VIDEO: First Read Minute: The other 47 percent and why it's not good for Obama
NBC's Domenico Montanaro analyzes debate strategy for each candidate ahead of tonight's showdown in Boca Raton, FL. Plus, new polls continue to show a tight race.
,ROmney is clearly the one who was in command in BOTH debates - he displayed the superior executive command, skill and gravitas which Obama does not possess. He is an intelligent and articulate man who can bhopefully get the country back on its feet. Romney does not drink or smoke,k and is a loving family man. He is nothing like Obama tried so desperately to protray (aka LIE ABOUT) in those diabolical commericials.
Bear in mind, there is nothing that Obama can say to change the fdact that we Americans saw asnd heard Romney with our own eyes and ears. Obama taks us votes for ioits an thinks we follow him blindly. HE is sadly mistaken, and will see tje results come November. Obama's tactics will backfire on himj.
There was only ONE man on that stage who was Presidential - and it was NOT President Obama.
Romney is clearly the one who was in command in BOTH debates– he displayed the superior executive command, skill and gravitas which Obama does not possess. He is an intelligent and articulate businessman who can hopefully get the country back on its feet. Romney does not drink or smoke, and is a family-loving man. He is nothing like Obama tried so desperately to portray (aka "LIE ABOUT") in those diabolical commercials.
Bear in mind, there is nothing that Obama can say to change the fact that we Americans saw and heard Romney with our own eyes and ears. Obama takes us voters for idiots and thinks we follow him blindly. He is sadly mistaken, and will see the results come November. Obama's tactics will backfire on him.
There was only ONE man who could be described as Presidential in that debate – and it was NOT President Obama.
Romney is in the lead to stay, despite all the lying and cheating Obama is doing right now. Obama even had to borrow $15M from Bank of America last week for his campaign. He is obviously in deep trouble!
Since NBC won't pick up the real stories that are news, did anyone hear about the plant BHO touted as an example of the United State's manufacturing resurgence in Michigan - where he gave them $150 million in stimulus - who have not shipped any product - who have nothing to do but play cards, video games, etc... - while you and I pay for it all...? Man, I hope Romney works this into the debate...
Can't have these people showing up on unemployment data, can't have the business showing up as another failure, can't have ANOTHER blemish on the green technology sector the BHO administration funded - picking the winners and loosers... How many more companies are failures that haven't technically "gone under", thanks to you and I - the taxpayer?
Obama seems to be fading fast as America gets to know candidate Romney. With 16 days left and early voting two weeks under way, Obama doesn't have enough Hope and Change to stop the Romney Tsunami!
Whether it is this election or the next, I can't wait to put someone behind the POTUS's desk who has a resume.
There is no substitute for experience! America now understands that! I just wonder how many will still vote "American Idol" vs. the clear & logical choices for their leaders???
We are not the evil country that invades a country based upon lies any more,
we are not the country that DECIDES what good for everybody else in the world like bush did.
If my only son asked me if he could join the military now i would say yes, because our commander in-charge of our military is not going to send young men and women in to 4 tours on the battle field., 5 years ago i would have said hell no, like i had to when he wanted to join in 2007, along 3 friends who joined and were killed 1 in iraq and 2 in afgan
lybia, Egypt have had bloody revolutions with out 1 American solider loosing his life.
actsofterrorbs - I see you are new so you might not know this, but can you back up your claims about BHO in 1.6 with links? I searched for the Pearl Harbor remark and couldn't find anything...?
lybia, Egypt have had bloody revolutions with out 1 American solider loosing his life.
I am not advocating war where our soldiers are involved, but are those countries better off today than 2 years ago? Is the region better off today than 2 years ago? Is the planet a better place because of what happened in those nations? Is the United States or her interests any better off as a result of what happened in those nations?
The way I look at it is this... There is a TV show called Wheel of Fortune. They used to give out vacations all over the world. Now the vacations are all within North America... The world has fallen into such a deep pit of anger toward the USA, we can't leave our own shores without the fear of being kidnapped / killed. Has BHO improved how we as Americans are perceived across the planet? Not just NO, but HECK NO! Has BHO's foreign policy been a "success"? Again, I vote HECK NO!
When the Wheel starts giving away vacations across the planet again, then I will say foreign policy is working!
The way I look at it is this... There is a TV show called Wheel of Fortune. They used to give out vacations all over the world. Now the vacations are all within North America... The world has fallen into such a deep pit of anger toward the USA, we can't leave our own shores without the fear of being kidnapped / killed. Has BHO improved how we as Americans are perceived across the planet? Not just NO, but HECK NO! Has BHO's foreign policy been a "success"? Again, I vote HECK NO!
so your saying that Romney with his (i will attack Iran) pledge to apes Israel is cool with you
or his we need ground troops in Syria, cool with you.
or his we need 2 trillion more for defense, 2 trillion we don't need.
or even better, Ryan now knowing the amount of Afran troops we have trained to reduce our men's exposure in afgan.
or do you want chenney back, because Romney equals chenney.
1. This nation, the United States of America, is second to none, and shall remain that way.
2. If, and WHEN, this nation is called to service, not only shall we be able to meet the challenge, we'd damn well better be able to rise above the challenge 10-fold!
3. Maybe we don't need another 50,000 tanks, but we should always keep funding sufficient to keep our advantages along the technological front. It may sound like 'Henny-Penny', but I don't want to find out we have fallen behind the hard way. Overfunding, then coming in under budget, is an approach that means we will always have an advantage, and resources are available if needed. If not needed, they go back into a general fund - but we are never lacking.
4. This great nation was built on the backs of peoples from many nations. We gave citizenship to the best and brightest to those from around the globe. There are people back home in those foreign lands who are families of those who came here to build this land! Family members who cannot defend themselves from bullies. The United States shall be willing to stand up for justice and be ready to back up force with tremendous, excessive, and decisive force. Gone are the days when we lobbed a few missiles into an empty compound "hoping" to take out a target who had left a day or two earlier.
3/4 of the world is not evolved to the level of the United States. They only understand power and control. THIS element must be dealt with. We must be the most prepared military on the planet. As "The United States", we have no other option.
I'm part of that "other" 47% (i.e., I pay too much in taxes and take care of myself) and I'm voting for President Obama 100% (and a straight Democrat ticket).
And using voting machines owned by the campaign makes sure those who vote WILL be voting against their own self interest in Ohio, Texas, Washington, Colorado and Oklahoma. When registering fraudulent voters fails, when changing the laws to require people to get and pay for new IDs fails, when redistricting and changing poll hours fails, when changing the ballot format fails, just buy the company that makes the machines that tally the votes!!
When Romney made the statement about the 47%. He sounded like a fool. Didn't he know the lower income states are GOP strong holds. Even it the GOP wants to repeal the minimun wage law.
Fiesty, you mean like the poor, middle class and minority voters who vote for obama? Can you provide the economic statistics for those groups compared to their counterparts over the last 4 years and tell me they dont vote against their interests? What has Obama done to improve the economic prosperity and mobility of those groups or has he just made it worse?
Tonight's showdown is foreign policy. Look at this interview.
Israeli Mossad "Romney is Mortally Destroying any chance of a resolution without war"
The Almonitor Middle East Newspaper interviewed Efraim Halevy who was chief of the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad.
The paper reports that Halevy is very respected man who served under 3 Israeli Prime Ministers and led the secret negotiations with Jordan’s King Hussein that made way for Israel’s historic 1994 peace treaty with that country.
In the interview, it becomes clear that Halvey thinks Romney is a liar.
Al-Monitor: Many observers believe there is a nuclear deal to be had. But it's very hard to do, to even talk to them. Do you think it's possible to narrow the huge gulf between the two sides?
Halvey: ...Negotiating with Iran is perceived as a sign of beginning to forsake Israel. That is where I think the basic difference is between Romney and Obama. What Romney is doing is mortally destroying any chance of a resolution without war. Therefore when [he recently] said, he doesn’t think there should be a war with Iran, this does not ring true. It is not consistent with other things he has said. […]
Halvey: Obama does think there is still room for negotiations. It’s a very courageous thing to say in this atmosphere.
In the end, this is what I think: Making foreign policy on Iran a serious issue in the US elections — what Romney has done, in itself — is a heavy blow to the ultimate interests of the United States and Israel.
Al-Monitor: Beyond the heated US campaign rhetoric, what do you make of the wider perception that, even though Obama has actually used force quite a bit, and successfully oversaw the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, that he is perceived, or mis-perceived, as not wanting to use force, and the US is seen therefore as weak.
Halevy: I think nobody who has been involved in ordering the use of force can forget the angst, the days and nights of concern, as to what and how it can be done.
Romney has said, Anybody could have decided to finish bin Laden. Even [Jimmy] Carter. This again was a mistaken concept. President Obama didn’t just decide [one day to kill bin Laden]. The operation to end the life of bin Laden necessitated multiple points of decision by him. I know from operations I have been involved with on a smaller scale.
They are very intricate. You don’t just give the order and wait in your office for commanders to come three months later and say it’s done. No. This kind of operation, which is accident prone, hands on operation, one has to make one decision after the other […] It took courage and cool headedness and leadership. Anyone who says it was an easy thing to decide,doesn’t understand what he’s talking about. [Such comments] show a total lack of understanding of what this kind of operation means.
Once I was in charge of an operation and Netanyahu was Prime Minister. One day, because of the intricacy of what we were doing, I talked to him 10 times on the phone […] Ten times. It was a Friday, a day I will not forget.
This kind of operation, every minute, an issue comes up, that sometimes requires a decision on the political level.
Halvey then implies that Romney is politicizing the 4 American deaths in Libya
Halvey: The Libya story, the way it’s being used, is a sordid manipulation. […]
Thanks for sharing, Pat. Seems to me we have enough issues of our own without adding Israeli internal politics to the mix. Of course we should always have their backs but the days of anywhere in the world being black and white are far behind us. Diplomacy today calls for nuance, yet another reason why I support President Obama.
Two Harvard Grads, worth millions, with a staff of dozens preparing them for a 90 minute discussion, and we have heard the whiners on the right and the left cry about the mean moderator who let the other guy win...
How pathetic is your candidate if you feel they can be undone by the moderator?
Both sides have used the excuse, and both candidates have looked like petulant children and argued the "rules".
They're relatively even, just like the Cardinals and the Giants. It's the rubber match before the big series. At least there's "No crying in Baseball..."
