GOP convention: 'Full speed' ahead

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Delegates watch campaign videos of presidential candidate Mitt Romney after RNC chairman Reince Priebus gaveled the convention to order at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Monday.

TAMPA, Fla. -- With Hurricane Isaac moving west of Tampa, Republican convention organizers said tonight they are “full speed” ahead with the next three days of events.

“We expect no change over the next three days,” said Russ Schriefer, a Romney adviser, on a conference call with reporters. “We are full speed planning ahead with our Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday schedule.”

Schriefer, however, said the campaign is monitoring the storm’s path closely and are leaving open the possibility of more changes. 

“Our thoughts are with the people in the path of the storm,” Schriefer said. “We hope they are spared any major destruction." 

Tuesday’s events will begin at 2:00 pm ET with convention business, then the roll call, and nomination of the vice-presidential candidate.

Tuesday night will be highlighted by the keynote speech of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ann Romney, the wife of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Both will speak in the prime-time broadcast televised hour between 10:00 pm ET and 11:00 pm ET. They will be the only speakers in that window.

But Schriefer also pointed, in particular, to former Sen. Rick Santorum’s speech earlier in the evening. The former Pennsylvania senator is expected to focus his speech on “work,” and possibly hit on welfare.

Santorum’s speech is “going to be particularly good,” said Schriefer, who noted that he had read both Santorum’s and Christie’s speeches. Santorum will stress his family upbringing, being a son of immigrants and “how work is such an important part of the tradition of this country,” Schriefer said, stressing that Santorum was a “leader in the fight to reform welfare in 90s,” and that he “believes strongly in dignity of work.”

“It’s going to be very good,” Schriefer said.

Schriefer also addressed the potential controversy with Ron Paul delegates. Paul said yesterday he wouldn’t “fully endorse” Romney and his delegates gamed many of the rules at state conventions to get an outsized delegation on the floor of the convention.

“In terms of disunity, we are a big party,” Schriefer said. “We have people with different opposing viewpoints. I don’t think this a particularly divisive point of view people are divided on. We are all united in defeating Barack Obama. I guarantee that, on Thursday, we’ll be 100 percent united behind Mitt Romney and defeating Barack Obama for the good of the country.”

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I see no reason to vote for any politician period. They are all bought and payed for. And after the election is over the piper comes calling, doesn't matter what party they are.

    Reply#103 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:51 AM EDT

    (A political parody song by Bruce-1628250, sung to the tune of "I Wish I Were an Oscar Mayer Wiener!")

    • Paul Ryan's I wish I were song
    • Oh I wish I were
    • like President Obama!
    • That is what
    • I'd truly like to be.
    • Cuz if I were
    • like President Obama.
    • Then more people
    • might like Mitt Romney!
    • 2 votes
    Reply#104 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:00 AM EDT

    Heres a straight up rebunk to the hypocrisy of libtards=

    Forest Dump proclaiming the Dow, S&P and other wall street markets BOOMING! This is fantastic!

    However, last week you ALL were crying and pissing on the floor about the 1 % er's!!!

    Talk about hypocrisy!

    Hilarious! No credibility, just a bunch of no-brain lemmings.

    • 1 vote
    Reply#105 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:00 AM EDT

    if that is straight up we would hate to see fall on the floor drunk

      #105.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:54 AM EDT
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      They have the right logo. A Pink Elephant...

      • 2 votes
      Reply#106 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:01 AM EDT

      The dems have the right logo. A Dumb A$$. For Odumbo.

        #106.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:58 AM EDT
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        You all sound like that lying Debbie Wasserman schultz? Everything you say is tell tales and often and about? Let's get real Romney has a five point plan on the Economy and Ryan has a great plan on saving billions of Dollars in Medicare that does not effect anyone for Ten years, All while Obama has raided Medicare for almost 3/4 of a Trillion Dollars and has no Plan if he is Re-elected on the Economy.

        Rich/Rare 2012

          Reply#107 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:02 AM EDT

          Obama hasnt started his campaign yet, so I recommend you wait to hear his plan. Of course, his plan will do better without republican obstruction. Any plan would...

          • 3 votes
          #107.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:07 AM EDT

          I Hope it is better than his last plan? It was shot down in the Senate 97-0, Total bi-partisan Destruction.

          When has he ever stopped Campaigning?

          He has his Chance(s) it is time for him to Go.........Away.

          • 1 vote
          #107.2 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:10 AM EDT
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          Fundraising campaigns for Barack Obama , Mitt Romney , they has dropped all the considerations and priorities and general literature for the position of U.S. President, Barack Obama , Mitt Romney preferring fundraising priorities and win the profile of U.S. presidency? the equation is Simple between the public and private in the race ?

            Reply#108 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:37 AM EDT

            Wow, what a GOP lineup; "Fatty Arbuckle", Mrs. R-Money, & "Sanatorium". Tuesday night will be as exciting as watching the 70's show "Cannon", starring William Conrad.

            • 1 vote
            Reply#109 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:18 AM EDT

            That's not fair, Cannon kicked ass!

              #109.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:35 AM EDT
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              But you need to watch the racism of mr grover, the gop, the rushbo, & foxnews.com. It is bound to show even without the birther trump man. I tell you it's all about showing how obama is not one of us white guys. Even michele, a citizen of switzerland, is talking about exceptionalism. She isn't talking about obama's country, she is talking about his race. This country was built by the whites for the whites michele will tell you. Like when the romney man talks about how obama took the work out of welfare, he is telling you how the blacks are lazy.

              But what can you say. You can tell mr grover, the gop, the rushbo, & foxnews.com are ideologues. They have difficulty with the facts and the truth. It's why they have problems with science - the branch of knowledge dealing with the body of facts and truths. They have a war on science, the truth, and the facts. So be careful of what they will tell you. They have a culture of lies, racial hatred.

              I tell you it will come out time and again. When they say that obama doesn't know about this country, they are saying he doesn't know about us white guys. It's all a code. Mr grover, the gop, the rushbo, foxnews.com have determined that they cannot win on the basis of facts. They want to take the country back from the non-white. From the black man. I tell you watch what they will tell you. There's no place for you hispanics in the gop. They have no place for you.

              • 3 votes
              Reply#110 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:20 AM EDT

              Here's some interesting news, conservative pollster Rasmussen Reports has made a change to their Electoral College map. Missouri was in the "leans Romney" category, but has been moved back to the "tossup" category after President Obama took the lead in that state. The electoral vote totals used to read: Obama 247 Romney 206, they now read: Obama 247 Romney 196.

              This is the opposite of what Romney needs to have happen. Obama only needs 23 more to win, Virginia and Missouri would do it, but there are dozens of other combinations that would give Obama the 270 electoral votes needed. Romney has to win almost every swing state left to pull it off, but it's clear to see that just isn't going to happen. Romney has no viable path to 270.

              http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/archive/2012_electoral_college_scoreboard

              Oh, and I also enjoyed yesterday's Rasmussen daily tracking results, even if the popular vote polls are meaningless.

