Michigan Attorney General Jennifer Granholm (Source: YouTube)
Former Michigan Governor and CurrentTV host Jennifer Granholm pumped up the Democratic National Convention crowd Thursday, giving an energetic and impassioned speech touting the number of jobs President Obama “saved” with the auto bailout.
She yelled, she pumped her fist and flailed her arms all about as she went on a pro-Obama tirade that was almost reminiscent of Howard Dean’s infamous outburst during his 2008 presidential run. The former Michigan governor went through an extensive state-by-state list of how many jobs Obama saved by bailing out the auto industry.
“America, let’s rev our engines! In your car and on your ballot, the ‘D’ is for drive forward, and the ‘R’ is for reverse. And in this election, we’re driving forward, not back. Let’s re-elect our great president, Barack Obama,” Granhold said.
TheBlaze recommends you watch her entire speech, but she starts getting really revved up at around 1:45 in the video below:
(H/T: Hot Air)
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blackyb
Sep. 7, 2012 at 3:17amThis woman must be in the middle of menopause. She really thinks she is doing something, or that someone is really listening to her loud and obnoxious mouth. She is a tool.
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mersey
Sep. 7, 2012 at 5:51amI’m sure that .001 percent of the American population who work for the unions at GM are eternally grateful to Obama, but the other 99.999 percent aren’t that impressed.
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KURT1010
Sep. 7, 2012 at 6:15amI think Howard Dean must have coached her !
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teddrunk
Sep. 7, 2012 at 6:30amTypical loud mouth air headed female. Go home and bake some cookies grandma, you’ve never accomplished anything for real in a man’s world. You were the state of Michigan’s token.
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americansfightingforcommonsense
Sep. 7, 2012 at 7:08amThe D stands for Demons, Devils, and Damned.
The R stands for Republic, Rebuild, and Romney/Ryan.
God Bless America with a Republican win!
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jhaydeng
Sep. 7, 2012 at 7:26amShe was just short of streaking across the quad!
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Detroit paperboy
Sep. 7, 2012 at 8:02amReverse is GOOD if theres a CLIFF in front of the nation……drive, not so much…….
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yougottabekidding
Sep. 7, 2012 at 8:03amIt’s always great to listen to successful people!
Oh wait she wasn’t, only a big mouth. That they have a lot of
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Detroit paperboy
Sep. 7, 2012 at 8:11amI really hope gas hits six bucks a gallon right before election day………the FOODSTAMPERS won’t pay that much to go vote for their pimp in chief………
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poorrichard09
Sep. 7, 2012 at 8:30amD is for disaster, depression. R is for recovery.
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Detroit paperboy
Sep. 7, 2012 at 8:30amAnd let’s remember who has been controlling Detroit, Michigan , and GM for fifty years ????????
DEMOCRATS AND UNIONS……..now how did she forget to mention that…….they destroyed it and we paid to fix it…….
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Detroit paperboy
Sep. 7, 2012 at 8:52amReverse is good, if you’re headin toward a CLIFF !!!!! I’m votin for REVERSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ERP
Sep. 7, 2012 at 9:08am“D” really stands for:
Dishonesty
Delusional
Disingenuous
Divisional
Disastrous
Dickweeds
Driving forward….over the cliff
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yougottabekidding
Sep. 7, 2012 at 9:12amDetroit paperboy
With your handle you live there.
One burning question – With all the democrate’s help, Is it still broken?
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hidden_lion
Sep. 7, 2012 at 9:42amI hate this lady. I am so glad she is no longer in charge in Michigan.
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Wildblue3
Sep. 7, 2012 at 9:55amPaperboy, to add to your comments: Reverse is exactly what’s needed.
Obama likes to say how Republican drove the country into a ditch, remember.
Well, He’s about to drive us off a bridge,…..
into a raging river, …….
right before a waterfall.
I think Reverse is DEFINATELY what is needed.
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thaynek
Sep. 7, 2012 at 11:27amSo now the great O did the bail out and Not Bush. Man I wish people would pick a version and stick with it.
