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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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Can we just go back to the good old days when only white people were allowed to vote
we can not have our employees and them other people voting, we do not have to count
their vote, or we can just steal their vote like we use to, poor people should not be allowed
to vote anyway, we give them a check every month and they give it right back to us, thats
how to build the economy, lets get it simple
For all the liberals on here that keep bringing up the race and class warfare angle...it seems that is more on your minds that any of the conservatives. Nice try liberal, but you can stop bringing up your talking points and try focusing on the actual problems this country is facing....you know....jobs, economy, debt....those issues.
Georgie...
Welfare ad lies.....birther nonsense....voter ID laws that disproportionally affect minorities. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the GOP is using race.
You say Birther like it's a bad thing. I'm proud to be a 'birther'. It means I think for myself instead of believing what the 'Collective' tries to feed people.
How is the welfare ad thing racist or the birther nonsense racist? That doesn't make a bit of sense to make those claims. It is also an incredibly thin claim to say that the voter ID laws is racially motivated. Stick to facts instead of far fetched claims.
trouble...
You are "proud" to be a birther? Refuting two birth certificates (long and short) and two birth announcements from Hawaiian newpapers from 50 years ago is "thinking"?!?!
That's outright stupidity.
Put America First....
The birther thing isn't racist? Have you bozos asked for Mitt Romney's birth certificate? Did you ask for John McCain's? Of course not.
Plus, the whole reason why so many of the voter ID laws are held up in court are because of its effect on the minority vote and violation of the Voting Rights Act. Stick to the facts? What the **** are you talking about?
Doc...wow...I seem to be your focus this morning....kewl. First.....More White Americans have been added to the Welfare rolls in the past 3 years then African Americans.....so, no....its not a rascist thing. 2nd....did you see Gingrich hand Chris Matthews his ass yesterday for the same connect the dots BS....learn something. Third....I am not a birther....I am a realist. It's not his place of birth that is my problem....it is his Policies....I could care less about his skin color and so do most republicans....they care about his spend, tax and increase the debt, deficit and size of government policies that are killing this country.
And why are Voter ID laws a bad thing to make sure that the person voting is registered and is who they say they are? 37 states now have voter ID laws or are enacting them. Any AMERICAN should not have a problem with this. You liberals worry about foreign money in the election process, but not foreign votes? Why, because you think foreign money helps republicans, but foreign votes help the democrats. You could care less about disenfranchising the poor if it were to help your party platform, but since you think it hurts you.....oh, the big bad GOP needs to be stopped from hurting the poor...>Hypocrisy at its best....AGAIN
Doc, My comment didn't stutter (Like yours did). Those were not "birth certificates" they were "cetificates of LIVE BIRTH". Of course a liberal wouldn't understand that there is a difference.
Logic.....The fact is that the voter ID laws affect minorities.....it is an opinion to say that they are racially motivated. Two completely different issues. We also asked for Obama's birth certificate....not because of his race, but because his father was not a citizen of the US and Obama spent a large portion of his life living outside the US. Again, race really didn't have a thing to do with it....especially when you consider the fact that it was the Clintons that started the entire issue.
George...
Where is the evidence in person voter fraud occurs?
There isn't any......so your "conservative" buddies want to spend taxpayer dollars to solve a problem that is completely unsubstantiated or proven. That's flippin' brilliant.
Plus, voting is a constitutional right.....I didn't see the area in the constitution that spoke of photo IDs. The folks in the conservative clown show are always blabbering about their "constitutional rights"....except in this case? Oh that's right, it doesn't proportionally affect conservatives so all is okey dokey.
You folks stand for nothing.....you don't even stand for ideology. You stand for a political movement....and that is all.
So, tell us, genius, what are the differences?
V.D. That would be like explaining it to a wall. It's a known fact that with a liberal it's in one ear and out the other. (Nothing in between to stop it).
trouble,
Here's the deal, someone who knew the answer would have answered the question. Someone who doesn't would say something like:
So pretend I'm a wall and explain it to me. My expectations are not high.
Doc....there are plenty of cases that have determined that there was voter fraud. The most comprehensive study being done by the Brennen Center, a liberal thinktank at NYU. Now, they inferred that of all the cases found that actual voter fraud occurred, requiring ID's would not have corrected the problem, or prevented the voter fraud.
What they could not deduce, was how many contemplations of voting fraud were prevented by the requirements of ID. These numbers are impossible to deduce because you would have to be able to analyze criminal though....which we can't do.