              Obama 47% Romney 44%

              http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

              • 3 votes
              Reply#111 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:34 AM EDT

              A big thanks to Mr. Akin on helping swing Missouri back to the Democratic side!

              • 3 votes
              #111.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:43 AM EDT
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              And mr grover, the gop, the rushbo, & foxnews.com are soooo full of racial hatred. They will tell you that mormons are right. That whites are the only true leaders. That blacks & hispanics cannot be true leaders. Like how it is in the mormon church. That muslims are baaad people. Not of this country. Muslims cannot be leaders either nor anyone who is a arab.

              But what can you say. You can tell mr grover, the gop, the rushbo, & foxnews.com are ideologues. They have difficulty with the facts and the truth. It's why they have problems with science - the branch of knowledge dealing with the body of facts and truths. They have a war on science, the truth, and the facts. So be careful of what they will tell you. They have a culture of lies, full of racial hatred.

              But when you talk about steve jobs who made apple the largest company in the world by far, they will tell you apple cannot be added to the dow industrials. You see, steve jobs was not his real name. No. No. Steve was the son of Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian-born Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (Arabic: عبدالفتاح جندلي‎), who were both unmarried at the time. Jandali, who was teaching in Wisconson when Steve was born, said he had no choice but to put the baby up for adoption. I tell you steve is really an arab muslim. That's why apple computer cannot be added to the foxnews.com owned dow industrials. Racial hatred.

              • 2 votes
              Reply#112 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:02 AM EDT

              Dude, you'd do better to just shut it.

                #112.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:11 AM EDT
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                Ron Paul, and all these other Republicans that want to get rid of Obama, had better stop being full of themselves and back Romney. Other wise they should just shut up and disappear..get out of the way. Ron Paul you didn't get the nomination, except it and do what is right for this country instead of being full of yourself. You are not a little baby anymore. You can't always have it your way.

                  Reply#113 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:47 AM EDT

                  Gotta love how divided Republicans are. Obama will win quite easily, every pollster agrees.

                  • 1 vote
                  #113.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:15 AM EDT
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                  Projected election outcome from a model that has been correct in guessing the winner of every Presidential election since it's start in 1984.

                  Barack Hussein Obama..218 electoral votes

                  Mitt Romney............320 electoral votes

                  and that is with figuring the numbers from 2 months ago unemployment rates...which are projected to go up to 8.6% next month.

                  BO did us WRONG and he is toast!

                  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/university-of-colorado-pr_n_1822933.html

                    Reply#118 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:12 AM EDT

                    beanne, I STILL WANT TO KNOW WHAT THAT BILL NUMBER IS of the Abortion Bill YOU CLAIM President Obama signed, because I believe YOU have been duped by a Romney/Republican LIE, but I have to comment on this...

                    YOU FORGOT TO MENTION that the article said this of the Colorado model...

                    The model also suggests that Romney will win every state currently considered a swing state which includes Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Colorado.

                    The professors' model shows a very different picture than what current data suggests. Currently, The Huffington Post's Election Dashboard shows Obama with 257 electoral votes to Romney's 191 with only six "tossup" states including: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia.

                    In other words, the two professors have HEAVILY FACTORED IN a lot of WISHFUL THINKING!

                    Here's a more reliable Electoral College Model for YOU to consider...

                    http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ projects

                    • President Obama 299 Electoral Votes

                    so, along with The Huffington model (Obama 257/Romney 191) President Obama is still consistently being projected as the winner over

                    • Romney's 239 Electoral Votes,

                    270 Electoral Votes are required to win, so something disastrous would need to happen for President Obama to lose this election.

                    All indications are that Obama has got this election wrapped up.

                    • Get the Butter gramma, cuz Romney is TOAST!
                    • (and he hasn't even been officially nominated yet!)
                      #118.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:10 AM EDT
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                      full speed backward. circus is comin

                      • 1 vote
                      Reply#119 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:17 AM EDT

                      One look at the Republican party platform should convince anyone these guys aren't running with a full tank of gas.

                      But, *sigh* it's "anyone but Obama" isn't it, voting for Romney not because you like him or his "vision" <cough> for the country, but instead you're still butthurt over having lost to a black man in 2008, and that's been you're only focus.

                      The great Panderbear has you all confused, no one is on the same message.

                      It's pretty pathetic, really.

                      The image of the Republican party could have been 10x better if it had indeed worked with the President, stayed a little left of the far, far, right, and not put up the big "condom of obstruction" against him. But, oh hell no, ya'll had to be butthurt and pouty, stomping and screaming about how you didn't get your way like a spoiled child in a candy store.

                      Too stupid to realize you're supposed to play along to woo folks to your side and vote for you. Then, when you're elected in, you can ram the broomstick of austerity and fascism up everyone's ass and we might like it.

                      Your guy has no plan, no vision, he can't figure one out because he panders one way, then has to pander another way five times a day. He has no spine, no balls, and this election is his ego trip, nothing more.

                      • 2 votes
                      Reply#120 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:18 AM EDT

                      Watch the convention and learn Zeta....We are the only ones who are talking substance...we are the only one's with a plan. Don't ya think if Obama had a plan he would have used it by now...HELLO he had 4 years and he blew it on golf and vacations.Also why do you think Obummer is on the defense...why do you think he is NOT talking about his bad record on the economy...why do you think he is on full attack mode of Romeny? He has NOTHING to offer us except a cheep smile and a read from the teleprompter. All you have to do is look at the numbers Zeta.....16 TRILLION in debt....8.3% unemployment and projected to go up to 8.6% next month...gas prices $4.00 a gallon, fod prices double, health care double...

                      It's about the economy....stupid!....not about a black President...that is old that is used and that is NOT what this election is about!

                        #120.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:25 AM EDT

                        It is about the economy. It is about a black President.

                        It is about a Republican party shifted too far to the right, they can never turn back or allow for compromise.

                        It's about a party that is brooding in the corner and scheming, instead of making any measurable change.

                        It's been about social issues and election "fraud", birth control, and the oh so subtle emergence of religious ideology from crackpots with degrees who believe dinosaurs walked with men, and want to teach that in our schools. The same crackpots who think you can't get pregnant from rape, and think less government requires shoving a probe in your vagina (against your will) to prove it.

                        I have been watching and I have been learning.

                        This is NOT my father's Republican party. Not even close.

                        It's a nightmare party with fascist ideals, and bent on taking control, then exerting that control over the rest of us.

                        What I know is: I still have my job.

                        What I know is" that the economy is slowly recovering (through NO HELP from the right side)

                        What I know is: my 401k has grown quite a bit in the past few years, and I enjoy a small tax refund after filing and paying my fair share.

                        I'm going to do my part to keep it going.

