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Subscribe to RSSThe Quinnipiac poll already makes the Columbus Dispatch: “President Barack Obama is still winning Ohio and two other key states considered essential to both candidates’ chances for the White House.”
The Columbus Dispatch takes aim at this new Obama campaign ad, “Worried”: The commercial is a marvelous example of how to employ accurate facts to create a wholly misleading picture. Yes, it’s true that Republican presidential nominee Romney wants to extend the 2001 and 2003 income- and business-tax cuts for all Americans. Yes, it’s true that Romney eventually wants to lower the top income-tax rate to 28 percent. Yes, it’s true that Romney wants to avoid cuts in defense spending. And yes, it’s true that Romney’s plan would add trillions of dollars to the nation’s publicly held debt. But what the commercial does not say is Obama’s plan — overwhelmingly rejected in May by the Democratic-controlled Senate — would also add trillions of dollars to the nation’s publicly held debt, which is from Treasury bonds bought by investors in the United States and abroad. The only difference is that Obama’s plan would not add as much to the debt as Romney’s… The best that can be said is that Obama is less reckless on the deficit than Romney.”
The Orlando Sentinel also has an item on the “Worried” ad: “Maybe the Barack Obama campaign is done with that ad that features Mitt Romney singing ‘America The Beautiful,’” it writes. “At least, the campaign gave us some hope Tuesday, announcing it was going up in Florida and five other swing states with an ad called ‘Worried.’ And it’s interesting, citing “two wars…tax cuts for millionaires…debt piled up” in a series of references to — as it becomes quickly apparent — the eight years of George W. Bush. … But a viewer might be excused for wondering: what happened in the past 4 years? The ad gives not a mention — or a clue.”
The ad is reportedly running in Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, and Florida.
The Sentinel notes the hundreds of people who were in line to get a seat to hear President Obama tomorrow.
The bust of Churchill-gate continues.
Good grief… “Tennessee state Rep. Kelly Keisling (R) emailed constituents ‘with a rumor circulating in conservative circles that President Barack Obama is planning to stage a fake assassination attempt in an effort to stop the 2012 election from happening,’ the Huffington Post reports.” (H/T: Political Wire.)
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Mr. Romney is George H. W. Bush on steroids, I really don't think the working middle class can survive another round like the one Bush/Cheney served up for 8 years. Most Republicans in Tennessee know they have the wrong candidate for president, but being the good sheep they are they will tow the party line and vote for him, even though they don't like or trust him very much. None of the Republicans running for office here even mention his name, kind of unusual if you ask me since Mr. Romney is supposed to be the one to bring home the big prize. It may actually have more to do with his religion in Tennessee and the South in general than the GOP would like to admit.
R-money is Bush redux
Romney is a cynical political chameleon. He is whatever the RNC wants him to be.
And Obama is Jimmy Carter, only worse. Four more years of Obama, and this country is bankrupt, kaput.
August 1, 2012
It's All about the Team. Time to Fire the Coach.
By Burgess Owens
As a 10-year veteran of the NFL, I had a unique perspective weekly
to see the heartfelt commitment of the fan. Regardless of years of
disappointing and winless seasons, the true fans remained die-hard in their
loyalty to "the Team." The true fans were capable of not only
painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets
and offspring after famous NFL all-stars
On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders
played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff game in Cleveland, in which the temperatures
plunged to -35 degrees. I remember looking up in the stands to see a dedicated
Cleveland Brown fan celebrating topless. I've often wondered if there was a
price that young man later paid for his rambunctious youthful zeal. Would there
be in his future some physical accountability for this fanatical commitment to
"The Team"?
I've since wondered: when does this type of loyalty and
willingness to sacrifice all that is dear begin? Does it stem from decades of
family tradition, a love of the team colors, or did his high school team share
the same mascot? The answer is found under the heading of pure emotion.
There was a different, visionary team commitment that guided the
black community at the beginning of the 20th century, best envisioned by
educator, entrepreneur, and founder of Tuskegee University Booker T.
Washington. He articulated a pathway, via meritocracy and capitalism, by which
the black community could experience independence and self-sufficiency. He felt
that respect and acceptance could be commanded from others through a good work
ethic, business ownership, and commitment to morality and to family. Washington
once stated, "Say what you will, there is something in the human nature
which makes one man, in the end, recognize and reward merit in another,
regardless of race."
Unfortunately, over the last five decades, far too many Americans
have lost the belief in the ideals of meritocracy and capitalism that once
empowered past generations of American visionaries. Now almost half of our
country's populace and over 90% of the black community cling in fan-like
loyalty to an ideology as reality-defying as the fanatical bare-chested young
man in Cleveland celebrating in the dangerously frigid -35-degree weather,
showing his dedication to "the Team," heedless of commonsense understanding
of the fundamentals of personal health and welfare.
Over the last 50 years, the black community has, en masse, worn
the uniform of an ideology that has left its communities and schools totally
bankrupt. Through decades of empty promises and investment of human life and
capital, it has shown a total dedication to an ideology whose strategy has
resulted in consistent and dismal losing seasons. Unfortunately, unlike in the
entertainment world of sports, where fans go home or simply turn off their wide-screen
and then debate what might have been, these losing seasons have had dire human
consequences that cannot simply be walked away from. These consequences can be
documented in every predominately black community where liberal and socialist
policies rule. From cities like Detroit, where the population has dropped by
25% over the last decade and 47% of those remaining are deemed functional
illiterate, to Oakland, where a liberal school board attempted to legitimized a
debased "urban" slang called Ebonics, highlighting its low
expectations of its minority children, to D.C. and Chicago, which alternate as
our country's murder capitals, these cities reflect the culminating impact of
citizens trapped in government-mandated hopelessness. They reflect the intergenerational
failure that has been embraced as the norm, with statistics of single black
mothers at an astounding 70%, where abortion profit centers find a welcome home
and take the lives of an average of 325,000 black babies each year since 1973,
where 50% of black teenagers are unemployed, and where a failed educational
system guarantees that far too many are unemployable.
The ideological teams of liberalism, socialism, and progressives
have been granted over 50 years to prove the validity of their strategy. For
Americans of all backgrounds who are committed to a successful outcome for
their fellow citizens, who won't settle for perpetual excuses, it has become
crystal-clear that it is time for a new coach and a new strategy. The message
in November to Coach Obama and his Democratic team needs to be...it's all about
the Team, and "Team America" is priority #1 with us.
The Difference with your thoughts and mine Sam - team American includes all of us, not just the 1%.
If the Huff PO reports is true, I guess we now have proof that any half-wit can get elected in Keisling's district. Are these people for real?
Unfortunately yes they are for real, Keisling is an idiot who probably got elected from folks who moved in here from somewhere else - not real Tennesseans. Sure wish they would move back to where they all came from and give me my home state back!
Their probably from Kentucky Union Baby. You know the ones who keep electing that idiot no chin Mitch McConnell.
Yeah team America,no jobs from the Republicans. BO 2012 J-MAL
Correct j. malbrough - and no jobs from the tax breaks the 1% received either, now how patriotic is that? Not at all, not at all. Just greedy as usual.
So liken him to a better President than he is. I see no problem.
Originally I would agree that Romney isn't Bush but since he has decided to side with the right wing nut job Fascist wannabes that favor the Bush Cabal he is no better than Bush.