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Subscribe to RSSCHICAGO, Ill. -- Secret Service agents, bomb-sniffing dogs and police cordons usually mean a high-level politician or dignitary is nearby.
For the residents of a certain Kenwood enclave, it also means the neighbors are back in town. That was the scene Sunday evening on a certain stretch of Greenwood Avenue here as President Obama hosted some of his closest, $40,000 check-wielding friends for the first-ever fundraiser at his home.
Yuri Gripas / AFP - Getty Images
President Barack Obama walks through the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago on Sunday.
Standing in a corner of the front yard of his classic Georgian-style brick home, the president greeted around 75 supporters sprawled out on his manicured green lawn, the lushness of which the president commented on.
“I have to say, the lawn hasn’t looked this good in a while. But I figured, but at least Michelle figured, that if everyone was coming over we ought to neaten up a little bit,” he said.
Speaking from a small stage that was surrounded with a small hedge, the president made light of the fact that he was once again asking his deep-pocketed donors to pony up.
“Being friends with a politician is a little bit like having a child perpetually in college because every so often you’ve got to write a big check. The good news is I’m about to graduate,” he joked as the crowd laughed.
But the comic asides did contain a serious undertone – that Obama is locked in a brutal spending war with his Republican rival Mitt Romney, and is currently being outspent.
Paul Ryan welcomed home with massive rally in Wisconsin
He cautioned his guests that the next three months of the campaign were not going to be easy, referring to, as he has frequently in recent appearances, the Olympics to make a campaign analogy.
“I just want to remind you this is not going to be a race like Usain Bolt where we’re like 40 yards ahead and we can just start jogging 10 feet before the finish line,” Obama said, name-dropping the famed Jamaican sprinter. “We’re going to have to run through the tape.”
After the quick stop at his own home, the president went back to once again being a guest as he attended two more fundraisers, both at homes in his neighborhood but none that could be called the Family Home of the United States.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP
The president's fourth year at the White House in pictures — follow along as it happens.
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The RNC Chairman is already lying through his teeth about the Ryan medicare plan:
Disgracefully, GOP Priebus is already saying things like "blood on his hands" about President Obama.
The Truth - as borne out by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office:
But Obama’s health care law extends the solvency of Medicare, and has already saved seniors $4 billion on prescription drugs. The savings reduce the growth rate of reimbursement rates and don’t affect beneficiaries.
Ryan’s plan, conversely, preserves all of the savings included in the reform law, uses them for deficit reduction and transforms the existing Medicare benefit guarantee into a premium support program that would provide seniors with depreciating vouchers to buy insurance from private plans.
The Congressional Budget Office found that the budget would reduce federal spending per Medicare beneficiary by 35 to 42 percent in 2050 and new recipients could pay up to $1,200 more by 2030 and more than $5,900 in that year." (ThinkProgress)
blah, blah ........ . " (ThinkProgress)
Or cut through all the crap and shiny distractions and consider the "Obama's health care law" cuts $500 billion from Medicare.
Yea .... you have your (ThinkProgress)
Too bad you don't (CommonSense)
Mr. Blah, Blah,
THE FACTS:
Ryan's plan turns Medicare into a Voucher Program, ending Medicare as we know it.
1. He takes the savings in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare):
2. "uses them for deficit reduction and
3. transforms the existing Medicare benefit guarantee into a... support program
4. that would provide seniors with depreciating vouchers to buy insurance from private plans."
Is that BLAH BLAH enough for you?
According to analyses by the Congressional Budget Office and the chief Medicare actuary, Obama’s health care overhaul will reduce future Medicare spending by between $400 billion and $600 billion in its first ten years. The Medicare provisions in the Affordable Care Act are designed to squeeze savings out of Medicare by pressing hospitals, hospices and other providers to become more efficient and by reducing spending on Medicare Advantage plans.
Mr. Thinkprogressbackhoser -
"Medicare as we know it" is on the ventilator (and Obama cuts $500 billion).
Regarding vouchers .... can't make decisions for yourself - need Obama / big government bureaucrats to tell you what is best for you?
Are your children stupid .... do they need big government making all the decisions for them?
If not, why do you condemn them to that dependency and subjugation?
Oh well .... if Romney / Ryan win, maybe Thinkprogress can tell you what voucher to buy or not, huh?
Affordable, quality health care has been provided by other developed countries for decades.
And they don't want to go back.
Going backwards is the only the GOP knows how to do. That, tearing things down - and lying about big things that are ALREADY on the record.
Priebus and Romney are the Lie Twins.
Sorry to tell you that Paul Ryan also has already told some very big whoppers this weekend. All on record.
So, why do they so often come to this country for treatment.....could it be the superior quality of care here...or maybe the fact that they don't have to wait months for a common surgery?
Big Ben,
You have been posting this same post on every thread since yesterday.
Nothing but political propaganda brought to you by the GOP Senate committee chart and misinterpretation.
Your links go to articles that use the Senate chart and the figure "100million on welfare."
But you need to read the fine print to understand that 100M number. *
*"Figures include anyone residing in a household where at least one person received a program benefit." In other words, if your disabled brother lives with your family of six, and was a recipient of Medicaid (not to be confused with Medicare), all seven of you are listed as having received a welfare benefit."
- Jane Devin, article in the Huffington post.
This little "jawdropping" propangada was brought to you by Mitch McConnell and friends.
Ben, if you want to talk about the poor, disabled, unemployed, who qualify for safety net programs than start that conversation in the real world , not begin with political rhetoric.
BTW, wonder if they count the checks everyone who is a citizen of Alaska receives from the agreemnt between oil companys and the state government?
Met a ferry operator from Alaska who used her money to vacation in Mexico in the winter a number of years ago.
No and no.
This is the old argument.
Canada has its specialties, USA has the mayo clinic. The very rich can do whatever the hell they want, and go wherever they want and choose the color of the pillow cases if they want.
Folks here want preventive care, they want not to pay more because they are women, they want to get care if they have "pre-existing conditions" (like cancer), they want to be able to change jobs and not lose their care, they want to have their children on their plans until they're 26 years old, seniors want affordable medications, folks want cancer screenings - they want to know before it is too late and they are dying.
These are examples of what the ACA Obamacare provides, and more will be implemented through 2014.
Universal healthcare is the NORM in other developed countries.
What is it about having health care that bothers you so much. Got an Insurance Company? Why deprive 30 million Americans including children, babies and seniors healthcare...coming soon to a doctor near you in 2014. AND, you can keep your doctor.
Tell yourself: Human beings deserve health care. I deserve health care. Babies deserve health care.
Hey Benny -
You keep running the same post over and over again. Do you wear the same underware over and over again? Maybe you're do for a change....
Got timed out and lost my fix-ups...
It is about our Health Insurance system, not our doctors and nurses: We have had the worst Insurance set-up in the world, ripping us off, letting folks go bankrupt, folks losing their houses trying to pay exorbitant costs, letting folks die, capping out care, and not giving us the health care that we paid good hard cash for. That is called "legitimate crime" in any other book.
The Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is fixing a lot of that, and will fix a lot more by the end of 2014.
Yet those that can afford it come to America for the best treatment in the world.
Other "developed countries" aren't the greatest country and society the world has known.
That's what happens when you have more takers than makers .... when 51% or more are dependent on government and think life is a free socialistic lunch.
Btw - That ain't what built America!
Are you crazy, stupid or just a mindless socialist that doesn't know any better?
Who in their right mind would not want to go back to a time when unemployment of 8%+ (11%+ in reality) wasn't the 40 month norm .... before the middle class lost 38% of its wealth ... to a time before our credit was downgraded - a time when the government actually fullfilled their Constitutional responsibility of having a plan / budget .... a time when there wasn't a war on the economic life blood of our country, a war on business, a war on the rich, where gas prices were half what they are today and the price of everything skyrocketing .... a time when laws were actually respected and enforced ... when the will of the people meant something instead of an America of EPA, health care, etc. czars ruling by executive fiat?
For the record, it was big government social engineering in the housing market - mandated loan thresholds, government coercion - problems that big government under Clinton created - problems that big government under Bush failed to fix - problems that big government under Obama have done nothing to address or remedy (actually has doomed to repeat) that created the CREDIT crisis that tore down our economy.
To suggest as you and Obama do that the economic crisis was caused by the failed policies of Bush is not only a lie but an ignorant lie ..... how do Bush cuts force banks to make stupid home loans to people for homes above their means .... to people on food stamps?
Can't debate the issues so just call the other guys liars ... (well besides the dogs on the roof, high school noogies, from "he's a felon" for taking leave from Bain to fix the Olympics to "he's a felon" because Harry Reid had an undocumented phone call by an unkown person that made an unsubstainiated claim about imaginary tax problems .... to now - he kills women because he left a company years before some guy got fired whose his wife gets cancer after she quit her job and dies 5 years after the first fact?)
For the "Record" - Utterly Pathetic
Denial is a terrible thing.
Maybe your cadillac health insurance will get you a bona fide Shrink.
If not - why not?
My Kind of town, Chicago.
Bob 180...
"Are you crazy, stupid or just a mindless socialist that doesn't know any better?"
Guess you do not want ot discuss any issue in a clear manner.
good night.
So, a big party at P.Obama's Chicago crib....How much you wanna bet the rest of the residents of Greenwood Avenue had to show ID and prove they live on that block, just to go home....Get used to the Armed Camp with 24 Hour barricades and barrier gates when P.Obama and the Mrs. and the kids move back there in January....
My bet actually is that he commandeers the compound they stay at in Hawaii when they vacation there.... And the neigboring houses the taxpayer will pay $1,000's and $1,000's a month to house the Secret Service detail....It'll be a Luau every night!!!
Just like Biden in Delaware...he rents the cottage next door to the Secret Service for $2,200 a month.....