V.D. said, So pretend I'm a wall and explain it to me. My expectations are not high.
Since you're an Obamabot that goes without saying.
When is ABONGO OBAMA, odumbo's brother going to make his speech?
Abongo/Ayers 2016
Are you trying to be clever? Not really sure.
It's dog & pony show time!!!
That's next week. And it's not a pony it's a jacka$$.
But you're right on the rest. Michelle WILL be there.
Speaking of these so called fiscal conservatives...can anyone tell me how many medicare card teabagegrs at the convention have asked to have their 'doughnut hole' put back in place simce they don't want to pass their bills on to our children and grandchildren?
How many of them have refused to let their kids on their insurance policy because its obummercare?
How many of them actually pay for their own insurance...hint..none of them do
Your point is still moot. First you speak in total generalities in talking about them passing their bills onto "our" children and grandchildren....what "Bills" are you refering to? The electric, phone? Oh...you mean the "bills" in congress they are passing on to try and lower our (all Americans) debt? So, by trying to lower our national debt, you are insinuating they are "passing" it on to our children? That is EXACTLY what they are trying to prevent you moron from the Stimulus KING who keeps running up the debt and deficit. Eventually, the BILL has to be paid, and at this rate of racking up these "BILLS" its going to be on our children and grandchildren. Do you HONESTLY think Obama's policy's are doing anything to bring down the deficit and debt for our children and grandchildren.....keep sucking on those liberal talking points....and watch how our country will be bankrupt from them.
You must have missed out on the trillion for two unfunded wars.
No....I didn't miss the point on those YB....but then again....Had Clinton taken Bin Laden out when he had the chance, 9/11 would have never happened, and we wouldn't have had two wars. Oh....and when EVER is war FUNDED.....NEVER.....it's not a line item in a budget. But, when people fly planes into buildings....its inevitable. So, maybe Iraq was not necessary.....But Afghanistan was happening no matter what after 9/11....so quit trying to say they were both unnecessary.
To the supposed "conservatives".....
How do you explain:
The following are POLICY CHANGES instituted Bush and by Obama and their respective effect on the national debt:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24sun4.html
Information gathered from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Bush: Total: $5.07T
Iraq/Afghanistan wars: $1.469T
Bush Tax Cuts: $1.812T
Non-defense discretionary spending: $608B
TARP/bailouts: $224B
Medicare Advantage/drug companies: $180B
2008 Stimulus and other changes: $773B
Obama: Total $1.44T
Stimulus/tax cuts: $711B
Non defense discretionary spending: $278B
Tax cuts: $425B
Health reforms/entitlement changes: $152B
Defense Savings: $126B
Plus, let us not forget Obama had to deal with an economy (left by Bush) that was in freefall.
These are real numbers gathered from a non-biased source. Seems that if you are truly "conservative" like you say you are...you'd be huge Obama fans.
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More failed cleverness?
Any of you 'conservatives' want to actually pose an argument........or, are you going to cower away like most of you do?
trouble, given the fact you're a "proud birther"....that's about as good an argument as I'd expect from you.
Opinion articles like the one you cite are challenging. They give some good information, but they also try to distort the truth. The article says that Bush inherited a surplus with projections for surpluses for years to come. Then later on in the article it says that unforeseen recessions in 2001, 2008 and 2009 contributed to Obama's debt. If the author was intellectually honest, he wouldn't have given Obama the pass for the 2001 recession, but he would have given Bush the pass on that. It is also very difficult to ascertain the costs of the Bush tax cuts. It looks like they did a great job of growing the economy for 5 years, so our economy might actually be in worse shape if we hadn't have had them. The cost analysis for the tax cuts is too simplistic. If we used the same analysis for the day after Thanksgiving sales, it would show that businesses lost millions upon millions. FYI....conservatives aso didn't like Bush's spending either.
I also don't remember the 2008 stimulus and how did that get attributed to Bush. The stimulus was promoted heavily by Obama. We are also missing quite a bit of debt....where did the other $3-4 trillion go?
I'm sorry, but you seem to have missed a few things on Obama's side. First, Obama's Stimulus was $840 Billion, not $714.
Iran/Afghanistan war
Bush Tax cuts
Didn't he extend both of those....and didn't Obama vote for the 1st stimulus as a member of Congress in 2008? So, you can add that to him. As a matter of fact, prior to voting on it, he actually went on record as complimenting Bush for doing the right thing for the American People....you can split that one between the two as well.
Put...
