Politico has the article Paul Ryan booed at AARP conference.

Speaking to an audience of seniors in New Orleans, Paul Ryan was booed after he called for a repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, and faced one of his frostiest crowds since joining the GOP ticket.

Maybe we old folk aren’t as dumb as Paul Ryan thinks we are.

As long as I am getting nostalgic about Portland, Oregon, I thought I would post this to remember it by.

and finds a Jewish Synagogue.  He meets the Japanese Rabbi and introduces himself as an American Jew.  The Japanese Rabbi says to the America, “That’s funny, you don’t look Jewish.”

In my family that was a hilarious joke.  Perhaps you have to be Jewish to appreciate it fully. However, after enough of us had been “complimented” by acquaintances with the phrase, “But you don’t look Jewish”, this was our way of laughing at other people’s ignorance.

What has this got to do with politics? Well, if you saw last night’s debate between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown, you would see the connection.  Scott Brown said that he was absolutely positive that Elizabeth Warren was lying about her Native American heritage because she didn’t look like a Native American.

I half expected Elizabeth Warren to say, “Let me give you a lesson in biology, genetics, and blonde hair dye.”

Could Scott Brown be so ignorant of women to think that Elizabeth Warren does not look like a Native American because she has blonde hair?

The image below shows Elizabeth Warren in her pre-blonde stage.

I used to just love hearing the name of a popular and excellent singing group in Portland, Oregon, Pepe & the Bottle Blondes.

When Pepe & the Bottle Blondes appeared on the same stage as Pink Martini, then you had an unforgettable musical evening.  How I wish I were back in Portland, sometimes.

MSNBC has the article and video The story of the waiter and the wealthy scion.

Krystal Ball tells viewers the tale of the waiter “with a small cell phone camera and a whole lot of idealistic chutzpah” who is responsible for the footage that made the private 47 percent comments public knowledge.

I was somewhat disturbed by reading what I thought was the commentator’s name displayed continuously throughout the clip. “Krystal Clear”, come on, what a silly stage name. Then I realized her “real” name was Krystal Ball, I thought well that’s better, you know like Lucille Ball? Then I said “Krystal Ball” to myself several times, and said, gee that’s even worse.

Anyway, thanks to CarolG for emailing me the link to this video.

This post has been superseded by the subsequent post Senatorial Debate Between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown.

The new post has the entire debate in a single video.

This post has been superseded by the subsequent post Senatorial Debate Between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown.

The new post has the entire debate in a single video.

I suppose different people will take away different thoughts from this poster.

I thank Joel Hanson for posting this on Tangelia Sinclair-Moore’s Facebook page.

Here is a reminder that I received.

I’ll miss the debate tonight because of a prior engagement, but I will view it on C-SPAN later and I will post it on this blog.

I have been urging the campaign to do this, and they have been promising that it will happen.

Finally there is an Elizabeth Warren Campaign Online Store.

I like the headline NBC News releases full Obama ‘redistribution’ video, Romney campaign in trouble from the Examiner article.

At MSNBC the headline is In rest of ’98 clip, Obama speaks of ‘competition’ and ‘the marketplace’.

Thanks to Tangelia Sinclair-Moore for posting all of this on her Facebook page. This is where I first heard about the full video.

My reaction to Tangelia’s post was:

It’s beautiful the way the Republicans are getting sucked into a debate that they cannot win. It is about time we have a discussion about whether we should redistribute wealth upward by awarding lower tax rates for passive income over earned income, or we should keep the income where it was earned by having the same tax rate structure for all kinds of income.

If you are worried about the poor people who depend on income from investments that they made with their earned income, then we can keep the capital gains rate for capital gains and dividends for all those families earning less than $250,000 a year. This would confine the tax break to where it is really deserved and needed.