rather see him sink because of his political beliefs.
#6 “BTW Dan, what state is Danville in?”
Tell us what state Bedford’s in, Bob H.
See how that kind of thing can happen?
Sorry, Bob H, you asked for it that time.
1.It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ~Aeschylus
Shrapnel
That quote deserves to be read twice. Somehow the democrats skipped that lesson in character building class.
Hagen, I absolutely love how you link to your own insanity as a “source”.
Really, Sherry? Are you quite certain that Disney didn’t call it “gay day”? For the record, I would imagine witnessing the magic of a light switch constitutes an “OMG moment” for plenty of conservatives. They’re not the most urbane bunch.
The ignorance and hypocrisy of the business owners is astounding. They built a business, but it was not in a vacuum. They relied on community services, particularly when then recovered from bankruptcy. Also, for the creme de la creme of conspiracy theories, check out vigilantcitizen.com.
Sounds like a great plan to put a few extra bucks in the Obama campaign coffers. This years election is going to be a close one I think, and with Obama and Biden running all over the Commonwealth sticking their foot in their mouths they need all the cash they can muster for all those television ads they have to run to explain what they REALLY meant. If those two are allowed to continue to travel all over the campaign trail spewing out gaff after gaff, they could talk Romney right into office. They seem to be their own worst enemy nearly every time they open their mouths…the self destruction is kinda fun to watch.
I hope that the baker succeeds enough to pay back the people he stiffed.
#12 Darn good thing Repubs NEVER hope to see somebody sink simply because of their political beliefs.
PP, if you’re going to try to claim the high road, better make sure you’re not already stuck in the mire of the low one.
Politics aside, a picture of a sitting VP shaking hands with a family member is something to tell the grandkids.
16.The ignorance and hypocrisy of the business owners is astounding. They built a business, but it was not in a vacuum. They relied on community services, particularly when then recovered from bankruptcy. Also, for the creme de la creme of conspiracy theories, check out vigilantcitizen.com.
Comment by Robert
Robert
Republicans “rely on community services ” to build businesses.
Democrats “rely on community services.”
By the way, COOKIES will be served to the crowd when Ryan comes to Roanoke….by a certain Radford business.
Gdad,
I ain’t VPOTUS. Biden is. I guess he is still watching FDR on TV before there was TV and telling guys in wheelchairs to stand up. Or introducing Tim Kaine as the governor of the state of New Jersey, which was I guess understandable as Kaine asserts that Delaware (Bidens home state) borders Virginia and that he can see it from his house. Biden makes Dan Quayle look like a brain surgeon.
Maybe Biden should try that kind of faith healing on the economy that he and Obama have trainwrecked and he can get back the $600 million from Solyndra at the same time.
Biden is indefensible. But, keep trying. The attempts are amusing.
Obama insulted business owners everywhere and now he’s paying for it in a bunch of different ways. It’s great to see how much this stuff gets to the left wingers.
I hoped that the local student population in Radford might now boycott this twee little shop but the cookies are probably far too expensive for the average student to buy anyhow! Dan, I liked your column about your vacation from hell last week. Sorry to get all hippy-dippy on you but this is the Chinese year of the Dragon so everything is actually supposed to be chaotic. Will be glad when it’s over, unnerving…
Fun facts about Aeschylus (one of my favorite tragedians):
He knew full well the difference between prosperous and excessively wealthy: “For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
He was an environmentalist: “By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.”
He had no problem with bragging: “Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.”
He had a fatalist streak: “Call no man happy until he is dead.”
He didn’t care for hate: “For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness.”
He pulled no punches: “There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”
He expressed some moderate ideology: “Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.”
And finally, one to which we, in this age of spin and rhetoric, should pay more attention: “The words of truth are simple.”
No one has said that any business has to host, welcome, treat or support any politician. Just decline and keep your yap shut. When you make yourself an activist and share the “respect” you supposedly gained from the Secret Service or spend millions fighting equal rights, you invite the boycotts and push-back just as the right wing boycotts and push-backs that liberals and businesses who support equal rights have faced. I am just not sure who the liars think they are fooling here. Apparently it is each other.
