• Ten: President Obama has slowed down the recession. Nobody is talking depression anymore, and some are talking recovery. Trying to catch this economy from crashing was like trying to catch a 100 ton boulder dropped off a 70-story building. The inertia alone is going to push you backwards until you can slow the force. Most wouldn’t even step in front of a boulder coming at them like this. Obama stepped in the gap and stuck to a measured recovery plan of stimulus dollars and labor force transition.

• Nine: President Obama saved Wall Street. And Wall Street tried to punk him by paying itself first. He exposed the absence of regulatory oversight on Wall Street, and economic and financial investment reform is being discussed like never before.

• Eight: President Obama saved the collapse of the American automotive industry. By making GM restructure before bailing them out, and putting incentive money to help the industry, he saved the industry. People want to make jokes about “cash for clunkers” but the automakers aren’t laughing. They’re thanking him.

• Seven: President Obama shifted the focus of the war from Iraq to Afghanistan, and putting the emphasis on reducing terrorism where it should have been all along-but now they want to say he’s making war, not peace. Well, at least he didn’t destabilize a whole region on a false premise. It’s better than what we had.

• Six: President Obama relaxed Anti-American tensions throughout the world. This was more serious than the previous administration was willing to let on. The President made good on his promise to make a major address on American-Muslim relations and he did it in a Muslim country, showing a good faith that America hadn’t shown in a while.

• Five: President Obama closed the prisoner “torture camp” at Guantanamo Bay. Holding prisoners for eight years without charging them was acceptable under the previous administration. It is not acceptable under this administration. Obama’s next challenge is what to do with the detainees.

• Four: President Obama has made the environment a national priority, and a primary source for job creation. The era of polluting industrialists is over, and with a President that understands the benefits of green conversion, America can become a leader in the industry of the future.

• Three: President Obama has made education a national priority by putting emphasis and money behind new ideas like charter schools, but speaking directly to school children in telling them they have to do their part. It’s what any President should be encouraging but Obama’s so popular, he was accused of trying to “socialize” or “proselytize” the children. It’s a sad day when the President of the United States can’t speak to school children because their parent’s views conflict.

• Two: President Obama is on the verge of passing universal health care, with a public option, to insure everybody in America has care when they are sick. He’s doing it, despite vilification of ideologues and while in the midst of an H1N1 epidemic where millions could get sick this winter. The people feel him on this.

• One: President Obama has restored credibility to the American Presidency where the world is looking to him to lead America out of unilateralism and back into multilateral global cooperation. The Nobel Peace Prize was an acknowledgment that Obama had led and is leading a non-violent cultural revolution in America. Everybody, except for a few in America, can see the change. Still, the world understands what happened one year ago, and they thought they’d never see such a shift occur. The election of Obama helped the world see the light that America wasn’t ready to self-destruct.

Not bad, for less than a year in office. People need to stop complaining that he hasn’t done enough. Obama was elected President. He wasn’t elected Jesus. Like Al Sharpton said on Meet The Press, “we now realize that Obama doesn’t walk on water, but he’s still the fastest swimmer in America.”

Obama - "These legitimately upset honest Muslims did not
destroy the embassy in Libya on their own or murder the Ambassador and three
others! they had help from Me." Mr President - You supported the overthrow
of our friend Mubarak in Egypt, and murdered and bombed Libya so they submitted
to your Muslim Brotherhood. Qaddafi was neutralized and you still killed him.

Why have embassy guards! They can't even fire warning shots, shoot bean bags or
even make faces at the marauding terrorist

ex is desperate and had to get out his georgie soros end of amercia talking points!

If Romney wants a war, he should man up and just say it, like you do. He isn't worthy of YOUR vote.

Comment #666, The Comment Of The Beast. I'm outta here.

Even though our economy has improved under President Obama, with over 36 straight months of private sector job growth, they want to blame him for not doing more and doing it quickly. We have forgotten that when FDR inherited the Great Depression, it took over 13 years and a world war to get to a robust economic recovery. The American people then realized how bad things were and that FDR was making things better, although slowly. He was re-elected in 1936 even though the nation was still in the depths of that depression. Unfortunately today, we Americans want instant satisfaction, and expect our leaders to solve great problems quickly, even when the opposition does everything in their power to block any progress.

