Dem Chris Coons: "The Making of a Bearded Marxist."

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Dem Candidate Coons Comes Under Scrutiny in Delaware Senate Race

"While most of the attention in the Delaware race to win Vice President Biden's old Senate seat has focused on the Republican candidate, Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell, her Democratic rival, Chris Coons, is now coming under scrutiny -- a development that could give O'Donnell's lagging campaign a boost.

Coons, 47, has already been targeted by Republicans for an article he wrote for the Amherst College newspaper when he was 21 -- a piece entitled "Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist."

Coons wrote about his political evolution from a conservative college student who founded the Amherst College Republicans into a Democrat suspicious of America's power and ideals..."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/17/days-decidedem-candidate-comes-scrutiny-delaware-race-bidens-old-senate-seat/

What the heck. If we're going to have all this bashing of what O'Donnell did while she was in high school, I guess it's only fair to look at what her opponent did while he was in college. Right?

[billvon 3,120]

>I guess it's only fair to look at what her opponent did while he was in college.

Of course. Get a copy of that paper, and if it's in the public domain (it probably is) repost it.

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This is news again? It was out in May.

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This is news again? It was out in May.

Coons wasn't running against O'Donnell in May, and the media hadn't yet focused on a few dumb things that she said in high school. So I guess turn-about is fair play.

I know I never said anything stupid in high school.

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There's plenty of dirt to go around if they want to play that game. She held out on paying for her college, had to be sued for the balance, pait it almost 10 years later, and finally graduated 7 years after that (just in time for her Senate run).

I don't think she wants to go down that path. I hope she runs on the issues, because I'd rather she be destroyed on the issues than on her past. And, based on what I've heard and read, she's likely to be destroyed, because she's weak on the issues, and it appears that she's weak on past.

I supposed they could say that she's sorry about all that stuff in the past, but it doesn't seem to work for other candidates

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[rushmc 23]

Hell
We already know more about O'Donnell than we do Obama

go figure

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[wmw999 2,589]

What makes you say that?

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[rushmc 23]

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What makes you say that?

Wendy P.

The level of the medial anal exam is much different depending on how favored you are by said media

And the favor usually follows along party lines

That is what makes me say that

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[wmw999 2,589]

So you think that the "liberal media" are better investigators than the folks who seem to be spending a whole lot of time looking for dirt on liberals? And with all the dirty laundry that's been aired on other liberal politicians, maybe it's just that Obama doesn't really have all that much really dirty laundry. The closest one can come is that the former minister of his church isn't politically correct

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[rushmc 23]

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So you think that the "liberal media" are better investigators than the folks who seem to be spending a whole lot of time looking for dirt on liberals? And with all the dirty laundry that's been aired on other liberal politicians, maybe it's just that Obama doesn't really have all that much really dirty laundry. The closest one can come is that the former minister of his church isn't politically correct

Wendy P.

Nope
just selective reporting

which has been demonstrated many times

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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So you think that the "liberal media" are better investigators than the folks who seem to be spending a whole lot of time looking for dirt on liberals? And with all the dirty laundry that's been aired on other liberal politicians, maybe it's just that Obama doesn't really have all that much really dirty laundry. The closest one can come is that the former minister of his church isn't politically correct

Wendy P.

He's a terrorist, but that is beside the point . . .

The liberal media has more source to pull from. They have more avenues to explore, if they want to, because of their contacts.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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>The level of the medial anal exam is much different depending on how
>favored you are by said media

You must have missed the following then:

"Obama was born in Kenya"
"Obama's minister is anti-American"
"Obama aides were lobbyists on other people's payrolls"
"Obama threw her grandmother under the bus"
"Obama would often just vote 'present' instead of taking a stand"

Since you yourself posted on some of these - and posted links to the media source that supported them - I have to assume you're just misremembering.

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>The level of the medial anal exam is much different depending on how
>favored you are by said media

You must have missed the following then:

"Obama was born in Kenya"
"Obama's minister is anti-American"
"Obama aides were lobbyists on other people's payrolls"
"Obama threw her grandmother under the bus"
"Obama would often just vote 'present' instead of taking a stand"

Since you yourself posted on some of these - and posted links to the media source that supported them - I have to assume you're just misremembering.

