Mitt wants to destroy the bottom 47% and can't be trusted.

Mitt wants to cut taxes for the rich - worth $5 trillion, more deficit

Gov. of Mass.
Mitt Romney BOUGHT the Governors seat of Mass. just like Rick Scott did in Fla.(60% of his campaign funds came from his own pocket)
Approx. 1 billion in new taxes.
Romney claims bi-partisanship as Gov. of Mass but:
To this day legislature still talk about how he tried to Govern like a CEO and dictate to the Legislature!
Used veto 600 times
250 vetos overturned by Legislature!!!
When he took office he announced to the legislature " I am going to show you how to really get money out of the Federal Gov't!!"

Balanced the budget. 2/3 of deficit was paid by federal Gov,t (A BAILOUT)
The other 1/3 he made such devastating cuts to Education Schools had to increase tuition by 63%
State population shrunk as people fled Mass. under his leadership( if you can call it that)
Obama leading in Mass. by about 15 points!! (They still remember Romney)
He went to the Olympics because of the Mormon church. Who owns most of Salt Lake City? Mormons! What group of businessmen stood to make a fortune from the Olympics? The Mormons!!!
After one term even his own party didn't want him for a second term!!! (Governor)
The people of Massachusetts love Republican governors. They elected 4 in a row, one after another for 17 years of Republican leadership.

After one term with Romney at the helm, the people of Massachusetts elected Deval Patrick, the first Democratic governor in 17 years.
Mitt Romney campaigned like the slick salesman he is, but once in office, the real Romney emerged. Romney raised every fee in Massachusetts, including certificates for the blind, TB tests, even tripling the cost of a gun license.

He was responsible for the 2nd largest per pupil education budget cut in history.

He gutted funding for social services, assistance for poor children in Massachusetts.

Romney left the state of Massachusetts with one of the lowest approval ratings in the nation, in the low 30's. #48 of 50 Governors!

The people of Massachusetts know him best. The people of Massachusetts overwhelmingly support President Obama.
Our analysis reveals a weak comparative economic performance of the state over the Romney years, one of the worst in the country.”-Andrew Sum and Joseph McLaughlin, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, Boston Globe, 7.29.07
During Governor Romney’s term, Massachusetts fell from 36th to 47th out of 50 states in job creation, while the overall U.S. economy grew.
By the end of Governor Romney’s term, Massachusetts had lost more than 40,000 manufacturing jobs—a rate twice the national average.
Gov. Romney raised taxes on the middle class, but pushed through a tax cut that overwhelmingly benefited 278 of the wealthiest individuals in MA.
Under Mitt Romney, Massachusetts’ debt burden grew to the highest per person in the nation.
State spending increased every year while Romney was in office, and he left behind a $1 billion deficit for the next governor.
Governor Romney failed to protect good jobs in Massachusetts, and actually outsourced state jobs to India.
Mass. schools had a #1 rating long before Romney took office but he mentions this rating like he had something to do with it!!

His last year in office he wasn't even in the state for 200 of 365 days. Gone more than he was at work!!!

I never thought of what I do for a living as job creation. … The primary goal of private equity is to create wealth for your investors.
–Marc B. Wolpow, former managing partner at Bain Capital, the firm where Mitt Romney was CEO, who worked closely with Romney for nine yearsLos Angeles Times, 12/3/11

Jobs: 47th out of 50 states in job creation
Taxes and fees: Increased by $750 million per year
Long-term debt: Increased more than $2.6 billion

Answer me this... if Willard was such a GREAT Governor, why isn't he running on his record?

HA HA HA, because he wasn't a good GOV, and he has no good record :)

Robbarlow......could you not find a more objective journalist than Bill Kristol?

Obama LIED!

SWEET!

Previously banned multi-account re-reg Rob in MA has rejoined us! lmao

Enjoy it while YOU can little buddy!

The moderators will be back first thing Monday morning! ☺

Strange... NOT a ONE of you trolls can defend my accusations...

Women need jobs .

College grads need jobs .

ONTOR

Why doesn't Obama put everyone on welfare before he leaves ?

Repetition of statements is the surest path to welfare ... or men in white coats.

Hey Rob Ma, wassup dude?

This reminds me about the LIE Myth Robme told about his Mass taxes . . . . remember?

He kept insisting that people had to "trust him" that he had paid taxes as a Mass resident, and therefore was eligible to run for Gov in Mass.

And lots of folks said, "show us your taxes."

And he said, "NO, I won't show you my taxes - trust me."

and then after he was elected, he DID show his taxes - and proved that HE HAD LIED!

He amended his taxes, after-the-fact.

Obama-Biden, 2012 . . . Myth Robme, 1040's!!!

Foul mouth presidents are disgusting .

Updated as of 8:00pm EST on Saturday, October 27:

Real Clear Politics (RCP) is consistently cited by both FOXNEWS and NBCNEWS as a current source for
reliable averaged polling data at every level of American politics.

RCP on Thursday returned North Carolina (NC) to the status of "toss-up state," and in so doing, reduced Romney's likely electoral vote tally from 206 to 191. However, Romney still holds a strong although rapidly declining lead of 3.8% in NC and remains the favorite to capture that state in the upcoming election.

In sum, RCP now considers the following eleven states, listed in descending order of electoral votes, as "toss-up": Florida (FL), Pennsylvania (PA), Ohio (OH), Michigan (MI), North Carolina (NC),Virginia (VA), Colorado (CO), Wisconsin (WI), Iowa IO), Nevada (NV) and New Hampshire (NH).

With only 10 days left in the 2012 presidential campaign, Obama leads in seven of the toss-ups, Romney leads in two, and in CO and VA as of late today the candidates are now tied.

In descending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Obama, followed in ascending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Romney, here are the published averaged numbers from RCP as of 8:00pm today together with the FiveThirtyEight election night probability of victory for either candidate:

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In PA, with 20 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 4.7%, down from 4.8% yesterday.

FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 94.0% chance of winning PA.

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In MI, with 16 electoral votes, Obama's lead is holding at 4.0%.

FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 98.0% chance of winning MI.

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In NV, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 2.4%, down from 2.5% yesterday.

FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 78.8% chance of winning NV.

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In WI, with 10 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 2.3%, down from 2.7% on Thursday.

FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 85.7% chance of winning WI.

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In OH, with 18 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.3%, up from 2.1% yesterday.

FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 76.3% chance of winning OH.

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In IO, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.3%, up from 2.0% on Thursday.

FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 72.1% chance of winning IO.

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In NH, with 4 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 1.4%, up from 1.1% yesterday.

FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 69.7% chance of winning NH.

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In CO, with 9 electoral votes, the race is tied, down from a Romney lead of 0.4% on Thursday.

FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 57.3% chance of winning CO.

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In VA, with 13 electoral votes, the race is tied, down from a Romney lead of 1.0% this morning.

FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama, and not Romney, a 54.1% chance of winning VA.

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In FL, with 29 electoral votes, Romney's lead has fallen to 1.8%, down from 2.1% on Thursday.

FiveThirtyEight currently gives Romney a 62.9% chance of winning FL.

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In NC, with 15 electoral votes, Romney's lead has fallen to 3.8%, down from 5.0% on Thursday.

FiveThirtyEight currently gives Romney an 81.7% chance of winning NC.

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So…

For Obama to win re-election, the easiest route still appears to be through maintaining his existing lead in the five toss-up states where his current margins are widest: PA, MI, NV, WI, and OH. Doing so would bring his electoral vote total on Election Day to 271. In this scenario, Obama could still surpass 270 while failing to hold either IO or NH.

However, should Obama lose the critically important and highly-contested state of OH, the loss could effectively be neutralized by any of the following combination of wins from states where FiveThirtyEight is currently predicting Obama victories:

Path #1: Obama fails to hold OH but wins IO, NH, and CO resulting in 272 electoral votes.

Path #2: Obama fails to hold OH but wins IO and VA resulting in 272 electoral votes.

Path #3: Obama fails to hold OH but wins CO and VA resulting in 275 electoral votes.

However, regarding Path #1, there is some question as to the accuracy of the RCP polling numbers in NH which includes in their average a recent 'outlier' finding from UNH which has Obama leading by an overwhelming 9.0%.