While the Romney/Ryan Convention has worked hard to have us forget the failures of Bush/Cheney, their policies and their platform represent a return to the Bush/Cheney policies, but on steroids. If they are elected, we will see a repeat of the failed tax policies and neo-con foreign policy that brought America to its knees in 2008. I hope that Americans can see through this slight of hand and learn from history, both recent and past

OBAMA'S MIDDLE CLASS
REDUCTION ACT OF 2012!

----------------The Poor--------------- Middle Class (Me)

--------------------- Government Provides

Healthcare ------ Yes-----------------------No

Food-------------- Yes-----------------------No

Transportation-- Yes --------------------- No

Cell Phone ------ Yes---------------------- No

Marriage Penalty- No--------------------- Yes

Headstart ----------Yes ------------------- No

Unearned----------Yes-------------------- No

Tax Credit

Mental disability -Yes---------------------No

Payments

Housing-----------Yes-----------------------No

Rubbers-----------Yes----------------------NO

Jungle Gyms------Yes----------------------No

Colt 45 -------------Yes----------------------No

Free College-------Yes---------------------No

Pre Birth ----------Yes---------------------No

Head start

I would be better off not working and being part of the Obamanation!

But, Obama wants to make the middle class the lower class. He will take all the Makers down one notch on
the economic ladder.

Bush-Cheney Making Things Worse Day by Day

by Ralph Nader

Thursday, July 12, 2007's Washington Post was another day of well-supported headlines chronicling the lawless, incompetent, wasteful, negligent, bumbling and multiple perils to our nation's security and safety caused by the Bush-Cheney regime.

One headline reads: "U.S. Warns of Stronger Al-Qaeda." The report by the Bush Administration's National Counterterrorism Center was titled "Al-Qaida Better Positioned to Strike the West." Safe havens are being established in remote tribal areas of western Pakistan.

In recent days, George W. Bush has told audiences of the growing menace of Al-Qaeda inside Iraq.

There was no Al-Qaeda in Iraq before Bush's invasion.

Five hundred billion dollars (and vast bloodshed) later and we are left with the Bush government's own assessment of Al-Qaeda's resurgence and spread!

Officials inside and retired generals, diplomats and intelligence specialists outside the Bush government have warned before and after the Iraq invasion of the disastrous consequences of this maneuver. Inside the Pentagon, the U.S. Army personnel, up to four-star Generals, have warned against the invasion but have been muzzled.

Bush's own CIA director-Porter J. Goss-, General William Casey and others declared that the U.S. military presence was fueling the insurgency in Iraq and Goss added that our presence in Iraq is a magnet attracting more people from other countries to learn the skills of sabotage and terror.

Bush's own counter-terrorism advisor in the White House, Richard Clarke, wrote in his book, Against All Enemies, that Osama bin Laden must be beseeching Bush to invade Iraq to inflame the Muslim world and generate new recruits.

Nothing-facts, judgment, the destruction of Iraq, the U.S. casualties, the massive drain on the taxpayers, the distraction from the needs of the American people affect this obsessively-compulsed duo in the White House.

Another headline in the Post that day was an assessment by Bush's CIA chief, Michael V. Hayden that the U.S. installed Iraqi government was unable to govern and that the situation seems irreversible. He added that he could not "point to any milestone or checkpoint where we can turn this thing around." Those words were conveyed to the Iraq study group on the same day (November 13, 2006) that the Group heard Mr. Bush give an upbeat assessment of that same government.

Bush has been chronically detached from the reality of his own advisors.

Also on page one was this stunner of a sting: "Undercover congressional investigators posing as West Virginia businessmen obtained a license with almost no scrutiny from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that enabled them to buy enough radioactive material from U.S. suppliers to build a "dirty bomb," a new government [GAO] report says."

How about that for the Bush's agency that is supposed to keep the atom in safe hands!

Inside on the Business Page is "Armored Vehicles Chronically Late." This latest chapter in the Bush's management by criminal negligence leaving soldiers without adequate body armor for many, many months of preventable fatalities.

The reporter, Renae Merle, writes: "The Pentagon inspector general's office has found that a program to deliver special armored vehicles to protect military personnel in Iraq from roadside bombs has been marred by delays and questionable contracting practices that may have endangered troops." "May have"? When such vehicles are not shipped out, soldiers lose their lives and limbs.