What are you talking about? The information is gathered from the CBO for God's sake!
Your argument is that YOU know more than all the individuals at the CBO? Good Lord you people are ridiculous. Not that you actually care, but here is another non-biased source completely disavowing your silly argument.
http://www.factcheck.org/taxes/supply-side_spin.html
That is a giant joke! You folks fell right in line behind him......do you forget the "deficits don't matter" talk? Give me a break.
Can't help but notice you didn't make one comment about Obama's spending.....
Do you at least agree that Obama is NOT the spendaholic like many conservatives try to paint him as?
George...
This is NEW policy enacted by each President. Obama didn't send us to both wars...he DID get us out of Iraq, however.
The real dollar cost of the stimulus was just over $714 billion.
Are you are arguing we SHOULD let the Bush tax cuts expire? I'll go for that!
By your 'logic' then, the 2008 stimulus was also put onto Paul Ryan who voted for it. Right?
Why even bother George....somehow you look at the list and argue the stimulus in 2008 was great but the stimulus several months later was unbridled socialism. It is a stupid argument only put forth by stupid people.
Numbers are numbers....when you look at the list provided, you folks are exposed as complete frauds who really don't give a **** about debts and deficits.
Trouble,
You gonna do that anytime someone mentions Bush? Why shouldn't he be mentioned? He did play a major role in causing the situation we're in now. You're like a 5 year old that sticks his fingers in his ears and screams "La la la la la la la la" to avoid hearing something that makes you uncomfortable. You can deny it all you want, that won't change that fact that it's completely true.
I am talking about the article that you used as your source.....the one you have a link to? Have you even read it? I also think that you should reread my post because your reading comprehension seems to be lacking. I never made the claim about the CBO. I do make the claim about their models because they use faulty models that don't attempt to predict changes in behavior very well. They admit that. While I do not blame Obama for all of the debt he accumulated. Most of the debt is because of our entitlement programs. I do blame Obama for being unwilling to address the problems with our entitlements. Obama has also increased our spending significantly. Obama has spent what was supposed to be a one time bailout in tarp annually. I would count that an $800 billion increase annually. I also think that the ACA will cost far, far more than anyone projects. My biggest problem with Obama is that I feel that he is unwilling to address any of the problems our nation faces. (Debt, spending, entitlements, economy, jobs, etc.). More stimulus is not dealing with the economy. That is a zero sum gain at best.
hey doctor dumbass......and just which party was in control of both houses when the majority of this spending was done????? and just what did they do to control spending??? you are just like obozo and his past.....distorted beyond belief. stfu numbnut.
Bk.........that rant has been debunked so many times..sigh.....righties quit saying it because they had embarrassed themselves beyond any resemblence of self respect.
Doc....quit putting words into my mouth....I never said anything about socialism. No....when enacted in 2009, it was $714 million, but in 2011 it was increased to $840 to be spent from 2009-2019.
I didn't say anything about whether the Bush Cuts should or should not have been extended, but the fact that they extended by YOUR president and yet, you only list them on Bush's side.
I also never said whether the Stimulus was good or bad, just that you only listed them on 1 side...not both. I mean it seems like everything that was bad was all Bush's fault, but if it was good, you give all the credit to Obama.
Oh....and you forgot that small little thing called ObamaCare....which the CBO originally put the costs at $900 Billion, but has since changed it projects upward to $2.7 TRILLION.....must have slipped your mind....but I guess that's Bush's fault as well.
V.D.
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trouble,
I figured as much. No substance, no facts, no arguments, just the display of your mental retardation.
V.D. I would never call YOU retarded. (I respect THEM).
How is it possible that Fiesty is the first commentor AGAIN?! What gives?
Hey slappy,
Instead of talking about the time someone else posts, why not address my point in #162.
I alredy did that.
4 words....one misspelling. Isn't it a shock this goober is a birther?! (rhetorical statement)
Slappy? Why are you calling me names? It's a simple question...if you don't have an answer then don't respond.
OMG Doc, I missed a letter. That makes me only nine times smarter than a lib instead of ten.
Ignore the QUACK Dr......total lost cause ignorant as* clown who only leaves the MSNBC post sites to pick up his Food Stamps, Welfare Check, Employment Benefits (118 weeks and running), and take care of his Insanity thru visits to the Medicaid provided Clinic. Probably a phucking ILLEGAL as well. Yeh...he and the freeloadres have to LOVE this POS POTUS...king of the Freebies.