#22 Dude is “milking” that one for all it’s worth.
Biden says some dumb things. But he will NEVER equal Dan Quayle, who will forever be king of the dimwit YPs.
Says you Dan. Biden is a gaffe nachine. He makes Quayle look like an astrophysicist. This guy is a laugh a minute. Biden graduated 76th out of 85 from the Syracuse College of law and claimed to be in the top half of his class and to have 3 degrees. The guy is a pathlogical plagarist and liar.
He couldn’t carry Quayles shorts.
@28 – I don’t know about that. Give him four more years and he will easily have that honor. He’s pretty close as it is.
I would easily drop $100 to be in the audience for him. Bet it would beat the Seinfeld show.
I wonder if business owners are the simple minded, mean spirited, casually dishonest folks you all are painting them to be. Lord, I hope you are wrong.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dan_Quayle/
Who are you kidding, BobH?
I can’t pick a favorite. Maybe the one about “verbosity”.
“The single best decision that I have made was selecting Joe Biden as my running mate. The single best decision I have made. I mean that. It’s true.”
–Barack Obama, October 15, 2010.
Obama is a genius.
The Obama campaign itself is a laugh a minute lately….check out what they are saying to excuse away the fact that Romney/Ryan’s crowd make theirs look puny by comparison….they are doing it intentionally…LOL..checkout the comments!!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/aug/18/obama-camp-we-are-intentionally-limiting-crowd-siz/
If they think the above is a good strategy….”it ain’t workin’” But, no surprise here…he is just handling the campaign funds the same way he has handled the economy….overspend, and then demand more.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/20/oh-my-romneys-cash-advantage-over-obama-grows-to-more-than-60-million/
My favorite Dan Quayle quote:
“I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.” Dan Quayle
Wow, just Wow.
Kristen,
I can double that number easily on Biden gaffes. It proves nothing. Biden is a Liar. He is an admitted plagiarist. He makes Quayle look like a saint.
Show me where Quayle plagiarized. Show me where Quayle claimed to have degrees that he didn’t have.
No contest.
Dan Quayle was right up there with Yogi Berra, who was the most hilarious utterer of screwed-up one liners in the history of the English language. But for a ballplayer to do it is onE thing. For a guy who’s a heartbeat away from the presidency, it’s quite another. Joe Biden isn’t even close. He’s said some dumb things, like what’s his name Akin.
Some Dan Quayle “greatest hits.”
“[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.”
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.”
“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”
“We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.”
“We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.”
“I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.”
“I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.”
“Mars is essentially in the same orbit… Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.”
“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”
BUT WAIT . . . THERE’S MORE!
“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.”
“Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.”
“I deserve respect for the things I did not do.”
“Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.”
“Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.”
El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.”
“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.”
“If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.”
“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
“It’s a very good historical book about history.”
“It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”
“My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.”
“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
“Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.”
“Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.”
“The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.”
“The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?”
“The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.”
“Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.”
“Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.”
“We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in ‘Red Storm Rising’.”
“When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.”
“When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.”
LOL Dan, I HAVE to admit that HW made a huge mistake in that pick….might be part of the reason he served only one term…and perhaps Biden will be part of the reason Obama does the same.
No doubt, Joe Biden is missing a check valve, but no one on earth “makes Quayle look like an astrophysicist”. Least of all Joe Biden. He is liked, and yes, respected, for a reason. Quayle, Romney or Ryan should hope for his likability.
History will tell the tale but so far, Biden is still in the 40′s on approval ratings and Cheney and Quayle…are not.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/polls-cheney-nears-quayle-as-least-popular-veep/
#23 You don’t see me defending Biden, Bob H. I’ve said more than once that I wish Obama had changed his VP choice. But Ryan is a scary wingnut.
Anyway, given your Bedford goof, the fact that you actually thought Bedford (or anybody else) was running a school system for a few hundred dollars per student, and numerous other gaffes you’ve made on this blog, I thought it absolutely hysterical you’d get on Biden for forgetting during a long campaign tour that he had just barely crossed the state line into Virginia.