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/31/biden-charging-secret-service-cottage-rental/
Show ID to vote ??....No, That's unAmerican ??.....but Yes to go home on P.Obama's block
Mike, actually, Blowbama is going to be living in a refrigerator box with Moochelle and the rugrats when he gets back to Chi-town in January...but he can always dig ditches to support his freeloading family. I hear that there are plenty of 'shovel-ready' jobs available...bahahahahahahahahaha.
Oh, the sweet irony.
So protest it. Next time you need emergency care DO NOT go to the ER. You are destroying the bottom line of a company if you do. Be a man. Cowboy up. WWRD? What Would Reagan Do?
I'll tell you what he'd do. He'd rail against health care publicly and then, when nobody's looking he'd help himself to a big ol' dollop of socialized health care at your expense. Same as Dick Cheney did last month.
Typical repub hypocrite.
Hey! To lighten the mood a little, anyone remember ole blue eyes (Frank Sinatra) and the song "My kind of town, Chicagao is......"
Obama is a war criminal and he should be impeached.
Obama has:
Signed the NDAA bill into law allowing the assassination of any us citizen without trial (yes, I know it's been around for a long time but Obama signed it into law even though it's unconstitutional)
Allowed 30,000 Spy drones to be flown over American skies (Unconstitutional, Against the Fourth Amendment).
Obama has signed over 1000 Executive Orders since he took office (Thanks to that, it's now illegal to collect rain water)
Obama has killed hundreds of innocent people (including 3 Americans) with drone strikes he has ordered in Pakistan And Yemen.
Obama has raised the National debt Nearly $5 TRILLION.
Obama has allowed almost 1 Million ILLEGAL aliens to become legal citizens (thanks to those he allowed to become citizens, they have committed 19 murders and 142 sex crimes)
Lied About all of His 2008 Campaign Promises Including the One Where He said he campaigned in 57 states.
Google Search "Dreams from my REAL father" and you'll see, Obama's father was a failed communist who's dream was to DESTROY America, at age 18, Obama went to a MARXIST school.
Mitt Romney has or will:
Has made Millions in an Abortion Business.
Will sell jobs over seas.
Will go to war with any Country he wants to without Congressional Approval (he says).
Both the Republican party and Democratic party are really the same thing now.
You know who we need for President? Gary Johnson, he is the Libertarian Presidential Canidate, he wants to End the IRS, End the Fed, End useless Government Agencies likes the Department of Homeland Security. He is Against wars. You are probably thinking "Why vote for him? He has no chance.", he has polled in Nearly %10 and needs %15 to Delegate Obama.
The 2012 votes are being counted in an Offshore Company owned by George Soros in Spain (Which is TREASON!).
Anyone who thinks Obamacare will reduce cost or deficits is an utter fool. The politicians said Medicare would be paid for and in no time it was buried in unfunded liabilities, that today amount to over $20 TRILLION.
Back on topic...$40,000 a plate for dinner? Gotta love those evil, fat-cat rich people...supporting the hater of the evil, fat-cat rich people.
LOL! The hypocrisy wreaks!!!
No freaking doubt hs321!!! With an attendance of only 80 people, the almighty bho will rake in a cool 3.2 mil! Where is the "occupy" crowd now? Oh yeah, they're more than likely deficating in a public park, and getting in the way of people actually going to work. 'Sniff', reeks of hypocracy, and something I stepped in this weekend mowing the lawn...
Hey Kannin maybe you can name even one entitlement ever started that "actually" came in as projected? To save you the trouble, there are none. ObamaCare will not be the first. When projections are based on hypothetical information, the numbers can come in almost anyway a politician wants them to. So maybe this will come as a surprise to you, but there are a ton of unknowns that will impact ObamaCare. Not the least of which is how many businesses will pay the fine and drop coverage for their employees. ObamaCare is a massive new entitlement with the most convoluted tax schemes ever created to fund it.
For the secrecy in which it was written, to the speed it was rammed through Congress, to the length of funding to actual benefits in the first 10 years, this is a monstrosity that about as much chance of saving any money as the Congress has of adopting it as their healthcare coverage. This country can no longer risk what politicians claim will happen 10 years down the road, when all they do is manipulate the system for political gains today. When none of the savings are realized by ObamaCare 10 years from now, what then Kannin?
Fools and their money are soon parted.
Backhouse,
If Obama's plan is so great and will cut so many billion dollars from the deficit every year, then why will the vast majority of doctors not take new Medicaid patients? Answer: because the reimbursement rate is now so low that they can barely break even on Medicaid patients. Of course it will cut the deficit, because Medicare won't have to make payments because doctors wil not see Medicare patients!
My doctor is a principal in a large group of more than 300 doctors who WILL NOT take new Medicaid patients. When I asked him if I needed to start searching a new doctor for when I retire, he told me no, that I was his patient and could remain his patient, just understand that he wouldn't be able to make any money on my care. Doctors are just like any other business: they have to make money in order to pay the bills and stay in business.
Medicare is ALREADY so low that they are barely making it on a per-patient basis with Medicare. What do you think will happen when Oblameo's plan move ahead? Good answer! They will stop doing Medicare patients altogether. THEN what will seniors do for medical care? A great plan (?????) that nobody will accept!