And that rant folks....by BK...is a typical righty posting on this blog. Bk thankyou for presenting another reason not to vote republican!
Again stargazing...if we need any sh*t out of you we will squeeze your head. And, BTW, stargazing.....no one gives a damn who you vote for.......we have enough votes already to roll Obozos' ass out of the WH and back towards Kenya....or Indonesia.....or to a DOG MEAT BUFFET!!!! Or maybe to a Partial Birth Abortion Celebration ...he seems to like that a lot, along with Moochelles' penchant for putting abortion survivors in a closet and closing the door to drown the NOISE out until they expire... Right STAR????
"Paul Ryan--Does he have a final Medicare solution for America's seniors?"
Yes he does dismantle it so top 1% and military can have more
RON PAUL PLEASE GO AWAY....you are an embarrassment to Texas and especially the Republican Party. You only run to get campaign contributions to live off of, you and your son are rats!!!! Strong Republican here but hate to even see your name much less you face. Go back to delivering babies and writing prescriptions.
Right wingers love rats. They feel a kinship. I think.
Obama/Biden 2012
Biden/Warren 2016
Love this Site
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
"Paul Ryan--Does he have a final Medicare solution for America's seniors?"
Russ Schriefer, a Romney adviser says: "We are all united in defeating Barack Obama."
"We" meaning the Republican Party. That's been the ONLY plan the Republican Party has had for the past couple years! Long before Romney got the nod!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn4hijKmMNk&list=FLmLHZ4Ob59JmDQ8UMpayVBQ&index=2&feature=plpp_video
Romney and Ryan are what they are now stuck with to defeat the President?
Schriefer said: "We'll be 100 percent united behind Mitt Romney and defeating Barack Obama for the good of the country."
Yeah...right!
Misdirect, Blame, Attack this is the Lefty's Campaign strategy, Bottom line is that Obama has no plan, Romney and Ryan have put fourth theirs, Romney laid out his five Point plan for Recovery and Ryan has a plan to save Medicare from it's Twelve year Dismal Future, Without effecting any seniors for Ten years, The real facts are that Obama has raided Medicare over 700 billion dollars and does not know what to do about the Economy?
These are just facts, But the Left will not let that get in the way, They have their Money(food stamps) on Obama.
This from the folks screaming "socialism" every 5 seconds.
So says the snake oil customer?
If the Republicans plan for Medicare is so great, why don't they propose to implement it immediately? Why wait 10 years?
I'll tell you why; if they propose to implement it now, they'd lose the senior vote.
Yeah, those Republicans are sure bold and courageous !!
So true From day 1 Jan 2009, President Obama did not have a change
If you knew they were going after President Obama, here is proof they were
“Do not ask what good we do inside the House of Representatives”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755884/#47196842
http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Do-Not-Ask-What-Good-We-Do/Robert-Draper/9781451642100/browse_inside
Hate to inform you but the GOP Senates and Representatives you elected to go to Washington are the very reason you are standing in the unemployment line, food stamp lines and not working.
Stating on the first day actually a few hours after the President was sworn in there was a group of Senators and Representatives along with Luntz and Gingrich at a dinner making plans on how to bring the President down all Republicans
Representatives
Cantor
McCarthy
Paul Ryan
Sessions
Hoekstra
Hensarling
Lungren
Senators
DeMitt
Kyle
Coburn
Ensign
Corker
You people are idiots. There is no reason to badsh the RNC because the DNC will be next week and morons will be bashing it as well. You people need to have respect for those running.
“Our thoughts are with the people in the path of the storm,” however, we the repulican party still will be holding our big party while many of our fellow americans are in harm's way. The repulicans will be partying while Obama will be in the disaster zone trying to help his fellow americans. I just decided which way I will be voting in November.
So....what should the Republican Party do? Cancel the process....you know....that actual formal process of nominating a candidate for the office? Wouldn't you liberals like that.
Oh, I know....just make it this very somber, funeral type atmosphere, so there is no momentum, no celebration of the nominated candidate, as if that is somehow going to change the direction of the storm, or somehow the outcome of it.
Please, if this storm was heading to New Orleans next week, what would you be saying? Cancel the DNC? Sure you would Hypocrit.
That is a joke right?? You are being sarcastic?
Well judging by the 3 speakers,Anne,Santorum ,And Christy. I would have to say the far right has taken over the convention. The intention here is quite obvious to excite the base,by doing this though they risk the chance of alienating other potential support. I still don't understand why Anne Romney will start off the prime time speeches.
