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ST. PAUL, Minn. – Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan visited an unexpected state just one week before Election Day: the traditionally Democratic-leaning Minnesota.
Although the Romney campaign was taking a break from campaigning because Superstorm Sandy – which wreaked havoc Monday along the Eastern seaboard, Ryan made two “stops” in the Twin Cities – an apparent nod that the GOP is trying to put Minnesota in play.
The Wisconsin congressman first landed at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Tuesday afternoon, walking down the steps past the press with his wife Janna.
This quick photo opportunity for locals came as Ryan headed just across the border into Wisconsin to thank volunteers at the Hudson, Wis. Victory Center for gathering donations for hurricane victims.
“I just want to thank you all for coming together and helping put this effort together. This kind of effort is happening at victory centers around the country,” Ryan told the crowd standing amongst nonperishable foods.
Noting the mere seven days before the election, Ryan added: “I also want to thank you for helping us in this election, for working at these victory centers.”
Alex Moe / NBC News
Paul Ryan stopped by the Hudson, Wis. Victory Center on Tuesday.
Ryan, joined by his wife, brother and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus among others, stopped to grab dinner in downtown St. Paul before boarding a flight to fly back to Wisconsin – giving the press another opportunity to capture the GOP VP nominee in the state of Minnesota which awards 10 electoral votes.
"Hi guys, how are you doing?" Ryan said as he walked into O'Gara's Bar and Grill and took a seat next to his wife and other dinner guests.
President Barack Obama won Minnesota in 2008, but Romney and Ryan have not paid much attention to the state until the past several days. Many believe the GOP ticket may be trying to make inroads in Minnesota and Pennsylvania at the last minute to help Romney’s path to victory on Nov. 6.
The Democrats dispatched former President Bill Clinton to Minnesota on Tuesday – possibly acknowledging that the state could be in play next week.
"I have worked very hard in this election and I'm not running for anything," