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This election has exposed the

rmrd0000 — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:51:18 +0000

This election has exposed the hypocrisy of Republican Evangelicals.Obama was unfit because he was either a Liberation Theologist or a Muslim. Romney is a Mormon, a belief system labeled a cult by Evangelicals, yet Romney is acceptable. Acceptance of another faith goes against Christian Fundamentalist beliefs.

Ryan worshipped a Russian atheist. Ayn Rand did not believe in God. Rand did not believe the family unit was important, family was merely an option. Charity did not make sense to Ayn Rand. Ryan's connection to Rand should disqualify Ryan from receiving support from Evangelical Christians,

Because Romney and Ryan give lip service to Fundamentalist Christian views, Evangelical Christians will support a member of a cult and a supporter of an atheist

There was some Michael

Michael Maiello — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:11:33 +0000

In reply to Wonk Like A Man

There was some Michael Crowley line at Time that really irked me. Went something like, "nobody questions Paul Ryan's intelligence."A blanket statement that is simply not true.

No, he is not a "pathological

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:43:14 +0000

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No, he is not a "pathological liar" - he is a Sociopath, overtly lying to get his way.

Read the difference here:

http://www.truthaboutdeception.com/lying-and-deception/confronting-a-partner/compulsive-lying/types-of-liars.html

As for "psychopath", yes, the foo would shit:

http://psychcentral.com/news/2006/07/03/improving-the-definition-of-%E2%80%98psychopath%E2%80%99/64.html

As Letterman would say, "Know your cuts of meat".

Major media reporters are

NCD — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:28:06 +0000

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Major media reporters are smart enough to report or propagandize what they are told by the wealthy executives of the multi-national corporations who run or star on TV news as 'anchors' or 'pundits'. Very low on the list is educating viewers on actual facts, history or reality. The end for me came in March, 2003, when they cheered on 'Operation Iraqi Freedom', the invasion of Iraq, like it was the NFL playoffs. Many if not most Americans bought that portrayal, the trumped up unfounded reasons we went in faded into insignificance, winning was all important. TV news at best is nearly worthless infotainment, it has failed our democracy.

If anyone in the news media goes off the script, by, for instance, questioning the National Guard record of GWB, they wind up gone, - Dan Rather. We have not just a 'military-industrial complex', but a 'military-industrial-media-political complex'. If major media does report actual facts, as the New York Times, UK Guardian or the BBC often do, the facts are never discussed at length, or are rejected, ignored or forgotten as biased liberal reporting. Fox News makes up or spins facts and history to suit their ideology, and they earn very big profits doing it.

I think general innumeracy is

DF — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:54:17 +0000

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I think general innumeracy is a factor. It makes the ruse possible. I think there's also a need to find certain figures to hold up as examples of being "serious" and somehow above the partisan fray. It's why we still hear from people like Alan Simpson. The punditocracy has decided that Paul Ryan is a swell, clean-cut young man with a sensible fiscal head on his shoulders. I think there are certain figures who like being able to point to him and regard him in this way. It serves their needs. But it also serves the needs of those who want to put an Eddie Haskell face on Ayn Rand's ideology.

Whether he knew Rand's

ocean-kat — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:50:04 +0000

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Whether he knew Rand's beliefs or not, he could not have missed the fact that Atlas Shrugged is obviously anti-religion and very specifically anti-christian. About half the book is about her superman industrialist heroes, the other half of the book is an "analysis" and rejection of the christian beliefs held by the heroes' adversaries. There's no doubt Ryan is lying.

I assume that Ryan knew

Dan Kervick — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:33:10 +0000

In reply to Even funnier in the Britt

I assume that Ryan knew perfectly well that Rand is an atheist, and that his denial of that knowledge only further indicates that he is a pathological liar. Ryan is just another blue-eyed psychopath, an American Psycho for 2012.

Major media reporters are

Dan Kervick — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:29:17 +0000

In reply to Wonk Like A Man

Major media reporters are pretty dumb - in the political realm at least. The kind of person who is drawn to reporting on horse races is the kind of person who can't grasp or analyze anything of substance. If a politician proposes a budget of any kind, that must mean they know about numbers and stuff - which is awe-inspiring to horse race analysts.

Even funnier in the Britt

rmrd0000 — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:06:48 +0000

In reply to Wonk Like A Man

Even funnier in the Britt Hume interview was Ryan stating that he didn't realize that his heroine, Ayn Rand, was an atheist. Ryan now totally rejects Ayn Rand.The fact that Ryan read all of Ayn Rand's work and did not comprehend a simple well known fact, it speaks poorly of his ability to deal with complex issues like the economy.

Here's John Cohn and Mark

DF — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 22:53:22 +0000

In reply to Wonk Like A Man

Here's John Cohn and Mark Thoma on Paul Ryan's decided lack of actual wonkiness.