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BOULDER, Colo. – A mountain range in the near distance behind him, President Barack Obama appeared before thousands of just-returning University of Colorado students here, making a play for the youth vote in this crucial Western state.
“I could see folks forgetting to vote. They’re having too much fun,” he said, urging the 13,000 students on CU Boulder’s Norlin Quad to go to the polls. “That’s why you are so important because you’re going to have to set an example to the person next to you in class. You’re going to have to remind them, have you voted yet?”
Students at schools like CU Boulder contributed to Obama’s 2008 victory, with 66 percent of young voters picking him over 2008 GOP nominee John McCain. But recent polls show young voters losing excitement at the prospect of voting at all in 2012, let alone showing up for Obama in as large numbers as they did last election.
Underscoring the importance of young voters in this state, the Obama campaign last week launched a “Rocky Mountain Rumble,” challenging sports rivals CU Boulder and Colorado State University to see which school can register more voters by Election Day.
Obama, who campaigned at CSU last week, noted that the school had “a little bit of a head start” and was already up by 41 registrants. “Let’s get it done,” he urged the CU Boulder students.
The president also tailored his standard campaign pitch to voters of all ages in this mountainous frontier state, hearkening back to its pioneer roots: “The story of America is about going forward. Nobody understands that better than folks in the West, because you know, this was a region that was settled by people who understand, ‘We’re not looking back, we’re going forward. We’re going forward to the next frontier, to new horizons,’” he said.
The Romney campaign released a statement in response to Obama's speech today, alluding to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a top Obama surrogate, who on CBS' Sunday morning show Face the Nation responded "no" when asked whether he could "honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago
"On the same day that the Obama campaign conceded Americans aren’t better off than they were four years ago, the President offered no solutions to the problems facing our country. Instead of taking us ‘forward,’ President Obama is taking us on a path of declining incomes, high unemployment, and trillion dollar deficits. The Romney-Ryan plan for a stronger middle class will spur economic growth, bring back jobs, and turn our economy around," Romney spokesperson Amanda Henneberg said.
The Obama campaign is working hard to recapture the nine votes they won in Colorado in 2008 with a 53 to 44 victory over McCain. Of his eleven trips to Colorado since the beginning of his presidency, eight were in 2012, most of which were political.
Boulder County, where Obama spoke today, handed him a resounding 72 percent in 2008. But there were still regions in the state remain deeply red – after all, President Obama was the first Democrat to win Colorado since Bill Clinton did in 1992.
One such area was El Paso County in the southern part of the state, which voted 59 to 40 for McCain. Before his speech today the president sat down for interviews with two TV affiliates from Colorado Springs, the largest city in El Paso County.
Later Sunday, Obama heads to Toledo, Ohio, for a campaign event Monday morning. He’ll then travel to Louisiana where he will tour damage wrought by Hurricane Isaac.
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So Romney is disputing claims made by Democrats that he ignored references to the Afghan and Iraq wars in his convention speech by.......ADMITTING THAT HE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THEM AT THE CONVENTION.
This could only happen in Romneyland.
Tickets to the DNC $250 Silly Hat and foam finger $45 Donation the the DGC $25 ..Tea party republicans .. Clueless
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mitt will take his supporters to the Planet Kolob for a victory party where they will be able to mingle with other party members and their multiple wives for an evening of ( hell thy dont drink ..but they do have multiple wives) so I guess .. doing the rest of us is the next logical step.. is there Vaseline on Kolob?
Kolob???
The American people gave Barack Obama
as much of a mandate as anyone since
Ronald Reagan. Full Democratic control
of both the House and the Senate, Washington
D.C., on a silver platter. If he wanted
Social Security reform, all he had to do,
was write it and sign it. If he wanted
Welfare reform, all he had to do, was write
it and sign it.
If he wanted military reform, all he had to
do, was write it and sign it. If he wanted
medical reform, all he had to do, was write
it and sign it. If he wanted Medicare reform,
all he had to do, was write it and sign it.
If he wanted Campaign Finance reform, all
he had to do, was write it and sign it.
Immigration reform, stem cell research, NASA,
housing finance, Wall Street reform, abortion
reform, judicial reform, you name it, it was his.