                        • 2 votes
                        #120.2 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:00 AM EDT

                        Zeta you are CORRECT

                        But, *sigh* it's "anyone but Obama" isn't it,

                        and beanne is so so wrong, about everything, and in complete denial as well!

                        You must remember that from the very beginning Mitt Romney, was the "ANYONE BUT" default candidate of the Republican Party.

                        During the Republican Primaries the most frequent description of the votes cast by Republican voters were for "Anyone BUT Romney!"

                        Of all the candidates in the Republican Primary, ...

                        (that is Snow Whitey and her 7 Dwarves: Michele Bachmann along with Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Job Hunstman, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and finally Mitt Romney)

                        ... at one time or other, during the Republican Primaries, polls showed one or the other of them as the front runner always ahead of Mitt Romney. The majority Republican voter sentiment was always "Anyone BUT Romney!"

                        It wasn't really until after most of them "suspended" their campaigns that Romney finally became the leading candidate, but only by virtue of the fact that he outlasted by out-spending the rest. Mitt Romney was the default candidate left at the end of the bloody gauntlet.

                        Romney was simply the sole survivor of one of the most NEGATIVE intra-party campaigns anyone has ever seen in modern American politics. He wasn't the winner. Romney was simply the last survivor. He was what was left, after all the others had been beaten-up like; a gay blond prep student who was thrown down on the floor and had his hair cut off by the big bad bully. Guess who the big bad DEFAULT bully CANDIDATE was? Yes, that would be

                        Mitt "ANYONE BUT" Romney

                        Now that it has been established that Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, right here on these very blogs more often than not you will see the conservative Republicans advertise --- "Anyone But Obama!" far more frequently than they post anything at all like or even close to a "Romney 2012".

                        Why do they prefer ANYONE (but Obama), over "Romney 2012"?

                        Simple!

                        Because they still DO NOT LIKE Mitt Romney. They just feel they are stuck with him. And, apparently they are.

                        A candidate who has that little real support, from his own party, doesn't stand a snowball's chance on the Sun of beating an incumbent President who is loved and respected by the vast majority of his party, including African Americans who are predominantly Democrats, as well as the majority of clear thinking independent non-partisan swing voters of all races, creeds and colors!

                        • This election is NOT for Mitt Romney to lose.
                        • Mitt Romney has already LOST this election!
                          #120.3 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:21 AM EDT
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                          I am a proud American...my father fought in ww@...my son a uS Infantryman fought in Iraq and Afghanistan...my other son is a USMC reservist, I myself work with the Military....my cousin was a Captain in the uS AF and her husband a top gun pilot in the Navy...I come for a long line of Patriots who serve this great Nation and I know that the majority of the military folks are not happy with Obama and that they are going to vote for Romney....I think we should listen to those who are serving and to those who see up front what is going on in the world.

                          pssst....I am a poll watcher and four years ago I was disgusted by the amount of first time voters who were 50 years old and older......and of whom were dragging there 18 year old kids into vote....I have been voting in EVERY presidential election since I was 18...my first President I voted for was Ronald Reagen. It is a darn shame that it took a color of a mans skin to get the majority of the black folks to come out and vote.

                            Reply#121 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:31 AM EDT

                            beanne, I still want to know EXACTLY what is the name of that Bill you claim President Obama signed allowing for 8 Month Abortions, because I believe that is a Romney/Republican lie. And until you can give us a Bill Number that we can look up, it is a LIE.

                            NOW, JUST SO YOU KNOW who this is coming from...

                            I served in the United States Army, during the Vietnam Era, my final duty station was at The Pentagon, in the Defense Communications Agency, Room BE685.

                            Furthermore:

                            My father was career USAF, served in the Army Air Corps during WWII, fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

                            My oldest son was US NAVY, Submariner.

                            My youngest son and his wife are US MARINES.

                            and

                            My Grandfather was one of the first to transfer from The United States Lifesaving Service to the then new United States Coast Guard!

                            So, out of BASIC RESPECT for a fellow Patriot, tell me what that Bill Number is, okay? Otherwise, like I say, it's a LIE.

                            Ronald Reagan said, "Trust, but verify!" I do NOT believe Obama signed any such bill, so do not trust that claim. But, I am willing to verify what you say is true if you can give me a Bill Number. I have googled all over the internet, and I cannot find any such bill. I believe it is another Romney/Republican Lie you have been duped by. You should STOP trusting those Romney/Republican LIARS, and check things out for yourself!

                              #121.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:59 AM EDT
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                              "Our thoughts are with the people in the path of the storm," Schriefer said. "We hope they are spared any major destruction."

                              What about the major destruction that the republicans are offering our great USA?

                              All one has to do is look at the facts.

                              #1. AMERICA under The Republican Party began war with the middle east.

                              #2. BEFORE Obama took office, under the leadership of The Republican Party, AMERICA became TRILLIONS of dollars in debt and now Republican Romney attacks Obama for doing what is right to help save the economy.

                              You cannot expect a huge economic change in four years after the country was placed in debt in the last eight years spent under the Republican party! \

                              Since Romney decided to run for president all he has been doing is feeding the American people with lies while President Obama is mending the damage done by a republican congress.

                              Romney says:

                              "There's only one president that I know of in history that robbed Medicare, $716 billion to pay for a new risky program of his own that we call Obamacare."…- Mitt Romney on "60 Minutes."

                              The 2010 health care law cut Medicare reimbursements to hospitals and insurers, it did NOT cut benefits to older Americans, Cutting $716 billion from Medicare will not change the coverage of current or future Medicare recipients. The "$716b cut" refers to the Medicare cuts in the Affordable Care Act. The bulk of those cuts come in two areas. First, private insurance plans in the Medicare Advantage program have been getting paid about 20 percent more than traditional Medicare. Those overpayments are ratcheted back. Second, in negotiations with the White House, hospitals agreed to take a cut in reimbursements with the understanding that they'll make more money from the 30 million previously uninsured people who will have insurance as a result of the law. The cuts to insurers and hospitals were sufficiently obvious that Paul Ryan included them in his budget.

                              Henry J. Aaron, an economist and a longtime health policy analyst at the Brookings Institution and the Institute of Medicine, called Mr. Romney's vow to repeal the savings "both puzzling and bogus at the same time."

                              "The bottom line," said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee, which Mr. Ryan leads, "is that Romney is proposing to take more money from seniors in higher premiums and co-pays and hand it over to private insurance companies and other providers in the Medicare system."

                              Speaking of budget cuts, Ryan's plan: :The Path to Prosperity, turns Medicare into a voucher system, because his only defense is that President Obama, too, plans to cut Medicare. The only problem, however, is that Romney, along with Ryan and the entire Republican platform, completely made that up.