For Romney to unseat Obama, he not only would have to hold the two states in which he presently leads, FL and NC, bringing his electoral vote total to 235, but also steal victories in CO where his lead fell from 0.4% yesterday to that of dead heat, in VA where his lead fell from 1.0% this morning to another dead heat, and finally with OH where Obama's lead rose this morning to 2.3%. By so doing, Romney's electoral vote total would reach 275.

Should Romney take CO and VA but fail to take OH, he could overcome this shortfall by stealing WI and either IO or NH, resulting respectively in an electoral vote total of 273 or 271.

With only ten days of campaigning left, this one may come down to the wire…. and to the October jobs report.

Let's hope that Election Day is free of both voter fraud and voter intimidation and that eligible voters who have registered in good faith over the past six months are in fact able to vote on November 6; let's also hope that vote tabulation itself is performed honestly and accurately by both the election commissions and private corporations to whom this essential role is being entrusted.

In any case, it will be interesting to watch as election night unfolds.

@ONTOR - YOU ARE BEATING DEAD HORSES - NO ONE CARES.

MOST WELFARE RECIPIENTS LIVE IN "RED STATES" - When President Obama continues to improve the economy, more people will have jobs and there will be fewer people on welfare.

Robme has a ONE POINT PLAN - more $$$ for the wealthy. He will INCREASE the 47% he already despises.

GOOGLE: "BainPort" . . . America will have 100's of BainPorts if he is elected.

O & JOE!

said he'd fight for jobs and middle-class families. But once he took office, he pushed through a tax cut that overwhelmingly benefitted 278 of the wealthiest families in the state

And yet, he has a herd of people following him. Hard to believe that there are so many people in the uS that want to throw themselves in the fire!

Vote DEMOCRAT to go FORWARD!!! We don't need to go back to the 50's. We do not need a VULTURE CAPITALIST THAT KEEPS ON BLAMING PRESIDENT oBAMA FOR THE mess that he and the other vulture capitalists created.

He has his money overseas, to avoid paying taxes. He wants to reverse Roe Vs. Wade, and he wants to drill everywhere in the US to get us into another WAR.

REJECT THIS LUNATIC!!! Vote Democrat!!!!

Mitt is socialist...only RED states support him. Mitt is for corporate welfare and socialism for the rich - you know RED is the color for socialist parties.

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Mitt even grew up in socialism - The Socialist Mormon State of Utah has always had a cradle-to-grave welfare socialist system.

End America's endless Obama depression .

Vote Romney 2012

did your son always have the balls the size of cue balls?"

Something that the sons of Mitt Romney will NEVER HAVE TO ANSWER, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO BALLS AT ALL.

JUST AS THE 'DADDY', THEY ARE ON A MISSION FROM "GOD" -A LOAD OF BS-, INSTEAD OF SERVING IN THE MILITARY.

Pat,

Where do you see that Ohio is "no longer considered a swing state"?

I generally reference Real Clear Politics and they have it as a toss-up leaning toward Obama with a current advantage of 2.3%.

Looks like President Obama helped himself tremendously in the last two debates.

Get.Out.The.Vote.

Obama/Biden - pick ups in the House & Senate.

Bring normalcy back to America. Bring integrity back to America. Bring decency back to America. Bring equality back to America. Bring a better future for our young back to America.

Rob,

Can you take your insults elsewhere, please?

That goes for lefties, as well.

This one is NOT going to be swept under the rug. New information is surfacing every day

Oh GOD! Where were you when BUSH and CHENEY were in office?

IN A COMA?????

MSNBC - look at this from Nate Silver:

The FiveThirtyEight forecast model has found the past several days of battleground state polling to be reasonably strong for Barack Obama, with his chances of winning the Electoral College increasing as a result. The intuition behind this ought to be very simple: Mr. Obama is maintaining leads in the polls in Ohio and other states that are sufficient for him to win 270 electoral votes.

In Ohio, however, there are not just three polls: roughly a dozen polling firms, rather, have surveyed the state over the past 10 days.

Still, it is misinformed to refer to Ohio as a toss-up. Mr. Obama is the favorite there, and because of Ohio’s central position in the Electoral College, he is therefore the overall favorite in the election.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/oct-26-state-poll-averages-usually-call-election-right/

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Obama's lead in Ohio seems to be very consistent, however, we still have to work very hard at getting out the vote.

I'm watching Virginia very closely as well, which has Obama up and a state I think he's also going to win.

It's not blame.

It's history.

No one wants to repeat bad history.

Pat,

Thanks for the citation. I respect Nate Silver's opinion, but fear the shenanigans which are sure to come throughout the Buckeye State.

One thing appears certain....Romney's lead in FL and NC are softening, and his leads in VA and CO have completely disappeared.

Women need jobs .

College grads need jobs .

ONTOR-

You damn right they need jobs! When the last conservative president left office America was shedding 800,000 jobs a month! Millions upon millions of people lost their jobs and are still looking as result of the failed policies/actions/legislation during the Dubya administration. Then during the mid-term elections of 2010 the conservatives ran on jobs, jobs, jobs. They said they were the job creators. It was all about jobs. They PROMISED the American people jobs. Boehner stood up after tearfully rejoicing at their win that the people had given the conservatives a mandate. I mean the first thing they did was read the Constitution aloud. Then they took a symbolic vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Then they took 2 weeks off after the Giffords shooting. Then they took some more symbolic votes. And now look at how many jobs they created. What's the count now, 2 years later? Zip? Zero? Zilch? Nada? Obama has done more to prevent further job loss and create new job opportunities than the conservatives can claim since the mid-terms. If jobs are to be a referendum on which party can lead, then the conservatives need to accept their own record of inability and inaction to keep or create jobs. We wouldn't be in this mess if the conservatives had been good stewards of the American people's trust during the last administration. Dubya was intent on diverting attention and focus on WMD's that he let the terrorists on Wall Street take down the economy. Thanks for reinforcing the importance of NOT electing conservatives to office.

Well Joseph Freakin' Smith, Dem dang fellas at Princeton got thar Meta-nalasis out dar and dat ol' EC vote is as of 8. p.m.

Obama 291

Romney 247

tick tock tick tock

IRESPOND-2315268 - Oh GOD! Where were you when BUSH and CHENEY were in office?

I assume you are directing that at me and not God. The media were trumpeting every misstep and theoretical failure of the Administration in those days. If it had appeared to me that there were a coverup that Bush and Cheney were perpetrating with the active cooperation of the media, I would have been just as vocal as I am now.

Obama - there you go again miss stating the facts!

Massachusetts was not 48th in job creation. It started at 50th and ended at 28th, but AVERAGED 47th over the 4 years.

Source Factcheck.org and others.

Wow! Catch up!

"What my attitude on this is is if we find out there was a big breakdown and somebody didn’t do their job, they’ll be held accountable. Ultimately as Commander-in-Chief I am responsible and I don’t shy away from that responsibility."

And all of you little peeps from the GOP are still not listening to Condoleezza Rice and her asking you to shut up already. Good hell ... everything is great and cozy from the sidelines! I trust my hairdresser to cut and color the best she can. I trust my dentist to tell me what I need to do to prevent cavities. I trust my doctor when she runs tests and tells me that things are good after waiting for the results.

I trust my President to have that same time to figure things out, consult those on the ground, and to let the people know what they need to know.

Get back to trusting, people. Get over the fear-mongering.

Obama/Biden 2012

Pat in Boston and BCWC,

thanks for the updates. Great news about Ohio!!

BCWC,

You are sure loving the ticker tape results from Princeton. LOL

So am I....

Blah blah Solyndra, yada yada Fast and Furious, gripe gripe Benghazi, wah wah Biden flubs...

Finally, we are getting to some substance -- What little record Romney actually has. And why is it that Massachusetts isn't supporting him?

As for Bush/Cheney, like Romney and Bain Inequity, and lying about where he paid taxes to run for Governor in Massachusetts, or taking the hard drives with him when he left as Governor, or refusing to release FULL tax returns for more than two years, or lying about living in his son's unfinished basement to commit voter fraud, etc., etc. ...