Stop quoting liberal talking points about the fundraiser-in-chief and try to do a little research. Ask your own doctor about his relationship to Medicare and then get back to us. I look forward to his answer.
The RWNJ's are really out today. Did they notice that England made their National Health Care a large portion of the openning of the Olympics, they are proud of it. When will the majority of the righties realize that it is better for them than letting the Insurance Companies continue to make big profits off of them?
I guess Obama's "middle class" has $40,000 to spend on a chicken dinner. Many of the real middle class and the elderly, who have trouble meeting every day household expenses, support Obama because they believe his ridiculous lies. He doesn't work for them, if he ever works,it is for the $40,000 chicken dinner people.
Where do you think the $40,000 a plate comes from. It comes from, as he said, his friends and what do friends do for friends? Corruption -- look at Solydra for example. buy few read long comments, so I will stop
Off topic, but I want to know why it had to be such a 'covert' thing, through the woods for Ryan to make his appearance in VA? Good Lord, did they think snipers would get them? Talk about silly a$$...
Off topic, just like we believe the Liar in Chief gave us hope and change, yeah right.
ON TOPIC.....
Y A W N......ANOTHER campaign fundraiser in Cheecago for Mr. Obama.
Wow, nice to be home with Anita Dunn, Billy Ayers, and Mayor Emanueeel. Maybe Rev. Wright will be available for a $ 50,000/plate dinner.
THE FACTS:
Ryan's plan turns Medicare into a Voucher Program, ending Medicare as we know it.
Ryan takes the savings in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare):
"uses them for deficit reduction and
transforms the existing Medicare benefit guarantee into a... support program
that would provide seniors with depreciating vouchers to buy insurance from private plans."
............................
That is what Ryan would do. One day, you might need older. Face up to what he is doing, while Priebus and Romney lie about it.
just like we believe the Liar in Chief gave us hope and change, yeah right.
stclare - He is giving us hope and change. It just dosen't happen overnight...
Obama/Biden 2012
Mitt the Vulture has not paid taxes, in addition to other tax-evading vultures, that's why there is not enough going into Medicare and social security, then Ryan proposes to end Welfare as we know it, blaming LBJ and good-hearted Democrats who initiated it.
out of the goodness of their hearts? LMAO you ignorant fool. LBJ and the dems did it and contineu to do in order to create a dependent voting blcok. lbj himself said of his great society, "this will keep the @!$%#s voting dempocrat for 200 years" that is the 'goodness of their hearts?
Wow, GT...hope and change don't happen overnight? Really? Well, I guess 4 years isn't enough time either, Libtard. There is no HOPE left for this country under Blowbama and it is time to CHANGE the leadership...
Bigotry...blah blah tax returns blah blah. Time for you to take the short bus back to REALITYVIILLE, turdburglar.
One and DONE.
Maybe they have guilty consciences Lyn.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Medicare's chief actuary reports that by the end of this decade Medicare will be paying less to doctors and hospitals for senior care than Medicaid, which pays so little that it leaves the poor unable to find timely essential health care.
Ultimately, Medicare payment rates will be one-third of what is paid by private insurance, and only half of what is paid by Medicaid. ObamaCare also established the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), an unelected, appointed body with the power to adopt still more Medicare cuts as it deems necessary.
Such draconian Medicare cuts would create havoc and chaos in health care for seniors. Chief Actuary Rick Foster further reports that even before these cuts, two-thirds of hospitals were already losing money on Medicare patients.
Doctors, hospitals, surgeons and specialists providing critical care to the elderly such as surgery for hip and knee replacements, sophisticated diagnostics through MRIs and CT scans, and even treatment for cancer and heart disease will either have to withdraw from serving Medicare patients, or eventually go into bankruptcy.
http://news.investors.com/article/609712/201204301828/obamacares-medicare-program-bad-for-health.htm?p=full
Medicaid Is Worse Than No Coverage at All
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704758904576188280858303612.html
lynn -- it shows that romney and his team can keep a secret. not to be confused with the tremendous number of leaks from the obama team surrounding our national security.
Well said "rainman"! And for the record, LBJ was one of, if not the most, racist president we have ever had in office. But he knew how to "kow tow" to the lowest common denominator, and essentially "buy" the votes of the poor. Hell, I'm from TX, and I think he's a piece of garbage. And don't forget, he was the president that gave congress the "ok" to move the social security funds into the general fund, thereby allowing congress to essentially "plunder" the social security fund. Thanks democrats!
Pigotry,
I see you are still trying to sell that crap of a lie that Romney's hasn't paid taxes... If you weren't so pathetic you'd be laughable...
Was Bill Ayres, Farrakan, and Jeremiah right there?
stclaire... It's past your bedtime....
Not really, I am just off topic like yourself.
Looks like Lyn thinks so.
Just ANOTHER fundraiser for Mr. Obama....since he will need every penny he can get.
Maybe he should muscle his special interest groups (Soros foundations, Wall Street, GE, GM, Solyndra and the rest of his "Go Green" energy folks) to hand over some more cash.
If you have four eyes like yourself,
You might well see people that are not there.