                              Politifact has labeled this claim "mostly false" countless times, still putting no halt to the attacks. The Affordable Care Act does find around $500 billion in savings to Medicare (not cuts), mainly through reducing payments to hospitals and insurance companies. On the other hand, Ryan's plan, which Romney has supported multiple times, gives seniors a set amount to help purchase a private insurance plan, regardless of whether or not it's enough. Both Ryan and President Obama find ways to bring down Medicare costs, but only the former's plan reduces coverage to seniors.

                              Medicaid now covers an estimated 70 million Americans and would cover an estimated 7 million more in 2014 under the Obama health law's expansion. In contrast, Ryan's plan could mean 14 million to 27 million Americans would ultimately lose coverage, even beyond the effect of a repeal of the health law, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation of Ryan's 2011 budget plan.

                              Mitt Romney has lost touch with reality.

                              Proposing individual state Medicaid is an injustice for the USA. How foolish of ANYONE to allow ANY individual state to say who and who does not qualify for health care. If you want to live in America and BE an American then do not oppress the rights and freedom of others.

                              Medical Government assistance must not be a legal or personal choice that can be made by individual states, organizations or companies.

                              We are a government FOR the people and BY the people.

                              It is absurd to take from the poor, the middle class, the elderly, the sick, the dying and the disabled and EXPECT THEM to use unstable vouchers in place of their already solid, definite assistant plans that that have worked for years and that they understand and are familiar with.

                              It is wrong to exclude ANYONE from the assistance of healthcare.

                              #3. You cannot expect a huge economic change in four years after the country was placed in trillions of dollars of debt in the last eight years! In July 2001, President George W. Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress gave huge tax cuts to the wealthy. These tax cuts were not paid for at the time and still, to this day, are not paid for.

                              Republican Mitt Romney says:

                              "After three years, the only thing President Obama's stimulus has produced is a series of broken promises."- Headline on a Mitt Romney statement

                              President Obama never made any, despite claims that he promised an unemployment rate below eight percent. This did not happen because George W Bush made certain that most of America's money went into the war and now too many businesses are closing, people are losing their homes, jobs and livelihoods and making it so they have only credit to shop and survive. You cannot expect a huge economic change in four years after the country was placed in debt in the last ten years. In the four years that Obama has been president both GDP and unemployment significantly improved directly after the stimulus that was passed in early 2009.

                              #4. Republican George W Bush made certain that most of America's money went into the war and now people are losing their homes, jobs and livelihoods and making it so they have only credit to shop and survive.

                              No matter how hard Obama tries, he cannot keep up with the damage that has already been caused yet the Republican party still insists he is wrong to want a stimulus plan.

                              Paul Ryan stated:

                              "No, I never asked for stimulus [money]."….- Paul Ryan

                              According to the Washington Post, Ryan's signature appears on letters sent to the Energy Department and Labor Department asking for millions of dollars in stimulus money for two companies in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, Ryan is trying to deceive his constituents by touting his anti-government record while simultaneously securing millions for them in government grants.

                              Romney says his budget will help the American people yet Romney's budget is a serious plan for deficit reduction.

                              In the words of David Firestone of the New York Times, Romney's budget "defies the rules of math." Ryan and Romney both want to keep in place the Bush-era tax cuts, and then cut them much further. But that, they claim, won't raise the deficit by a dime, because the plan will be made "revenue neutral" through closing tax loopholes. The only problem is that they don't name what loopholes they will close.

                              The Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan group of tax experts, estimates that Romney's plan, which differs only slightly from the Ryan plan, would cost over $4.5 trillion over the next decade. What about the closing of loopholes to offset that cost? According to the Tax Policy Center, there aren't even enough loopholes in the tax code to balance the cuts.

                              #5. Over 21 large corporations including Enron went bankrupt in the time Republican George W Bush took office. This fall in the economy left hundreds upon hundreds of Americans unemployed and now the rise in welfare assistance is growing every year.

                              Republican Mitt Romney says:

                              "Under Obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check"…- Mitt Romney ad

                              President Obama's plan only attempts to strengthen the work requirement.

                              With all the financial trouble Bush Jr. caused this country, people are losing their homes, jobs and livelihoods and making it so they have only credit to shop and survive. No matter how hard Obama tries, he cannot keep up with the damage that has already been caused.

                              Obama understands that to save our American economy we must work together, united in our goals.

                              "If you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.

                              "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen," he said. "The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet."

                              Small business owner Debbi Somers, who runs Somers Furniture in Las Vegas, agreed with Obama that "there isn't any way that a small business owner can achieve their dream if they don't have the support of the government."

                              The SBA and Score are is essential in helping get small businesses off the ground and it is the Middle class that start these small businesses that will help grow our economy.

                              "It matters little if you have the right to sit at the front of the bus if you can't afford the bus fare; it matters little if you have the right to sit at the lunch counter if you can't afford the lunch. So long as Americans are denied the decent wages, and good benefits, and fair treatment they deserve, the dream for which so many gave so much will remain out of reach; that to live up to our founding promise of equality for all, we have to make sure that opportunity is open to all Americans. We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy. I want to keep the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives open, but I want to make sure that its mission is clear. Faith-based initiatives should be targeted specifically at the issue of poverty and how to lift people up."….. President Obama

                              Even if you are born wealthy money, does not come out of your rectum.

                              EVERYONE needs help getting started in business either from friends, parents or, an employer that HIRES you to work at a well paying job so you can SAVE money to build a business, or you get a loan from the Government.

                              Hard work without money is just that. Hard work alone, does not PAY bills.

                              Obama is working hard to save the poor and middle classes so they in return can work hard to save this great USA, while the ones that can't work are provided for so they will not be sick and homeless in the American streets.

                              #6. Although The USA is not a Christian nation, The USA is not a Heterosexual nation and Marriage is NOT an exclusive club for heterosexuals. Although homosexuals are American citizens and civilians and Civil rights are any right which affects the affairs of citizens, Republican Mitt Romney wants to deny homosexuals their Civil rights and equality to marry.

                              Mitt Romney lies by saying he wants to use his individual personal opinion to lead this country instead of doing what is best and equal for ALL Americans.

                              "I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman."..Mitt Romney

                              Bias is a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question; prejudice. Mitt Romney talks about opposing bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians and in the same breath he is Bias towards gays and lesbians.

                              "Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians…
                              Mitt Romney

                              Mitt Romney speaks of the great majority as if he knew for a FACT what ALL Americans thought.

                              Mitt Romney offers opportunity and freedom yet he lies and takes the freedom and opportunity of legal marriage away from the homosexual and the freedom to keep welfare intact, without upsetting and devastating changes.

                              "I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises…..Mitt Romney

                              #7. Although The USA is a melting pot of many nationalities, religions and preferences. Republican Mitt Romney wants to use is CHRISTIAN faith to run the country.

                              Politicians should not use their faith to destroy and punish the poor and minorities. yet Politicians like Mitt Romney are now using their Christian faith as a basis for their political decisions. Mitt Romney stands behind Catholic republicans Paul Ryan and John Boehner which is an example of political division.