The neglect in trying to prevent 9-11, the disaster of the Iraq war, warrant-less wire taps, scandal from Scooter Libby outing Plame to Alberto Gonazales of the DOJ playing politics, and sex scandals gone wild -- The media didn't have to make these things up.

Cover-up? Have you heard about the Downing Street Memo? How about the scripted town halls, the softball questions (remember Jeff Gannon?), and providing FAUX Noise with talking points from the White House -- Holy cow, you rightwingers can't remember what you had for breakfast, or you rewrite history to make it look like you had a seven-course meal with Dom Perignon.

The EXTREME, MALICIOUS POLITICIZING of a terrorist attack is so utterly disgusting and absolutely anti-American that anyone with a conscious should find it totally shameful to call themselves a republican. And, shockingly, this is occurring right after the event while there is still so much classified information on the event that cannot be released for security purposes related to apprehending and stopping the true culprits.

Remember, how the whole country, especially the Democrat minority in congress, rallied behind Bush after he had done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO PREVENT 911 in the presence of many warnings. (Clinton had just successfully thwarted the Y2K terrorist attacks with increased national security, which Bush NEGLECTED to do.) Bush's and the repub congress's EXTREME NEGLECT of national security before 911 caused immeasurable anguish and literally trillions of dollars in US spending all added to the federal deficit after 911; it even led to a $1 trillion dollar unnecessary Republican war in Iraq that in itself caused much more terrorism in Iraq and around the world.

Then after such a horrendous neglect of his #1 presidential duty--protecting the USA homeland--the Bush administration just made light of the horrible anthrax terrorist attacks that followed, again on US soil of which several were directed at Democrats in Congress, and NEVER adequately investigated.

After the deaths of thousands and thousands and thousands of American deaths due to Republican NEGLECT AND ERROR during the 911 and anthrax terrorist attacks and the Iraq war, how could these republicans politicize one small terrorist attack right after it happened when there is still so much CLASSIFIED information about it on stopping and punishing the culprits.

And this is just one terrible event along with an extremely long list of horrible things bordering on atrocities that the Republican party is planning for Americans which include severely harming poor American infants and children, handicapped people and the poor elderly through drastic cuts to food stamps and Medicaid programs. Robbing most future seniors of adequate or any access to healthcare or the ability to pay for it by privatizing Medicare. Taking American to more hideous, unnecessary wars that will inevitably require a draft and rob Americans of their freedoms. Adding significantly to the federal deficit with trillions of dollars in unnecessary military spending increases.

OBVIOUSLY THE FOCUS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS TOTALLY ON ABSOLUTE POWER AND CONTROL FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR RICH SUPPORTERS ONLY AND AT ANY COST AND NOT ON THE WELL-BEING OF THE USA AND ITS CITIZENS.

I have voted for many republicans in the past, but I do not know if I can ever vote for another one at any level after this year's election.

NorthstarDFL

You are sure loving the ticker tape results from Princeton. LOL

I look them up every time ONTOR posts, i imagine him at the bottom of an hourglass.

Rob Bush and chaney new about the 9/11/2001 and did nothing also in fact thing s were done to help facilitate it. No one ever did anything except get us into a war that was based on lies. pass laws to take away our rights. The first 911 was swept under the rug as quickly as possible. 3000 people died and no is looking for answers except countries internationally. You see the problem is not just with Obama it is with our leaders in general on both sides of the fence. You keep going on and on about something that off topic from this article people are not listening. Give it up!

Kannin,

Don't let them intimate you, please keep posting your updates. Your work may not be appreciated by some, but there are many that do.

Robber....

Your premise makes no sense at all.

You're saying that not only was Obama involved in the tactical response in Bengazi, but he told whatever defenders we had to stand down? Why would anyone do that, let alone the President? It doesn't make sense on the face of it.

Of course, this is coming from a person who keeps calling the guy he hates so much a "trader"

RCP is doing a disservice to people. The Obama camp will not return to North Carolina, or Florida, and have reduced their airtime to use the money in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Ohio. Virginia would be out too except the number of democrats were increased in polls keeping it looking viable.

The majority of the polls in all three of those states have shown Romney with a lead since early October.

Bill Maher warns about the dangerous people Romney would bring with him to the White House (+ video)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/27/1151055/-Bill-Maher-warns-about-the-dangerous-people-Romney-would-bring-with-him-to-the-White-House

DB, Obama campaign reduced their air time in FLA?

Isn't the president traveling to FLA in a few days to campaign with Bill Clinton?

A man dies, goes to heaven, stands before St. Peter, and see a huge wall of clocks.

The man asks what all the clocks are for and St. Peter explains, "These are lie clocks. Everyone on earth has a lie clock.

Every time a person lies, the clock hands move."

Pointing to one, the man says, "Whose clock is that?"

"That's Mother Teresa's," St. Peter answers. "The hands have never moved, indicating she never told a lie."

"Incredible," the man responds. "And whose clock is that?"

St. Peter responds, "That's Abraham Lincoln's. The hands moved twice telling us he told two lies in his entire life."

"Where is Mitt Romney's clock?" the man asks.

"Romney's clock is in Jesus' office," St. Peter says. "He's using it as a ceiling fan."

ONTOR,

Well at least, Obama and Hiliary definitely care to save those in the USA, and after all that is why they were elected.

BCWC ...

I look them up every time ONTOR posts, i imagine him at the bottom of an hourglass.

Oh Snap! don't we all????

Obama/Biden 2012

Bill MAHER?? YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING RIGHT?? That moron doesn't know SH!T from SHINOLA!

Some of you liberals like to post odds and models. Here is another one that you might not like. It has predicted correctly the last eight presidential elections. The University of Colorado in pot city Boulder has never been mistaken as conservative.

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/10/04/updated-election-forecasting-model-still-points-romney-win-university

Robbar.....

I doesn't make sense! It doesn't. But that is what happened. Wackos on the left will never believe anything from Fox News.

MY bet is that it doesn't make sense, because it DIDN'T happen that way, and it's coming from BLLSHT MOUNTAIN. Just like the President did not say the deaths were "not optimal" Please see:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/mon-october-22-2012-dl-hughley

It's really sad, but funny. (probobly not to you)

Poll: Obama advantage in Virginia

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/27/poll-slight-obama-advantage-in-virginia/

Robber,

So you now spend all your time with Obama, know what he does every minute. He was there and watched it all. What lies! Well, is there honor amongst thieves???

If Romney/Ryan win in 4 years America will be in shambles much worse than now and more debt, and most people will just remember president Robbme and Lyin, and sadly it will not just be name calling but a horrible truth.

The best line of the day: Women are starting to think above the neck and not below the neck. LOL

Occupy Wall Street backs Obama

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Occupy Sesame Street backs Romney.

thetotas: I get attacks and personal insults from the Left. Your kind words mean a lot to me.

SmBusOwnerinNY Your premise makes no sense at all.

You're saying that not only was Obama involved in the tactical response in Bengazi, but he told whatever defenders we had to stand down? Why would anyone do that, let alone the President? It doesn't make sense on the face of it.

We all remember the dramatic photos labeled "White House photographer Pete Souza documents the Commander in Chief's overseeing of the raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound from the White House Situation Room."

The same classes of information were probably flowing into the White House Situation Room during this event. Why wouldn't the President be equally involved?

As to the President's motivations, I have no clue, but I think that information will emerge in the coming months that will cast light on that question.

In the last 2 weeks, 80% of the undecides vote for the challenger.

Swing States Obama does not have a 50% average in over the last 10 days:

Colorado 48.4% - 5 polls, Romney 47.6%

Florida 46.6% - 11 polls, Romney 49.3%

Iowa 49.2% - 5 polls Romney 46.8% - Obama might get this one.

Nevada - Obama has 50.0% and should win unless this deteriorates or polls are wrong.

New Hampshire - 5 polls - 48.6% - 5 polls, Romney 47.2% - There is an obvious outlier favoring Obama here so Romney is probably ahead.

North Carolina - 5 polls - 46.4%, Romney 50.6%

Ohio 48.0% - 14 polls - Romney 45.8%

Pennsylvania 48.0% - 6 polls - Romney 44.0% - there is an outlier clearly to Obama's advantage here and Obama's average is decreasing.