If George W. Bush's daughters, Jenna and Barbara were on those Iraqi roads, wanna bet how fast Laura Bush would get George to focus?

Day after day in the papers and on the television news, the endemic mismanagement of corrupt corporate contracts, flouting of civil liberties, due process of law and inability to get anything done, even in widespread post-Katrina emergencies, produces no accountability, no compelling changes from the Congress, no impeachment proceedings.

Poll after poll shows Bush-Cheney approval ratings below thirty percent. About 70 percent of the people want out of Iraq. And many polls show the public wants the Bush regime to end, believes that Bush does not care for the people like themselves, and that corporations have too much control over their lives.

And not only conservatives are appalled by the gigantic deficits Bush is piling up for future generations of Americans.

This government leaves Americans defenseless when it comes to occupational diseases, medical malpractice, air and water pollution. Bush can't even police defective or contaminated products pouring into this country from communist China.

Because it has no quorum, his Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is just about powerless to impose civil penalties or otherwise regulate or recall defective products, domestic or imported.

As reported in the useful Loyola Consumer Law Review, Bush has not filled the third Commissioner's position for over a year which prevents the CPSC from exercising its authority over dangerous products. The agency is in limbo, while injuries mount.

Obama will set me "Free" Free at last, of a job. The upside is I can post 24/7. Praise be to God!

This video made by the U.S.Navy Seals may cost Obama his second term in office. It’s just incredible how effective this video is in convincing Americans that Obama is a very serious national traitor. History will judge him negatively for 1,000 years. Incredibly powerful video! Senior CIA, FBI, Military and many other U.S.government intelligence officials describe for the viewer how Obama has compromised U.S.national secrets and the very serious consequence of those actions.And what’s worse, he did it all for political gain so he could win a second disastrous term in office.

Navy SEALS Respond After Media Matters

Calls Them "Gutless"

Video Link:http://www.youtube.com/v/X-Xfti7qtT0?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0

Watch the video.

A list of the worst people of all time in a middle school yearbook has sparked a furious debate in the state of Arkansas.

Printed on a page in the yearbook of Russellville Middle School is a list, a list ranking the 5 worst people of all time. Topping the list was Adolf Hitler, followed by Osama Bin Laden, Charles Manson, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

School faculty members, reacting to the outcry by parents and local residents, have attempted to cover the page with tape in hopes students would not try and remove it – but of course they did, easily.

“My problem is the tape can be removed easily,” parent and school board member Chris Cloud told local news Newsnet5. “I'm furious as a parent and as a board member and as a taxpayer and as a resident of Russellville. It's wrong.”

The school has insisted the list does not reflect the views of the school or the students. In fact, the list was pulled from a poll posted on a website.

Schools Superintendent Randall Williams called the publishing of the list was an “oversight” and expressed shock when he learned the tape could easily be removed by students.

“Well that's disappointing because the yearbook supplier told us this was a definite fix,” he said. “I think it's just hard to explain, and I've talked to the [yearbook] sponsor and she is very very very upset about it.”

Williams said the school staffer in charge of the yearbook did not see the list when she sent the yearbook to the printers. As such, the school is reviewing the editing process to make improvements for the future.

For Crimes againt Humanity and the Planet.

In the first verdict of its kind since former President George W. Bush left office, he and several members of his administration have been successfully convicted in absentia of war crimes in Malaysia.

Yes, this is a BFD.

This past Friday, a five panel tribunal delivered a unanimous guilty verdict after a week long trial that, unsurprisingly, was not covered by American media. The witnesses included several ex-Guantanamo detainees that gave testimony on the conditions and human rights violations that were systematically carried out under orders of the Bush administration.

Former President Bush, Former Vice-President Dick Cheney, Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo that crafted the legal ‘justification’ for torture that basically said, ‘we can if we want to even if it’s illegal’ were the defendants. None were present, of course, but international war crime trials do not require the presence of the accused. The trial was run according to the standards set by the Nuremberg Trials to convict war criminals after World War II.

Professor Gurdial Singh Nijar, who headed the prosecution said, “The tribunal was very careful to adhere scrupulously to the regulations drawn up by the Nuremberg courts and the International Criminal Courts”.