Blowbama only collected money from 3 of the people there...the other 72, he had to PAY to attend...lack of interest, or something, I hear...
Wow. Talk about stuck in the past St. Claire. That's old crap. Got anything else?
backhouse -- since your comment indicates you were there please share with the rest of us those that attended.
No, none of Obama's radical friends were invited. But the good news is that his 40,000.00 a person gathering drew almost as many people as his campaign stop in Chicago. I wonder if Obama was expecting more then 75 of those in the one percent to attend, or if his stay at home fundraiser was only half full like his campaign stop in his home state?
stclaire: Excellent question :-)
Maybe they weren't... just to keep the media an excuse not to mention them?
Soros is busy getting married and doesn't really need to attend. Besides, EVERYONE KNOWS he's already taken care of MAJOR MARXIST FUNDING for anything Obama does.
But, then again, even though none of PIMP Obama's "TRUE HEROES" who have passed away could attend... everyone knows that the conversations will be dominated with Marxist rhetoric about Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Chairman Mao, Saul Alinsky or Frank Marshall Davis, Obama's Personal Mentor and likely true father, and the merits of SPREADING the WEALTH... GUARANTEED :-)
GOPisextent, You are the one stuck, in Obama's butt, I have a lot more but it is too complicated for you to understand.
The attendance number probably points to the reason he needs to do five fundraisers in one day. If you only get 75 people to show up, you need to work a lot harder to get your money.
BTW, what ever happened to the people that supposedly gave $5 and $10 at a time to his last campaign? Could it be they have lost hope because there has been no change? Or are they having to work to hard at 3 or 4 parttime jobs to be capable of generating interest in no hopey, no changey?
What will the poor people do when the handouts run dry? What will Obama promise them then?
There's no doubt that he is desperate and begging for help, which he will obviously need with the Romney/Ryan ticket.
BWAHAAHHAAHAAHAH BS! These two idiots will lose big time come November...
I think Obama is feeling lost right now. Had to go home to cheer up. He needs a lot of YES men to tell him its ok. He knows the polls are wrong, maybe he should just go golfing. Maybe he should try fishing instead, people can relate to fishing better than golfing.
Has to be the first time he has used his own house in 3 1/2 years.
Well if Obama headed to his home state to cheer up, making a campaign appearance to a half empty venue in Chicago probably didn't help his mood.
Barrack, say hi to Feisty and Bev!
Feisty's just about done shining your shoes, and Bev is working hard on getting your car clean.
common ... you are just so common. Post something that is worthy of a post. Looks like you can't ....
Layton,
Common is a newly born troll. Only a day old.
They have a very short life here on FR when they are reregs.
That is against the rules.
I spent the weekend at Zions National Park ... wandering around behind so many seniors that are content and they should be. Please Democrats, get out and vote!!! If the Romney/Ryan ticket goes through ..... God help all of us who have paid into Social Security for so many years to watch Ryan kill it to pay for the GOP wars.
Layton, perhaps I do seem a bit common at times and enjoy a good laugh, but at least I'm not an elitist fear monger uber left statist.
Was it spelling bee weekend and I missed it??? Is UBER a word? and you're calling me elitist from one post???? Dude ... take a breath ... take a hike .. (I would suggest Zions). and then cork it with your name calling and again, please tell me what exactly the GOP is going to do for the middle class other than cut Social Security and Medicare to fund their wars .
The Senior Citizens of this country have paid in to SS and Medicare for years ... I so hope and pray that the actually understand Ryan's budget without listening to the Fox spin ... if so ... God help us all
Layton,
Since common is newly born, he only knows a couple of words.
Uber and statist are his word of the day.
His parents must be reading a book esoteric economic theory.
I would hope you allow Romney the opportunity to present his plan to the American people, and then we can each decide, according to our own cirumstances, who we want to vote for. I believe Ryan was a great choice as VP, and when Romney lays out his plan, he's going to win.
What I've seen so far from the ultra left this election cycle is demonizing, divisive, gutter politics. Fear mongering sums up the lib challenge to Ryan's plan on Medicare. Is the left going to push grandma off a cliff again?
And yes, this is a rereg, but only because I deleted my previous user name. That also was based on a joke, but it seemed those who disagreed with my positions didn't appreciate the humor, but instead generally attacked me instead of my position.
Sorry if I blasted off on you.
And Zion is really a great place to visit. Beautiful scenery, and i'd imagine the weather was perfect this time of year. Hope you had a great time.
common ... I cannot support a Romney/Ryan ticket. It hurts my heart that so many will when then do not understand the Ryan budget. I am trying my best to understand why Romney thought this was a good idea. It hurts my heart so to know that all the seniors that have paid into Medicaire and Social Security through hard work ... their dollarare now up for grabs..... to balance a GOP war that could have been funded by the Koch brothers and his friends is the POS's wanted to actually pay taxes and support their country.
common ... I cannot support a Romney/Ryan ticket. It hurts my heart that so many will when then do not understand the Ryan budget. I am trying my best to understand why Romney thought this was a idea. It hurts my heart so to know that all that seniors have paid into Medicare and Social Security that the monies are now in "play" and up for grabs.