Virginia 48.3% - 8 polls - Romney 47.8%. There are two clear outliers in Obama's favor

Wisconsin 49.5, 6 polls - Romney 46.0%. Obama is trending down from a 50+% average earlier this month.

There is a way to go before this is over and it could go either way, but historically Romney should win on November 6.

Pat,

The public polls do not say they cannot get Florida. IF I were you, I'd be concerned that they cannot get Ohio, and have returned to Florida to force Romney to defend Florida.

“The mere fact that you have a legal power to keep something secret does not mean you should always use it..."

“For a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city. The old rules said that if there was a defensible argument for not disclosing something to the American people, then it should not be disclosed. That era is now over. Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information but those who seek to make it known.”

“I will also hold myself as president to a new standard of openness.... Information will not be withheld just because I say so."

These quotes are from Barack Obama during his last campaign... too bad his supporters never remember what he's said.....

Robbar ...

I will take the time out if I get it ...

You sick @!$%#!!!!!

Would his daughters deaths have been "optimal".

Again ... you are one sorry, sick, poster. I seriously cannot post more as that comment just takes my breath away that someone would say that.

Obama/Biden 2012

Pat,

My Error on Obama reducing commercials in Florida. Analysts say he should to concentrate on holding Ohio since efforts in Carolina and Virginia re not being successful enough. The DCCC is reducing funding to the Allan West congressional district though.

robbar...

You gotta get out of the Fox bubble. The "not optimal" quote was debunked just like the "you didn't build that" quote. He didn't "say" either of those things if you see the context. I really think you should watch the Daily Show bit I linked. I think you're missing a little bit of reality (and parody is sometimes the best way to hint at reality).

also, you said: "The next few days will be crushing for this president - this trader. Oops I said it again."

It's "traitor".....unless of course you mean he's bidding on the stock exchange.

As Barrack Hussein struggles to be significant in the eyes of real American's, he is reduced to name-calling, deflection and projection.

His presidency has been an abysmal failure and he still panders to the lowest common denominator, his useful idiots in the Liberal/Progressive cabal. As he tries so hard to be presidential after failing for 4 years America realizes what a horrible mistake it made in 2008.

More debt than any preceding president, 23 million American's under/unemployed, growth at an embarrassing 1.74%, gas higher than ever before and no budget for 1,277 days. A foreign policy that can only be described as an abysmal failure.

Of course the useful idiots that follow so adoringly can only hope that nothing changes as they realize that when a real leader is elected they will actually have to work for a living instead of endless unemployment benefits and abusing safety nets that others truly need. But this is what happens when you're indoctrinated in the "Life of Julia" mentality your whole life.

Success is demonized and mediocrity is promoted.

5 million jobs at a cost of over $200,000 each. Good mid-wage jobs being replaced with low-wage jobs. No vision for future economic growth other than taxing the rich and blindly spending it without direction.

Fiscal ineptness combined with monetary malfeasance will never create the 21st century economic foundation we need to be competitive in the global emerging markets. Concentrating on unproductive social and infrastructure policies will just delay the inevitable.

America has seen Progressivism ruin our once envied economy. It's time to dismiss the unsustainable Keynesian ideology and government expansion idiocy. America was not built on the shoulders of government, unions or feel-good political correctness. It was built on the shoulders of industry, entrepreneurship, free-market principles and American exceptionalism.

We had our little social experiment for 4 years, it has failed miserably.

It's time to stop governing with emotions and start growing with leadership!

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

NOTE: Liberals/Progressives remember to vote on November 7th.

DB Akron your right about the 80%. But what your don't understand is that right now there are only 3 people who are undecided. Two people with Alzheimer and a lady republican.

Someone said "women are now thinking above their necks". I sure hope they are, and giving serious consideration to what the republicans are thinking about them below their necks.

@Kannin and all you Libyan conspirators: Fox and Friends has just released some suspicious innuendo that indicates "Jack" of "Jack and the Beanstalk" fame, didn't really use an ax to cut down the beanstalk that supposedly killed the giant. He, according to them, used a gwaddamned stolen "chainsaw". The giant never had a chance! We been holding up a "killer" as a hero to our kids! We should go at once and find the grave of "Benjamin Tabart", dig Him up and rekill the sum-bitch! Pitchforks! I say, pitchforks!

Robbarlow,

Do us all a favor and find a more liberal news and opinion source than The Weekly Standard or Newscom, you know something like the National Rview or FOX News.

You quote opinion and grief-stricken allegations as fact without further evidence as fact. Well the simple facts which have come out thus far: little real communication went out from the Benghazi CONSULATE office during the attack, the nearest US troops were the token Marine force at the EMBASSY in Tripoli some 405mi by air or 630mi by road, the next closest US troops were at a base in Italy, apparently the local "friendly" militias were either duped by one extremist group or were left out of planning, local "friendlies" did attempt a rescue but the "CIA safe-house" was already known to the extremists, the diplomat died of smoke and heat damage to his lungs, the bodygaurd broke out a window and grating to create an escape and exitted the building to relative safety, the bodygaurd went back for the diplomat but found him totally unresponsive and probably dead, the bodygaurd then effected his escape prior to the attempted rescue by locals. Fact: the diplomat was in Benghazi to discuss restarting ordinary business, including international trade in the Benghazi region. Fact: the diplomat had been warned that Benghazi was not safe, and that the consulate was not secure. Fact: other mass demonstrations had been organized to oppose the internet video in other North African cities at the same time. Fact: a communique was send to all embassies and consulates reminding them to be extra-vigilant on 9/11. Fact: all credible investigations take time, time typically used by the conspiracy obssessed to create their own set of facts to match their prejuduced conclusions. And since most of the eye-witnesses most germane to an American investigation, our investigators will have to piece together a second-hand American account. But since you seem so intimately familiar with the details, maybe you and Mr. Bill Kristol ought to present your testimony to the FBI. (You do know that Mr. Kristol and other opinion "journalists" exploit sensationalist news, perhaps distorting it, in order to generate interest and sales from folks like yourself.)

Note that thus far I have neither called you names, nor have I used vulgarity in regard to national leaders of either party or to other posters. But if can't get your mouth out of your a**hole, and stop talking vulgar filth; I will start asking the moderator to help you do this.

Blah blah Solyndra, yada yada Fast and Furious, gripe gripe Benghazi, wah wah Biden flubs...

Yeah, whatever happened to actually reading the content of the article & then commenting on that content, instead of bringing in every bipolar talking pt tangent y'all can think of?

No wonder TPTB want to fling y'all into the Trough. Can't wait to see the shrieking when it happens.

Hey..MJL-3 @ #1.10

• Why doesn't Obama put everyone on welfare before he leaves ?

• LMAO, you do realize the majority of Welfare states are RED !!!!!!!!!!

So true...Talking about biting the hand that feeds them...talking about voting against their own self-interest.

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It's even crazier if you realize that the more a state contributes taxes to the federal treasury, the more likely that state is a blue - Democratic - state.

Steve,

You are apparently a young man. Barack Obama's administration has been as open as any that I can recall in the past 45years.

Johnson and Nixon did nothing but lie about Viet Nam. Nixon lied about Watergate. Ford was not in office long enough to develop memorable lies, but military secrecy continued unabated. Carter fibbed about the effectiveness of the AEC in policing demestic commercial reactors. Reagan lied about cutting taxes (he raised 14times in 8years). Reagan lied about Iran-Contra. Reagan's biggest lie was the extent to which his staff ran policy during his administration, leaving us instead Cheney, Rove, Norquist, Gingrich and Oliver North. HW Bush lied that the peace "dividend" wouldn't affect the economy, it did. HW Bush lied by promising no new taxes, then promptly raised taxes. Clinton lied about hanky-panky and Congress threw a fit. Clinton may or may not have led about WhiteWater, but we spent loads of money on a virtual career indepedent prosecutor who apparently could find nothing worth taking to court. GW Bush lied about the causes of 9/11 and the source of the attacks. GW Bush lied about his true reasons for attacking Iraq. GW Bush lied about the success of the war. GW Bush and the military lied about the conduct of our troops. GW Bush lied about FEMA's readiness for, and performance after, Katrina. GW Bush lied about making domestic intelligence and policing more effective by creating the Department of Homeland Security. Congress has blocked Barack Obama's attempts to close the Guantanamo detention center. Likewise, Congress has blocked any real discussion of immigration policy. Barack Obama did lie really well at a state dinner by acting nonchalant while knowing that Seal Team 6 was prepping to launch the Bin Laden raid. Obama did take two years to get our troops out of Iraq. All the Obama stimulus distributions were clearly identified as to who received the assistance and the nature of the assistance. The Bush TARP was announced as being blind, no publication of fund receipients, the actual amounts and no expectation of return.