I'll be dropping in on all three...Look for Buster Posey to come up BIG tonight...Cutler, no so much...
More to worry about from the lay off than the opponent IMO.
Tigers playing "scrimmages" (Shouldn't Leyland have called them something else?) so there isn't a repeat of the last time. I sent him a carton of Luckies...
Guys, if Cutler gets the time Bears win by 10+. I think he gets a bad rap, this year not so much but last year the guy was getting sacked, chased and beat down. Despite what others said, the guy was tough to take those hits and keep playing. This year his line is protecting him.
On the debate, Democrats did not complain about the moderator in the first debate they condemned Obama's perfomance. Republicans complained about Radditz and Crowley. Obama won the 2nd debate and the media will probably declare him a winner tonight. Despite dealing with a plate full of tough economic issues Obama has also been able to work a fairly productive foreign policy.
On the debate, Democrats did not complain about the moderator in the first debate they condemned Obama's perfomance.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the NYT;
Mr. Lehrer’s light touch was widely criticized during and after the debate on Wednesday night, particularly by Democrats who felt that President Obama’s Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, effectively moderated the debate himself. Speaking to CNN after the debate, Stephanie Cutter, the president’s deputy campaign manager, said, “I sometimes wondered if we even needed a moderator because we had Mitt Romney. We should rethink that for the next debate.”
But conservatives suggested that critiques of Mr. Lehrer were just excuses for Mr. Obama’s own poor performance in the debate.
Rule ONE in politics, folks....Follow the money. If Romney isn't able to show us voters where he gets his money from, and why he chose to invest it in foreign countries when the US was fighting TWO unfunded Bush wars, then he is not fit to be President.
WHY ROMNEY WILL ALSO SECURE THE ENDORSEMENTS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
10 REASONS WHY ISLAMIC TERRORISTS WANT MITT ROMNEY TO WIN
1) President Obama's sane, measured responses to issues in the Moslem world work against their efforts to stir up trouble and portray the U.S. as the "great Satan". They see Mitt Romney as a knee jerk President, like Bush, that will over-react, to any terrorist attack, which is exactly what they are after.
2) President Obama has successfully and systematically targeted their leadership. Islamic terrorists were safer under a Republican administration. Obama has surgically eliminated most of the AlQaida hierarchy.
3) Mitt Romney will say and do anything for Israeli support. Even turn the other way to Muslim targeted hate speech and call movies that demonize Muslim religious figures as pedophiles, as acceptable vehicles for "free speech" ,without condemnation. This plays into the hands of those wishing to whip the peaceful Muslim majority into a frenzied mob. Romney sees no US action as needing an apology. Obama understands that Abu Ghraib, cluster bombing civilians, and missed targets are offensive to all world citizens.
4) Republican presidents invade, attack, destroy and rebuild the entire Muslim infrastructure in whole countries. Iraq and Afghanistan were rebuilt with US taxpayer dollars instead of using targetted and much cheaper methods to destroy terrorist bases. Having foreign troops on Muslim soil is a huge boost to Muslim terrorists as they seek to portray the US as Christian invaders. Obama uses surgical strikes and has pledged to withdraw our troops.
5) Romney's energy policy will continue to make the Muslim world rich and wealthy, causing a flow of dollars from democratic governments to Muslim monarchies, which, once overthrown, can put the money in the control of the terrorists elements. Bush/Romney's support of Saudi princes is preferred over Obama's support of Arab democracy, only if you're looking to overthrow a government monarch.
6) The availability of weapons is easier to come by in countries that are invaded by Republican presidents. The fog of war creates many opportunities for terrorists to obtain weapons that would normally not be available to them. The US military leaves behind much that can be used again. Republican administrations have been more than willing to negotiate deals with Iran, Iraq, and other unstable or despotic regimes in the past, just to further weapons sales. Reagan and George Schultz sold weapons, including stinger missiles that were used against our own aircraft, to Usama bin Laden in the 80s.
7) Romney will bring the war to the Middle East, rather than the terrorists having to try to hit U.S. targets. Republican presidents have ignored Presidential Daily Briefings that forewarned terrorist attacks against the U.S. In response, GOP presidents have decided to attack, destroy, and then rebuild countries that haven't attacked the U.S. with US taxpayer dollars, and GOP presidents have protected the hotbeds of Islamic terrorism, wealthy Arab countries that have produced the leadership for Islamic terrorist organizations, such as Al Qaida.
8) Islamic militants see Romney as a weaker president, someone they can dupe into making mistakes, miscalculations, and remarks that inflame the Muslim world to accept their point of view, that the U.S. wants to dominate and control them, and force western lifestyles on the Muslim world. Romney's remarks about the Israeli vs. Arab economies is just the right amount of racism and condescension that Islamic militants need to boost anti US sentiments. Throw in the Chicago dirty bomb comment, and anyone can see that Romney is a waffling idiot.
9) Islamic militants and terrorists see Romney as one who would weaken the US economy with trickle down economics. For terrorists, a weaker US is a better foe. Trickle down has never worked because even Romney invests his vast wealth in foreign, rather than US companies, and because it is a flawed economic policy anyway.
10) Romney has been critical of the Arab Spring uprisings. He's happier maintaining the Muslim dictators that the general Muslim public deplores. To that end, he helps the terrorist cause and drives Muslims to extremism to rid themselves of these dictators, while at the same time feeding into the idea that the US is the "great Satan", helping to keep the average Muslim family subservient to their dictators and monarchies. Romney will continue the age old US mistake of supporting the dictators and then having to intervene when they are finally overthrown because, face it, all people want policies of self determination and these dictators, while they may make good business partners, are lousy leaders.
FOLKS... do you research... MITT ROMNEY IS DANGEROUS FOR 98% OF AMERICANS.....
GOOGLE...GOOGLE...GOOGLE... AND GOOGLE AGIAN!
ROMNEY HEALTHCARE PLAN:
First let me say that unless you are a 1%er, DO NOT expect the same treatment ANN ROMNEY receives for her serious illnesses... Ann has the best healthcare MONEY CAN BUY!
If you do not have healthcare insurance, Romney wants you to use the EMERGENCY ROOM as your primary provider... yes, you will receive treatment and maybe the hospital will discount your bill, but you will be responsible to pay any balances and if you cannot you will be hounded by a collection agency... I worked in the industry, I know!
Romney said charities will pay your bills.... folks, there are not enough charities in this country to take care of the 86 million people who will not have healthcare when Romney REPEALS OBAMACARE AND DEFUNDS PLANNED PARENTHOOD!
If you do have insurance, under Romney's plan, after he repeals Obamacare, insurance companies will once again be allowed to place caps on your treatment... A Romney healthcare plan will leave you on your own once the cap is met!
SO BOTTOM LINE....A Romney healthcare plan.... if you do have insurance and need hospital care for a serious illness you'll be met with overcrowded ER's with a staff who is overworked... you certainly won't get the care Ann Romney gets!
If you do not have insurance, yes you'll receive care, but it won't be what you need if you become seriously ill... so you will absolutely NOT get the care Ann Romney gets, you'll probably die too soon!
ROMNEY TAX PLAN:
Here Romney and his BOY RYAN have flipped and flopped so many times I’ll just post the links… but, I will say that the rhetoric about big businesses not hiring because of a tax increase… FOLKS, big businesses have had their tax breaks for the past 10 years…. WHERE ARE THE JOBS?
FOLKS, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are playing a game of NIXONIAN type SMOKE AND MIRRORS… you need to FACT CHECK everything Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan say…
ROMNEY PLAN FOR JOBS:
Romney likes to boast that he’ll create 12 million jobs in the next four-eight years… and according to the link below he probably will… BUT SO WILL OBAMA!
AND, with Romney’s experience shipping jobs offshore, HOW CAN WE TRUST ROMNEY to change… that’s all he knows!
This link is especially interesting!
ROMNEY PLAN FOR ENERGY:
FOLKS, we’re talking about our planet here… fact check before you believe Mitt Romney… you just might wake up with an oil well in your back yard… AND, Romney is going to owe the Koch Brothers big time…
ROMNEY PLAN FOR WOMEN:
This is easy… ROMNEY put PAUL RYAN on the ticket… Paul Ryan has signed onto the republican platform:
Romney has vowed to repeal Obamacare and Planned Parenthood…Romney cannot be trusted!
Romney would appoint supreme court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade: IMPORTANT CHECK IT OUT!
ROMNEY PLAN FOR STUDENTS:
Students will lose their health coverage when they’re kicked off their parents policies when Romney repeals Obamacare.
Romney want to give student loans back to the big banks… interest rate would double from what they are today and the negotiated pay backs, which today are based on your income would stop and the student would be charged just like a credit card payment.
Do your research!
ROMNEY PLAN FOR THE DEFICIT:
Every fact checker has determined that Romney’s plans for cutting the deficit amount of given tax breaks to the rich, raising taxes on the middle class, cutting spending, increase military spending, cutting loopholes… Romney has said so many things it’s hard to keep track, but, one thing is certain Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have no intention of lowering the deficit… with their plans it simply not mathematically possible!
Now folks, keep in mind that Mitt Romney, when putting Ryan on the ticket… signed onto the Ryan Budget… The Ryan Budget will destroy the middle class!
ROMNEY’S PLAN FOR MEDICARE:
Romney would end Medicare as we know it today… NOTE: even though he says it will not affect seniors 55+ today… DO THE MATH… if those 54 and under stop paying into Medicare… Medicare will shrivel and die on the vine… EXACTLY WHAT REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO FOR YEARS!
Folks, fact check….
BOTTOM LINE… who do you trust with Medicare and Social Security? Democrats have fought to preserve and protect the social safety net….
Republicans have ALWAYS WANTED TO DISMANTEL the social safety net… and that’s a fact!
FOREIGN POLICY:
My thoughts: I do not, trust Mitt Romney, AND, I am scared to death that Paul Ryan (another Sarah Palin only wonky) would be a heartbeat away from the presidency!
Obama/Biden 2012 and let’s take our congress back, I for one and sick and tired of foul tasting tea bags!
One more bit of advice... Obama take the gloves off...
Romney doesn't deserve polite treatment, he is playing a Nixonian game of smoke and mirrors on the American people....
Romney doesn't have the character or a core to be president...
Romney is a habitual liar...
Romney has total disdain for 47% of americans, he thinks they're worthless...
Romney will take away women's rights...
Romney will add $2000 a year in taxes on the middle class...
Romney will repeal Obamacare...
Romney will repeal DADT...
Romney didn't think it was worth it to go after Osama Bin Laden...
Romney didn't think it was a good idea to end the war in Iraq...
Romney will end Medicare as we know it...
Romney said let the auto industry go bankrupt...
Romney said let the housing forclosures hit botton and let investors but up the inventory...
Romney has been using the tradegy in Lybia for political gain...
Romney is a panderer...
Don't take my word for it, fact check the entire debate... I know you'll find that Obama is honest and Romney is lying....
Obama 2012
LIKE I'VE SAID MANY TIMES... habitual liars DO NOT realize they're lying.... because what they're saying AT THE TIME they believe....
Mitt Romney cannot help himself; he has an illness, a character flaw he's grown up with. Either his dad taught him the art of 'lying to get what you want' (after all lying is accepted in the Mormon Church as long as it benefits the church or the family), or his dad was too busy to teach Mitt that lying is NOT A GOOD character trait!
The entire Romney family has this character flaw, we're heard Mrs. Romney tell a few whoopers, we're also hear Tag on stage set his father's lies in stone... AS they say the APPLE DOESN'T FALL far from the tree and in the Romney household all the apples are sitting nicely at the base of the trunk!
ROMNEY DOES LIE, he lies every day on the stump... if you say one thing to one audience and another the next day to another... it's lying! this may shed light on Mitt's penchant for lying:
"Mr. Romney's practical, businessman's approach to governing had other political liabilities. As Brett Arends, formerly of The Wall Street Journal, noted in his 2012 book, "The Romney Files," Mr. Romney rebrands himself with an alacrity that suggests he sometimes sees making public statements as an exercise in positioning a product rather than an opportunity to stake out positions based on convictions".
I've been waiting to here Romney's plan for a long time. Didn't think we were going to get it. Now I know why the Reptards havn't answered me about his great plan. After reading this, I'd want to stick my head in the sand as well.
"The country owes you nothing. Try working for a change."
I work everyday AND I pay a higher rate in taxes than does Mitt Robme!
This country owes every one of its citizen everything set forth in the United States Constitution.
I can see why you would say this country owes you nothing, cause all you're thinking about is Government money and how much you can get your hands on!
Maybe that's why GWB threw the American People to the wolves, cause maybe that's how Republicans feel about the American People, that we're just here to be used and stepped on while Republicans cater to the 1%ers and that sure is how we were treated when GWB was in office. Not anything the American People said, no matter how we protested, Republicans didn't listen to one damn word.
Sickening attitude Republicans have toward the American People.
"The country owes you nothing. Try working for a change."
I wish this country didn't do anything for Mitt Robme or Lyin Paul Ryan, cause if it hadn't they wouldn't be able to run for office the way they are today, in fact, they would have never even been able to go to college.
Romney MEDICARE PLAN.... Romney says that those 55 plus will not be affected by the RYAN BUDGET MEDICARE CHANGES....
FALSE.... FOLKS 55+, DO YOUR RESEARCH.... ask yourselves.... IF PEOPLE 54 AND YOUNGER STOP PAYING into MEDICARE will that affect my coverage?
ANSWER.... YES IT WILL... it's math folks, if people 54 and younger STOP PAYING into Medicare, the Medicare benefits for those 55+ will become insolvent!
IT'S MATH FOLKS....
ROMNEY AND RYAN ARE DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA AND THE MIDDLE CLASS!
MITT ROMNEY IN A NUTSHELL!
"Mr. Romney's practical, businessman's approach to governing had other political liabilities. As Brett Arends, formerly of The Wall Street Journal, noted in his 2012 book, "The Romney Files," Mr. Romney rebrands himself with an alacrity that suggests he sometimes sees making public statements as an exercise in positioning a product rather than an opportunity to stake out positions based on convictions".
OBAMA 2012...I cast my vote for Obama October 18... early voting began in NC
We have a habitual squatting in the Oval Office currently. His name? Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama & other presidents of both stripes have allowed companies to move work off-shore. It's a free-market economy. You say you don't like it that jobs went overseas to China, or went to Mexico? Then STOP BUYING YOUR CHIT FROM WALMART! Otherwise, you're a freaking hypocrite.
With your mentality, you shouldn't have been given a ballot...
Listen up all of you independents and undecided voters!
I think a little refresher course in history just may be in order to help all of you make a wise decision on whom to vote for in the coming election!
So, I’ve compiled some very revealing facts about the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan took the oath, and all of you should take these into consideration when making up your minds on whom to vote for.
Once you have enlightened yourselves, then ask yourself, why in the world would you vote for a party that is hell bent on destroying us?
The lunacy in the GOP started with the Reagan Era, and the GOP would like nothing more, than for all of us to forget their three previous administrations, because all three were filled with nothing but failed policies. And, they know that if the majority of our citizens knew how bad and harmful their policies have been to our country and economy that their chances of ever winning another election would be next too impossible.
Does this sound familiar? "Government is the problem, and Government is Bad.”
From early in Reagan’s presidency’s he started the corrosive distrust of the people’s government and made it a permanent fixture of American politics.
Did you know that Reagan could be considered the Father of the GOP’s fiscal irresponsibility?
Did you know that Reagan was forced to raise taxes at least twice, to avert a financial catastrophe?
Did you know that Reagan caused the national debt to skyrocket during his two terms?
Did you know that Reagan tripled the national debt by the end of his two terms?
Did you know that Reagan’s fiscal irresponsibility equal the entire debt burden produced by the previous 200 years of American history?
In other words, Reagan produced red ink as far as the eye could see!
And, even with the election of George H. Bush, it didn’t stem the flow of red ink.
George H. Bush created a little more than 4 trillion in debt during his presidency.
George H. Bush had to break his famously “read my lips, no new taxes” quote to address the cascading budget shortfalls, and his very own party turned on him, and which probably cost him reelection.
Only with the election of Bill Clinton did the hemorrhaging stop. At the end of Clinton’s presidency no amount of national debt could be attributed to Clinton. Through his policies of higher taxes and reduced spending helped bring about the strongest economy since WWII, and when he left office the CBO had forecasted that if his policies were continued that 5.6 trillion dollar surplus would accrue over the next 10 years.
Then we elected another fiscally irresponsible Republican, and almost from the beginning of George W. Bush presidency he began squandering away the forecasted 5. 6 trillion dollar surplus, because of his 1.4 trillion dollar tax cuts in 2001. George W. Bush.’s second round of tax cuts in 2003 accounted for the doubling of the national debt.
Then you add in 2 unfunded wars, 1 unfunded Prescription Drug Mandate, and his American Dream Downpayment Act, and all of this adds up to is, he took a forecasted 5.6 trillion dollar surplus and turned it into and 11.9 trillion dollar debt! And, it’s all easily verifiable by going to Treasurydirect.gov. And doing the math!
Now, when you read the last portion of this posting keep in mind the first part, because you’ll most definitely see a pattern!
1)Their self-fulfilling prophecy of bad government under Republican leadership, as the Bush recessions of 1991 and 2007, the Hurricane Katrina response, the Iraq catastrophe and the transfer of federal oversight powers to the industries being regulated all showed.
2) And, when the backlash from the American people inevitably comes as it did in 1992 and 2008, attack the very legitimacy of the new Democratic president they elected.
3) Then they turn to the filibuster and other obstructionists’ tactics to block the Democratic agenda, inaction for which the incumbent majority will be blamed.
4) They target the institutions and programs (Social Security, Medicare, the IRS) which form the underpinnings of progressive government.
5) They are smart enough to know that their plan cannot be fully implemented in just a few of their presidencies, and it will take a longer period of time.
6) And, all they do to get ready for the next cycle is, simply lather, rinse and repeat the procedure.
7) This has been the GOP’s Recipe for Successfully Changing America Into the Country of Haves and Have Nots!
Now, remember #2, 3, and 4 above!
From the onset of President Obama’s presidency the GOP has made it very clear that they had no intentions of working with him, even though they had no idea of his plans at the time.
Mitch McConnell said, that their only goal was to make sure that Mr. Obama was a one term President.
The GOP has been on a witch hunt ever since President Obama took office.
Through the GOP’s underhanded tactics have caused this country to have to endure 4 extra years of depression/recession.
The GOP has jeopardized our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren’s futures by their underhanded tactics.
Then they try and lay blame on President Obama for their contrived fiscal irresponsibilities.
We elected Mr. Obama to try and right the wrongs of the fiscally irresponsible borrow and spend republicans, and as you can see all they’ve done throughout his presidency is to try and keep the country in a depression/recession and by doing so, has kept the public in a despondent mood, and just to get you to once again be fooled into voting for their fiscally irresponsible candidates!
Don’t get fooled again!
The Republicans have done everything under the sun to destroy our economy.
And, here is the kicker, just to bring about their version of Capitalism!
This upcoming election boils down to whether we want. . . .
The Right’s version of capitalism, a laissez-faire type of capitalism, whereas. . . .
Capitalism is characterized by free market fundamentalism, where consumers, workers, and families are left on their own, and businesses do whatever they want, with little or no role for government.
Or, do we want the Left’s version of capitalism where society sets the rules and standards of commerce, regarding matters like protecting consumers, employees and the environment from irresponsible business practices, such as excessive pollution, risky oil drilling, predatory and reckless bank lending, unsafe workplaces, food, medicine, cars, and airplanes, minimum wages, and discrimination by race and gender.
It’s as simple as that!
Now, if you want to be a party to their lunacy, then vote for Romney/Ryan to further the destruction of your country!
Or,
If you want to stop this lunacy, then vote for Obama/Biden to resurrect the Middle Class and save your country!
And, always remember, “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it” George Santayana
To all of you on the Right, try proving the above posting as factually wrong, before you start spitting your venom, and badmouthing me!
BTW, Copy this posting, and pass it on, because the truth will set us all Free from the GOP’s Lunacy!
You might wish to see a doctor for a laxative, seeing how you're full of crap.
The Middle Class WILL NOT return in America WITHOUT a MAJOR manufacturing driver occurring. We've had three major waves of prosperity in America that resulted in the rise of the middle class worker - from roughly 1751-1830 when steam engines & trains came to be; from 1870-1920 with the rise of telephone, industry, electricity, indoor plumbing, etc; and the technology race of 1960 - 2000.
There have been ZERO major evolutionary business/industrial changes that will drive working society again in America like these did in the past. Green Energy is not the key, as those technologies are mature & strongholds on these have been created by China & Europe.
Wake up and realize that no benefit is gained by Apple/China simply making a bigger screen iPhone...
Obama the promise BREAKER!! Equals a LIAR!!! BIG EMBARRASSMENT to the USA!!!
Obama’s promise that his healthcare proposals would “never be purchased with [a] tax increase on middle-class families.” The SUPREME COURT & JUSTICE DEPT say it is a TAX!!! .Attack on the middle Class! Taxation by misrepresentation---the LARGEST TAX in World History!!! Does he remove the tax part????....NO!!!
…….…NOW Obama wants to invade Syria and Iran!!!
..Mr. American Businessman..YOU DID NOT MAKE THAT!! It was stolen from the back of the worker---PURE MARXISM!!...this is PURE BS!!
…ANTI-American…tell it to Ford or Steve Jobs or the Mom& POP store on the corner>>>How is it that NON taxpayers built an Infrastructure??
…Now BOZOhussen tells the UN that the 9/11 attacks on USA embassy’s were from a lame youtube video!!. While Over-the-HILl’ry and the Fed Security depts. say it was Al-Qaeda Islamic Terrorists… He tells the UN that NO where in the World should anyone be able to say anything against Islam or its profit( yes spelled that way on purpose~~). The Constitutional genius has forgotten the 1st Amendment!!.. TOtaLLY Un-American!!
Remember these? THE OBAMA CHRONICLES: “I promise 100% transparency in my administration.”. “I promise NO NEW TAXES on a family making less than $250K a year.”. “I will allow 5 days of public comment before I sign any bills.”. “I will remove earmarks from PORK projects before I sign any bill.”. “I will end Income Tax for seniors making less than $50K a year.”. "I will bring ALL of our troops home within ONE year." “I’ll put the Health Care negotiations on CSPAN so everyone can see who is at the table!”. “I’ll have no lobbyists in my administration." "I'll close Guantanamo." "I'll resign if I don't cut the deficit in half by the end of four years." "I'll unite the people of this great country."
“The TROOPS will be home for CHRISTMAS.” WHY ARE MORE LEAVING EVERYDAY???? AND DYING every day…
NOW Obama invokes Executive Privilege( as a Sen. called it’s use a RUSE!) for Holder on GUN SMUGGLING and killing US Agent Brain Terry!!! That only applies if Obama was part of it!! Obama & Holder should be on trial for giving Machine Guns to the Mexican Drug cartels!! BETTER KNOWN AS LIES. Fool me once shame on YOU! Fool me twice shame on ME!
Even Joe BIDEN has endorsed ROMNEY for Prez!!!!
BozoHussan=Chicago MOB politics=NBC=GE= no taxes from the bought and paid for cronies ==twist every crises toward Pravda PressPROPAGANDA!!
$$$$16 Trillion in Debt….that is 12 zeros… the population of USA is 320 Million,,6 zeros===$$$ 50 Thousand for every Man&Woman&Child!!
Yet Reid –Senate & Obama-White House control do not want to balance the Budget!! These numbers do nor count the obamaDoNOTcare act that is the Largest TAX in World history…No ONE can afford it!!! There is only one reason that these numbers do NOT worry you…you think that you are Entitled to free ride and you will not have to pay!!! . Sober up America!!!
Our fearless leader kills NASA and makes the USA astronauts ride on the back of a Russkie bus, and now the Russian bus is in trouble!!
What an insult to the Mexican-American population. Forget about us for four years and then ask for our vote again. Why would any Mexican- American vote for Obama? He has rasied my taxes, my insurance is outrages, and my business has suffered under his promise not to raise taxes. My father attained legal citizenship and my family have become prominent people in our community. Do it right and don't be sold a false bill of goods of menial task, dirty jobs and social handouts. We are smarter and deserve better than that. Ask yourself why not in the last four years? Better yet ask when? Maybe not in the next four years or forever, depending on who you vote for. I am a proud American of Mexican decent. Vote because we deserve better. Romney 2012
Have you ever heard the saying “Strange Bedfellows?” What it basically means is, that two opposing groups have joined forces, and become allies. And, this is exactly what has happened in the GOP. You have unsuspecting Christians joining forces with Ayn Rand Worshipers (Atheist), and this is what would be considered as “Strange Bedfellows!” I do not mean to offend Atheist in anyway, because I believe the vast majority are not Rand Worshipers, which I feel are giving Atheists a bad name. And, just to let you know, I’m an Agnostic.
Do you even realize that the GOP has been taken over by a bunch of Ayn Rand worshiping sociopaths? And, their philosophy is Objectivism, where selfishness is considered a virtue, and declares god-fearing Christians to be incompatible with reason! Which means, Christians, being true believers in God, are incapable of any logical reasoning! In other words, you are nothing but pawns, and are being used to bring about your own demise! If that alone is not enough to open your eyes, then I guess there’s no hope for this country.
They also believe that there are only two kinds of people in the world, creators and parasites! Whereas the creators are made up of businesses, corporations, entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone that meet their criteria of not being parasites. The parasites are anyone who fails to meet the criteria I just mentioned.
These people have turned lying into an art form, and use manipulation as readily as breathing air. They use wedge issues such as abortion, healthcare, and anything that can distract you from important issues that will cause you to vote against your very own better interests!
These people are self idolizing sociopaths, and have done everything humanly possible to sabotage our economy, because they have become so entrenched in Ayn Rand’s ideology, and want to bring about nothing more than what Ayn Rand envisioned, a laissez-faire type of capitalism.
These people are trying their best to destroy a system that brought about the great society that the rest of the world revered and has ever known! And, contrary to these self idolizing sociopaths beliefs, no man is an island unto themselves! They have tried to demonize socialism, but contrary to their beliefs socialism is what built this country and brought about its greatness. Its citizens working together for the common good of all, and just not for the supposed creators! This country did not attain its greatness through self idolizing psychopathic loners. Where their only goal is to create a country of what they consider creators and parasites!
Wake Up Christians, before it really is too late!
Because, if Romney does somehow get elected, you Christians will soon find out that you are nothing but the despicable Parasites that the creators so despise!
Obama/Biden in Nov, because all of your and my offspring deserve better than what the Ayn Rand Worshiping GOP has to offer!
What the polls seem to be unanimously confirming is that if Republicans turn out in a much larger percentage than Democrats, Romney's chances are excellent. But with Obama holding a 5% lead among registered voters in both NBC and CBS polls, it is clear that if Democrats get out the vote in the close states, Obama wins. Frankly, in this environment and with our screwed up electoral system, turnout doesn't matter in California, New York, Texas, Alabama, or Oklahoma. In states like that, turnout percentages will only affect congressional races.
In other words, the Obama campaign controls its own destiny. Obama is well up among all registered voters. If in the six most crucial states, his campaign gets out 65 to 70% of the Democratic vote, Obama wins. And there is nothing the GOP can do about that.
how much is the lead among african american voters oh i forgot we dont count we are among the 47%that romney was talking about u bush was bad enough romney would be even worsebut remember this is still "white america"
I think it's interesting you Liberal wonks are always using the words "unfunded wars"....when are wars ever funded in advance. You people are idiots!! Can't sleep tight if you think the standing President might reduce your free "take" in gov. benefits? Well, guess what, your beloved programs aren't "funded" either.
Vote for President Obama so you don't get "romnesia"!
I voted for the President last week and now I'm immune from "lyin ryan flu" and "romnesia"!
4 more for 44....it's the only way to get the cure!
,ROmney is clearly the one who was in command in BOTH debates - he displayed the superior executive command, skill and gravitas which Obama does not possess. He is an intelligent and articulate man who can bhopefully get the country back on its feet. Romney does not drink or smoke,k and is a loving family man. He is nothing like Obama tried so desperately to protray (aka LIE ABOUT) in those diabolical commericials.
Bear in mind, there is nothing that Obama can say to change the fdact that we Americans saw asnd heard Romney with our own eyes and ears. Obama taks us votes for ioits an thinks we follow him blindly. HE is sadly mistaken, and will see tje results come November. Obama's tactics will backfire on himj.
There was only ONE man on that stage who was Presidential - and it was NOT President Obama.
Romney/Ryan 2012!
The problem for Romney, however, continues to involve a severe image problem with Hispanics
MYTH has more than a severe image problem with Hispanics because when the break down the polls President Obama leads on every issue.
All polls are not created equal!!!
4 more 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
Sorry, I did not have enough time to edit!
Romney is clearly the one who was in command in BOTH debates– he displayed the superior executive command, skill and gravitas which Obama does not possess. He is an intelligent and articulate businessman who can hopefully get the country back on its feet. Romney does not drink or smoke, and is a family-loving man. He is nothing like Obama tried so desperately to portray (aka "LIE ABOUT") in those diabolical commercials.
Bear in mind, there is nothing that Obama can say to change the fact that we Americans saw and heard Romney with our own eyes and ears. Obama takes us voters for idiots and thinks we follow him blindly. He is sadly mistaken, and will see the results come November. Obama's tactics will backfire on him.
There was only ONE man who could be described as Presidential in that debate – and it was NOT President Obama.
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012!
Romney is in the lead to stay, despite all the lying and cheating Obama is doing right now. Obama even had to borrow $15M from Bank of America last week for his campaign. He is obviously in deep trouble!
Romney/Ryan 2012!
Since NBC won't pick up the real stories that are news, did anyone hear about the plant BHO touted as an example of the United State's manufacturing resurgence in Michigan - where he gave them $150 million in stimulus - who have not shipped any product - who have nothing to do but play cards, video games, etc... - while you and I pay for it all...? Man, I hope Romney works this into the debate...
Can't have these people showing up on unemployment data, can't have the business showing up as another failure, can't have ANOTHER blemish on the green technology sector the BHO administration funded - picking the winners and loosers... How many more companies are failures that haven't technically "gone under", thanks to you and I - the taxpayer?
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/target_8/Volt-no-jolt-LG-Chem-employees-idle
Obama seems to be fading fast as America gets to know candidate Romney. With 16 days left and early voting two weeks under way, Obama doesn't have enough Hope and Change to stop the Romney Tsunami!
Romney/Ryan 2012!
Only 16 days until Obama has to give his concession speech! I can't wait until Nov. 6th!