I'm sorry for the duplitious posts. It wasn't the best of weekeneds.
Unfrotunately what we have now, under Blowbama, is SOCIALIST Security, you Libtard blowhards....enjoy standing in the bread line, DUMBocrat putzes.
Nope. You are a knuckle-dragging, drooling, goose-stepping, elitist, right-wing, republicant fascist. The United States spent the better part of the 1940's correcting genetic mistakes like you. Wait your turn. On November 7th, you are about to realize that your day is over.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Layton...you're clueless...do you have any idea what the state of SS is now?
But that's a good tactic that's worked before, scare a bunch of uninformed seniors to get votes.
http://bottomline.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/12/13244389-social-security-surplus-dwarfed-by-future-deficit?lite
layton -- rather than just trashing the ryan plans why not encourage your side to present an alternative. a good place to begin is with a budget.
and you clearly know that the ryan medicare plan as proposed, and with nothing back from the democrats, changes do not occur for folks 55 and older.
maybe we should have some negotiaion as to whether that is the right age. but without any one on the left proposing an alternative it is what we have.
Said "gopisextinct", "You are a knuckle-dragging, drooling, goose-stepping, elitist, right-wing, republicant fascist. The United States spent the better part of the 1940's correcting genetic mistakes like you." You must be like the rest of the silly liberals on this feed when confronted with facts, resort to name calling. Is that you axlerod? Are you going to cry, and take your toys home with you? Infantile at best, but if it makes you feel better about your existence...
Didn't Obama say during the last campaign that he would bring the troops home? Or did he mean then, that he would do it if he gets a second term? What other promises did Obama put off until his second term, fixing Medicare, saving Social Security, energy independence, tax reform, no lobbyists in the administration, cutting the deficit in half, and of course more jobs.
Wow, Obama hasn't gotten much done, must be why hope and change is now hype and blame. You can bet the next step is to bring out the age old worn out line about needing a balanced approach to cutting the deficit, saving Medicare, and saving Social Security. Toss in some Medi-Scare and you have the Democratic playbook from every election over the past 40 years. No doubt they have someone else to blame for never getting anything done.
Every American, should see Dinesh D'Souza's 2016 Obama's America. That poor brother of Obama's living in sh*t. I thought that hypocrite in the White House said we are our brothers keeper. George Obama, is living in horrible third world living conditions. I guess Obama, doesn't mind when he is spending other peoples money, just not his. Obama you're an ass!
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Secret Service agents, bomb-sniffing dogs and police cordons usually mean a high-level politician or dignitary is nearby.
I wonder how these 20 people feel about all that extra security in the windy city
http://www.suntimes.com/news/14437781-418/13-hurt-in-shootings-across-chicago-since-friday.html
Why would people who can afford a $40,000 a plate dinner support Obama? Do you suppose there might be some government kickbacks in it for them?
kannin,
Welcome to the world of raising money for a campaign.
Romney will be in MN on Aug 23 for fundraising. You can have your picture taken with him for $10,000. and invited to a dinner with him in a private home for $50,000. a person.
KANNIN, wealthy people who support Democrats more often than not, are VOTING AGAINST THEIR BEST SELF INTERESTS. Got that Most of them, not all, but most of them are not looking to line their pockets.
Conversely,most wealthy Republicans who donate to the GOP are doing so for selfish reasons. When the Koch Brothers spend millions trying to debunk Climate Change or "Clean Coal" for them, it is simply an investment. If a GOP administraton gets in they know their taxes will be reduced and the EPA will be declawed, thus allowing them to trash the planet.
When Hollywood liberals, who make up about 90% of Hollywood, (the ones with real talent, as opposed The Gipper) they are in effect, voting to have their taxes increased. Crazy no??? Some people actually place their country above their personal interests.
You mean like Ted Nugent, Gary Sinise, Victoria Jackson, Jon Voight, Dennis Miller, Tom Selleck, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and the other short bus republikans?
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That is complete bovine excrement and you know it. Much to general of a statement to be lent any credibility at all. trash the planet ? what have you been petting shrubs with All gore ill bet you have never even met the Koch bros. I happen to Know for a fact that within their company a global environmental impact division exists.
"Some people actually place their country above their personal interests."
Yes, they do, people Like Ronald Wilson Regan, Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan which is obvious in the fact that Mitt picked Paul over many whom might have been A more politically expedient choice, or might have garnered a larger electoral % of votes. Ryan however, is great fiscally minded leader and some one who believes American conservative values are more important than government mandated European socialist utopianisim aka unsustainable/impossible heaven on earth lifestyles of elite aristocrats. Really if you break it down to a common denominator. In America you have the opportunity/privilege to create your own little slice of heaven. This Freedom was fought for, and blood was shed to provide that Liberty. Too many people in this country are willing to let the sacrifices made be forgotten or discounted. We the people Will stand up for our Liberty, we will not apologize for the courage of our conviction, we have fired the warning shot across the bow of tyranny. November 6th will be a battle for individual freedoms & righteousness. O,yea O,yea Miss liberty ring that bell let's not allow America to slip in to hell...
