What's Up with all the Corporate CEOs addressing the republican national convention??

[avaistheone1]

The corporations are not masking their control and influence on government.

Does anyone have memory of seeing anything like this before? I sure haven't.

[NV Whino]

1. Taxes

Obama wants to tax them. More.

[HughBeaumont]

18. Good. Gravy Train's OVER.

Screw these people. They were given the keys to the kingdom, the tax breaks and perks. Did they hire more people and invest as a result, as "Trickle Down" dictated they would?

Well, I recently read an article stating the super rich were cashing out and hiring . . . well, does Hyderabad count? Because there sure ain't no hiring happening here.

Gee, sorry Meg. Looks like you won't be buying that 9th mansion this year? Oh wait, you STILL will, because you have more money than fucking GOD ANYWAY, ASSHOLE!!!! Like a tax increase is going to make one damned bit of difference in your life. PLEASE!

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[Mojambo]

2. Well, it IS their party. n/t

[avaistheone1]

9. What is up next the Walmart song?

[avaistheone1]

30. They are certainly bold in terms of their profile and the role they play now.

It is hard to imagine if the fascism the merger of corporate power and the state could be any more complete than it is now.

[Eric J in MN]

3. I can't cite any previous examples of CEOs who were never candidates...

...for public office addressing a major party convention.

[avaistheone1]

8. I agree all other CEOs addressing conventions I am aware of serve in public office or in the past.

It is bizarre to have these CEOs at the podium. They are basically like having lobbyists addressing the convention.

[Eric J in MN]

4. duplicate

NT

[sniffa]

5. Who better to relate to the American voter?

That's right, a CEO.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. They have to get out there and protect their interests...

The repukes will somehow try to manage to paint their bulls**t in a way that will look like they are looking out for the working guy.. RIIIIIIIGHT.

Don't these people know that ultimately, the more taxes the corporations pay, the less the average person will have to pay..and vice versa.

[Overseas]

7. Help !! Carly Fiorina is saying the exact opposite of the truth !!

Why is it that Republicans talk like Democrats to get elected then screw the people and rob them blind again and again?

She attributed all the Democratic values to John Sidney McCain III; said he would get them for us.
When she knows and you know and I know that Barack Obama is the one who will make those things happen because he understands the wisdom for the long term in enriching the middle class and sharing the wealth. It's ecologically far more sustainable, too.

Idiot lady pretends the Republicans have business sense even as we sit here in our Clobbered Economy.

She ruined our country. She could help Bush write his memoirs -- Wanton Destruction, part II. Well, we don't want Wanton Destruction III. No thanks.

Go Home Miserable Failure Fiorina.

[avaistheone1]

11. She hurt Hewlett-Packard and they showed her the door.

[HughBeaumont]

21. "No Job Is America's God Given Right Anymore"

Someone should post that sign in her face wherever she goes, so that she's reminded of the idiocy and cruelty of that statement.

Problem is, in her Welchian "fuck you, I gots mine" mind, she'll never see herself as cruel or idiotic.

Tough Choices indeed.

[progressivebydesign]

25. Gawd.. when are they going to stop trotting out the women? this is embarasssing! N/t

[avaistheone1]

29. Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina all former CEOs without any government experience

endorsing Sarah Palin a women with limited government experience and no executive experience.

[meow2u3]

10. They're the true base of the Greedy Oppressive Plunderers

They're the ones who benefit the most from the repukes, at the expense of the rest of us.

[avaistheone1]

23. Mitt - one of the greediest men in the room

He made his bucks by buying out a bunch off companies, laying off employees and plundering their assets. Quite a businessman.

[kwolf68]

12. Is weird

I guess after Flat-Earth Freda gets done tonight no one will remember this part of the show.

[avaistheone1]

16. lol love Sarah's new nick.

[kwolf68]

13. Is weird

I guess after Flat-Earth Freda gets done tonight no one will remember this part of the show.

[grateful581]

14. yep, it sure shows that the republican party is the party of the people

:sarcasm:

[avaistheone1]

27. Let's fight government dependency

by corporations. It is toxic poison.

Maybe we could start with FNMAE.

[Scooter24]

15. Nothing says "Connected to the average joe" like a good group of CEO's!

For God sakes, they could have at least picked some that didn't get fired for incompetence.

[valerief]

17. Fascism at its proudest. nt

[avaistheone1]

19. Drill, drill, drill. Drill baby, drill.

this message sponsored by Exxon.

[Borgnine]

26. And the Palin family, apparently.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

20. Their idea of winning middle America.

[avaistheone1]

22. Liberal eastern elite?

Would that include the Wall Street Journal??

[Overseas]

24. Mittens McMillions is pretending that he and John Sidney McCain III are fighting the elites !!

Those darned East Coast elites-- like from Massachusettes.

He's bragging on the strong U.S. economy !! Exhortations from the Kingdom of those Blessed with Wealth.

Carly and Mitt and Whitman -- they just want us to escape those liberal elites. They say we've just gotta be strong like them and not expect that damned Medicare and Welfare and stuff.


Major Lies designed for cued laugh lines.

Brazen ugly lies all stacked up. No can do.

Pretending they care, telling US to be tough.
Gee thanks, dear billionaires.
I'll keep that in mind.

[Liberal In Texas]

28. Because we all admire rich corporate big-wigs?

And really respect their opinion? And want to be like them?

Well, the GOP is the party of multi-national monopolistic corporations, I guess.