The United States is subject to international law which makes this trial significant beyond the borders of Malaysia. Foreign Policy Journal reports:

President Lamin told a packed courtroom: “As a tribunal of conscience, the tribunal is fully aware that its verdict is merely declaratory in nature. The tribunal has no power of enforcement, no power to impose any custodial sentence on any one or more of the 8 convicted persons. What we can do, under Article 31 of Chapter VI of Part 2 of the Charter is to recommend to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission to submit this finding of conviction by the tribunal, together with a record of these proceedings, to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council

Obama give Nissan $1,650,000,000 to build a few electric car batteries
Nissan then advertises on the evil leftist enabler "NBC"
NBC lies and destorts for the Obamanation
The circle of corruption, continues!

Government Motors loses $40,000 on every Volt, the taxpayers lose $40,000 on every Volt. Obamanomics sure does work!

It appears that Romney, like Cheney thinks that we can walk in any country and they will welcome us with open arms and embrace us, That SURE WORKED OUT WELL IN IRAQ!

Mr Romney we can not dictate or invade other countries, they DO NOT WANT US ON THEIR SOIL, proven fact, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria!

We can, as the Obama Administration has done, maintain a dialogue with these other countries, make suggestions, assist them as they may request and hopefully guide them to govern in a format that is best to serve all of their people, is peacefull and respectfull of other countries. Most importantly that they have a good repoir with us and seek with us to establish peace throughout the world respecting human rights.

Mr Romney your thought that we can trample on anyone that does not agree with our dictates is frankly ascinine.

When President Obama took office, the U.S. was engaged in two wars and and al-Qaeda’s leader Osama bin Laden was still at large. As commander-in-chief, President Obama refocused our priorities on the most significant security threats to the country and on fulfilling our promises to our servicemembers. Under the President, we have eliminated more than two-thirds of al-Qaeda’s core leadership—including bin Laden.

But a new cadre of conservative groups are trying to “Swift Boat” the President by manufacturing false attacks about his national security record. A collection of super PACs and organizations are deploying the same “discredited” and “hardball smear tactics” against President Obama that were used to attack Sen. John Kerry’s military service in 2004. Each group follows the same pattern, identifying themselves as separate, nonpartisan former U.S. military and intelligence operatives who have a “civic duty” to attack the President. But who exactly is behind these attacks?

A closer look at each group reveals an interconnected web of Republican operatives who are launching “Swift Boat”-style smear tactics against President Obama’s national security record.

Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund

The partisan agenda:

• Launch false attacks on the President over the operation that killed Osama bin Laden

• Falsely claim President Obama is deliberately leaking national security information

The operatives:

• OPSEC president Scott Taylor is a failed Republican candidate who lost his campaigns for public office in 2008 and 2010.

• Spokesman Chad Kolton worked as a spokesman for the Bush administration, the Republican National Committee, and House Speaker John Boehner. Another spokesman Fred Rustmann appeared on Fox News during the Bush administration to—ironically—downplay the significance of leaks about CIA operative Valerie Plame’s undercover status, claiming it wasn’t “a big deal.” This serious breach of national security later led to four felony convictions for Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff.

• OPSEC member Bill Cowan actually praised President Obama for making “the tough decision” to “go after bin Laden instead of taking the easy way out” before he joined a group attacking the President for that operation.

Special Operations Speaks

The partisan agenda:

• Falsely claim President Obama is deliberately leaking national security information

The operatives:

• Founder Larry Bailey created the Vietnam Veterans for Truth in 2004, an organization that helped generate the Swift Boat attacks on Sen. John Kerry in 2004. In 2006, he launched the Vets for the Truth PAC using the same tactics to target Democratic Rep. John Murtha.

Veterans for a Strong America

The partisan agenda:

• Launch false attacks on the President over the operation that killed Osama bin Laden

The operatives:

• Executive Director Joe Arends worked on both the Bush and McCain presidential campaigns and ran an unsuccessful campaign as a Republican candidate for office in Iowa. He had previously served as Executive Director of Vets for Freedom, an attack group bankrolled by former Bush Administration officials that was closely tied to members of John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Special Operations for America

The partisan agenda:

• Launch false attacks on the President over the operation that killed Osama bin Laden

The operatives:

• Montana’s conservative state senator Ryan Zinke founded the Super PAC, which has stated it is dedicated to “advocating for the election of Mitt Romney and like-minded candidates,” and has partnered with Veterans for a Strong America and its leader Joel Arends. Advisory board member Paul Vallely is also a member of Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund.