                              Ryan stated that:

                              "I feel it's important to discuss how, as a Catholic in public life, my own personal thinking on these issues has been guided by my understanding of the Church's social teachings on subsidiary. This tenet holds that nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization. In other words, any activity which can be performed by a more decentralized entity should be. I do not believe that the preferential option for the poor means a preferential option for big government."

                              The Republican budget that Ryan pushed through the House of Representatives proposes big cuts to federal food aid and Medicaid healthcare for the poor, as well as to education grants, in order to shrink deficits while preserving low tax rates for the wealthy and for corporations.

                              These facts conclude that the morality of the republican party must be challenged and changed BEFORE 99% of the population looses their rights, freedoms and chances for economic and spiritual growth to republicans that are now in power and using the church doctrines against the people of middle and lower classes and against the people that represent controversial minorities.

                              In this Mitt Romney quote Mitt Romney forgets that Wiccans, atheists and agnostics are Americans too.

                              "The American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people."...Mitt Romney

                              #8. Although Mitt Romney claims he is Christian and Christ Clearly said:

                              Proverbs 29:7: "The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern."

                              Republican Mitt Romney makes his opinion on the POOR quite clear.

                              Romney says: creating jobs will help the poorest workers; not cash handouts but what about the people that cannot work? What about the sick, elderly and disabled? Romney's economic plan does NOT give any money to the 50 million Americans who don't pay taxes.

                              "My system is primarily based on trying to create jobs, not handing out cash to individuals. I do lower the lowest income tax bracket from 10% to 7.5%. And that helps people at the low economic level. But the heart of what I'm doing is trying to get businesses to become more active, buying capital equipment, trying to get businesses to grow in this country and to create more jobs. for those that are not paying any taxes at all, simply writing a check doesn't seem to me to be the right course to follow."

                              Romney is neglecting 50 million Americans and through his economic plan, 50 million more will soon be joining the POOREST human beings living in AMERICA.

                              Mitt Romney told CNN: "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich. They're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95% of Americans who right now are struggling. You can focus on the very poor, that's not my focus, my energy is going to be devoted to helping middle-income people. My system is primarily based on trying to create jobs, not handing out cash to individuals. I do lower the lowest income tax bracket from 10% to 7.5%. And that helps people at the low economic level. But the heart of what I'm doing is trying to get businesses to become more active, buying capital equipment, trying to get businesses to grow in this country and to create more jobs. for those that are not paying any taxes at all, simply writing a check doesn't seem to me to be the right course to follow."…. Mitt Romney

                              Mitt Romney's solution for a better AMERICA is this:

                              Go to school, get an education, get a job, NEVER get old, sick, poor or disabled, ALWAYS obey your STATE laws and as far as Mitt Romney is concerned, you will ALWAYS be a good American citizen.

                              Mitt Romney is out for the rich.

                              If Romney's health care plan becomes law, so will medical vouchers! Mitt Romney by his own confession is pulling the safety net out from under our American poor.

                              Mitt Romney offers vouchers to the sick, elderly, poor, dying and disabled instead of offering them permanent stable healthcare and financial assistance.

                              Under Romney's and Ryan's GREAT plan, if you are sick, poor, dying, disabled, UNDER the age of 55 years old and on Social Security or Medicaid, you will LOOSE your benefits to an unstable voucher.

                              Under Romney's and Ryan's GREAT plan, if you are sick, poor, dying, disabled, UNDER the age of 55 years old and on Social Security or Medicaid, you must find away to get rich quick or you will be thrown homeless into the street without a health care provider and without a way to pay for food, medicine, clothes, necessities, heat and lodgings!

                              Instead of making cuts that will eventually extend the assistance programs, Romney wants people OFF of the assistance programs so they can go through political red tape while signing up for unstable and insecure vouchers!

                              Romney is modifying Medicaid while creating unnecessary, stress, aggravation and paper work for the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the sick and the dying.

                              Romney's plan takes the secure foundation of financial and medical assistance away from the people, while leaving them with an inconstant, indefinite, undeterminable, indistinct, insecure, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unresolved, unsettled, unsure, risky and insecure way of existence while Obama care leaves them with a solid, definite solution that adds no additional work for them and that keeps them on programs that they The poor and middle class are working with Obama to make government assistance last so that in the future it will be available to all without the need of insecure and unstable vouchers.

                              Under Romney's plan to keep our sick, elderly and disabled alive, we will have to quit our jobs and be their care takers at home because we can no longer afford their nursing home and health care facilities.

                              If those of us that have sick, elderly and disabled are no longer able to work, how will we afford our rent, taxes and mortgages and how will these health care facilities stay in business without clients to support their overhead?

                              Once these health care facilities go out of business jobs will be lost.

                              Romney and Ryan want to offer the poor options to PAY for PRIVATE care but WHERE is the Poor and middle classes getting this money to do so?

                              To have FULL care you must PAY for full care.

                              Mothers and fathers are already working two and three jobs to support their families, They are NEVER at home with their children and they can barely make ends meet. Can you imagine adding ONE MORE BILL to their already diminished incomes?

                              It is vital that we take care of the POOR and middle classes above all else, so that their caretakers are able to work and put money BACK into the economy.

                              Do not forget the poor and middle classes make up 99% of the American population.

                              Can you imagine 99% of the American people unable to afford rent, food, clothes or shelter?

                              It is abundantly clear that this is what Romney has planned.

                              Because America is not a third world country, bigger tax cuts to the poor will take away healthcare, food and shelter from the people who need it most which are: the elderly, the sick and the disabled.

                              Do you know HOW MANY JOBS are created through the elderly, the sick and the disabled?

                              Tax cuts equal job losses and financial assistance eliminations and these eliminations will make hospitals, welfare and health care facilities have big cut backs on their payrolls which in return will reduce jobs in these industries and drive middle and lower class citizens who are using these programs into the streets.

                              Those that can work will try to get a second and third job while those that can't work, will be forced out of hospitals, and government funded nursing homes, and mental health facilities. The ones who are being cared for at home, will need supplies that insurance will no longer pay for, under pads, diapers , lotions, special diets like ensure, the list goes on and on while all of these necessities come out of family member pockets adding to the financial strain.

                              It is very easy for a person to be forced into homelessness. First the government takes more money from their healthcare, which leaves less money to spend on food, care and shelter.

                              Third world countries do not see such drastic changes in their society because they never had a government or big business to fall back on.

                              It is very easy for a person to be forced into homelessness. First the government takes more money from their healthcare, which leaves less money to spend on food, care and shelter.

                              In third world countries, all people are living in poverty, they are not THROWN into poverty. Mitt Romney wants to throw the middle classes into poverty!

                              The takers as you so call them are DECENT American citizens.

                              In the United States Of America, the poor are NOT just addicts, immigrants and opportunists sponging off the welfare system. The poor are elderly, sick and disabled human beings that have no families or resources to fall back on.

