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Subscribe to RSSThe New York Times: Facing turmoil in the Middle East, ongoing military action in Libya and the threat of a government shutdown within days, Mr. Obama conveyed his political intentions in an understated Internet video titled ‘It Begins With Us,’ which features his supporters talking about the need to re-elect him. ‘There are so many things that are still on the table that need to be addressed. And we want them to be addressed by President Obama,’ a woman named Gladys from Nevada says. Mr. Obama does not appear in the two-minute video, which directs visitors to Barackobama.com.”
The Washington Post: “The formation of a reelection committee will allow Obama to begin collecting cash for what is expected to be the most expensive campaign in political history. Obama raised $750 million in 2008 and is widely expected to meet or exceed that total in 2012.”
Politifact notes that of the 506 Obama promises it’s tracking, the president has so far kept 134. Another 219 are “in the works”; 41 were broken; 40 he compromised on; 70 have been stalled.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), an Obama friend, said he’s “not soliciting” the DNC chairmanship on NBC’s Meet the Press.
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Unless Obama can lower gasoline prices a dollar a gallon from where they are now, he has no chance of getting elected. In the end, the American people will not "buy" his alternative energy solution.
Instead of announcing he is running for another term, Obama should make a speech indicating in the best interest of the American people and the country, he will not seek a second term. Obama has mismanaged the economy while engaging in reckless spending that has mortgage the future of all Americans especially the next generation. Obama has not taken decisive action to stabilize the middle east which is a region of critical importance to the American people and economy. Obama rammed into law a healthcare bill the American people did not want he did so with secrecy and underhanded tactics to buy votes.
Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Democrats believe in big government and intrusive regulation. They believe in taking from the people who work hard and get educated to achieve and give it to the people who do not try to better themselves.
We need to end all of the wasteful and inefficient government programs to make it easier for people to live off the system than to be productive members of the economy. I am tired of paying taxes to pay for the person in the checkout line in front of me using food stamps to buy food only to follow that up with using a large amount of cash to by cigarettes. I am tired of paying taxes so government workers can get salaries and benefits far beyond what I get in the private sector. I am tired of paying taxes to support people who have little incentive to work and achieve. Our government is dysfunctional, inefficient, and to big. It is our huge, dysfunctional, and wasteful government that is holding back our economy and job growth.
Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Democrats rammed into law a healthcare bill the American people did not want and will do little to lower costs. I am tired of paying more for healthcare because I am subsidizing the smokers and others who make lifestyle choices that are not consistent with good health. If we would allow healthcare insurance rates to take into account VOLUNTARY lifestyle choices we could reduce the burden on people who make healthily choices and give incentive for people to stop making the unhealthy choices.
All of the programs that make it easy for people to not work or not try to better themselves must be eliminated. If we want job growth we need to eliminate all of the burdensome regulations and useless paperwork faces by business and we must reduce the number, amount, and complexity of all the taxes paid by business and individuals. One place to start with spending cuts would be the outrageous salaries and benefits paid to must public employees that greatly exceed the private sector.
Or government even inhibits the work of the non-profit sector with piles of useless regulations and paperwork. The large cost of complying with those regulations and completing the mountains of paper only takes away from the service these organizations provide to the community.
Our representatives vote on legislation they do not understand or have not read. They add unrelated PORK to bills that are mainly concerned with issues where it would be political suicide to vote against. Why not have every elected official sign-off that they have read and UNDERSTOOD an issue before they are permitted to vote? Those sign-offs could be scanned into the public record and put on a public website.
Our representatives have a sense of entitlement that must be eliminated. If a law applies to the American People, it should apply to our elected officials and that includes things like social security, pension, and healthcare. Our government is wasteful and dysfunctional.
We must continue to VOTE THEM OUT!!!
AngryMobVoter
You start out complaining about the high price of gasoline but nowhere in your rant do I see what you propose we do about lowering it. President Obama recently set a goal to reduce foreign imports by one third over ten years. He called for more domestic production (isn't that what Republicans wanted?) as well as switching public buses from oil to natural gas. If the President had called on Americans to conserve energy you would have compared him to the right's favorite whipping boy, Jimmy Carter. Republicans ridicule the Democrats' efforts to develop alternative energy like wind, solar and ocean turbines, and conserve energy, then blame Democrats for high gasoline prices. I am afraid an AngryMob is not very rational. I don't want you setting our nation's course.
Spoken like a true patriot. Where were you patriots when "W" was running up the Chinese credit card you like talk about so much now that he is out of office. Selective memory is a terrible disease. GET TREATMENT! THAT was the dysfunctional, huge, run-a-way spending you meant, right? It was that and the tax giveaway to the creme-de-la-creme of the wealthy elite that put us behind the 8 ball and the Finacial industry greed shot the cue ball to break it all up at the end of "W's" reign. Remember?!
And speaking of bought elections let's talk about 2000 and 2004. Nevermind. Over it. Again, any voices screaming for sanity when Cheney said that deficites didn't matter. Regulations keep big business from raping God's green earth (think KOCH) and it's people (ditto). Healthcare is a work in progress and we will all pay for it. I just don't want my healthcare dollar going into an insurance execs pocket. Pork? Republicans are like boars at the feeding trough when the cash is flowing into their buds hip pockets (think HALLIBURTON for the last 10 years).