Now tell me, openness about a situation in Libya that the CIA and FBI are now trying to piece together from second and third parties?

Amen Bill Marlow Shut the ignorant trolls down. Good job!

The President is absolutely right about Romney’s abysmal record in Massachusetts. I have confirmed all the facts on Romney’s term as governor and President Obama is telling the truth... Here in Nevada the Romney campaign has been running ads claiming that he did EXACTLY the opposite of what he real did. These TV ads make Romney sound like he was the second coming for Massachusetts when in fact he was a disaster.

The Romney campaign and Romney himself are the most dishonest SOBs I’ve ever seen in my life. Romney is a pathological liar and will say ANYTHING to get elected….. This guy can not be trusted.

Robbar,

stop speculating and wait for all of the information to be released. People jumping the gun on what some blogger thinks happened is how epic failures are created. So instead of nailing Obama to a cross with the possibility of you looking like a complete ass when everything is known try chilling out and have patience.

With all the Pinocchios Obama is telling, his nose should be as long as Airforce One.

Obama said in a speech today that he says what he means and means what he says. Yeah, right. If you believe that, I have some ocean-front property to sell you in Florida.

He said he would reduce the national debt by $5 trillion. Instead he increased it by $6.2 trillion to $16.2 trillion.

He promised he would reduce unemployment to 5.6%. Instead, due to his policies it INCREASED to over 8% for a record 43 months! Saying it is now 7.8% is a joke since they conveniently excluded California with its 10%+ unemployment rate. It's still over 8% folks, and probably much higher since many have quit looking for work or dropped off unemployment benefits.

He promised healthcare costs would go down some $2,500 per year. Instead they went UP over $2,500 per year.

He promised he would pass comprehensive immigration reform in his first term. He did NOTHING about immigration reform.

He probably promised a balanced budget. He hasn't had a budget in three years!! The last one he proposed got shot down by 100% of the House of Representatives. What a joke. The man is incompetent.

I could go on and on, but do you get the picture?

Barack Obama is a compulsive liar. He also lied about Benghazi, Libya, but the mainstream media, which is in love with him, refuses to even report it. Four Americans died over there and they didn't even try to help them. That is not who I want leading this country. This will only encourage more violence against Americans. Please, please vote him out of office in November. Thanks!

Benghazi Massacre: Fox/Huffington CIA Tale Nonsense

Gordon Duff, Veterans Today 10/27/12

AC 130 Gunships, Typically in Aviano, 1700 miles away if at all, providing radio hadn’t been jammed

Imaginary Planes, Imaginary CIA Armies, All Invented as Election Ploy

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By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor (with Top US Intel Specialists)

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A trained team of up to 120 special forces personnel with radio jammers and heavy weapons killed the US ambassador. There were only two America CIA employees in Libya. The news stories are all fabrications.

The killing of Ambassador Stephens in Benghazi has become a ghoulish election ploy played by Fox News, Huffington Post and others. All are printing and broadcasting conjecture, total falsehood and the usual biased and unreliable garbage they are famous for.

RF Jammer Trucks, Gaddafi Had Dozens in Libya

Neither publication/network has qualified intelligence and/or military advisors. To be former military and work for Fox is considered prostitution.

The ambush at Benghazi required careful coordination. There was no Al Qaeda involvement and there has never been any history of Al Qaeda on the ground in Libya. Moreover, intelligence insiders use the term “Al Qaeda” when looking for money from “congressional critters” too stupid to know that the CIA has always run “Al Qaeda” as a way of avoiding explaining why dozens of small organizations and even friendly intelligence groups will, for obscure reasons, attack American targets.

Fox reported that a large convoy of Libyan milita relieved the compound at 3AM but that there had been no aid until 4 AM:

They were killed by a mortar shell at 4 a.m. Libyan time, nearly seven hours after the attack on the consulate began — a window that represented more than enough time for the U.S. military to send back-up from nearby bases in Europe, according to sources familiar with Special Operations. Four mortars were fired at the annex. The first one struck outside the annex. Three more hit the annex.

A motorcade of dozens of Libyan vehicles, some mounted with 50 caliber machine guns, belonging to the February 17th Brigades, a Libyan militia which is friendly to the U.S., finally showed up at the CIA annex at approximately 3 a.m.

Generously one can call this kind of reporting inconsitencies. Either they are there or they aren’t, either it is 3am or 4am but not both.

Nothing is simple enough for congress and the American people, this is the belief. When in doubt…lie.

The attack in Benghazi was coordinated with the broadcast of the Terry Jones/CATO Institute/Tea Party telethon worldwide. Rioting broke out in Tripoli but not Benghazi.

Ambassador Stephens had a 6 man detail, former SEALS, all private contractors from L3 Communications, a British company contracted to supply diplomatic security.

The team used was one of the best in the world, equal to any normal task, and by normal, we mean “high risk.” This is standard State Department policy and those used were not only top quality operators but went through months of specialized training at Blackwater’s facilities here in the US.

The second problem was tied to the Ambassador being, not in the Capitol, Tripoli, but in Benghazi to open a museum. I am deeply suspicious of this and as the CATO Institute and State Department are “co-mingled,” it would have been easy for information on the movements of the ambassador and his team to have been telegraphed to the enemy forces who had been positioned in Benghazi.

The forces themselves were spotted at the Tripoli airport several days in advance. Some may have entered from Egypt and some from Tunisia but 50 had come in from the UAE and were identified as Special Forces, UAE Special Forces, who had completed an extensive training program by retired US Special Forces and through the specialized American school for “irregular warfare,” located 45 miles outside Budapest, Hungary.

The attack itself involved pre-positioning two levels of blockade, one tying up any possible relief in Benghazi a kilometer away and another setting up a perimeter about 200 yards around the compound. Streets were blocked and heavy weapons, RPGs, truck mounted anti-aircraft guns and large mortars were used.

Mortar fire was so accurate that the compound had to have been pretargeted in advance. The first round hit the roof of the main building in the compound of 7 homes, all with minimal security.

The primary reason for no additional forces to have been available was the controversy during the civil war. Anti-war activists and “anti-imperialists in the pay of the Gaddafi family along with David Welch of Bechtel Corporation and Israeli mercenaries and advisors, along with troops from across Africa, specialists from Serbia and Belarus and other nations, created something more than a “fog of war” but rather a “fog of truth.”

Paid “shills” working for Gaddafi continually warned of Americans coming into the country armed as an occupation force. Thus, when the war ended, no armed Americans were brought in, only one small team and two CIA agents.

There were 3 additional armed local militia members providing security for the CIA who could have reached Stephens except for the blocked communications, the blocked roads and being outnumbered 30 to one.

The US does maintain 2 C130 gunships in the region. These are slow moving transport aircraft stationed at times in Northern Sardinia but more often further away at Aviano in Italy, North of Venice.

These are Air Force planes, not Navy.

The gunships are extremely effective weapons and would have been of help had they been available, had they been called though all radio and telephone traffic was jammed as with the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty and had the personnel in need of support been stationary and secure with strobe markers to secure them from the 20mm, 40mm and 105mm weapons on the AC130.

Instead, we have been informed, a two pronged and highly coordinated attack drove the US group to a safe house, into vehicles and corralled them in a pre-positioned ambush where their vehicle was attacked by a “quad 50″ anti-aircraft gun mounted on the back of a truck.

Such a weapon could destroy a Bradley Armoured Personnel Carrier or shoot down an Apache attack helicopter.

What is clear is that help was not available, that America moved into Libya with a minimal presence so as to seem unaggressive, to please critics of President Obama’s foreign policy among Republicans in Congress.

Blame them.

Adler,

I never saw such a bunch of Bullsh!t in all my life. Boy, you Liberals are working overtime to help your savior, Obama, cover up that tragedy.