                              EVERY decent person who now lives at poverty level was once middle class citizens that got too old or disabled to work. These facts conclude that the morality of the republican party must be challenged and changed BEFORE 99% of the population looses their rights, freedoms and chances for economic and spiritual growth to republicans that are now in power and using the church doctrines against the people of middle and lower classes and against the people that represent controversial minorities.

                              Obama is trying to solve this problem while NOT creating another, while Romney and Ryan just wants to make a profit for the rich.

                              #8. Mitt Romney's message clearly states he is for killing life.

                              Romney said:

                              "State law should guide abortion rights, and Roe v. Wade should be reversed by a future Supreme Court ruling."

                              It is absurd to Claim you are a Pro-life Republican and then allow individual states to decide WHO should ABORT fetuses and It is absurd to Claim you are a Pro-life Republican and then on May 16th 2012 allow the president Phil Frost of the company that makes a "Morning After" abortion pill endorse your presidential campaign by holding a $50,000-per-plate fundraising dinner in honour of your candidacy.

                              Even at the Republican presidential discussion in Peoria, Illinois Romney showed his CARE, compassion and opinion on where he stands for FREE birth control.

                              When an audience member asked:

                              "You know what would make me happy? Free birth control."

                              Romney replied:

                              "If you're looking for free stuff you don't have to pay for? Vote for the other guy, that's what he's all about, okay? That's not, that's not what I'm about."

                              What Mitt Romney is about is lying to the AMERICAN public and cheating them out of their human, constitutional, civil and equal rights.

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                              Reply#122 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:36 AM EDT

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                                Reply#123 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:48 AM EDT

                                Contrasting the Republican Convention with the Democrat Convention, one thing stands out. At the Republican Convention you will not see nearly the number of homely women that will be making their way to Charlotte, NC

                                  Reply#124 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:49 AM EDT

                                  Hey Rev Marie..

                                  What about the destruction Obama has brought to America already?,,,unemployment 8.3 and going up

                                  Abortion on 8 month old fetus's

                                  endorsing gay marriage which is sacrilegious.

                                  health care has doubled

                                  gas prices at an all time high

                                  food prices at an all time high

                                  our American credit DOWNGRADED

                                  Chaos in the middle east with no clear path or plan

                                  America has taken a back eat to the world affairs...not good.

                                  Obama is causing divisions in America ....class warfare....was on women which is made up......divisions amoung the races..

                                  and he said he would heal the land and bring unity back to the US......???????

                                  and he must be smoking that crack pipe still...perhaps that is why he has all those rap singers come to the White House......

                                    Reply#125 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:49 AM EDT

                                    beanne,

                                    Try using the reply button, it is much easier to follow replies to posts.

                                    To think Obama caused America to be in the state that it is in is ludicrous. As I stated:

                                    Republican George W Bush made certain that most of America's money went into the war and now people are losing their homes, jobs and livelihoods and making it so they have only credit to shop and survive. No matter how hard Obama tries he cannot keep up with the damage that has already been caused.

                                    With all the financial trouble Republican Bush Jr. caused this country, President Obama is trying to save the economy by putting money into America. Obama is trying to keep AMERICA a float while the county is sinking beneath him.

                                    To make jobs, save social security and Medicaid there must be money to spend and that means cuts, fair cuts straight across the board. This is what Obama did.

                                    Obama did not cause unemployment to go up 8.3% Bush did this. Unemployment will continue going up until what Bush did is rectified.

                                    Obama does not believe in aborting 8 month old fetus's. It would do you good to HEAR what Obama says and know where he stands before condemning him as Mitt Romney does.

                                    As an Illinois state senator, Obama voted against legislation promoted by anti-abortion activists that would have conferred protection to fetuses showing any signs of life after an abortion, even if doctors did not believe the fetus was viable. Obama pointed to an existing Illinois law requiring doctors to protect fetuses they believed were likely to survive after an abortion, and said he was concerned the proposed new law was so broad it could interfere with routine abortions. Obama said he would have supported federal legislation President George W. Bush signed in 2002 that would protect a viable fetus but reaffirmed a woman’s right to an abortion.

                                    The legislation that Bush signed in 2002 is not limited to protecting “a viable fetus” as the AP asserts. Instead, it protects anyone “born alive” who “breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles….” The law makes no distinction based upon viability.

                                    “Physicians are already required to use life-saving measures when fetuses are born alive during abortions. You cannot take away from doctors their professional judgment when a fetus is viable. We live in a pluralistic society, and that I can't impose my religious views on another. If I am opposed to abortion for religious reasons but seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all. "….. Obama on life after abortion

                                    3 John 1:11: “Do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.”

                                    Although Obama is pro abortion, Romney is also pro abortion, pro wealth and pro oppression.

                                    Who is the lesser of two evils?

                                    Obama says:

                                    “Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that protects women’s health and reproductive freedom, and affirms a fundamental principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters. I am committed to protecting this constitutional right. I also remain committed to policies, initiatives, and programs that help prevent unintended pregnancies, support pregnant women and mothers, encourage healthy relationships, and promote adoption,”……..
                                    President Obama's statement marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, 23 January 2011

                                    “Physicians are already required to use life-saving measures when fetuses are born alive during abortions. You cannot take away from doctors their professional judgment when a fetus is viable. We live in a pluralistic society, and that I can't impose my religious views on another. If I am opposed to abortion for religious reasons but seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all. "….. Obama on life after abortion

                                    While Mitt Romney's message clearly states he is for killing life.

                                    Romney said:

                                    “State law should guide abortion rights, and Roe v. Wade should be reversed by a future Supreme Court ruling.”

                                    It is absurd to Claim you are a Pro-life Republican and then allow individual states to decide WHO should ABORT fetuses and It is absurd to Claim you are a Pro-life Republican and then on May 16th 2012 allow the president Phil Frost of the company that makes a “Morning After” abortion pill endorse your presidential campaign by holding a $50,000-per-plate fundraising dinner in honour of your candidacy.

                                    Concerning the absurdity of your statement that “endorsing gay marriage is sacrilegious.” First of all let me start by saying that: "The USA is not a Christian nation. The USA is not a Heterosexual nation and Marriage is NOT an exclusive club for Christians and heterosexuals. A UNITED STATES candidate CANNOT oppose any ones rights to wed for religious reasons marriage must be accessible to people of all faiths and preferences, including those with no faith at all. As soon as you allow just one person’s rights to go unnoticed, then your rights at some point may go unnoticed as well. This is why hate groups are allowed to operate and why Hitler and so many other dictators were allowed to take reign. Not enough people bothered to stand up and say they were wrong.

                                    Human beings are WRONG to exclude homosexuals from civil rights for soon the exclusions that they put on others could very well be their own. As soon as you give someone the right to take a person’s rights away then you are giving someone else the right to take YOUR rights away.