Sometimes even the liberal media has to do the right thing.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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>The level of the medial anal exam is much different depending on how
>favored you are by said media

You must have missed the following then:

"Obama was born in Kenya"
"Obama's minister is anti-American"
"Obama aides were lobbyists on other people's payrolls"
"Obama threw her grandmother under the bus"
"Obama would often just vote 'present' instead of taking a stand"

Since you yourself posted on some of these - and posted links to the media source that supported them - I have to assume you're just misremembering.

What is more interesting is the timing of the reporting of most of the topics you list dont you think?

And when I talk about the media I am specifically talking about NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FOX and NPR.

Some are different yes, but generally speaking

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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I hope she runs on the issues

Like mouse brains?

[wmw999 2,589]

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Like mouse brains?

Works for me

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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>What is more interesting is the timing of the reporting of most of the topics
>you list dont you think?

Yes, it is. They surfaced right before his election. The Coons/O'Donnell stuff is surfacing right before their election. Similar in both cases; interesting indeed.

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>What is more interesting is the timing of the reporting of most of the topics
>you list dont you think?

Yes, it is. They surfaced right before his election. The Coons/O'Donnell stuff is surfacing right before their election. Similar in both cases; interesting indeed.

Surfaced is one thing
But that in not really what is being talked about here now is it

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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>What is more interesting is the timing of the reporting of most of the topics
>you list dont you think?

Yes, it is. They surfaced right before his election. The Coons/O'Donnell stuff is surfacing right before their election. Similar in both cases; interesting indeed.

Surfaced is one thing
But that in not really what is being talked about here now is it

Well it does look like the Marxist thingjust surfaced AGAIN. I hadn't heard it before. I think it is a lame attempt to stir up emotion outcry and fear because of the name Marx.

I'm not saying it is justified or not.

I'd rather he be voted out of office and a conservative be voted in on the platform of cutting spending.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[billvon 3,120]

>But that in not really what is being talked about here now is it

Well, you were talking about timing; it was similar in both cases. The vitriol directed towards Obama by the media was many orders of magnitude greater than the coverage of this election, but:

1) it's a state and not a national election and
2) it may get worse with time.

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So you think that the "liberal media" are better investigators than the folks who seem to be spending a whole lot of time looking for dirt on liberals? And with all the dirty laundry that's been aired on other liberal politicians, maybe it's just that Obama doesn't really have all that much really dirty laundry. The closest one can come is that the former minister of his church isn't politically correct

Wendy P.

Nope
just selective reporting

which has been demonstrated many times

It's also clearly proven to be a non issue now, as the GOP paid blogosphere has been highly successful in making up big issues out of thin air.

Even if we tacitly presume that the networks are commie reporters, along with CNN, Fox plus skilled use of the internet is now more than capable of getting a valid story out into public consciousness. Or an invalid one.

And is often the case with this sort of thing, they clearly are better at it than the Left.

[rushmc 23]

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So you think that the "liberal media" are better investigators than the folks who seem to be spending a whole lot of time looking for dirt on liberals? And with all the dirty laundry that's been aired on other liberal politicians, maybe it's just that Obama doesn't really have all that much really dirty laundry. The closest one can come is that the former minister of his church isn't politically correct

Wendy P.

Nope
just selective reporting

which has been demonstrated many times

It's also clearly proven to be a non issue now, as the GOP paid blogosphere has been highly successful in making up big issues out of thin air.

Even if we tacitly presume that the networks are commie reporters, along with CNN, Fox plus skilled use of the internet is now more than capable of getting a valid story out into public consciousness. Or an invalid one.

And is often the case with this sort of thing, they clearly are better at it than the Left.

On cable maybe
But cable news does not reach the majority of voters




........ yet

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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wasn't obuma close friends with a terrorist bomber ?

[Andy9o8 2]

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wasn't obuma close friends with a terrorist bomber ?

hay did u no his name is husayn or some arabee thing like that. and hes born in congo too.

[billvon 3,120]

>wasn't obuma close friends with a terrorist bomber ?

I think so! And didn't Bush hire Obama to fly one of the 767's into the Twin Towers? Or paid him to do it or something.