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The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd shares details from the latest NBC News/ WSJ poll, which is the first national one after the conventions.


neither party did much to advance their agenda although NBC did everything but pull Obama's pants down and give him a Lewisinsky to try and make him look like he has a clue. Glad you gotta a job lots of us out here don't!
Count your day’s, Ladies & Gentlemen of established or traditional passionate political acumen. The (until currently) esteemed and respected folks whose careers are based and rely on the status-quo of the traditional political agenda will almost overnight feel like the bottom dropped out across the board on politics-as-usual. Of course it sounds like I’m just some other hopelessly demented online Cold War-esque Jared Loughner-type 99’er ‘victim of the system’ trying to stalk and lash out in a crudely misdirected manner, a twisted jealous/resentment based rage to take down some media-fame image of those who I identify with what’s to blame and the like who just needs to get a job and a life ("Whew!").
Sure, the system until very recently, "worked" well enough to get us from point ‘A’, to point ‘B’ in the human evolutionary ladder, but now it’s almost time to take off the Training Wheels that are hindering our full-blown Ballz-To-The-Wallz performance curves (doing all the more so as time goes on) from really kikin’-in the After Burners, pull out all the stops, and blow everybody away clean into the next Millennia- "And beyond!!!" But the children are understandably concerned that if the Training Wheels come off We The People won’t be able to keep balance, we’ll fall and, LORD forbid, crash and burn, while chaos will surely ensue.
Beware that counter-intuitively, the more mentally accomplished, stronger and more determinedly driven one’s innate disposition from birth, the more determined effort such apply, like a simple Chinese finger trap toy, what feels like and effectively has the very same equal amount of restraining force will mysteriously put a stop to those former abilities on which they’ve long relied dead in their tracks. There are other time leveraging, profits over debts/costs factors converging simultaneously that spells an unshakeable end of tenably marketable time worldwide all at once. That compounds and seals the deal when that GIANT ‘Atomic GMT Clock’ in the sky strikes the hour, the Bells will toll, and the BIG BILLS will simply come due without any room to make any adjustment as before to the debt ceiling without discrediting the very social and economic morals and ethics to which We The People supposedly aspire.
Mean and pointlessly dispirited seeming and uninspiring initially, but it’s just how The Almighty Creator built us all. So we could be duped into being duped, into being duped to believing it’s actually our individual lives in a hastily perceived and over-simplified version of Survival of The Fittest chase to be first to get to a ‘There’ goal- that isn’t. We’ve most all long known life is a journey to which you never can ever, "arrive". "Cabische?-!"
"Come quickly. Look and see. We have found the Christ!"
Ree- hee- hee- heely? So just who’s supposed to be, "We" in that emotionally charged but ill-considered statement???
Yeah, so tell this former ‘devout’ atheist who was raised by same all about ‘IT’.
Well, it's simply a matter of atheist-loving, thoroughly logical, or 'Scientific Lab Controlled Environmental Obervation & Systematic Documentation' process of deduction, taking as many matters, aspects and perspectives as possible into account possible type thing.
As in it don't matter if one determedly sticks with their belief system regardless. Devoutly religious or spiritually oriented, thru to the most ultra-skeptical, "NO- WAY- EVER IN A MILLION YEARS!!!" atheist that walks or 'low-crawlz' the Earth. Did i forget to mention the devoutly Satanic? Forgive me, mah' lady... :)
With a unique Latino influenced bongo and deep Congo sound that could wake the Maya, Santana jumps into their last of a stunning set before almost a half million transixed anti-establishment youth gathered for three days, "Occupying" (God forbid) Max Yasgur's massive cow-patty field, where many are just seeing and hearing Carlos for the first time. Sliding into an incredible solo by their deft drummer that winds down to an almost imperciptible, slow beat before bursting into the amplified base, and Carlos' guitar work. Then takes 'em to 'Church' with that synth-pulsing organ sound to finish off an exhilirating- Soul Sacrifice!
Oh, the deeper wisdom of Woodstock that's been lost to even those who were, 'There' (?).