                                    Gay rights is a civil issue. Civil rights involve any right which affects the affairs of citizens, as distinguished from military and ecclesiastical life and affairs.

                                    A civil right is an enforceable right or privilege, which if interfered with by another gives rise to an action for injury or infringement.

                                    When your rights take another life forms rights and freedoms away, then they are no longer rights, for the act of exclusion and persecuting is wrong. To have rights means you must respect and not violate the rights of any other life.

                                    It is because we share the same need to have sex and be loved that we should respect everyone’s right to have sex and be loved by the partner of their own choice. Equality for one group and not another is not equality at all. To cater to one person's sexual preference and not another, is discrimination.

                                    Same sex marriage is a civil right. Obama upholds that civil right.

                                    Equality for one group and not another is not equality at all.

                                    Equality must be enforced, defended and protected by the larger body of government.

                                    It must not be a legal or personal choice that can be made by individual states, organizations or companies.

                                    We are a government FOR the people and BY the people.

                                    Only through equality can we truly stand united.

                                    The USA is a melting pot of many nationalities, religions and preferences.

                                    Any form of favoritism, discrimination, condemnation and exclusion creates supremacy, domination and the violation of rights and freedom.

                                    Nowhere in the Bible does God say two people in love cannot wed. Concerning marriage in the CHRISTIAN Bible:

                                    In 1 Timothy 4:1,11,15 the Bible clearly is against keeping couples who want to marry a part.

                                    1 Timothy 4:1: “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry.”

                                    Even though in 1 Timothy 4:4 it says: “Everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.”

                                    People still condemn homosexuality and say it is immoral.

                                    1 Timothy 4:6: tells us that : “If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. Command and teach these things. Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.”

                                    Concerning health care in the USA, Healthcare has been a problem in this nation LONG before Obama was president more specific in your accusations.

                                    GAS prices have not raised BECAUSE of OBAMA GAS PRISES raised because of the war and world oil tensions. NO matter WHO is president GAS prices will indeed raise if the sources for the energy supply is threatened.

                                    This is the same for food prices, IF the farm and crop industries are in economic upheaval do to nature…(DROUGHTS, Fires) Prices must raise. The United States President has LITTLE to do with these things you are accusing him of.

                                    Our American credit DOWNGRADED Because of the debt, NOT because of Obama. The Debt was caused by the war that was started during the REPUBLICAN administration.

                                    Chaos in the Middle East has been going on for thousands of years to blame Obama for this is not sound. AMERICA’S INVOLVEMENT in the Middle East is due to the interference of the REPUBLICAN party.

                                    America has NOT taken a back seat to the world affairs. AMERICA is in dire straights BECAUSE of their interference in world affairs. Watch the news, read the paper. Obama is trying to juggle pulling out of a war while trying to stop nuclear arms and a economic recession. If YOU can do better, kindly call him and offer your EXPERT assistance, If not congratulate him for a job well done.

                                    Give even one example of how Obama is causing divisions in America ....class warfare....was on women which is made up......divisions among the races?

                                    Obama is for EQUALITY my friend you have your candidates confused.

                                    Division means to separate or part from something else; sunder; cut off.

                                    Romney wants to let individual States choose their own MARRIAGE, HEALCARE, energy laws and environmental regulations. Each individual state would be: carte blanch so they would have the exclusive authority to deplete the Earths recourses, and charge any price they desired for home heating fuel and gas and oil for our vehicles.

                                    Romney is the one who wants to dictate what a women can and cannot do with her own body.

                                    Romney is the one who wants to dictate who and who cannot have civil rights.

                                    Romney is the one who wants to dictate where and where not his family members can ride on family trips. (INSIDE or on the roof of the car)

                                    Romney wants to make his OWN rules.

                                    "The only system that's ever worked in the history of the world, to lift people out of poverty, is free enterprise." Romney says.

                                    Free enterprise means these companies can do as they please and steal from whomever they want.

                                    Mitt Romney tries to make the people believe that corporations reinvest their profits into growing their businesses and hiring more people, but this isn't true. The Great Recession has shown us that just like slum landlords, corporations are more likely to sit on their profits, and reinvest as little as possible.

                                    Romney is pushing to have every leader of states personal agenda's be the LAWS of each individual land.

                                    Do you know what socialism is?

                                    Socialism is a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.

                                    If you THINK Mitt Romney is NOT a SOCIALIST THINK again. Mitt Romney is trying to do away with the poor and middle classes so that the community as a whole will be the rich.

                                    Communism is an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.

                                    Do you REALIZE that private individuals are the Governors of the STATES?

                                    It is abundantly clear that Mitt ROMNEY is freeing up the governments responsibilities.

                                    ROMNEY is creating division in the laws of the UNITED STATES.

                                    Let me make this easy for you to comprehend, right now while each of the 50 states has its own constitution, all provisions of state constitutions must comply with the U.S. Constitution.

                                    Romney's plan is to make each INDIVIDUAL state decide for themselves what is best for the constitution WITHOUT federal interference. As the USA stands now, the U.S. Constitution establishes a government based on "federalism," or the sharing of power between the national, and state (and local) governments. Mitt Romney's plan is to change the balance of power.

                                    Under the U.S. Constitution, both the national and state governments are granted certain exclusive powers and share other powers.

                                    Romney does NOT want the states to SHARE. Romney wants each state to legally have exclusive rights to control their own people.

                                    As we stand now Exclusive Powers reserved to the national government include:

                                    Regulate commerce between states and international trade.

                                    Make laws necessary to enforce the Constitution.

                                    Mitt Romney wants EACH INDIVIDUAL STATE to regulate their own personal agendas of what the constitution means to them.

                                    Examples:

                                    Right now the state has exclusive authority to Issue licenses (driver, hunting, marriage, etc.) is NOT enough. ROMNEY wants each state to DECIDE WHO gets a license without CONGRESS interfering in their right to determine WHAT is constitutional, fair and within a person's civil rights.
                                    · Right now the state has exclusive authority to approve of amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Romney wants the state to not only be able to approve amendments, but to also be able to individually alter, modify and rephrase amendments to suit their individual state needs WITHOUT federal interference.
                                    · Right now the state has exclusive authority to Provide for public health and safety. Romney wants to change that so EACH individual state will now not only have the authority to PROVIDE health care and safety, they will also have the EXCLUSIVE authority to decide WHAT INDIVIDUAL is qualified to receive it without a federal mandate.
                                    · Right now the state has exclusive authority to Constitution in, setting legal drinking and smoking ages. Romney wants each INDIVIDUAL state to have exclusive authority to ALL legal matters such as Being a smoke free state or a drug and alcohol free state. This will give the INDIVIDUAL states authority to ban ANYTHING the heads of state DO NOT PERSONALLY approve of such as religions and preferences that are not their own.