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012!!
"Any President Mr. Romney? Really?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i_Vt7XOlAIw
BTW: MYTH IS being told to go sit down some where and shut his trap.
He faulted Republican candidate Mitt Romney for making US policy toward Iran an issue in the presidential election.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/israelsecurityiran.html#ixzz2A3QtsVxH
4 more 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
I am so happy and honored that Mitt Romney will be our next President!
Hooray for the USA!!
Romney/Ryan 2012!
Whether it is this election or the next, I can't wait to put someone behind the POTUS's desk who has a resume.
There is no substitute for experience! America now understands that! I just wonder how many will still vote "American Idol" vs. the clear & logical choices for their leaders???
DO YOU FEEL SAFER NOW THAN 4 YEARS AGO,
YES, YES, YES
We are not the evil country that invades a country based upon lies any more,
we are not the country that DECIDES what good for everybody else in the world like bush did.
If my only son asked me if he could join the military now i would say yes, because our commander in-charge of our military is not going to send young men and women in to 4 tours on the battle field., 5 years ago i would have said hell no, like i had to when he wanted to join in 2007, along 3 friends who joined and were killed 1 in iraq and 2 in afgan
lybia, Egypt have had bloody revolutions with out 1 American solider loosing his life.
actsofterrorbs - I see you are new so you might not know this, but can you back up your claims about BHO in 1.6 with links? I searched for the Pearl Harbor remark and couldn't find anything...?
Jeff-15.....
I am not advocating war where our soldiers are involved, but are those countries better off today than 2 years ago? Is the region better off today than 2 years ago? Is the planet a better place because of what happened in those nations? Is the United States or her interests any better off as a result of what happened in those nations?
The way I look at it is this... There is a TV show called Wheel of Fortune. They used to give out vacations all over the world. Now the vacations are all within North America... The world has fallen into such a deep pit of anger toward the USA, we can't leave our own shores without the fear of being kidnapped / killed. Has BHO improved how we as Americans are perceived across the planet? Not just NO, but HECK NO! Has BHO's foreign policy been a "success"? Again, I vote HECK NO!
When the Wheel starts giving away vacations across the planet again, then I will say foreign policy is working!
hmmmm, Lets see.
Pres. Obama's record:
Domestic issues (i.e. economy) = failed
Foreign policy issues = fail
immigration = lied/failed
Energy policy = costly/failed
insanity - doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
Anyone who votes for Pres. Obama twice is insane.
concernedone
The way I look at it is this... There is a TV show called Wheel of Fortune. They used to give out vacations all over the world. Now the vacations are all within North America... The world has fallen into such a deep pit of anger toward the USA, we can't leave our own shores without the fear of being kidnapped / killed. Has BHO improved how we as Americans are perceived across the planet? Not just NO, but HECK NO! Has BHO's foreign policy been a "success"? Again, I vote HECK NO!
so your saying that Romney with his (i will attack Iran) pledge to apes Israel is cool with you
or his we need ground troops in Syria, cool with you.
or his we need 2 trillion more for defense, 2 trillion we don't need.
or even better, Ryan now knowing the amount of Afran troops we have trained to reduce our men's exposure in afgan.
or do you want chenney back, because Romney equals chenney.
of so your nuts my friend!!!!
Jeff - What I believe is this...
1. This nation, the United States of America, is second to none, and shall remain that way.
2. If, and WHEN, this nation is called to service, not only shall we be able to meet the challenge, we'd damn well better be able to rise above the challenge 10-fold!
3. Maybe we don't need another 50,000 tanks, but we should always keep funding sufficient to keep our advantages along the technological front. It may sound like 'Henny-Penny', but I don't want to find out we have fallen behind the hard way. Overfunding, then coming in under budget, is an approach that means we will always have an advantage, and resources are available if needed. If not needed, they go back into a general fund - but we are never lacking.
4. This great nation was built on the backs of peoples from many nations. We gave citizenship to the best and brightest to those from around the globe. There are people back home in those foreign lands who are families of those who came here to build this land! Family members who cannot defend themselves from bullies. The United States shall be willing to stand up for justice and be ready to back up force with tremendous, excessive, and decisive force. Gone are the days when we lobbed a few missiles into an empty compound "hoping" to take out a target who had left a day or two earlier.
3/4 of the world is not evolved to the level of the United States. They only understand power and control. THIS element must be dealt with. We must be the most prepared military on the planet. As "The United States", we have no other option.
I'm part of that "other" 47% (i.e., I pay too much in taxes and take care of myself) and I'm voting for President Obama 100% (and a straight Democrat ticket).
4 more for 44
Obama/Biden 2012!
Only 16 days until Romney has to give his concession speech! I can't wait until Nov. 6th!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!
I am so happy and honored that President Obama will be re-elected!
Hooray for the USA!
Obama/Biden 2012!
The 47% who continue to vote against their own best interest?
THAT 47%???
Obama/Biden - Keep the country moving forward in (D) instead of (R)!
And using voting machines owned by the campaign makes sure those who vote WILL be voting against their own self interest in Ohio, Texas, Washington, Colorado and Oklahoma. When registering fraudulent voters fails, when changing the laws to require people to get and pay for new IDs fails, when redistricting and changing poll hours fails, when changing the ballot format fails, just buy the company that makes the machines that tally the votes!!
Obama/Biden 2012 VOTE EARLY! VOTE HONESTLY!
Awww.... Feisty is getting worried... sounds like her concern is over her welfare check being reduced or she'll be made to work now.
When Romney made the statement about the 47%. He sounded like a fool. Didn't he know the lower income states are GOP strong holds. Even it the GOP wants to repeal the minimun wage law.
Fiesty, you mean like the poor, middle class and minority voters who vote for obama? Can you provide the economic statistics for those groups compared to their counterparts over the last 4 years and tell me they dont vote against their interests? What has Obama done to improve the economic prosperity and mobility of those groups or has he just made it worse?
Tonight's showdown is foreign policy. Look at this interview.
Israeli Mossad "Romney is Mortally Destroying any chance of a resolution without war"
The Almonitor Middle East Newspaper interviewed Efraim Halevy who was chief of the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad.
The paper reports that Halevy is very respected man who served under 3 Israeli Prime Ministers and led the secret negotiations with Jordan’s King Hussein that made way for Israel’s historic 1994 peace treaty
with that country.
In the interview, it becomes clear that Halvey thinks Romney is a liar.
Al-Monitor: Many observers believe there is a nuclear deal to be had. But it's very hard to do,
to even talk to them. Do you think it's possible to narrow the huge gulf between the two sides?
Halvey: ...Negotiating with Iran is perceived as a sign of beginning to forsake Israel. That is where I think the basic difference is between Romney and Obama. What Romney is doing is mortally destroying any chance of a resolution without war. Therefore when [he recently] said, he doesn’t think there should be a war with Iran, this does not ring true. It is not consistent with other things he has said. […]
Halvey: Obama does think there is still room for negotiations. It’s a very courageous thing to say in this atmosphere.
In the end, this is what I think: Making foreign policy on Iran a serious issue in the US elections
— what Romney has done, in itself — is a heavy blow to the ultimate interests of the United States and Israel.
Al-Monitor: Beyond the heated US campaign rhetoric, what do you make of the wider perception that, even though Obama has actually used force quite a bit, and successfully oversaw the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, that he is perceived, or mis-perceived, as not wanting to use force, and the US is seen therefore as
weak.
Halevy: I think nobody who has been involved in ordering the use of force can forget the angst, the days and nights of concern, as to what and how it can be done.
Romney has said, Anybody could have decided to finish bin Laden. Even [Jimmy] Carter. This again was a mistaken concept. President Obama didn’t just decide [one day to kill bin Laden]. The operation to end the life
of bin Laden necessitated multiple points of decision by him. I know from operations I have been involved with on a smaller scale.
They are very intricate. You don’t just give the order and wait in your office for commanders to come three months later and say it’s done. No. This kind of operation, which is accident prone, hands on operation,
one has to make one decision after the other […] It took courage and cool headedness and leadership. Anyone who says it was an easy thing to decide,doesn’t understand what he’s talking about. [Such comments] show a total lack of understanding of what this kind of operation means.
Once I was in charge of an operation and Netanyahu was Prime Minister. One day, because of the intricacy of what we were doing, I talked to him 10 times on the phone […] Ten times. It was a Friday, a day I will not
forget.
This kind of operation, every minute, an issue comes up, that sometimes requires a decision on the political level.
Halvey then implies that Romney is politicizing the 4 American deaths in Libya
Halvey: The Libya story, the way it’s being used, is a sordid manipulation. […]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/22/1148195/-Israeli-Mossad-Romney-is-Mortally-Destroying-any-chance-of-a-resolution-without-war
Thanks for sharing, Pat. Seems to me we have enough issues of our own without adding Israeli internal politics to the mix. Of course we should always have their backs but the days of anywhere in the world being black and white are far behind us. Diplomacy today calls for nuance, yet another reason why I support President Obama.
It seems to me if you're voting for Romney you'll just love this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HV0s1B3I6c&feature=player_embedded
Gingerbread Mamma the romney supporters will not believe it just as they do not believe all the other things he has said or done on camera.
Clark, much like
Obama supporters didn't believe much of what was brought out in the last election.
And the loser shall blame the moderator...
Two Harvard Grads, worth millions, with a staff of dozens preparing them for a 90 minute discussion, and we have heard the whiners on the right and the left cry about the mean moderator who let the other guy win...
How pathetic is your candidate if you feel they can be undone by the moderator?
Both sides have used the excuse, and both candidates have looked like petulant children and argued the "rules".
They're relatively even, just like the Cardinals and the Giants. It's the rubber match before the big series. At least there's "No crying in Baseball..."
Well DF, tonight it's the Debate or the BEars/Lions game.
Think I'll watch the Lions.
Matt Stafford or Jay Cutler (Talk about a crybaby, eh?)
I will also be switching to Game 7 of the NLCS to see who the Tigers draw in the WS.
I'm rooting tonight for St. Louis, cuz I don't want to play a team on a roll LIke SF will be should they win.
I'll be dropping in on all three...Look for Buster Posey to come up BIG tonight...Cutler, no so much...
More to worry about from the lay off than the opponent IMO.
Tigers playing "scrimmages" (Shouldn't Leyland have called them something else?) so there isn't a repeat of the last time. I sent him a carton of Luckies...