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GONESURFING
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:40pmShe is just another stupid Obama loving socialist, totally clueless.
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badge02812
Sep. 7, 2012 at 5:42pmThe only thing missing from this nazi pig speech was the……..
SEIG HEIL OBAMA !!!!!!
SEIG HEIL OBAMA !!!!!
SEIG HEIL OBAMA !!!!
SEIG HEIL OBAMA !!!!!!!!
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Conservative2
Sep. 7, 2012 at 5:47pmYou are actually right, lucky us in Michigan, we had to endure 8 years of this Immigrant from Canada.
Oh Wait, isn’t that the country to the north that believes in Socialism?
Yup Tax and spend Democraps, first year she raised all kinds of fees, you name it she raised it. Second year more of the same. My yearly car tag renewals went from 38 a year to 138 a year but it was tagged and a temporary increase the she made permanent before leaving office. The the Unions, wow they got so greedy they managed to secretly unionize parental healthcare providers that receive funds from the state to help take care of their invalid child, they now have to pay Union dues! All and Many Many other sweat deals for the Unions, it’s all ok if you’re in a union otherwise sucks to be U.
Grandholm was such a great governor, she ended up on Al Gores’ channel………. I get the feeling she’d easily become a Monica Lewinsky to Obumer in a flash and even wear that same Blue outfit….
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RustyElbows
Sep. 7, 2012 at 7:11pmAnd I distinctly remember a speech made by Grandholm while Gov. of Michigan in which she leaned against the podium in a saucy way and declared that at the end of her term, the accomplishments made by her and the democrats in Michigan will “BLOW YOU AWAY”! We all know how that worked out………………
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RSHLUVER
Sep. 8, 2012 at 2:17amhttp://video.foxnews.com/v/1828493287001/dnc-rewind-untold-story-of-the-gm-bailout/
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voxpopuli2012
Sep. 8, 2012 at 9:44amBlackyB: Menopause? Perhaps, but I think that the source of the problem is that Granholm is yet another apostate Catholic democrat. Given the number of catholic politicans who govern contrary to their alleged faith present at the DNC, (Biden, Pelosi, Kerry, Menino, etc.) Cardinal Dolan probably should have read the prayers for Exorcism as his benediction.
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terriergal
Sep. 8, 2012 at 4:17pmWhat do you blame her inept liberal ideology on before menopause?
As a former Yooper, I am embarrassed for Michigan. Good grief. This woman is nuts.
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blackyb
Sep. 7, 2012 at 3:06amObama is a user. He is using these white American men and women to destroy this nation.
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mersey
Sep. 7, 2012 at 6:30amThis woman is the textbook definition of LUNATIC FRINGE.
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michael48
Sep. 7, 2012 at 9:55amocommie is a” jive@ZZ LUSH”….next…
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Sep. 7, 2012 at 10:05amKeep in mind she is a transplant only a U.S. citizen on paper only.
She is such a trooper for the DNC she brought her own bedbugs, Cockroachs and crabs.
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BlessedGirls2
Sep. 7, 2012 at 5:01pmDestroy what part of this nation? you people are never specific just general nonsense with no factual data!
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blackyb
Sep. 7, 2012 at 3:06amThey laugh at people like this woman behind her back for they know they want to see her in a headscarf and muslim garb. These people are using all the big mouths they can get. They are stupid for supporting this Marxist who has NO respect of womanhood. The women he allows close to him look like men in dresses.
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Detroit paperboy
Sep. 7, 2012 at 8:27amBlackyb, the thought of that hulking half woman Napolitano in a dress made me puke in my mouth, now a full burka with a little eye screen, yes……..
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kiwi1
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:58amI saw it live on CSPAN. It gave me a headache. Actually the whole night gave me a headache. All these people do is scream at their audience. Do they think if they Scream something loud enough, it turns their lies to truths. Or, are their supporters so stupid you have to Scream at them to get and hold their attention. I’ll bet they all Scream at their Kids. She was especially ridiculous.