                                    If they so choose, Each state alone without federal interference, will be able to LEGALLY become a supremacist state. White state only, heterosexual state only, Christian state only.

                                    ROMNEY is NOT giving the country back to the PEOPLE; Romney actually is trying to create a system of state by state individual dictatorship while taking the unity out of our American country.

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                                    #125.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:33 AM EDT

                                    Hey beanne!

                                    • NAME THAT alleged 8 month abortion bill so we can check it out.
                                    • If you won't or can't name it, then it's just another ROMNEY LIE!

                                    Recall that Reagan said "Trust but verify." Well, I'm sorry but I do not trust you, so I need the specific name of that bill to verify. Prove you're NOT just passing along another Romney Campaign Lie. NAME THAT BILL!

                                      #125.2 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:38 AM EDT
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                                      Full speed ahead!

                                      Oh Goody more proud moments for Mitt. He and his Super PACs are out raising & spending POTUS 5-1 & still Mitt has to lie, slander, steal and cheat to try to win. I hope we do not want more of this in the White House after having it and hearing it between 2001-2008, isn’t this country worth more then this.

                                      • 1 vote
                                      Reply#126 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:52 AM EDT

                                      Scotty, set the BS engines to maximum warp lies and lets take this nightmare vision out for a spin!

                                        Reply#127 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:53 AM EDT

                                        That's nice of you but Romney isn't President YET.

                                          #127.2 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:02 AM EDT

                                          No, That's YOUR black president.

                                            #127.4 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:30 AM EDT

                                            I tried to join but they said I couldn't because I wasn't a Demorat.

                                              #127.6 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:48 AM EDT
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                                              Isn't it funny Obama is trying to do the exact same thing Clinton did & everyone is praising Clinton & condemning Obama?

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                                              Reply#128 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:55 AM EDT

                                              Where is he keeping his intern? Where is his Newt? Where is his leadership in working with congress? Where are the jobs?

                                              • 1 vote
                                              #128.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:39 AM EDT

                                              No REAL people praise that stinking draft dodger. Clinton hid out in Moscow while real men went to war.

                                              • 1 vote
                                              #128.2 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:47 AM EDT

                                              Clinton and Odumbo make a good pair. An illegal and a draft dodger. Libs sure can pick 'em.

                                                #128.3 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:04 AM EDT
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                                                I love the way democrats can only make childish personal attacks on Republicans since they have no solutions for any of our problems.

                                                • 4 votes
                                                Reply#129 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:56 AM EDT

                                                I can assure you Mitt Romney has no solutions at all.

                                                Mitt Romney did not even know enough to put his dog INSIDE his car on a family vacation.

                                                People will defend Romney’s animal cruelty by saying Obama as a child ate dog but the FACT is many children are fed meat, the president was fed dog meat as a young boy in Indonesia with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro. Eating dog meat was something Obama as a child was taught. ROMNEY was NOT a child when he abused his dog. Romney was a mature adult and therefore he was a premeditated animal abuser.

                                                The facts about this inconsiderate candidate are clear.

                                                The only evidence needed to prove Romney is utterly foolish and senseless is the way he endangered his own dog’s life by placing the animal on the roof of his car so he could take his family on a road trip from Boston to Canada. By his own insensitive actions, Mitt Romney made himself look quite inadequate and out of control mentally and emotionally.

                                                To lead is to go before, to guide and show the way; To lead is to RESPONSIBLY take command.

                                                Mitt Romney failed to responsibly lead his own dog to safety.

                                                Mitt Romney failed to guide and show his own children the correct, RESPONSIBLE, respectful, considerate and compassionate way to treat a family pet.

                                                If Mitt Romney did not have the strength, the compassion or the intelligence to properly and respectfully lead his own dog and his own family to do what was humane, sensible and upright, how in God’s name can he lead the entire UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?

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                                                #129.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:59 AM EDT

                                                Go to bed. You ramble when you've been drinking all night.

                                                  #129.2 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:05 AM EDT

                                                  Rev, To quote you, "To lead is to go before, to guide and show the way; To lead is to RESPONSIBLY take command." Something Obama has completely failed in doing. Obama as senator said raising the debt limit was a sign of failed leadership. Obama as a candidate in 2008 said he would cut the deficit in half during his first term. Obama a president said that his stimulus was needed to keep unemployment under 8%. Obama has failed and it is time to give someone else a shot at fixing things.

                                                    #129.3 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:08 AM EDT

                                                    Mitt Romney failed to guide and show his own children the correct, RESPONSIBLE, respectful, considerate and compassionate way to treat a family pet.

                                                    Yeah....he was a horrible parent....showed his kids how to be a dedicated family man....showed them how to love a wife, even through illness, showed them how to become productive members of society with 1 doctor, two Vice Presidents of different investment firms, and two in Real Estate.....yeah.....horrible. You may want to go in a different direction because his parenting skills are not where you want to tread. Why do you think MSM has totally avoided talking about his kids....Because they are successful and its because of how Mitt and Ann raised them!!!!

                                                      #129.4 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:54 AM EDT
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                                                      Obama cannot even met with his own employment councel in over 7 months,yet he has put in 17 record golf outings. Mr president hussain obama,,How about just playing 9 holes one time and do your JOB for at least a couple of hours ONE DAY to try to address this countries problems . Maybe just ONE HOUR off your 3 years of campaign fundraisers and speaches or even every wednesday instead of whoreing out the white house for parties. maybe have a cabinet meeting!

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                                                      Reply#130 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:10 AM EDT

                                                      He has an employment council? I would have thought he would have an UNemployment council.

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                                                      #130.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:07 AM EDT
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                                                      Full speed ahead, and we don't care who we run over.

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                                                      Reply#131 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:10 AM EDT

                                                      Your not kidding, look at the Iraq war that Bushie started, he didn't care how many U.S. lives were spent. Full speed ahead for all the GOP buddies, rich getting richer (haliburton).

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                                                      #131.1 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:32 AM EDT

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                                                      #131.2 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:09 AM EDT

                                                      Yes 17 of 24 of Romney's advisers are from the catastrophic Bush/Cheney regime. Why would anyone vote to have Bush/Cheney/Romney in office again? Repubs don't even want Bush to speak at the convention because he tore the country up so bad. What does Romney do? He does what Norquist and Rove told him to do. Hire their crony crooks because war profits were so good for them. Norquist said, all they need is someone to sign papers for them. Romney the strawman. Rove and Norquist are the people running for president, not Romney Ryan! BEWARE! Vote NO to Bush/Cheney/Norquist/Rove/Romney/Ryan!

                                                      Vote President Obama/Biden and team Democratic party.2012 ...........Dump Bush Romney!

                                                        #131.3 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:14 AM EDT

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                                                        #131.4 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:26 AM EDT

                                                        RIGHT!!!!! Don't worry about the 38 different Czars Obama appointed without COngressional appointments.

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                                                        #131.5 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:04 AM EDT
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