Exercise, your liberty.
.....................................Vote !
But it is perfectly alright for Romney to hold fund raisers in the UK, Poland and Israel, because we know they won't expect anything in return, correct?
I fogot, all Mitt has to do is ask the Koch brothers for more money.
Dems don’t be distracted by all the Fuxed News baloney talking points righties throw around here LIKE THEIR FACTS! REMEMBER to donate whatever you can to support President Obama and remember to vote democratic for your local communities and congress! Righties KNOW its going to be a long shot for Willard to win! But there hoping to use him to distract US so they can sneak in their radical republican friends into congress! Keep Focused and let's KEEP moving FORWARDS, NOT BACKWARDS WITH romney!
Obama/Biden 2012
Hey, I hear you. Have been trying to give something each week.
I'm counting on the good guys in Hollywood to cough up some more of the real dough.
Forwards is a direction, not a plan. God forbid you have to get out and work, and not depend on a handout like almost 51% of this great nation does. I keep hearing about the "takers and givers", and it seems to me that this feed is lousy with takers! "Keep your filty hands off of my entitlements!" I didn't earn them, but by God I want them!" And there, in a nutshell, is why you silly liberals are doing your level best to ruin this great nation. Have a great day you silly liberals!
Its been a really increadible weekend for me. I got to see Romney and Ryan in Manassas, Virginia where overload crowd of 11,000 supporters showed up to what was thought would be a 4,000 person event... The one thing that stands out in my mind tonight is that we are going to win this election for the simple reason that all Romney and Ryan have to do is tell the truth and stick to the issues.
I read the posts from the liberals and all they have is conjecture and unfounded lies and distortions about our candidates. They really have nothing factual on the real issues that they can attack without distorting the truth or slinging mud at two exceptional men who are out to turn this country around. They are not liars. They are honorable men. The axiom that time always allows thruth to prevail applies here I believe. In the end, Democrats can distort, lie, divert and run, but they can't run from the truth or hide from the real issues for the next 86 days...
I'm confident we'll have a new President come January and I'm just as confident we gain the majority in the Senate... There is somthing so reassuring in knowing right and truth are on your side...
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012!!!! Leadership for a CHANGE!!! YEAH BABY!!!
Goodnight All...
Its been a really increadible weekend for me. I got to see Romney and Ryan in Manassas, Virginia where overload crowd of 11,000
Hey Daniel - Do you have confirmation of that figure? What I heard was more like 3000 tops.....
Obama/Biden 2012
“Being friends with a politician is a little bit like having a child perpetually in college because every so often you’ve got to write a big check. The good news is I’m about to graduate,” Mr. President Obama joked as the crowd laughed.
I hope this means Mr. President Obama is graduating (or being expelled) from the White House!
Nope. We're doing the best thing we can do. We're letting Willard/Ryan run on their record.
Everything Mr. Striebig said was true! But then again, you silly liberals just don't want anything to do with the truth! Keep on slinging mud though, it certainly seems to be your "collective" forte...
Once again Nero Fiddles while America Burns. Hey Bailout Barry didn't Goldman Sachs give you enough Payola for dropping the Federal Banskster Investigation against them?
The same "Goldman Sachs" you also just happened to be your #1 Wall Street Contributor in 2008!
Stand up America.....November may be Our last chance to say Enough is Enough to Their Not Wars for their Corporate Masters Fun & Profit!!
If the Incumbent is a Democrat...Vote Republican!
If the Incumbent is a Republican...Vote Democratic!
For NONE of these Transnational Corporate Sponsored UN-Criminals work for US....And We cannot get worse than we have ALREADY and honestly what has Bumbling Barry done to deserve a second term?
POMPUS Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize? Hahahaha what a Hypocrite...Alfred is spinning in his grave!
what a failure romney is. big failure
The best liar will win. So far Obama is ahead. Anyone with two homes is obviously "well off" and in the 1%. You cant deny this unless you are full of Sh#$.
Now where's there real people running for office...? NO WHERE!
We are screwed.
Romney is the biggest FAILURE in our history. Just a rotten FAILURE
But the comic asides did contain a serious undertone – that Obama is locked in a brutal spending war with his Republican rival Mitt Romney, and is currently being outspent.
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Some would take the moral of this story to be: don't get outspent if you wish to prevail. I take it to be: public financing of all elections is the only way to go. Don't you take it to mean that I'd sink beaucoup megabucks into the financing. Oh no. All candidates would get sums that would be considered paltry by today's inflated standards. The truly delightful aspect of this is that candidates might actually meet a real person or two, and ( oh joy ) the TV networks would get screwed out of ill-gotten gains.
after shaking down harlem for donations, obama your welfare momma was asked what he is going to do about high unemployment and he answered, when is rommney going to release more tax info than is required by law, when asked what obama your welfare momma is going to do about the economy he answered, when is rommney going to release more tax returns than required by law, when asked what obama your welfare momma is going to do about high gas prices considering he sold out the u.s. to china on the canada pipe line, he answered , when is rommeny going to release more tax returns than required by law, when asked what appliance of michelle obama he most resembled, he answered her douche bag, evidently if rommney would just release his tax returns the economy of the u.s. would be fine, obama is an idiot and he is told that by his kids and wife every night, when asked why he should be given another 4 yrs obama your welfare momma said because I am black and stupid and you should feel sorry for me or you are a racist, and if that don't work it is becasue I am an idiot and if you don't vote for me again than you were so stupid the first time and now you are a racist.