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."

BETTER KNOWN AS LIES.
Fool me once shame on YOU!
Fool me twice shame on ME

originally from GIMMIE

Why doesn't Obama put everyone on welfare before he leaves ?

Because he is too late! George W Bush already did that!

@robbershady;

If you knew anything you would know that two generals and the SOD agreed that night there was not enough info on the ground to send in troops.They also do not know yet who gave the order to the CIA,to stand down, but yet you are so sure it was Obamas fault before the facts even come out. If you were president would go against the advice of the regional commanders and the SOD? I doubt it.

Because we held our cards close to our vest, some of the players in the Bhengazi attacks did not run they were outed at their headqurters and kicked out. Telling all we knew surely would have put them on the run,never to be seen again.

Most on this vine rightfully ignored you ,as this is digressive to the article, but you nay sayers need to be shown truth.

Oh AND Layton was spot on, that was a sick comment, please seek help sir.

ONTOR

Women need jobs

#1.15 - Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:08 PM EDT

ONTOR

College grads need jobs .

You're right. Where are they? The repugnicons ran and were elected in 2010 on the basis of "jobs, jobs, and jobs". Where are they? Ask Michelle Bachmann, AKA Big-Time Crazy. Every single jobs bill that your criminals passed contained a poison pill. Ask your jackasses why.

Why do your jackasses care more about defeating Obama than they care about helping their country. And I might ask you: are you so easily misled and deluded that you didn't know this or are you just full of hate for dems and/or blacks? Furthermore, even in spite of the GOP treason and obstruction, the UE rate is dropping, the housing market is finally headed north, sonsumer confidence is up, the GDP is up, first time UEclaims are down. All indicators are pointing in a positive direction. I'm sorry to tell you that ObAMA has outlasted the GOP treason and we're gonna be okay in spite of you dinosaurs.

• Interesting to note that in MA where Romney was governor, he's trailing by 20 points. In MI where he grew up and his father was governor, he's trailing by 5 points. In WI, Ryan's home state, he's trailing by 6 points. It seems the people who know Romney and Ryan the best favor Obama/Biden.

Finally, Obama going after Romney and Lying Ryan on the record that Mitt had as governor of Mass. Does the 15% lead that Obama holds over Romney in Romney's home state tell us something? Yes, that despite all his lies the great B Ser's own voters from his home state know him for what he is! A no good flip-flopper that will do anything and say anything to become president!

Obama/Biden 2012

Charlie, While I wish it were 20% behind in Mass. I checked and it was 15% int he latest poll!

OBAMA IN 2012.

Well ain't that interesting not one leftie with a good defense of Obama being a trader who let American patriots, American heroes languish for hours. He watched them get massacred and did nothing to help them!

WHAT A COWARDLY DISGRACE WE HAVE FOR A PPRESIDENT!

There are lots of crazy people posting ridiculous nonsense about the president. The best way to handle people like that, including you, is to ignore them.

Your account of the events in Benghazi is an obvious, pathetic fabrication intended to politicize the tragic deaths of Americans in service to our country, an account much like that of Mr. Romney himself, who tried to make political points even before the bodies were cold.

His behavior, and yours, are reprehensible and unworthy of any further response, much less a defense.

You should be ashamed of yourself. But I'm sure you'll continue to just say anything it might take to win, because you won't because, again like Mr. Romney, you apparently have no moral compass whatsoever.

Shame on you.

Coming from someone who hasn't been f@cked hard in ages, without having to pay for it!--Feisty #1.29

You do realize that it takes away all credibility, when you make claims of someone ELSE being banned, and then make these types of comments. What this shows me is the complete ineptitude of the 'moderators' on this site. I understand politics are a hot button issue, and I like coming on here and having a good debate...but then I see comments like these go unchallenged, while people who disagree with the left are being banned, deleted or suspended for far less.

Feisty, I have been on this site for the better part of four years and I have seen many people bait you, and watch you do the same. Most of the time there is a valid argument behind your posts, but this is simply a personal attack. For the record, I have also NEVER seen you come even close to condemning a Democrat for any action. OK, off of my soapbox.

What I find very frustrating is no one is picking up the Libya story. Sept 11 wasnt the first attack here. Going from the Ambassador's personal journals, it states multiple attacks...and multiple requests for increased security over the previous few months. These were denied...as a matter of fact, Marines were PULLED FROM the area. Mr. President, you can only throw Hillary under the bus so many times...this is YOUR responsibility. If this happened under the Bush administration, there would not be another topic discussed on this site. Bush should be impeached and Condoleeza Rice should be fired. That would be the headlines on every comment.....and I wouldnt disagree. Why is it different with this administration? Or are we trying to wait until AFTER the election? How very convenient.

Does the 15% lead that Obama holds over Romney in Romney's home state tell us something?

Of course it does. Does the Salt Lake City Tribune's endorsement of Obama tell us something? Does the fact that Michigan is leaning Democratic tell us something?

Wherever the people actually know Mr. Romney the best, he's losing.

Romney will lose Massachusetts, what is that telling you, the guy is a Loser !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

.... YOU WANT TO BLAME OBAMA FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST? Not to discount the American loss of those four men killed ... May God bless them and their families ....

THIS IS WHAT BUSH DID or DIDN'T DO ON AMERICAN SOIL ....

What Bush Knew Before Sept.11

"We were trying to figure out what they (al Qaeda) would do. We never had specifics about time, place, MO (method of operation)."
U.S. intelligence official, commenting anonymously.

President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.

CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown
into buildings.

An agent in the FBI's Arizona office did, however, speculate about that, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.

It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, he did not receive information suggesting that airplanes might be used as suicide bombs, as they were on Sept. 11.

Fleischer emphasizes that "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that as a possibility."

The revelation about the president's security briefing comes as House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators prepare for public hearings beginning next month on whether an intelligence community which spends $30 billion a year should have been able to provide a more specific warning in advance of Sept. 11.

The New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.

Investigators have since Sept. 11 suspected bin Laden's al Qaeda network of masterminding the terror attacks on America, which killed more than 3,000 people.

Republicans don't want to see the bigger picture .... the middle east has been at war since forever ... the attacks on the embassy happened in the middle east .... Bush was for-warned too ... and did nothing and they attacked us AMERICAN SOIL .... HUGE DIFFERENCE .....

MIDDLE EAST - 4 KILLED

AMERICAN SOIL - 3000 KILLED .... YES REPUBLICANS EXPLAIN THAT ONE .....

MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA .... AND AMERICA VOTE FOR OBAMA 2012

"HALLOWEEN" RobMeHood & RyRand are dressing up as "CLOWNS" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ONTOR: End America's endless Obama depression

Sorry punkin. All your little one-line quips add up to NOTHING. This Bush Recession was caused by Dumbya and the GOP. We're sorry that Obama couldn't reverse your 8-year-long calamity in only 4 years, but at least he's made progress. It does take longer to rebuild than it does to destroy, and at least we're rebuilding under Obama, instead of destroying -- which is all Dumbya and the GOP did.

Much better than returning to the GOP Policies which brought us to our knees.

Wherever the people actually know Mr. Romney the best, he's losing.

That does tell you something. Even the Salt Lake Tribune panned Mitt and His Magic Underwear, and actually endorsed Obama... and this is after years of supporting Romney! Read the article!!

They call Romney out on EVERYTHING. Open your eyes, folks! Some of you decided to stupidly follow a WHACKADOO CULTIST -- you still have time to pull your head out! READ THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE'S ENDORSEMENT -- READ WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT ROMNEY! They know him a LOT BETTER than any of you do!

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/55019844-82/endorsement-obama-president-romney.html.csp

Seriously, folks, have the courage to read every word of the Slat Lake Tribune's endorsement, and read everything they bring up about Romney:

Sadly, it is not the only Romney, as his campaign for the White House has made abundantly clear, first in his servile courtship of the tea party in order to win the nomination, and now as the party’s shape-shifting nominee. From his embrace of the party’s radical right wing, to subsequent portrayals of himself as a moderate champion of the middle class, Romney has raised the most frequently asked question of the campaign: "Who is this guy, really, and what in the world does he truly believe?"