Sorry to have to inform you but the following will NOT be showing up at the Tampa, Florida GOP Convention...
Now, these guys might be there, but The GOP will not allow them to speak!
Hope you are not too disappointed, but look at the bright side...
LOTS and LOTS of Retirees and Seniors will be standing outside Convention Hall, in their cheap raincoats that Mitt Romney will make fun of, protesting that little whipper-snapper Ryan who wants to take away their Social Security, Medicare and other earned benefits!
Oh, and
via his Hurricane Isaac, because he's really p-o'd at how the GOPs have been pandering to the Gays!
Let's be honest people!
Snookie turned them down..
And remember
I really don't think the Majority of people are that stupid to think Robme can turn our problems around, seeing that the problem lies with his own majority people in congress holding up any forward changes.
Maybe not but Odumbo will only make it worse as he has proven for the last 3 1/2 years.
John you really can't be serious.
(A political parody song by Bruce-1628250, sung to the tune of "I Wish I Were an Oscar Mayer Wiener!")
Bruce...you ARE the Oscar Mayer Wiener. Trust me...there is NO Republican who wants to be like the Great Pretender and Obnoxious Brainless A*SWIPE Muslim Activist.....No one but a Liberal would sacrifice any semblance of integrity , honesty and competence to be like the Obummer. Describes you, Right????
the democratic convention will be the farce to view if you want comical entertainment. they have the " infamous bill" "the adulterous, lying, loathsome, sex offender slated to give the keynote speech for the underhanded, socialist, marxist incumbent.
now that will be a real blowhard, charleston has a week to batten down the hatches.
THE WASHINGTON POST HITS
OBAMA
Finally, the Washington
Post speaks out on Obama! This is very brutal, timely though. As I'm sure you
know, the Washington Post newspaper has a reputation for being extremely
liberal.
So the fact that its editor saw fit to print the
following article about Obama in its newspaper makes this a truly amazing event
and a news story in and of itself.
At last, the truth about
our President and his obvious socialist agenda are starting to trickle through
the protective wall built around him by our liberal media.
__________________________—
I too have become
disillusioned.
By Matt Patterson
(columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
Years from now,
historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing
phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the
witch craze of the Middle Ages.
How, they will wonder, did
a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he
could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful
military, execute the world's most consequential job?
Imagine a future
historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the
Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy
non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid
of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often
did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United
States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential
ambitions.
He left no academic
legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then
there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating,
America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor";
a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political
sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking:
how on Earth was such a man elected president?
Not content to wait for
history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in
the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close
associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an
unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But
because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom
to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if
they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given
a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his
skin.
Podhoretz continues: And
in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate
and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave
him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the
curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts his
finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative
action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating
sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed
primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about
themselves.
Unfortunately,
minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals
routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take
no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates
which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals
aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem
resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.
Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin -
that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing
is.
And that is what America
did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of
achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was
good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was
told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois
; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the
Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough
for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
What could this breed if
not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008,
many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about
Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people -
conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed.
The man thinks and
speaks in the hoariest of clichï and that's when he has his Teleprompters in
front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all.
Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over
Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for a 100
years.
And what about his
character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his
troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is
embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness,
so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect?
The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act
responsibly?
In short: our president
is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect
to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that,
will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have
gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
So well written. I hope most other left leaning folks have a similar epiphany!!
Wow I hope every ideologically bilnded liberal reads this!
Well, I am a Left-Leaning Non-Partisan Independent and I read this Opinion Piece by
and found it to be typical Right-Wing, Hate Obama, Republiclan BullschMITT!
It's hardly anything but a simplistic attack piece using many of the oft repeated LIES of the Right Wing Extremeists. You guys ought to be ashamed of yourselves for trying to pass this load of crap off and anything but PROPAGANDA!
Now, what you really should check out is this...
It's only 30 minutes, available online, and was made by the Newt Gingrich SuperPac - Winning Our Future.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/12/anti-romney_movie_by_pro-gingrich_pac_when_mitt_romney_came_to_town.html
BTW, Newt will be a featured speaker at The GOP Convention, on Thursday between 7 and 8 PM. His speech is listed on the GOP Agenda as follows:
Remarks by former House Speaker and GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and wife Callista Gingrich
Bruce....the point is not about WHO WROTE the article....The Point is in the ARTICLES' Truth, and WHERE is was Published.