Cookies are bad for your health. That being said. Eat up Ryanites. When you get sick, don’t look to me to pay for your healthcare. Oh, that’s right. It won’t be there if the nutbags elect R&R. No worries.
Gdad,
You are so full of it. Why is it the ONLY gaffe you can mention is the 4 year old Bedford deal and you have to go so far back into the past to get that? Is that any worse than your tax goof where Kaine was wanting to raise the sales tax and you thought it was the income tax? Or your famous “prove I didn’t say it” post?
Liberalism has eaten away at your brain.
Or for all of you humorous posters about Quayle- what about Biden’s LIES? The plagiarism? Are you ignoring that?
Not to be outdone, here are just a few of the gaffes of VPOTUS Biden:
– On Aug. 14, 2012, Vice President Joe Biden tells a Virginia crowd, Romney’s plan would “put y’all back in chains.”
– On April 26, 2012, Biden tried to riff on President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous quote “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far,” by saying, “I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you.”
– On Aug. 1, 2011, as a follow up to Democratic Rep. Mike Doyle suggesting that dealing with Tea Party and fiscal conservatives was like negotiating with terrorists, Biden reportedly piled on by saying, “They have acted like terrorists.”
– On June 26, 2010, Biden called the manager of a custard shop outside of Milwaukee a “smartass” after the man asked him to lower taxes. Biden made the comment after the Kopp’s Frozen Custard shop manager told him that his dessert would be on the house if he lowered taxes. “Why don’t you say something nice instead of being a smartass all the time?” Biden said a few minutes later.
– On July 16, 2009, an open microphone caught Biden saying, “This is a big f—ing deal” to President Obama during a Washington signing ceremony for the president’s health care law.
– On July 16, 2009, Vice President Biden gave a blunt summation of the administration’s approach to stimulus spending: “People, when I say that, look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?” he said at a stop in Virginia. “The answer is yes.”
– On July 5, 2009, in an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” Biden conceded that the White House team “misread how bad the economy was.” His confession came as unemployment hit 9.5 percent, despite the administration’s insistence that it would hold to 8 percent with the stimulus plan.
– On April 30, 2009, Biden gave advice on dealing with swine flu that seemed to contradict President Obama’s warning not to panic. Speaking on NBC’s “Today,” Biden, a longtime Amtrak rider who has commuted for decades daily from Delaware to Washington, D.C., said he wouldn’t advise family necessarily against going to Mexico, the source of the H1N1 outbreak, but he wouldn’t tell them to get into any small area like a subway car, automobile, classroom or airplane.
“I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places right now,” Biden said. “It’s not that its going to Mexico, it’s that you are in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes, it goes everywhere through the aircraft. That’s me.”
– On March 13, 2009, Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying, “An hour late, oh give me a f**king break,” after he arrived on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president’s expletive was caught on a live microphone.
– During a Feb. 25, 2009, interview on CBS’ “Early Show,” Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site’s web address, Biden could not remember the site’s “number.”
“You know, I’m embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?” he asked an aide standing out of view. “I should have it in front of me and I don’t. I’m actually embarrassed.”
– At a Jan. 30, 2009, swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff, Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on Inauguration Day.
“Am I doing this again?” Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff — and not cabinet members — the vice president quipped, “My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts,” prompting a stern nudge from Obama.
– On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering crowd of supporters, “Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart.” Justice John Paul Stevens — not Stewart — swore Biden in as vice president.
– When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 15, 2008, Biden said, “Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.”
– In a Sept. 22, 2008, CBS interview, Biden misspoke when he said Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929.
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened,” he said. Herbert Hoover — not Roosevelt — was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented in 1929.
– During a Sept. 12, 2008, speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to “stand up.”
“Oh, God love ya,” Biden said, after realizing his mistake. “What am I talking about?”
– At a Sept. 10, 2008, town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Biden said, “Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.”
– Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the “lieutenant governor” of her state during a town hall meeting on Sept. 4, 2008 at George Mason University in Manassas, Va.
“I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in the debate,” Biden said.
– Biden said he was running for president — not vice president — during a Sept. 1, 2008, roundtable discussion in Scranton, Pa.
“Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president to put aside the national politics and focus on what’s happening down there,” Biden said.
– Biden referred to John McCain as “George” during his vice presidential acceptance speech on Aug. 27, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Co. “Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip,” he explained.
– Biden confused army brigades with battalions when speaking about Obama’s plan for sending troops to Afghanistan.
“Or should we trust Barack Obama, who more than a year ago called for sending two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan?”
– During his first campaign rally with Obama as his vice presidential running mate on Aug. 23, 2008, Biden introduced Obama by saying, “A man I’m proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!”
– On Jan. 31, 2007 — the day Biden announced his presidential bid — the Delaware Senator was roundly criticized for calling Obama “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Voluminous……. and there are many, many more.
#44 “Is that any worse than your tax goof where Kaine was wanting to raise the sales tax and you thought it was the income tax? Or your famous “prove I didn’t say it” post?”
I haven’t the slightest idea what you’re talking about. I don’t remember these but I’m sure you can link to them. Go ahead.
I go back to the Bedford post because it’s the one I remember. You argued several times about how right you were about Bedford spending just a couple hundred dollars per student. I don’t keep a file of your gaffes, but numerous times in the past you’ve been caught misreading or misinterpreting and we’ve had to straighten you out. It was a running joke for a while.
Bob H, thank you for taking the time to compile these Joe Biden gaffes. There are some gems here. I read them all.
Do you truly believe that they constitute evidence that Joe Biden is dumber than Dan Quayle? Sure, some of these quotes are dumb (like the FDR TV address, or calling for the guy in the wheelchair to stand up), and some are dumb things to say (there is a difference).
But hardly any of them have that Yogi Berra quality that you can detect in Dan Quayle’s natterings.
BobH, so Biden curses once in a while or sticks his foot in his mouth? BFD. Your little list is NOTHING like the reams of babbling inanity that Quayle put out there. Nothing at all.
“We are a part of Europe”. LMAO
The comedy of the right wing calling out anyone for ignoring anything is not to be missed! Being able to wear the blinders and not see anything that does not mesh with your mantra is a right of passage for right wingers. It is such an art, that science studies it.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/low-effort-thought-promotes-political-conservatism-new-study-says/
Some other notable VP’s and VP candidates…Walter Mundale,
AL GORE..(flunked of of divinity school at Vanderbilt…His old man bought him a seat at Harvard) Didn’t Al Gore predict end of the WORLD in what another 3 or 4 years due to GLOBAL WARMING. (for those on the left climate change now). I think the Washington Post just wrote global warming has come earlier than expected..
and who can forget the Haughty one John Kerry (served in Vietnam) selection The “BRECK” guy John Edwards…a true class act.
Just one teeny tiny problem with this plot: You’ll sooner find a unicorn munching a patch of four-leaf clovers than you will a business owner that supports President Moron.
Easily the funniest comment on the board. Suzie destroys the column in one sentence.
Believe it or not yet another jason/Suzie, I do know a few business owners who support Obama. I’m not opining on their wisdom in this post, but there are a few.
Weird, just weird.
JW and yaj. I know more than just a few businessmen, both small and large, who are supporting Obama. They just don’t happen to fit in Michael Howdyshell’s social circle at the Shenandoah club and RCC and they don’t fit in with Suzie’s faux rich group or her Kaffee Klatsch.
#51 You can’t “destroy” anything with a lie like that, suz…er, YAJ.
Of course there are business owners who support President Obama. Some people do think they own certain groups, but that is not true. Even in tiny Radford, just a few doors down from the cookie preacher is a Democratic supporter of Obama. It is not rare. Ever heard of Microsoft, Google, Starbucks, or Costco?
Someone’s not getting enough attention these days.