I'll settle for the late night Post-Debate analysis on MSNBC, that's usually pretty entertaining.
TIme for Calvin to finally get off BIG TIME tonight.
Team with the fewest turnovers wins.
Yep, the week off in 2006 killed, em. Don't know if the scrimmages will help. Time will tell.
Leyland has probably already burned through the carton of Luckies.
Dude is a smokestack.
Guys, if Cutler gets the time Bears win by 10+. I think he gets a bad rap, this year not so much but last year the guy was getting sacked, chased and beat down. Despite what others said, the guy was tough to take those hits and keep playing. This year his line is protecting him.
On the debate, Democrats did not complain about the moderator in the first debate they condemned Obama's perfomance. Republicans complained about Radditz and Crowley. Obama won the 2nd debate and the media will probably declare him a winner tonight. Despite dealing with a plate full of tough economic issues Obama has also been able to work a fairly productive foreign policy.
On the debate, Democrats did not complain about the moderator in the first debate they condemned Obama's perfomance.
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From the NYT;
Mr. Lehrer’s light touch was widely criticized during and after the debate on Wednesday night, particularly by Democrats who felt that President Obama’s Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, effectively moderated the debate himself. Speaking to CNN after the debate, Stephanie Cutter, the president’s deputy campaign manager, said, “I sometimes wondered if we even needed a moderator because we had Mitt Romney. We should rethink that for the next debate.”
But conservatives suggested that critiques of Mr. Lehrer were just excuses for Mr. Obama’s own poor performance in the debate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/us/politics/after-debate-a-harsh-light-falls-on-jim-lehrer.html
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Whichever side saw themselves as losing the debate laid a portion of the blame on the moderator...
Dems carped at lehrer
Republicans at
Martha Raddatz..Crowley..
Show me the tax returns, Mitt.....for all we know, you're OWNED by a foreign government.
Umm... try AGAIN, Mikey Mike.... showing of tax returns is NOT required to run for President. But being born in the US is.
I've seen Romney's tax returns and they are exactly like mine. Want to see mine?
TO: Homie D Clown who wrote:
Homie D Clown? How appropriate.
Carnival barker.
Obama/Biden 2012
Rule ONE in politics, folks....Follow the money. If Romney isn't able to show us voters where he gets his money from, and why he chose to invest it in foreign countries when the US was fighting TWO unfunded Bush wars, then he is not fit to be President.
WHY ROMNEY WILL ALSO SECURE THE ENDORSEMENTS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISTS
10 REASONS WHY ISLAMIC TERRORISTS WANT MITT ROMNEY TO WIN
1) President Obama's sane, measured responses to issues in the Moslem world work against their efforts to stir up trouble and portray the U.S. as the "great Satan". They see Mitt Romney as a knee jerk President, like Bush, that will over-react, to any terrorist attack, which is exactly what they are after.
2) President Obama has successfully and systematically targeted their leadership. Islamic terrorists were safer under a Republican administration. Obama has surgically eliminated most of the AlQaida hierarchy.
3) Mitt Romney will say and do anything for Israeli support. Even turn the other way to Muslim targeted hate speech and call movies that demonize Muslim religious figures as pedophiles, as acceptable vehicles for "free speech" ,without condemnation. This plays into the hands of those wishing to whip the peaceful Muslim majority into a frenzied mob. Romney sees no US action as needing an apology. Obama understands that Abu Ghraib, cluster bombing civilians, and missed targets are offensive to all world citizens.
4) Republican presidents invade, attack, destroy and rebuild the entire Muslim infrastructure in whole countries. Iraq and Afghanistan were rebuilt with US taxpayer dollars instead of using targetted and much cheaper methods to destroy terrorist bases. Having foreign troops on Muslim soil is a huge boost to Muslim terrorists as they seek to portray the US as Christian invaders. Obama uses surgical strikes and has pledged to withdraw our troops.
5) Romney's energy policy will continue to make the Muslim world rich and wealthy, causing a flow of dollars from democratic governments to Muslim monarchies, which, once overthrown, can put the money in the control of the terrorists elements. Bush/Romney's support of Saudi princes is preferred over Obama's support of Arab democracy, only if you're looking to overthrow a government monarch.
6) The availability of weapons is easier to come by in countries that are invaded by Republican presidents. The fog of war creates many opportunities for terrorists to obtain weapons that would normally not be available to them. The US military leaves behind much that can be used again. Republican administrations have been more than willing to negotiate deals with Iran, Iraq, and other unstable or despotic regimes in the past, just to further weapons sales. Reagan and George Schultz sold weapons, including stinger missiles that were used against our own aircraft, to Usama bin Laden in the 80s.
7) Romney will bring the war to the Middle East, rather than the terrorists having to try to hit U.S. targets. Republican presidents have ignored Presidential Daily Briefings that forewarned terrorist attacks against the U.S. In response, GOP presidents have decided to attack, destroy, and then rebuild countries that haven't attacked the U.S. with US taxpayer dollars, and GOP presidents have protected the hotbeds of Islamic terrorism, wealthy Arab countries that have produced the leadership for Islamic terrorist organizations, such as Al Qaida.
8) Islamic militants see Romney as a weaker president, someone they can dupe into making mistakes, miscalculations, and remarks that inflame the Muslim world to accept their point of view, that the U.S. wants to dominate and control them, and force western lifestyles on the Muslim world. Romney's remarks about the Israeli vs. Arab economies is just the right amount of racism and condescension that Islamic militants need to boost anti US sentiments. Throw in the Chicago dirty bomb comment, and anyone can see that Romney is a waffling idiot.
9) Islamic militants and terrorists see Romney as one who would weaken the US economy with trickle down economics. For terrorists, a weaker US is a better foe. Trickle down has never worked because even Romney invests his vast wealth in foreign, rather than US companies, and because it is a flawed economic policy anyway.
10) Romney has been critical of the Arab Spring uprisings. He's happier maintaining the Muslim dictators that the general Muslim public deplores. To that end, he helps the terrorist cause and drives Muslims to extremism to rid themselves of these dictators, while at the same time feeding into the idea that the US is the "great Satan", helping to keep the average Muslim family subservient to their dictators and monarchies. Romney will continue the age old US mistake of supporting the dictators and then having to intervene when they are finally overthrown because, face it, all people want policies of self determination and these dictators, while they may make good business partners, are lousy leaders.
FOLKS... do you research... MITT ROMNEY IS DANGEROUS FOR 98% OF AMERICANS.....
GOOGLE...GOOGLE...GOOGLE... AND GOOGLE AGIAN!
ROMNEY HEALTHCARE PLAN:
First let me say that unless you
are a 1%er, DO NOT expect the same treatment ANN ROMNEY receives for her
serious illnesses... Ann has the best healthcare MONEY CAN BUY!
If you do not have healthcare
insurance, Romney wants you to use the EMERGENCY ROOM as your primary
provider... yes, you will receive treatment and maybe the hospital will
discount your bill, but you will be responsible to pay any balances and if you
cannot you will be hounded by a collection agency... I worked in the industry,
I know!
Romney said charities will pay
your bills.... folks, there are not enough charities in this country to take
care of the 86 million people who will not have healthcare when Romney REPEALS
OBAMACARE AND DEFUNDS PLANNED PARENTHOOD!
If you do have insurance, under
Romney's plan, after he repeals Obamacare, insurance companies will once again
be allowed to place caps on your treatment... A Romney healthcare plan will
leave you on your own once the cap is met!
SO BOTTOM LINE....A Romney healthcare
plan.... if you do have insurance and need hospital care for a serious illness
you'll be met with overcrowded ER's with a staff who is overworked... you
certainly won't get the care Ann Romney gets!
If you do not have insurance, yes
you'll receive care, but it won't be what you need if you become seriously
ill... so you will absolutely NOT get the care Ann Romney gets, you'll probably
die too soon!
ROMNEY TAX PLAN:
Here Romney and his BOY RYAN have
flipped and flopped so many times I’ll just post the links… but, I will say
that the rhetoric about big businesses not hiring because of a tax increase…
FOLKS, big businesses have had their tax breaks for the past 10 years…. WHERE
ARE THE JOBS?
FOLKS,
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are playing a game of NIXONIAN type SMOKE AND
MIRRORS… you need to FACT CHECK everything Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan say…
ROMNEY PLAN FOR JOBS:
Romney
likes to boast that he’ll create 12 million jobs in the next four-eight years…
and according to the link below he probably will… BUT SO WILL OBAMA!
AND,
with Romney’s experience shipping jobs offshore, HOW CAN WE TRUST ROMNEY to
change… that’s all he knows!
This
link is especially interesting!
ROMNEY PLAN FOR ENERGY:
FOLKS,
we’re talking about our planet here… fact check before you believe Mitt Romney…
you just might wake up with an oil well in your back yard… AND, Romney is going
to owe the Koch Brothers big time…
ROMNEY PLAN FOR WOMEN:
This is
easy… ROMNEY put PAUL RYAN on the ticket… Paul Ryan has signed onto the
republican platform:
Romney
has vowed to repeal Obamacare and Planned Parenthood…Romney cannot be trusted!
Romney
would appoint supreme court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade: IMPORTANT
CHECK IT OUT!
ROMNEY PLAN FOR STUDENTS:
Students
will lose their health coverage when they’re kicked off their parents policies
when Romney repeals Obamacare.
Romney
want to give student loans back to the big banks… interest rate would double
from what they are today and the negotiated pay backs, which today are based on
your income would stop and the student would be charged just like a credit card
payment.
Do your
research!
ROMNEY PLAN FOR THE DEFICIT:
Every
fact checker has determined that Romney’s plans for cutting the deficit amount
of given tax breaks to the rich, raising taxes on the middle class, cutting
spending, increase military spending, cutting loopholes… Romney has said so
many things it’s hard to keep track, but, one thing is certain Mitt Romney and
Paul Ryan have no intention of lowering the deficit… with their plans it simply
not mathematically possible!
Now
folks, keep in mind that Mitt Romney, when putting Ryan on the ticket… signed
onto the Ryan Budget… The Ryan Budget
will destroy the middle class!
ROMNEY’S PLAN FOR MEDICARE:
Romney
would end Medicare as we know it today… NOTE:
even though he says it will not affect seniors 55+ today… DO THE MATH…
if those 54 and under stop paying into Medicare… Medicare will shrivel and die
on the vine… EXACTLY WHAT REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DO FOR YEARS!