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Apple Bite
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:52amCan you imagine 1000+ Chevy Volts revving their engines and catching fire at the same time?
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mersey
Sep. 7, 2012 at 6:31amAre there actually 1000 Chevy Volts on the planet?
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RightThinking1
Sep. 7, 2012 at 10:21amWell, actually, it would be “turning on their motors”, which would be pretty dull, until the conflagration.
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JimmyP
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:38pmGood one!
I see a Volt on the road and I slow-down or speed-up get a glance at the driver. It’s good to see what stupid looks like once in a while…
Jinny is a failed drama queen and she is the best they can get to represent the story?
Get a grip, people, the GM bailout was a UNION bailout; it violated bankruptcy laws left and right and GM’s stock will not likely reach levels any time soon to payback the taxpayers.
BTW, in bankruptcy, the tax loss-carryforwards of the dissolved corp dissappear. Not so with GM, $45 billion in lost tax revenue to be made-up by the muddle class was quietly allowed BY THE IRS (yeah, right – they did this on their own.)
BTW2, this was also done for other preferred gov’t bailout recipients.
BUt this is OK, because the o-bots have neither a care nor a concern for corporate welfare.
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Ohio4Tea
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:52amThose states have GOP governors who saved all those jobs!!!! How does Obama get credit!?!?!?
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rickroland
Sep. 7, 2012 at 3:10amNot only that, but she said Barak was the only one that helped the auto industry. Not true. The auto bailout started with GW Bush. Obama altered and expanded parts of it. But, because GW Bush started it, I guess the Dems *really* want to forget that part. Then again, the auto industry should have never been bailed out at tax payer expense, no matter which President signed on the dotted line to make it happen.
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ONLY4UANDME
Sep. 7, 2012 at 8:48amBecause Obama is the one who picked the winners and the losers. Remember the non union dealerships he closed. Remember your neighbor who bought a car using “cash for clunkers? So while all these UAW people sit up there and brag, remember who is going to pay the bills we get from China.
Remember the used car dealers that have less to sell because they crushed perfectly good cars that non UAW people usually buy. Most of all pause and remember the unemployed who had this shoved in their face this week. Also, did you see many SEIU signs being waved around? Could it be because Obama couldn’t help protect the Government workers Unions from the American People (union or not) who have awaken and are now supporting their Republican Governors who are working to save our country. Capitalism does not pick winners&looser. By the way did anyone hear of the auto makers making any changes so this does not happen again?
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Ohio4Tea
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:50amannoying……. extremely
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DIR
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:41amJennifer Granholm wants the country to rev it’s engine and ‘d’ – drive it over the proverbial cliff. Sounds like a great liberal move in the tradition of Granholm. The car is stuck in the sand and she wants to have it fully crash and burn. After it’s all distroyed, It’ll of course be Bush’s fault, as she inconspicuously tiptoes away from the wreck . The R stands for reverse as in reverse the car, turn it around and get it back on the road, head for the Amercan autobahn and let er rip. She’s not only delusitional, she’s nuts. She probably even see’s little green men lurking around her bedroom at night and thinks they are there because they want her. Sure! They are there because she’s nuts.
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Fabian_Hunter
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:37amCanada___ a place in our attic where someone tried to start a country but nobody should up-!!
Thank you CANADA for another NOBODY… Hey Jen___go watch some hockey… do it doggy style so your hubby can watch too…!
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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:36amAnd the asylum went wild…….
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michael48
Sep. 7, 2012 at 9:58amyou bet….4 choomers actually woke up….
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kalli
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:17amHow did Detroit get so desolate, granholm? The thug-in-chief didn’t save the auto industry…he saved his union thugs with taxpayer monies, and screwed the American people and the stockholders as well as putting many Republican dealerships out of business. Jobs were sent overseas. You’d think the union thugs would be upset about that, but they are suffering from libbyazz logic disease. What this thug-in-chief did was a lousy deal to the citizens, but you are too braindead to admit the truth. You people are psychologically incapable of being in office as you are the most naive and stupidest people in the country. Take a hike and go back to Canada.