PAID FOR BY THE RE-ELECT AN IDIOT campaign and paid for by dumbocrats ebt cards that suprisingly had some change left on them after the strip club the booze and the casino expenses
approved by the obama your momma admin and the idiots that suuport him and biden better known as dumb and dumber
Nine of the top ten welfare states are republican states, that is a fact republicans never want to address, if and when republicans get the chance to gut medicaid and medicare nobody will be hurt worse than the working poor republicans that vote for them.
@Forrest -- That is an out and out lie and you know it or you would post your link. 13 out of the top 15 welfare states are Democrat blue states. Here's my post where is yours to back up your lie?
From CNBC:
http://specfriggintacular.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/top-15-welfare-states-13-of-the-15-are-democrat-states/
We can not afford more welfare for the rich. Has not worked for 10 years
It is no lie, nine of the top ten welfare states as measured by what they pay in federal taxes and how much they receive back in federal welfare, which is the best measure because it takes into account the difference in population of each state. It is absolutely true.
Here you want a list, with a little research of your own you can see exactly how much more in federal dollars each state receives above and beyound what they pay into the fed.
1) New Mexico (Democrat)
2) Mississippi (Republican)
3) Alaska (Republican)
4) Louisiana (Republican)
5) West Virginia (Republican)
6) Alabama (Republican)
7) South Dakota (Republican)
8) Kentucky (Republican)
9) Virginia (Republican)
10) Montana (Republican)
Here some of the dollar amounts a few of these states red states receive in federal spending as compared to what thwy pay into the fed Ben. BTW I am human so I make mistakes from time to time, this is not one of those times, but don't ever call me a liar Ben, I am not a liar, I expect an apology.
Mississippi ($1.84)
Alaska ($1.82)
West Virginia ($1.74)
Montana ($1.64)
Alabama ($1.61)
South Dakota ($1.59)
Arkansas ($1.53)
who is this wasserman biotch you have making a fool of herself on tv what a @!$%#a@!$%#e is she really as stupid as all dumbocrats or just a racist
@yoyoma, neither, she's both. And with a voice that rivels that of Ms. Fran Dresher, but much, much worse. But the good news is, that she's the head of the dnc! That should bring some cheer to your day!
oops I threw the race card before I saw a dumbocrat throw it, as you idiots use the race card like a guy at denny's uses the toilet, for example when an idiot dumbocrat does not like the meal and is to lazy to dine and dash , you say my food was cold your cook is a racist, or when your mom gave you a time out in the corner, you say mom your a racist, or when you trip over your own shoe strings, you point at the side walk and say the city is racis for building a defective side walk, in other words you won't admit you are a lazy loser sack of crap , it must be someones fault that you can't get off your lazy arse so everyone you don't like is a racist, like you, except the real word is your an idiot, you may be a racist also but you are to stupid to know
do you know the difference between and idiot loser lazy sack of crap and a dumbocrat, the answer is there is no difference, they both suck the government tit, and then bitch that the middle class and the rich don't pay enough to keep up with the greedy needs of the morons that won't work
yoyo: Good one. You actually had me going there for a second. I guess it was the sheer density and hackneyedness of the cliches that convinced me that you're not really serious. Besides, "sucking the government tit" is something that "fiscal conservatives" are equally adept at. They just have the brass balls to accuse others of doing it.
When a tax cheat talks Repubs listen
Fundraiser for Obama went from 30k to 40k now. Is that due to the econ slumping?
How many middle class can pay to go to this tonight. Answer Zero
Love his line that breaks down to, you wanna be my friend you got to write a check.
Wow, normally that would be telling, and it is but not to Libs that support him. Dosnt matter what he does or says, because they love the idea of Obama. They just dont love him as much as they did before but there still is enough.
The right-wing trolls are out in force this weekend. They're getting paid to spread GOP lies because tricking people to vote against their own economic interests is the only hope Romney/Ryan have of winning this election.
No democrat budget in going on 4 years. Fools support an administration that operates with a check book full of blank checks.
Obama’s record is that of a mind-numbingly incompetent, anti-American, lying weasel.
President Obama sure lives the life of the elite. He has nothing in common with everyday Americans. Then he berates others for their personal success.
What was the government price tag of his success? He has had his hand out his whole life.
He is the biggest LIAR, deceiver and hypocrite that ever sat in the white house.....
How can you spot a democrat?
Look for the guy without elbows.
He always has this hand out and can't wipe his own a...
Pandering to you neighbor and friend the "American terrorist" Bill Ayres again Mr Obama?
or killing Bin Laden! Way to go Obama 2012!!!!!