Folks,
fact check….
BOTTOM
LINE… who do you trust with Medicare and Social Security? Democrats have fought to preserve and
protect the social safety net….
Republicans
have ALWAYS WANTED TO DISMANTEL the social safety net… and that’s a fact!
FOREIGN POLICY:
My
thoughts: I do not, trust Mitt Romney,
AND, I am scared to death that Paul Ryan (another Sarah Palin only wonky) would
be a heartbeat away from the presidency!
Obama/Biden
2012 and let’s take our congress back, I for one and sick and tired of foul
tasting tea bags!
One
more bit of advice... Obama take the gloves off...
Romney
doesn't deserve polite treatment, he is playing a Nixonian game of smoke and
mirrors on the American people....
Romney
doesn't have the character or a core to be president...
Romney
is a habitual liar...
Romney
has total disdain for 47% of americans, he thinks they're worthless...
Romney
will take away women's rights...
Romney
will add $2000 a year in taxes on the middle class...
Romney
will repeal Obamacare...
Romney
will repeal DADT...
Romney
didn't think it was worth it to go after Osama Bin Laden...
Romney
didn't think it was a good idea to end the war in Iraq...
Romney
will end Medicare as we know it...
Romney
said let the auto industry go bankrupt...
Romney
said let the housing forclosures hit botton and let investors but up the
inventory...
Romney
has been using the tradegy in Lybia for political gain...
Romney
is a panderer...
Don't
take my word for it, fact check the entire debate... I know you'll find that
Obama is honest and Romney is lying....
Obama
2012
LIKE I'VE SAID MANY TIMES... habitual liars DO NOT
realize they're lying.... because what they're saying AT THE TIME they
believe....
Mitt Romney cannot help himself; he has an illness, a
character flaw he's grown up with.
Either his dad taught him the art of 'lying to get what you want' (after
all lying is accepted in the Mormon Church as long as it benefits the church or
the family), or his dad was too busy to teach Mitt that lying is NOT A GOOD
character trait!
The entire Romney family has this character flaw, we're
heard Mrs. Romney tell a few whoopers, we're also hear Tag on stage set his
father's lies in stone... AS they say the APPLE DOESN'T FALL far from the tree
and in the Romney household all the apples are sitting nicely at the base of
the trunk!
ROMNEY DOES LIE, he lies every day on the stump... if you
say one thing to one audience and another the next day to another... it's
lying! this may shed light on Mitt's
penchant for lying:
"Mr. Romney's practical, businessman's approach to
governing had other political liabilities. As Brett Arends, formerly of The
Wall Street Journal, noted in his 2012 book, "The Romney Files," Mr.
Romney rebrands himself with an alacrity that suggests he sometimes sees making
public statements as an exercise in positioning a product rather than an
opportunity to stake out positions based on convictions".
I've been waiting to here Romney's plan for a long time. Didn't think we were going to get it. Now I know why the Reptards havn't answered me about his great plan. After reading this, I'd want to stick my head in the sand as well.
:)
The country owes you nothing. Try working for a change.
"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
Not only owe it, they gaurantee it.
TO: Homie D Clown who wrote:
I work everyday AND I pay a higher rate in taxes than does Mitt Robme!
This country owes every one of its citizen everything set forth in the United States Constitution.
I can see why you would say this country owes you nothing, cause all you're thinking about is Government money and how much you can get your hands on!
Maybe that's why GWB threw the American People to the wolves, cause maybe that's how Republicans feel about the American People, that we're just here to be used and stepped on while Republicans cater to the 1%ers and that sure is how we were treated when GWB was in office. Not anything the American People said, no matter how we protested, Republicans didn't listen to one damn word.
Sickening attitude Republicans have toward the American People.
Obama/Biden 2012
TO: Homie D Clown who wrote:
I wish this country didn't do anything for Mitt Robme or Lyin Paul Ryan, cause if it hadn't they wouldn't be able to run for office the way they are today, in fact, they would have never even been able to go to college.
Obama/Biden 2012
ROMNEY IS A HABITUAL LIAR...
Romney MEDICARE PLAN.... Romney says that those 55 plus will not be affected by the RYAN BUDGET MEDICARE CHANGES....
FALSE.... FOLKS 55+, DO YOUR RESEARCH.... ask yourselves.... IF PEOPLE 54 AND YOUNGER STOP PAYING into MEDICARE will that affect my coverage?
ANSWER.... YES IT WILL... it's math folks, if people 54 and younger STOP PAYING into Medicare, the Medicare benefits for those 55+ will become insolvent!
IT'S MATH FOLKS....
ROMNEY AND RYAN ARE DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA AND THE MIDDLE CLASS!
MITT ROMNEY IN A NUTSHELL!
"Mr. Romney's practical, businessman's approach to
governing had other political liabilities. As Brett Arends, formerly of The
Wall Street Journal, noted in his 2012 book, "The Romney Files," Mr.
Romney rebrands himself with an alacrity that suggests he sometimes sees making
public statements as an exercise in positioning a product rather than an
opportunity to stake out positions based on convictions".
OBAMA 2012...I cast my vote for Obama October 18... early voting began in NC
Ask yourself the following questions about mitt romney before you vote....
do i want a habitual liar sitting in the oval office?
do i want a president who ships jobs and his money offshore?
do i want a president who will voucherize medicare?
do i want a president who will privatize social security?
do i want a president who thinks 47% of americans are worthless?
do i want a president who is involved in voter surpression?
do i want a president who has dick cheney and john bolton as foreign policy advisors?
do i want a war monger in the oval office?
and....
If mitt romney will do or say anything to win the election, DO I TRUST MITT ROMNEY?
The answer to each quesitons is NO!
OBAMA 2012 and the dem down ballot.... let's throw the used, foul tasting tea bags back into the boston harbor where they belong!
I TRUST OBAMA and i cast my vote 10/19/12 for obama and the dem down ballot in north carolina early voting!
We have a habitual squatting in the Oval Office currently. His name? Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama & other presidents of both stripes have allowed companies to move work off-shore. It's a free-market economy. You say you don't like it that jobs went overseas to China, or went to Mexico? Then STOP BUYING YOUR CHIT FROM WALMART! Otherwise, you're a freaking hypocrite.
With your mentality, you shouldn't have been given a ballot...
To the Mitt-wits - do you really want "ONE NATION UNDER JOSEPH SMITH?"
Listen up all of you independents and undecided voters!
I think a little refresher course in history just may be in order to help all of you make a wise decision on whom to vote for in the coming election!
So, I’ve compiled some very revealing facts about the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan took the oath, and all of you should take these into consideration when making up your minds on whom to vote for.
Once you have enlightened yourselves, then ask yourself, why in the world would you vote for a party that is hell bent on destroying us?
The lunacy in the GOP started with the Reagan Era, and the GOP would like nothing more, than for all of us to forget their three previous administrations, because all three were filled with nothing but failed policies. And, they know that if the majority of our citizens knew how bad and harmful their policies have been to our country and economy that their chances of ever winning another election would be next too impossible.
Does this sound familiar? "Government is the problem, and Government is Bad.”
From early in Reagan’s presidency’s he started the corrosive distrust of the people’s government and made it a permanent fixture of American politics.
Did you know that Reagan could be considered the Father of the GOP’s fiscal irresponsibility?
Did you know that Reagan was forced to raise taxes at least twice, to avert a financial catastrophe?
Did you know that Reagan caused the national debt to skyrocket during his two terms?
Did you know that Reagan tripled the national debt by the end of his two terms?
Did you know that Reagan’s fiscal irresponsibility equal the entire debt burden produced by the previous 200 years of American history?
In other words, Reagan produced red ink as far as the eye could see!
And, even with the election of George H. Bush, it didn’t stem the flow of red ink.
George H. Bush created a little more than 4 trillion in debt during his presidency.
George H. Bush had to break his famously “read my lips, no new taxes” quote to address the cascading budget shortfalls, and his very own party turned on him, and which probably cost him reelection.
Only with the election of Bill Clinton did the hemorrhaging stop. At the end of Clinton’s presidency no amount of national debt could be attributed to Clinton. Through his policies of higher taxes and reduced spending helped bring about the strongest economy since WWII, and when he left office the CBO had forecasted that if his policies were continued that 5.6 trillion dollar surplus would accrue over the next 10 years.
Then we elected another fiscally irresponsible Republican, and almost from the beginning of George W. Bush presidency he began squandering away the forecasted 5. 6 trillion dollar surplus, because of his 1.4 trillion dollar tax cuts in 2001. George W. Bush.’s second round of tax cuts in 2003 accounted for the doubling of the national debt.
Then you add in 2 unfunded wars, 1 unfunded Prescription Drug Mandate, and his American Dream Downpayment Act, and all of this adds up to is, he took a forecasted 5.6 trillion dollar surplus and turned it into and 11.9 trillion dollar debt! And, it’s all easily verifiable by going to Treasurydirect.gov. And doing the math!
Now, when you read the last portion of this posting keep in mind the first part, because you’ll most definitely see a pattern!
1)Their self-fulfilling prophecy of bad government under Republican leadership, as the Bush recessions of 1991 and 2007, the Hurricane Katrina response, the Iraq catastrophe and the transfer of federal oversight powers to the industries being regulated all showed.
2) And, when the backlash from the American people inevitably comes as it did in 1992 and 2008, attack the very legitimacy of the new Democratic president they elected.
3) Then they turn to the filibuster and other obstructionists’ tactics to block the Democratic agenda, inaction for which the incumbent majority will be blamed.
4) They target the institutions and programs (Social Security, Medicare, the IRS) which form the underpinnings of progressive government.
5) They are smart enough to know that their plan cannot be fully implemented in just a few of their presidencies, and it will take a longer period of time.
6) And, all they do to get ready for the next cycle is, simply lather, rinse and repeat the procedure.
7) This has been the GOP’s Recipe for Successfully Changing America Into the Country of Haves and Have Nots!
Now, remember #2, 3, and 4 above!
From the onset of President Obama’s presidency the GOP has made it very clear that they had no intentions of working with him, even though they had no idea of his plans at the time.
Mitch McConnell said, that their only goal was to make sure that Mr. Obama was a one term President.
The GOP has been on a witch hunt ever since President Obama took office.
Through the GOP’s underhanded tactics have caused this country to have to endure 4 extra years of depression/recession.