All we got out of Barack Obama was WallStreet
Welfare, a premium entitlement program for the
Insurance Industry, and what the hell kind of
light bulb we were allowed to buy.
Whether you are a sanitation worker, or a medical
intern, if you fail your probationary period,
you are gone. Obama has been given a four year
probationary period, it's time to give another
candidate a chance. Romney has to be better,
because he sure as hell can't be any worse.
Jerry, are you 7skuaroff of the denverpost.com? Because if you are not, then you plagiarized his/her comments and should at least give him/her credit for actually writing what you only cut'n pasted here. It's pretty much all bullschMITT anyway, but YOU DID NOT BUILD THAT, or write it either.
What I said.
YOU DID NOT BUILD THAT, or write it either. 7skuareoff of the denverpost.com did!
He also reminded them to vote often. He should tell them to once they graduate there will be no jobs for them becase of his antibusineess anti American policies.
of the Anti-American corporations which are more interested in greed gathering from the Global Marketplace, than creating American jobs. They are ungrateful Anti-Patriotic Traitors to the American Middle Class who initially made them the huge corporations they are now.
Here is my research from w. presidentialdebt. org
OBAMA 3 years - 5T (16077.17/citizen/year with 311 million citizens
Bush Jr 8 years - 4T
Clinton 8 years - 1.5T
Bush Sr 4 years - 1.5T
Reagan 8 Years - 1.6T
Carter 4 years - 1T
Per result of 3 years of 5T deficit - A family of 4 can receive $64k per year for 3 years (not counting the 4th year)
to pay for their mortgage, student loan, food, medical etc. So, where is our 16k/yr for 3 years?
Obama was there to tell the students not to worry. If he's reelected he has a plan to have the government buy out all their student loans since there won't be any jobs for them.
I trust the students of Colorado understand basic economics, which the Republicans destroyed by shipping 10 million American Production Jobs offshore, strictly for tax purposes. Read the Tax Code.
Right On Terry!
Terry
Oh so, GM's building new plants in China even though the taxpayers stand to lose $57 million on the Obama GM bailout is the republicans fault and good for the country, how?
Of course, we don't want to bring up GE who's CEO is a democrat and huge supporter of Obama. They pay zero income tax and all of their domestic appliance line is made overseas. And that's the Republicans fault, how?
And since our American jobs started to get exported in the 70's, it the republican's fault, how? If memory services me right in the time period from 1970 to 2012 presidents of both parties have been elected.
Seems it is you who needs the education, by demonstrating you lack an understanding of just about everything except deception when it come to facts and politics..
"Have fun but don't forget to vote...Oh yeah, did I mention study? Because you might want to do that too.If you can fit it in."
Attention Colorado Students: This election is about the Supreme Court, and the next thirty-plus years of your life. The Republicans want to reverse Roe v. Wade. With three or four justices wanting to retire, and some of them just happen to vote very conservatively, the Republicans need to select those replacements. In addition, a woman could be classified, by the Republicans, as a "Woman who was just asking for it, in the event of rape". As for Blacks, Hispanics, Latinos, and the Working Class Poor, well, the Republicans intend to cut every state and federal benefit that might help anyone who could vote for a Democrat, if these folks are allowed to vote at all. Many years ago, long before you were born, there truly were two political parties in America, and both parties worked together for the general welfare of the nation. That all changed in 2008 when America elected the first Black President, and the TEA Party went "Nuts". You can search the internet for all of the quotes made by Republicans and TEA Party faithfuls, quotes such as "We will not support anything Obama tries to accomplish over the next four years" and history presents just that, the Republicans have done absolutely nothing for four years. You all must know several people who were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan by the Republican President, George Bush. President Bush lied about WMD's in Iraq, and thousands of gifted young people were killed fighting a war we had no business creating in the first place. However, if you are looking for a practical reason for not voting for the Republicans, try this reason; "Why is it that the Republicans failed to even invite George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Sarah Palin to the convention?". Is it possible, just possible, that the GOP knows that having anyone from recent years that reminds the American Voter of the absolute screw-ups made by these people, would only enforce the need to announce, "No Thank You, I Already Had Too Much Republican". I am a Republican, and I will not support any candidate who is hell-bent to destroy the Rights of Women in America.