It is not surprising that the attacks these groups are launching lack any credibility. The President is committed to protecting our troops and our country’s security. The only way to mislead Americans about his record on national security is to resort to dishonest and overtly political smear campaigns that do a disservice to Americans who deserve to know the facts about the President’s record. As Arends said himself, “Yes, it’s the swift boating of the president.”

There is the truth. Just a bunch of traitors, they need to be court martialed and shot like the dogs that they are. Republican propaganda against the greatest President this country has had or will ever have.

Who believes anything Mitt has to say....he always takes the opposite side of whatever President does...however....wait a day or two and then he will change what he said and flip flop that comment also...

The truth is that you retarded repukes can't outsmart anybody. We always catch you repukes in lies. The Romney/Ryan plan is nothing short of a discrace to this country and the Amirican people and women. They just want to make people poorer and the rich richer. They want to destroy just about every program there is. Prove me wrong you repukes.

need to go to store but will be back.

naz....you said you are unemployed. Do you collect unemployment?

...But let's bring this back to the original article...

In the reference article...

Romney says, "I think this is a time for America to exert leadership and this is not something that we are doing in the Middle East ..."..

...Oh, I think we've exerted enough leadership in the Middle East, thank you very much.

Like how we propped up the Shah of Iran and sold him weapons to use in oppressing his Iranian subjects. How'd that turn out for us?

Oh yeah, we were also selling weapons to Iraq, because after we got kicked out of Iran, we starting funding the Iraqi's in their 1980's war against Iran. How that turn out? Well I can tell you one person who isn't too happy with his American ties... That'd be Saddam himself as he dangled at the end of the rope. Wonder if Donald Rumsfeld still has the picture of him shaking hands with Saddam hanging from a wall in his home office?

Saudi Arabia loves us. We sell them all their really good weapons. Of course, I'd suspect the Saudi women aren't too fond of us since we haven't lifted a finger to raise their equality in that society. (You know a Saudi woman can do some serious prison time if she's caught driving?).

Khaddafi wasn't too fond of us, and then he apologized to us, started selling us oil, and everything seemed okay... Until his people got pissed off, and we started shipping his opponents weapon. He was later shot in the ass and bludgeoned to death in a water spillway beneath a road. Well, he shouldn't have been such a douche...

Yeah... Our leadership in the Middle East has been stellar. So Glad Mitt, who thinks Russia is our primary adversary, is here to remind us.

Also glad to know that Mitt "Going to get tough" with those Iranians, and teach the Palestinians to respect the Israelis. Sounds like an Awesome Plan!

How about this Junior...? How about we stay the F#$@ home this time around, eh? I'm tired of us propping up evil despotic regimes because they serve our purposes (for the time being) and then turning and betraying the regime because they currently are pissing us off.

It's a crappy game. The best way to play is to not play at all.

A "Hail Mary" on Romney's part to score political points - In describing the recent events in the Middle East, president Obama's attempt to frame it, was more rooted in the notion that, peace will come eventually..."Just a bump in the road" before that happens, is nothing that significant to harp on!

Romney is pathetic trying to put a negative-spin on what the president is implying!!

Seeing as how most of the middle east (including Iraq) is now in turmoil I think I would agree with Romney and suggest that what is happening now is more than a bump in the road.

Or we could go with Obama who believes we shouldn't do something but we should just stand there.

I am not going to list all the facts about the bad economy because the dems are too stupid and too busy defending their beloved Obama that they can't see the horrible direction he is and will be taking our country.

What I will do or say to the people who rely on entitlements is this, the money for entitlement programs come from working people paying taxes, without jobs there is no income to tax and without income to tax there is no money being put into the entitlement programs. So ask yourself, is it better for our country to sit on our azz and bankrupt our entitlements or is it better to have the country working to provide those entitlements?

In case you haven't noticed, we have record unemployment/underemployment.

I will tell you what you go ahead and list yours then we will list ours. How about the biggest entitlements of them all. Tax breaks for the rich, entitlements for the rich oil companys, rich farmers entiltlements, intitlements for two wars, entitlements of deregulation for wallstreat and the banking system. There is much much more as usual you reps don't know what your talking about. We undersstand perfectly that is was your beloved President Buch/Cheney that destroyed this country and economy.