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Gonzo
Sep. 7, 2012 at 9:15amI’m so sick of hearing how he ‘saved’ the auto industry. Between he and Bush, they gave GM $60 billion…$60 billion! I could keep the steam engine industry alive by handing them $60 billion of taxpayer money. How is throwing money at a problem considered an accomplishment?
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Sep. 7, 2012 at 10:14amI find it odd that Obama is doing exactly what Granholm did to Michigan raise everything in price forceing the working to leave to a better place leaving behind the slugs of society.
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BIGWUN
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:17amLet’s work on our “D”s, folks. D is for Doofus.
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Wool-Free Vision
Sep. 7, 2012 at 3:45amDemented
Delusional
Deceitful
Despicable
Dunderheaded
Degenerate
Deviant
Destructive
Dystopic
Desperate
Democrats
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Azzman
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:09amFunny. The only states she quotes are “swing” states. Notice the word swing in quotes.
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bmel
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:06amJenny no jobs strikes again workers unite-GM has about 47000 employees in the US.the pay off to the unions is going flat&they’ll want even more once a bluechip stock one I will add many municipalities-schools ect put their retirement into has been vamped by trumka-Obama and this airhead EX GovernoretteCharrlotte became the windy city it would seem and Obama and his hot air has really just showed us the color of his plans bait-switch channel ex presidents dead negligent homocidal psychotic Mass Senators and other Senate liars like J. Kerry-Is the Dem party now Allah’s party and one of Exclusion oh but not if you want to kill the un-born.Maybe if the sexual tendancy of the unborn could be proven they would’t love abortion so much..
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warhorse_03826
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:00amrev up your engines..why does that sound familiar…….
http://youtu.be/tlWZZSD4irM
Hopper: You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up! Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one and if they ever figure that out there goes our way of life! It’s not about food, it’s about keeping those ants in line. That’s why we’re going back! Does anybody else wanna stay?
[grasshoppers shocked - all the grasshoppers "rev up" their wings]
Molt: [motioning a fellow grasshopper] He’s quite the motivational speaker, isn’t he?
Hopper: Let’s ride!
yep, we belong to them..only so long as we don’t figure out we outnumber them 100 to 1. remember, the largest army in the world isn’t in china. it’s the american gun owner. and that’s the way the founders wanted it.
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MrsPotatohead
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:59amI drive a 2000 windstar because I can’t afford a new car because of unions.
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Azzman
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:12amThat’s a pretty nice car you got there. I have a bike because of Obama. I hate winters too.
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teddrunk
Sep. 7, 2012 at 7:30amA bike? I only have the handle bars thanks to the Obama economy.
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13th Imam
Sep. 7, 2012 at 8:41amI only have chains on me
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Sep. 7, 2012 at 10:23amI once had a home, 3 cars, 1 boat, 2 snowmobiles, a good job and then came Jennifer Granholm and then Obama. I became a homeless Veteran with nothing but the clothes on my back.
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BlessedGirls2
Sep. 7, 2012 at 5:07pmYou don’t have a car because of “unions”? Can you explain that with just a tiny bit of detail…
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BlessedGirls2
Sep. 7, 2012 at 6:47pmMrs Potatoe Head
You drive a 13 year old car because you are not skilled enough to have a job that pays you well enough to buy the car you want! simply math or in your case arithmetic!
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KickinBack
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:57amI remember Granholm running for her governor re-election bid on the notion that “I can’t fix it in four years…I need four more!” And she was re-elected…I also remember her spending her final year in office vacationing in Europe…Claiming that she was over there looking for jobs…
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Gonzo
Sep. 7, 2012 at 9:22amI didn’t watch her, but you could see her on stage during O’Reilly last night. She looked like a lunatic, waving her arms and jumping around.