Right On Terry! Absolutely, Right On!
Great comment!
(The absolute only thing I would suggest is a style point, of breaking the comment into about 3 paragraphs to make it easier to read through. Other than that the content is absolutely terrific!!!)
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Corporations are people when Texas executes one of them!
What is Mittens hiding in his tax returns? Why won't he show us his returns?
Vulture/Voucher 2012
You do realize, or maybe you don't, that the Romneys are NOT keeping their tax returns hidden away from the Liberals, or we non-partisans who support Obama.
They know that whether they release their tax returns or not, it is NOT going to change our opinion or vote. We will still support Obama regardless of what the Romney tax returns reveal.
The Romneys knows that if YOU see what they've been doing with their taxes for the last ten or twenty years YOU might just change your mind about voting for Mitt, and he might lose YOUR vote and support.
I don't care what Romney tax returns say. I'll never vote for him anyway.
But, YOU should probably care what their taxes reveal. After all, Mitt Romney thinks he owns YOU and YOUR vote already, and he also thinks YOU don't deserve an explanation from him and Ann.
And Ann Romney said, during an ABC News interview that "we've given all you people need to know" about the Romney family finances," So there!
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Prepared to go to grad school, if you vote for Obama, there will be no jobs nor future for 10 more years otherwise, at least Mitt knows what jobs and your futures are all about, he has 5 kids!!! either that or join the military, there will be no other future. Hunger games for REAL, NO MO Obama.
BuffaloBagels is dropping turds all over this blog again.
Be careful where you skate!
OH GIVE ME A BREAK! NONE of Mitt's kids ever had to worry about taking out or paying back a loan for college! NONE of Mitt's kids ever served a day in the military, or any other service corp to America. Mitt doesn't give a damn about middle class America! If YOU think so, YOU ARE A MORON!
Mitt Romney said this:
"We’ve always encouraged young people: Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.”
Hey buffalo, DO YOU THINK every kid who wants to go to college has a parent who has at least $250 MILLION to borrow from? DON'T BE A FOOL!
Have the republicans found the perfect lie yet? Will they be able to lie their way into the white house? Nah. Even Faux News is calling them out as liars. Too bad. You can't believe 1040 Romney and lyin Ryan.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 because your education, your job, your future matter
Romney 1040
ROFLMAO - your education matters when Obama can buy a vote, and your jobs do not matter unless you are and illegal alien.
Government welfare programs are created to buy the
votes of those who want someone to take care of them? LOL
Work for it or do without. ...Romney--Ryan--2012
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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!....... Think real hard before you vote in November
You cannot give more tax breaks to the wealthy while telling future medicare recipients that they must pay more out of pocket for their health care.
Ed.....yes you can, and you should....as long as you make the necessary changes in current programs that are either poorly run, ineffective, or not helping get people back to work. The entitlement programs in this country serve a purpose, but they are killing this economy by not being run effectively. That includes Medicare. If this program was run more efficiently, it would not be a burden on the taxpayers....but it is run so poorly, and with so much Fraud.....it can not be run with a balanced book.
I can not tell you the amount of times I have seen, with my own eyes, someone standing in line somewhere talking on the latest IPhone, holding a set of lexus keys and using food stamps to pay for food. Why is it that drug testing for a welfare check is considered an invasion of privacy? Why is drug testing for a job no considered invasion of privacy, but for a free handout it is? That is part of the problem.
It appears that George believes his own eyes represent a statistically significant sample of welfare recipients. hilarious.
George, how are we going to pay for those additional tax cuts for the wealthy?
George, you do realize unpaid for wars have killed our economy?
You are 100% right I see the same things ever day. The sad part is most these people should be out working and a lot would be ( if they were able to work ) if they had jobs. Jobs are not important but votes are.
George, I can't tell you how many times I have seen a wealthy person take their tax cuts and take a vacation in France instead of creating jobs here in America like they were supposed to?
Yes Joe, republicans ran on creating jobs in 2010 and then sat on their asses per the dictate of Mitch McConnell.