How about you go back and review, and REPORT on, all the Nasty Political Slams and Claims your great IMPOSTER made about BILL AND HILLARY..... and they still PRETEND to like the Obozo.... Says a lot fro the Credibility and Principles of the DIMS as well, RIGHT numbnut???? Remember when the DimWits framed "The First Black President" as a RACIST??? OF course not...liberal minds and memories are as short, small , and thin as their dicks and Brains. TOO SMALL TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT, but a Joy to Bash.
In a word. WOW.
Some of you people drive me crazy with you comments. Our country is in the worst shape that it has been in since the great depression of the 1920's. Yet some of you can only make stupid childish jokes about the "right" or the "left". It is really simple, our country has accurred more debt in the last 3 1/2 years than it ever did in the previous 232 years combined. I mean are you telling me some of you are so blind that you cannot see this, our debt was hovering around 1 to 2 trillion dollars before Obama took office, now just 3 short years later we are at an astounding $16 trillion dollars. Oh and don't try to blame it on congress, because the Senate is controlled by Obama's cronies and they have not even passed a budget during the whole time Obama has been in office. If you or I did not come up with a budget for our jobs and our families we would get fired from our jobs, and our family would probably be "Bankrupt"!! Come on people, stop joking around and get serious, its time to take the blinders off and see what is right in front of your face. Romney is a shrewed business man who made plenty of money, some will say he gutted companies, that was his job people. He was supposed to go in and find a wy to make those companies run more fiscally sound than they were, and he did that. Some had to be shut down, but I know what thats like, I did it for years with a major fast food company. Look we have nothing to lose by giving a real business man a chance to see if he can bring our country out of this debt situation we find ourselves in, so please be smart with your vote, and stop joking around. The ones doing all the joking around are the ones who will be complaining in 2 years that they should have voted for Romney when they had the chance. I thank you and have a great day.
But...if you don't vote for obama..you are a racist. And this was all bush's fault. THERE...I saved the libs the time of having to respond to your lucid and factual assertion Jeff.
Well, at least you got that RIGHT!
http://www.examiner.com/article/albrights-position-blaming-bush-forever-backed-by-cbpp-report-on-debt-deficit
* (CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES)
You think there is a recovery? I hate what Bush did. Don't get me wrong...but I hate what obama did and PROMISED, then failed to convert
Oh...and why am I not surprised that you still want to blame Bush...
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Just can't vote for someone who makes millions of dollars and only pays 13% in taxes. that is half of what I pay. I agree with England
Mitt the Twit
Why don't you move there? (And take Odumbo with you).
Are you at all familiar with taxes on capital gains?
In business, Mitt Romney's firms shipped jobs to Mexico, and China. (SEC 3/26/1993, 3/29/2002, Los Angeles Times 6/2/2000)
As Governor, Romney outsourced jobs to India. (The Boston Globe 5/1/2012)
He had millions in a Swiss bank account (abc News 1/26/2012) in tax havens in Bermuda (Vanity Fair, August 2012) and in the Cayman Islands (abc News 1/18/2012).
Yet, in spite of that, he lowered unemployment, and took over a budget that had a $30 billion shorting and a $650 billion debt and left office 4 years later with a budget surplus.....ALL while having a democratic legislature in office. So explain to me again about your point of a liberal paper like the Boston Globe having issue with him sending jobs overseas when he LOWERED unemployment in Mass during his tenure?
Every Democrat needs to read this www.theblaze.com/stories/dnc-announces-2-hour-islamic-jumah-prayers
Vote for the Mormon and not the moron.
Romney/Ryan 2012-2020
Wait a minute! Shouldn't YOU be saying ...
Because, as we all know, most Right Wing Christian Conservatives DO NOT believe Mormonism is a Christian Religion.
Jeez, you guys sure are Flip-Floppers! Just like your man Mitt!!!
Uhhh....I think your fake POTUS pointed out very clearly on at least a couple of occasions that his "Mormon Faith" was a prime source and inspiration for his fake "life"...and wasn't it his wife, Moochelle, who referred to Kenya as your masters' "country of birth"??? yeh..I think so.
@BK-3328579
Do you hate black people and think we all are muslim?
Or Just President Obama who is a Christian.
If you think like that you must want all black people to think like you as well and consider President Obama a muslim
We "black People" would say "You lost Your F-N Mind" You racist.
BK actually posted this comment...
Now BK is accusing President Obama of being a Mormon!!!
ROTFLMAO These Romney guys will tell whatever LIES they have to, won't they?
He meant to say Muslin and you know it Dumba$$.