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MrsPotatohead
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:57amMy husband and I left Michigan when this dingbat was governor running the state into the ground. My 5 grown children also had to move out of Michigan to find work. Dumbocrats always run everything they control into ruin.
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CatB
Sep. 7, 2012 at 8:25amAs did myself and my son .. luckily it was before the housing collapse but on the other hand the house was in Michigan so it wasn’t worth what it would have been almost anywhere else. What is left in Michigan? …what is left of the Unions and welfare people … other than that low paying jobs where people are barely if that getting by. PEOPLE YOU WANT TO SEE YOUR FUTURE UNDER A SECOND OBAMA TERM >>> look no farther than what Granholm and Progessives have done to Michigan .. a Republican governor is trying to put it on a better path and being fought every step of the way by the unions and welfare people… a large chunk of the state .. amazing that he got elected at all.
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deb810
Sep. 8, 2012 at 1:22ami am a Democratic and live near flint which was destroy by GM and Grandholm, im still here and my husband is a welder by trade and when GM went down here so did the welding companies,he is now back to work but not near our home we have to drive 30 mins away in which i have to drive him because he had some medical problems this year and can not drive for a few months,with the gas prices now it cost us 80.00 dollars a week,we have three kids and some weeks its hard to get by but we would rather do this then do nothing .thanks obama but no thanks for 4 more years,i am now voting Rommey,maybe someone like him can bring some jobs back to flint.
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v15
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:55amI’ve used the car is going off the cliff analogy….
So I agree that “R” is for “Reverse” as in “Reverse these past four years”
Regardless, I know the car is going off the cliff but I’m still very much in shock: A depression? Really? Maybe I should Google “The Great Depression” and read up on how people survived that because I really can’t picture how life will be in the next 5, 10, or 20 years down the road. It’s f-ing hard to be optimistic these days!!!
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cassandra
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:53amI’m surprized Jenny Granholm didn’t mention her good friend Kawammi Killpatrick one of the most corupt mayors of Detroit
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SCREW-WINDOWS
Sep. 7, 2012 at 10:27amYou mean the guy who said “They may as well lynch me as I cannot get a fair trial in Detroit”
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RepubliCorp
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:50amHey Babe…….. He didn’t save the auto industry
Ford didn’t need your saving
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Azzman
Sep. 7, 2012 at 2:20amAnd Honda, Subaru, Toyota, Nissan, Lexus, Infinity, Royal Royce, Suzuski, Mazda, Porsche, BMW, Benz, Range Rover, Audi, Tesla, Volvo, Fiat, Tata Motors, Jaguar, Kia, well maybe Opal… wow would anybody have noticed that (G)overnment (M)otors was gone?
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cassandra
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:46amJennefer Granholm allowed the SEIU to collect dues from people in MI that are colecting state aid for taking care of their disabled children AT HOME they do not belong or work for the union, this was stealing money from people and she knew it but wanted to give SEIU more money for votes so they made sure she was elected again that is how unions work, GREED<COURPTION and lies, typical democrates at work 32 million and counting stealing money from poor people for just wanting to take care of their children AT HOME
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marine249
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:45amThank God. its over.
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JesterJay
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:41amToo bad reving your engine get you a ticket for wasting resources.
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yiddishlion
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:40amIt’s not going to seem so cute when they discover that the D stands for damned, and the R stands for redeemed………….
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Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Sep. 7, 2012 at 1:53amThat’s just ridiculous.
We gonna pretend like Rule 12/16 didn’t happen?
We gonna pretend like the GOP isn’t suing to keep 3rd party candidates off the ballot?
We gonna pretend that the nominee could give a rat’s @$$ about civil liberty or the constitution?
We gonna pretend that Romney invented Obamacare?
Redeemed? I swear, sometimes people will say just about anything.
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yiddishlion
Sep. 7, 2012 at 6:22amWas that supposed to make sense? All I heard was, blah, blah, blah, I’m stupid, blah, blah, blah, I still am going to vote for my own destruction because I’m retarded, blah, blah, blah…………
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