Republicans have attempted to create a stereotype of welfare recipients as largely Black and lazy. They have targeted low information White voters.
MLK would roll over in his grave if he saw how his people have spent the last 40 years!
Jello heads!
I agree with George at 76.2.There should be drug testing for welfare. I had to take two for the same job. One on a Friday for the company orientation, and one the following Monday for another orientation with the D.O.T. because it was a bridge building job on the state highway. I'm not going to say that all people on welfare are there because they want to be, because that is certainly not the case. But many are. Sitting around drinking and smoking crack and whatever else. They should be made to be clean, and work for their welfare. I don't care if their work is cleaning the highways or the bathrooms at the waysides. Be drug free and contribute somehow. It isn't that much to ask.
Ed in Columbus- republicans sat in their hands? Why don't you go to Harry Reids desk right now. Over 28 bills with bipartisan support and nothing being done in the Senate. Do believe dems run that side.
Joe your platitudes are idiotic.
George, Your anecdote doesn't prove anything.
Ed is CORRECT in all his comments, but besides killing the economy the two UNPAID BUSH WARS killed thousands of young Americans needlessly!
Joe, You actually wrote:
How many ways is that STUPID?
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A conserative Republican, a moderate Republican, and a liberal Republican walk into a bar.
The bartender waves and says "Hello Mitt"!
Mittens you need to show us your reutrns!
Vulture/Voucher 2012
Soon as you learn to use spell check
onermailliw, YOU criticize someone else for spelling when YOU have posted these gems in YOUR comments!
YOU should watch where you're throwing those stone in your own Glass House!
If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A Democrat wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Democrats demand that those they don't like be shut down.
Romney--Ryan--2012
Joey, that's dumbass claptrap. Get serious, or remain stupid.
pretty sad when you have to remind your own constituents to remember to vote. democrats rely on the poor and stupid to stay in power. if there werent poor stupid lazy people needing handouts, the democratic party would not exist. freaking losers.
Now remember college students vote for the socialist utopian professor. You'll graduate with $100,000 in stdent loan debt and find that great job driving a cab or flipping burgers if one of Ostumbler's amnestied illegal aliens doesn't get there first. Oh by the way your useless ethnic studies professor will be driving around in a BMW and screwing your girlfriend. No more professors.
Romney/Ryan 2012.
Pretty sad when republican led states have to rewrite voting laws that change the rules of voter ID's...mandating expiration dates on those photo ID's that most college and Veteran's cards don't have. Pretty sad when the federal courts are now stating those same new laws are unconstitutional. Pretty sad when republicans don't trust democracy and are trying to rig the elections...afraid of some American votes that might not choose them; thwarting a freedom from the constitution and bill of rights guarantee to all.
We all know the truth...
Republican Mike Turzai, the state House majority leader from Pennsylvania, remarked a short time ago:
That really says it all about THE REAL REASONS REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN PUSHING VOTER ID LAWS!
http://www.marinij.com/opinion/ci_21394864/marin-voice-voter-id-laws-are-reminders-60s
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I WANT TO GET RE-ELECTED"
*If any other of our presidents had criticized a state law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hothead? *
*If any other of our presidents joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in the United States to force that state to continue to allow illegal immigration, would you question his patriotism and wonder whose side he was on? *
*If any other of our presidents had pronounced the Marine Corps like Marine Corpse, would you think him an idiot? *
*If any other of our presidents had put 87,000 workers out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records of any industry because one foreign company had an accident, would you have agreed? *
*If any other of our presidents had used a forged document as the basis of the moratorium that would render 87000 American workers unemployed would you support him? *
*If any other of our presidents had been the first President to need a Teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes? *
*If any other of our presidents had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take his First Lady to a play in NYC, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had reduced your retirement plan holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought it a proud moment for America ? *
*If any other of our presidents had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip? *
*If any other of our presidents had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had stated that there were 57 states in the United States, wouldn't you have had second thoughts about his capabilities? *
*If any other of our presidents would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in his home town, would you not have thought he was a self-important, conceited, egotistical jerk?*
*If any other of our presidents had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, wouldn't you have winced in embarrassment? *
*If any other of our presidents had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?*
*If any other of our presidents' administrations had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on
9-11? *
*If any other of our presidents had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence? *
*If any other of our presidents had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate
on much of what is happening in America, would you have ever approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved? *
*So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? *
*Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 34 months so you don't have that much time to come up with an answer.*
*Every statement and action in this email is factual and directly attributable to Barack Hussein Obama. Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable. *
AND NOW-- HE ACTUALLY WANTS US TO RE-ELECT HIM!