We need Americans who care about the nation as a whole not just one little corner of it. What works for the angry mob voters is NOT a one size fits all lycra number dude. Jump on board the Obama train or get run over by it.
AMERICA LIVES IN THE HEART OF EACH OF US! To say less individually or collectively is to reject the responisibility of citizenship. We have to stand up in retort to each lie maliciously spread by the likes of the angry mob voters amongst us.
None are so blind as those who will not see. Yep ole Missy knows her bible.
Obama is good about talking about "goals" but he never actually does anything to solve any problems. Everything he does seems to end up costing the American people more.. The time when alternative energy will make more than just a small dent in the energy needs of America is a long way off. Meanwhile it is the American people who are suffering with high gas prices.
Electric cars are not practical for the average American and will not be for some time.
We need to end the reckless spending and endless taxes and regulation. Obama doesn't need a second term to ruin America. He is doing a great job a destroying the well-being of the nation in less than one.
We must continue to VOTE THEM OUT!!!
As I recall, gasoline was through the roof when GWB was in office and Republicans didn't seem to mind paying high prices then.
Thank you Amy for putting Mob in their place! I will donate another $1 to the pot for President Obama!!!
"Republicans ridicule the Democrats' efforts to develop alternative energy like wind, solar and ocean turbines, and conserve energy, then blame Democrats for high gasoline prices."
Amy, your statement is flat wrong. if we had allowed domestic production of oil reserves in Alaska and otehr places, the price of oil would be lower.
Democrats so-called efforts for 'alternative fuels' are ripping off the taxpayers of tens of billions , and producing nothing.President Obama laughingly called for 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015, but the Government Motors Volt sold but a few hundred last month. There are less than 2,000 electric cars on the road, of 154 million gasoline cars.
The President's statements are not rational.
No one wants these boondoggles, the govt wasted billions to favored unions and Obama cronies, to produce an electric toaster.
Bob -- if we allow domestic production of the oil reserves in Alaska,
1) that petroleum isn't suited for the US market -- it would be sold on the international market.
2) OPEC regulates how much oil is produced, so if we use up more of ours, they will use less of theirs. (And once we run out, we can't "produce" any more.
3) It takes about 10 years to get a program up and running...that's two and half presidential terms. If President Clinton had started a program, would President Bush have continued it? If President Carter had started a program, would President Reagan have continued it? Unless we are committed to more than 10 years of going in the same direction, it can't be done.
High gasoline prices are driven by Wall Street speculators. PERIOD. GREED is the reason for the season of the gouged AMERICAN public.
I'm sorry, Bob, but it is you who are flat wrong. Don't you remmeber T. Boone Pickens saying we can't drill our way out of this?
" if we had allowed domestic production of oil reserves in Alaska and otehr places, the price of oil would be lower."
Canada and the UK are oil exporters, and yet their gasoline prices are as high as ours. Katie is right, the oil goes into a global pot and that is what sets the price.
Obama is good about talking about "goals" but he never actually does anything to solve any problems. Everything he does seems to end up costing the American people more.. The time when alternative energy will make more than just a small dent in the energy needs of America is a long way off. Meanwhile it is the American people who are suffering with high gas prices.
Electric cars are not practical for the average American and will not be for some time.
We need to end the reckless spending and endless taxes and regulation. Obama doesn't need a second term to ruin America. He is doing a great job a destroying the well-being of the nation in less than one.
We must continue to VOTE THEM OUT!!!
If we had started working on alternative energy back in the 70s like the Democrats wanted, we would have over 30 years of R&D behind us and possibly would already have been off of the oil teet. But no, oil companies wanted to keep drilling and spilling so they could rape the American public of their hard earned dollars. The Republican/TP Inc. party is the oil companies' paid enabler.
If not now, when?
angry mob voter
let me remind you that when gw was in office sen grahm changed the way oil was traded on commodities market and now we have prices which are controlled by speculaters and not demand, and we must address this problem. as far as president obama being elected, ask the people in wisconsin, ohio, indiana, michigan , new jersey, if they would vote republican again. their new republican govs have only been office for months and they want them out now. I vote obama and so will the country!
I don't think the Obama supporters can add. The reckless spending favored by Obama has put us in a hole we may never be able to get out of. We will never have robust job creation with the number and complexity of taxes and regulation. Obama doesn't need a second term to destroy America. He has achieved that in less than one.
We must continue to VOTE THEM OUT!!!
It is up to the citizens in a Democracy to make the right economic choices, and political decisions for our nation to move forward. The President can help lead us into the future however, the citizens must have the will to participate in the process. All citizens must be willing to sacrifice fairly economically however, over the "Brainless Bush" years, this was not the case. In Wisconsin, the light of "Political Power" of the Progressives was not on. The President is correct! It is the political responsibility of the people to step-up to defend their Democracy. Time to roll-up the political sleeves President Obama because, the GOP/RNC have their sleeves rolled up. In Wisconsin the speed rail was shot down, and the greed of big oil was embraced by "Whacky Walker." President Obama must continue his push for Green Energy Technologies, and the reliance on foreign fuel sources is going down the road to economic ruin.
Republicans are still trying to understand how we came together to elect President Obama,they still think GW was a great President!!!!! Well if you were rich,you would say he was great. Blame my President Obama for everything.That's all fox news and their tea-party followers do. Just mis informed folks and racist.