The evidence suggests no clear answer, or at least one that would survive Romney’s next speech or sound bite. Politicians routinely tailor their words to suit an audience. Romney, though, is shameless, lavishing vastly diverse audiences with words, any words, they would trade their votes to hear.

More troubling, Romney has repeatedly refused to share specifics of his radical plan to simultaneously reduce the debt, get rid of Obamacare (or, as he now says, only part of it), make a voucher program of Medicare, slash taxes and spending, and thereby create millions of new jobs. To claim, as Romney does, that he would offset his tax and spending cuts (except for billions more for the military) by doing away with tax deductions and exemptions is utterly meaningless without identifying which and how many would get the ax. Absent those specifics, his promise of a balanced budget simply does not pencil out.

If this portrait of a Romney willing to say anything to get elected seems harsh, we need only revisit his branding of 47 percent of Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, yet feel victimized and entitled to government assistance. His job, he told a group of wealthy donors, "is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Where, we ask, is the pragmatic, inclusive Romney, the Massachusetts governor who left the state with a model health care plan in place, the Romney who led Utah to Olympic glory? That Romney skedaddled and is nowhere to be found.

And what of the president Romney would replace? For four years, President Barack Obama has attempted, with varying degrees of success, to pull the nation out of its worst financial meltdown since the Great Depression, a deepening crisis he inherited the day he took office.

In the first months of his presidency, Obama acted decisively to stimulate the economy. His leadership was essential to passage of the badly needed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Though Republicans criticize the stimulus for failing to create jobs, it clearly helped stop the hemorrhaging of public sector jobs. The Utah Legislature used hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to plug holes in the state’s budget.

The president also acted wisely to bail out the auto industry, which has since come roaring back. Romney, in so many words, said the carmakers should sink if they can’t swim.

Obama’s most noteworthy achievement, passage of his signature Affordable Care Act, also proved, in its timing, his greatest blunder. The set of comprehensive health insurance reforms aimed at extending health care coverage to all Americans was signed 14 months into his term after a ferocious fight in Congress that sapped the new president’s political capital and destroyed any chance for bipartisan cooperation on the shredded economy.

Obama’s foreign policy record is perhaps his strongest suit, especially compared to Romney’s bellicose posture toward Russia and China and his inflammatory rhetoric regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Obama’s measured reliance on tough economic embargoes to bring Iran to heel, and his equally measured disengagement from the war in Afghanistan, are examples of a nuanced approach to international affairs. The glaring exception, still unfolding, was the administration’s failure to protect the lives of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, and to quickly come clean about it.

In considering which candidate to endorse, The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board had hoped that Romney would exhibit the same talents for organization, pragmatic problem solving and inspired leadership that he displayed here more than a decade ago. Instead, we have watched him morph into a friend of the far right, then tack toward the center with breathtaking aplomb. Through a pair of presidential debates, Romney’s domestic agenda remains bereft of detail and worthy of mistrust.

Therefore, our endorsement must go to the incumbent, a competent leader who, against tough odds, has guided the country through catastrophe and set a course that, while rocky, is pointing toward a brighter day. The president has earned a second term. Romney, in whatever guise, does not deserve a first.

Romney was a failure as governor of Massachusetts. His record of creating strife and then just leaving is clear to see.

Vetoes don’t scream bipartisanship, and Romney had so many of them that it’s obvious he was on bad terms with the legislators from both parties as Governor. All told, Romney issued 800 vetoes in his one term as Governor. 800. Nearly all of them were overridden – 707 to be exact. Romney doesn’t mention that part in his “I like vetoes” ad.

In fact, Romney didn’t like having to work with Democrats so much that he spent his first two years trying to change the party makeup of the legislature and when those efforts failed, he pulled a Palin. That is to say, he gave up. He was gone – out of state – for 212 days of his last year.

Romney was never around for the last two years of his governorship. A March 2005 poll found that only 32 percent felt Romney should be re-elected if he ran for a second term as governor. It got worse. In 2006, Romney spent 212 days out of state, campaigning.

Romney's 800 Vetoes Shatter His Bipartisan Myth

Actually, Romney's Massachusetts record was pretty decent, and even many democrats there agreed. However, leave it to a desperate Obama to find something to distort and a willing nbc to spread the propaganda.

As expected, the Obama zombies will insist otherwise.

I do not see how issuing over 800 vetoes squares with Romney's claim of working BOTH sides of the aisle.

If you flip a coin and vote...

...you'll be making a smarter decision than the voters of only one party.

"What my attitude on this is is if we find out there was a big breakdown and somebody didn't do their job, they'll be held accountable. Ultimately as Commander-in-Chief I am responsible and I don't shy away from that responsibility."

So Mr. President, since you and/or Panetta denied requested help from dying men, exactly when will you be held accountable and take responsibility?

The Obama campaign abandoned the failed "Kill Romney" campaign months ago, because it failed to disqualify him. I find it telling of the sheer desperation of the campaign they now resume the failed "Kill Romney" theme.

Axelrod and Plouffe are completely out of ideas and are now recycling rhetoric that failed months ago. Frankly, I hope they keep it up and throw in binders and Big Bird.

BTW..Mass had an unemplyment rate of 4.8% when Romney left office, a stat Obama would kill for. Obviously, job creation was a moot point.

In May, 2012, Tunisian cleric Mokhtar Jebali led a demonstration in Tunis at which thousands of Tunisian fanatics chanted "Obama, Obama, we are all Osama". During that speech, Jebali repeatedly referred to the United States President as "Obama the Ape".

In June, 2012, Mokhtar Jebali was again leading a demonstration in Tunis. This time he was ranting about an anti-Islamic video. The thing is that IT WAS A DIFFERENT VIDEO THAN THE ONE ULTIMATELY USED AS A PRETEXT FOR THE SUBSEQUENT SEPTEMBER 11 VIOLENCE. The video that Jebali was condemning at that rally was made by someone named Jalel Brick, and it may be that this video was ultimately unsuitable for Jebali's purposes because Jalel Brick does not have any connection to the United States.

If I could come up with the above information with a few key-strokes of my computer (as anybody else can, if really interested in these facts) why did the Obama administration persist with the insane Youtube video pretext for weeks? The only explanation is that the Youtube video explanation fits in with Obama's sadly distorted perception of reality. Information is coming out now that those Americans who perished in Benghazi had desperately requested support that could have saved their lives and instead they were ordered to "stand down". Obama now claims that he issued the order to support those individuals, yet this obviously was not done. Either there's a serious incompetence that prevented this presidential "order" from being carried out, or (much more likely) Obama is now lying about having issued such an order. Americans have a right to know about this terrible scandal within the Obama administration BEFORE the presidential election. The reason why no truthful answers are forthcoming from the Obama administration is because they know that if the truth were revealed, the majority of Americans would be utterly disgusted with Obama, just for the handling of this matter alone and for the Obama administration's shameful attempt to mislead the American people on this matter.

For the first few weeks following the Benghazi terrorist attack, the Obama administration confidently stated over and over and over that it was about a Youtube video. Consider the fact that the so-called "protest" against the video did not coincide with the appearance of this video. Not only had this particular ridiculously-produced video had been on Youtube for months prior to the fateful September 11 attack, if you really care to know, you may discover that at any given time there are myriad such videos on Youtube, and have been for years. Not only was the Youtube video "explanation" ridiculous, if you think about its use by both the Muslim radicals AND the Obama administration, you realize that this is a case of the Muslim terrorists having purposely searched Youtube for such a video PRIOR to their act of terror for the express purpose of catering to a bizarre psychological weakness that these terrorists shrewdly detect in the President of the United States. Furthermore, if you look into what it was that the mobs of "protestors" were shouting at American embassies throughout the Muslim Middle East on and following September 11, 2012, it was "Obama, Obama, we are all Osama".