WAKE UP AMERICA 2012 IS UPON US!
Please forward this to someone. I CANNOT AFFORD TO TAKE A CHANCE ON THIS GUY FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS . . .
*"All it takes for evil to triumph is...........for good people to do nothing."*
If you were one of those Americans that saw your home value evaporate in one year like when Bush was in office (19.4 TRILLION DOLLARS in home values disappeared during the Bush years, that means that every 1.7 SECONDS the value of an average American evaporate into thin air), would you or could you think that the GOP platform, Mitt's is the same one, would give you different results? Can you think that another few unfunded wars will make you better off? The GOP is a war machine, it makes too much profit for the money masters for it to ever stop under a GOP President. While the GOP screams debt, they after all are the ones that made the debt but they don;t pay the bill, you pay that bill. Save Democracy and vote a STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC ticket and FIRE EVERY LAST REPUBLICAN. A Democracy is a sad thing to lose.
Democrats were running bothe house and Senate from 2006 to 2010. Yep that really helped out.
So you're saying Obama is evil?
Bush vetoed most of the bills sent to him for two years.
Nice try though.
It is really an easy decision for students. If you graduated in 2010, you had to settle for jobs that pay half what you had trained for. If you graduated after 2010, you had no jobs at all.
Ya'll can't worry about what happened here. Come on out & vote.What a MORON of a person much less the so called president. I'll be so glad when November. is here & Yobama is gone.
Well Red, YOU are probably going to be very disappointed come November...
Nate Silver and Five Thirty Eight says...
the election over
And ~ Republican Pundit George Will, seems to agree with Nate Silver, blasting Romney's flip flopping when he wrote in the Washington Post, October 2011,...
"Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles (Flip Flopper) who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate…
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Yes, students, if you want to REDUCE your chance of having a job for four more years, by all means, vote for Obama. 8%+ unemployment for a record 40+ months should tell you something!!
People in all states should be telling themselves this:
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
--- Obama fooled us, big-time, with all his lies. Best example: He was to reduce the debt by $5 trillion, down from $10 trillion. Instead, he INCREASED IT ALMOST $6 TRILLON, up to $16 trillion!!
Don't be a fool.
You got fooled because.. umm... you're a fool.
The President never said he'd cut the "National Debt" in half..
he was referring to the annual budget deficit.. NOT the accumulated National Debt..
Yeah, jethro bob,.. once again,. this is a "Boy don't you look stupid" moment for you..
They seem to be coming a bit more frequently of late .. eh???
K1200,
Yep, Obama did say he would cut the deficit in half in four years. Not only has he not cut the deficit in half in any year, he has exceeded $1 trillion in every year. You and Obama can't spin your way out of this one. He added $6 trillion to the national debt in four years. Bush's largest deficit was $400 billion. Obama's average per year was four times that. The deficit is just one of many broken promises.
Apparently you need to have a sit down with little alan...
He seems to be a bit ,... confused...
Now... Do you think that in some way, the economy as a whole would be better,.. if we subtracted $6 trillion from it, during the last 4 years???
Yeah,.. I know... Now you have to actually think,.. instead of blindly parrot... or deflect...
Teapublicans aren't good at the "thinking" thing. LOL!!!
K1200,
You are so smart. Any time you spend $6 trillion more than you make is a good thing. LOL. Is that how you handle your finances?
You left out the key point. Obama lied.
My son, who was an avid Obama supporter in 2008, will be voting for Romney.
He says he has seen Obama for what he is - a big. fat nothing who is in over his head.
No liberal will admit it, but they too have seen Obama for what he is, an empty suit who promised the moon and deliver nothing, i.e. Steve Jobs. They secretly wish Hillary would have been the nominee.