The GOP has jeopardized our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren’s futures by their underhanded tactics.
Then they try and lay blame on President Obama for their contrived fiscal irresponsibilities.
We elected Mr. Obama to try and right the wrongs of the fiscally irresponsible borrow and spend republicans, and as you can see all they’ve done throughout his presidency is to try and keep the country in a depression/recession and by doing so, has kept the public in a despondent mood, and just to get you to once again be fooled into voting for their fiscally irresponsible candidates!
Don’t get fooled again!
The Republicans have done everything under the sun to destroy our economy.
And, here is the kicker, just to bring about their version of Capitalism!
This upcoming election boils down to whether we want. . . .
The Right’s version of capitalism, a laissez-faire type of capitalism, whereas. . . .
Capitalism is characterized by free market fundamentalism, where consumers, workers, and families are left on their own, and businesses do whatever they want, with little or no role for government.
Or, do we want the Left’s version of capitalism where society sets the rules and standards of commerce, regarding matters like protecting consumers, employees and the environment from irresponsible business practices, such as excessive pollution, risky oil drilling, predatory and reckless bank lending, unsafe workplaces, food, medicine, cars, and airplanes, minimum wages, and discrimination by race and gender.
It’s as simple as that!
Now, if you want to be a party to their lunacy, then vote for Romney/Ryan to further the destruction of your country!
Or,
If you want to stop this lunacy, then vote for Obama/Biden to resurrect the Middle Class and save your country!
And, always remember, “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it” George Santayana
To all of you on the Right, try proving the above posting as factually wrong, before you start spitting your venom, and badmouthing me!
BTW, Copy this posting, and pass it on, because the truth will set us all Free from the GOP’s Lunacy!
You might wish to see a doctor for a laxative, seeing how you're full of crap.
The Middle Class WILL NOT return in America WITHOUT a MAJOR manufacturing driver occurring. We've had three major waves of prosperity in America that resulted in the rise of the middle class worker - from roughly 1751-1830 when steam engines & trains came to be; from 1870-1920 with the rise of telephone, industry, electricity, indoor plumbing, etc; and the technology race of 1960 - 2000.
There have been ZERO major evolutionary business/industrial changes that will drive working society again in America like these did in the past. Green Energy is not the key, as those technologies are mature & strongholds on these have been created by China & Europe.
Wake up and realize that no benefit is gained by Apple/China simply making a bigger screen iPhone...
But you are convinced that Mitt will do it?
Obama the promise BREAKER!! Equals a LIAR!!! BIG EMBARRASSMENT to the USA!!!
Obama’s promise that his healthcare proposals would “never be purchased with [a] tax increase on middle-class families.” The SUPREME COURT & JUSTICE DEPT say it is a TAX!!! .Attack on the middle Class! Taxation by misrepresentation---the LARGEST TAX in World History!!! Does he remove the tax part????....NO!!!
…….…NOW Obama wants to invade Syria and Iran!!!
..Mr. American Businessman..YOU DID NOT MAKE THAT!! It was stolen from the back of the worker---PURE MARXISM!!...this is PURE BS!!
…ANTI-American…tell it to Ford or Steve Jobs or the Mom& POP store on the corner>>>How is it that NON taxpayers built an Infrastructure??
…Now BOZOhussen tells the UN that the 9/11 attacks on USA embassy’s were from a lame youtube video!!. While Over-the-HILl’ry and the Fed Security depts. say it was Al-Qaeda Islamic Terrorists… He tells the UN that NO where in the World should anyone be able to say anything against Islam or its profit( yes spelled that way on purpose~~). The Constitutional genius has forgotten the 1st Amendment!!.. TOtaLLY Un-American!!
Remember these?
THE OBAMA CHRONICLES:
“I promise 100% transparency in my administration.”.
“I promise NO NEW TAXES on a family making less than $250K a year.”.
“I will allow 5 days of public comment before I sign any bills.”.
“I will remove earmarks from PORK projects before I sign any bill.”.
“I will end Income Tax for seniors making less than $50K a year.”.
"I will bring ALL of our troops home within ONE year."
“I’ll put the Health Care negotiations on CSPAN so everyone can see who is at the table!”.
“I’ll have no lobbyists in my administration."
"I'll close Guantanamo."
"I'll resign if I don't cut the deficit in half by the end of four years."
"I'll unite the people of this great country."
“The TROOPS will be home for CHRISTMAS.” WHY ARE MORE LEAVING EVERYDAY???? AND DYING every day…
NOW Obama invokes Executive Privilege( as a Sen. called it’s use a RUSE!) for Holder on GUN SMUGGLING and killing US Agent Brain Terry!!! That only applies if Obama was part of it!! Obama & Holder should be on trial for giving Machine Guns to the Mexican Drug cartels!!
BETTER KNOWN AS LIES.
Fool me once shame on YOU!
Fool me twice shame on ME!
Even Joe BIDEN has endorsed ROMNEY for Prez!!!!
BozoHussan=Chicago MOB politics=NBC=GE= no taxes from the bought and paid for cronies ==twist every crises toward Pravda PressPROPAGANDA!!
$$$$16 Trillion in Debt….that is 12 zeros… the population of USA is 320 Million,,6 zeros===$$$ 50 Thousand for every Man&Woman&Child!!
Yet Reid –Senate & Obama-White House control do not want to balance the Budget!! These numbers do nor count the obamaDoNOTcare act that is the Largest TAX in World history…No ONE can afford it!!! There is only one reason that these numbers do NOT worry you…you think that you are Entitled to free ride and you will not have to pay!!! . Sober up America!!!
Our fearless leader kills NASA and makes the USA astronauts ride on the back of a Russkie bus, and now the Russian bus is in trouble!!
If I could delete your posting I would.
Never skimmed such stupidity.
RP can not delete it but put on ignore and it will not appear.
What an insult to the Mexican-American population. Forget about us for four years and then ask for our vote again. Why would any Mexican- American vote for Obama? He has rasied my taxes, my insurance is outrages, and my business has suffered under his promise not to raise taxes. My father attained legal citizenship and my family have become prominent people in our community. Do it right and don't be sold a false bill of goods of menial task, dirty jobs and social handouts. We are smarter and deserve better than that. Ask yourself why not in the last four years? Better yet ask when? Maybe not in the next four years or forever, depending on who you vote for. I am a proud American of Mexican decent. Vote because we deserve better. Romney 2012
To all of the Christians that read these threads!
Have you ever heard the saying “Strange Bedfellows?” What it basically means is, that two opposing groups have joined forces, and become allies. And, this is exactly what has happened in the GOP. You have unsuspecting Christians joining forces with Ayn Rand Worshipers (Atheist), and this is what would be considered as “Strange Bedfellows!” I do not mean to offend Atheist in anyway, because I believe the vast majority are not Rand Worshipers, which I feel are giving Atheists a bad name. And, just to let you know, I’m an Agnostic.
Do you even realize that the GOP has been taken over by a bunch of Ayn Rand worshiping sociopaths? And, their philosophy is Objectivism, where selfishness is considered a virtue, and declares god-fearing Christians to be incompatible with reason! Which means, Christians, being true believers in God, are incapable of any logical reasoning! In other words, you are nothing but pawns, and are being used to bring about your own demise! If that alone is not enough to open your eyes, then I guess there’s no hope for this country.
They also believe that there are only two kinds of people in the world, creators and parasites! Whereas the creators are made up of businesses, corporations, entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone that meet their criteria of not being parasites. The parasites are anyone who fails to meet the criteria I just mentioned.
These people have turned lying into an art form, and use manipulation as readily as breathing air. They use wedge issues such as abortion, healthcare, and anything that can distract you from important issues that will cause you to vote against your very own better interests!
These people are self idolizing sociopaths, and have done everything humanly possible to sabotage our economy, because they have become so entrenched in Ayn Rand’s ideology, and want to bring about nothing more than what Ayn Rand envisioned, a laissez-faire type of capitalism.
These people are trying their best to destroy a system that brought about the great society that the rest of the world revered and has ever known! And, contrary to these self idolizing sociopaths beliefs, no man is an island unto themselves! They have tried to demonize socialism, but contrary to their beliefs socialism is what built this country and brought about its greatness. Its citizens working together for the common good of all, and just not for the supposed creators! This country did not attain its greatness through self idolizing psychopathic loners. Where their only goal is to create a country of what they consider creators and parasites!
Wake Up Christians, before it really is too late!
Because, if Romney does somehow get elected, you Christians will soon find out that you are nothing but the despicable Parasites that the creators so despise!
Obama/Biden in Nov, because all of your and my offspring deserve better than what the Ayn Rand Worshiping GOP has to offer!
Please the DNC booed God!!!!!
Libya... not optimal
Economy...... not optimal
Past 4 years.... Not optimal!
Why settle for not optimal?
VOTE ROMNEY/RYAN very optimal!
And Scott Brown too
VOTE ROMNEY/RYAN very optimal!
I can't believe there's 47% idiots in this country that would actually vote for obama.
My guess would be only 25% idiots in this country, but times they are a changing.
RP I cannot believe there are more than the 1% that would vote for romney, just shows the stupidity of the american public.
Clark, right on! Anyone who is NOT a 1%er and is voting for Mitt Robme must be nuts!
Obama/Biden 2012
What the polls seem to be unanimously confirming is that if Republicans turn out in a much larger percentage than Democrats, Romney's chances are excellent. But with Obama holding a 5% lead among registered voters in both NBC and CBS polls, it is clear that if Democrats get out the vote in the close states, Obama wins. Frankly, in this environment and with our screwed up electoral system, turnout doesn't matter in California, New York, Texas, Alabama, or Oklahoma. In states like that, turnout percentages will only affect congressional races.
In other words, the Obama campaign controls its own destiny. Obama is well up among all registered voters. If in the six most crucial states, his campaign gets out 65 to 70% of the Democratic vote, Obama wins. And there is nothing the GOP can do about that.
how much is the lead among african american voters oh i forgot we dont count we are among the 47%that romney was talking about u bush was bad enough romney would be even worsebut remember this is still "white america"
Another article of bull@!$%#!!!!
I think it's interesting you Liberal wonks are always using the words "unfunded wars"....when are wars ever funded in advance. You people are idiots!! Can't sleep tight if you think the standing President might reduce your free "take" in gov. benefits? Well, guess what, your beloved programs aren't "funded" either.