The anti-American violence in the Muslim world is tragically facilitated by Obama's psychology. For whatever reason, Barack Obama feels an unnatural compulsion to protect Islam from perceived "insults". We saw this in his attempts to intercede on behalf of the planners of the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" near the site of what was the World Trade Center, and we see it in the many comments he has made to the Islamic world and to Americans. Unfortunately, those Islamic leaders intent on harming us are smarter than we generally think they are, and they have shrewdly developed strategies to utilize Obama's emotional vulnerability for this purpose, thus they invented the Youtube video pretext specifically to appeal to Obama's vulnerability and Obama himself is unfortunately only too eager to be played in this manner. The denial of necessary security to the Benghazi compound is directly related to this "Obama Doctrine", which is intent on convincing the world that America trusts the good intentions of Islam. In the process of fulfilling his distortions of the intentions of Islamic leaders in places like Libya, Tunisia, Mali, Egypt, Obama is willing to blatantly lie to the American people about what really happened in Benghazi. This is a cover-up of frightening proportions.

There's no doubt in my mind that Obama is doing this because he has the good intentions of promoting one of the world's major religions (Islam) as benevolent. He himself is not a Muslim, but he has this psychological need. In the process of acting upon his "good intentions", his doctrine makes Americans vulnerable, and he mounts a bizarre cover-up to the September 11 Islamic celebratory attacks against Americans. We haven't seen even the tip of the iceberg on this. If the "Obama Doctrine" is successful, Iran could (God forbid) be celebrating future September 11's in an even bigger way.

I do not see how issuing over 800 vetoes squares with Romney's claim of working BOTH sides of the aisle.

Mr. Romney's statements are not intended to be factually accurate.

None of them are.

If this is true then everyone in that room is responsible for the murder of these four Americas and should be prosecuted.

Lt. Col. Tony Schafer told Fox News that sources were telling him that the President was watching the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in real-time. Schafer told Fox that "only the President" could have ordered backup for the Americans who were under siege by terrorists so the President was most certainly informed of the situation as it was unfolding. "I hate to say this," Schafer said, "according to my sources, yes, [the President] was one of those in the White House situation room in real-time watching this. And the question becomes, 'What did the President do or not do in the moments he saw this unveiling?' He -- only he -- could issue a directive to Secretary of Defense Panetta to do something."

And as we speak Romneys vulture business Bain Capitol which he is still a huge shareholder is dismantling and shipping American jobs from a profitable U.S. company(Sensata) to China. Romney is the most ruthless and despicable type of business man in our country and the right wants him to be our president. I hope all you conservatives are willing to move to China if you still want your job.

On the day before an election that's supposed to hinge on jobs, taxes and the middle class, Bain Capital, the company Mitt Romney founded, will close the doors of a factory in Freeport, Illinois, and ship 170 good, high-tech jobs to China.

The employees of Sensata Technologies were forced to train their Chinese replacements, and the American flag that long flew over the factory was reportedly removed while the Chinese engineers were visiting the site. A group of workers have set up camp across from the factory -- calling it “Bainport” -- and some supporters have tried to block the trucks hauling equipment out of the plant. According to Dave Johnson, there have been several arrests.

Sensata workers have asked to meet with Mitt Romney and hoped to enlist his help keeping their jobs in the United States, but he has refused, instead remaining on the campaign trail where he speaks often about “getting tough” with China.

The most important part of the story is that Sensata Technologies is profitable operating in Illinois. Net income last year was $355 million, up 16 percent from 2010. The company reported total revenues of $1.8 billion in 2011, up almost 19 percent from the year before. According to a company financial statement, “both 2011 net revenue and adjusted net income represent record levels for the company.”

So this has nothing to do with “making hard choices” in the process of turning around a failing business, which is how the Romney campaign describes Bain's corporate raiding. Bain's partners are looking for a modest boost in profits by locating the plant closer to the booming Asian automotive market (Sensata makes high-tech automotive parts). They'll get a small tax break for relocating the plant – the one Mitt Romney insisted did not exist during the first debate – and possibly defer taxes on some of the income the company generates.

Jerry!

You believe FOX News? LOL!

Sure the President has live feed to all our consulates at all times and just sits there waiting for events to take place. I'm waiting for FOX News, with its "Fair and Balanced" reporting to blame Hurricane Sandy on Obama's visits to Florida! LOL!

The faithful will be beating the Benghazi drums for years to come. They view the attack as a wonderful gift to them. The prize at the bottom of the Cracker Jack box. President Obama's Waterloo. Romney's ticket to the White-house.

They feel cheated that Romey's underhanded attempt to capitalize on an American tragedy proved fruitless and even damaging. These cold-hearted people care nothing for the victims and families except as pawns to further their favored political agenda.

The Trolls are,

Robbarlowinma, 26 Oct, 2012

Ontor, Sept 30, 2012

obamasuckit, 27 Oct, 2012

magictonickillsbraincells, 17 Sept, 2012

Agreed, commonsense. They have been nothing short of gleeful about the whole horrible thing. The right thing to do would be to ignore them completely, without exception; they are sad, hateful attention seekers who fancy themselves "patriots", when in truth they are a disgrace to all Americans.

Yes, I see the Romney ad. saying he worked bi-partisan with Democrats in Mass. to get things done and then I read he also used his veto over 800 times. This is what we will get if this madman gets in!

Obama/ Biden 2012

...and if/when Obama gets reelected and things don't turn around like all you hopefuls believe it will where then will be your savior? People complained at a fever pitch the past four years and now at election time he's elevated as some innocent hero who's supposedly been trying to 'right' many 'wrongs'.

Keep your expectations in check because there is no glittery gold answer, whichever way you vote. The real answer will be in the results but, then, hindsight is always 20-20

Consumer spending up in September again. Things are changing for the better after bush tried to destroy our banking and financial system Obama has shown 36 months of improvement in Jobs, finance, lower foreclosure rates, stimulating jobs that have kept unemployment down now below 7.8% and God knows how high it would have been without the successful Stimulus!

Jerry....very informative post!!!. ..the Trolls for obama will not look into facts!!.. Just spew their sewage!!

obama calls on the Seals to get osama...mission done!!

The Seals call on obama to save the embassy in Benghazi...No you can NOT!!!!..Stand Down!!

Shameful& disgraceful upon the commander -in-chief!!!

Why would any decent American not vote for Romney/Ryan? Those who had any negative thoughts towards Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were the victims of the extensive negative Democrat's propaganda that attempted to demonize these very fine individuals before Americans had had an opportunity to get to know them. Once Americans had an opportunity to see Mitt Romney at the first presidential debate, the game changed considerably, because many Americans saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears and resolved with their own minds that Mitt Romney is an extremely decent individual, not anything like what the Obama propaganda machine had attempted to present to the American public. Anybody who still does not believe in the extreme decency, sincerity and deep concern for the well-being of America's future that Mitt Romney possesses, should take a better look and learn to form their own opinion instead of mindlessly repeating the malicious propaganda issued by lowlives like David Axelrod.

Wow...I never realized that right-wing "dark money" was sponsoring so many online trolls.

Now, if some of them could only learn to spell, actually use the correct word instead of one that just sounds like the one they want, or employ English grammar the way it was intended, some of us might feel like they've really earned that minimum wage allowance they're getting. Or are they even getting that?

But then, who really cares?

Anybody who still does not believe in the extreme decency, sincerity and deep concern for the well-being of America's future that Mitt Romney possesses, should take a better look and learn to form their own opinion. instead of mindlessly repeating the malicious propaganda issued by lowlives like David Axelrod.

Well, someone needs to clue you in...that's exactly what's happened. Mitt has been "looked" at, measured, and in the eyes and minds of many, found to be lacking...severely. But your cheerleader act is really cute.

You want to list "lowlifes repeating malicious propaganda"? Ok, let's play...does the name "John Sununu" ring any bells? How about Donald Trump? Sarah Palin? Ann Coulter? Rush Limbaugh? Sean Hannity? Bill O'Reilly? Joe Walsh? Alan West? Todd Akins? Richard Mourdock? Just about everyone who appears on Fox touting the latest conspiracy theory?

Yeah, well, good luck with that tack...unfortunately, your sails are luffing.

"Eyes Wide Open-733457",

Clarify what you mean by "right-wing 'dark money'" in relation to my post, please. I have much more to explain to anybody reading this about your assumptions, but I'll do that after you clarify what you mean by "right-wing 'dark money'" in relation to my post.

Ahad...

My response "in relation to your post" begins with your quote.

No more...no less. Is that sufficiently clear for you now?

But do go on with your "explanations"...they should be entertaining if nothing else.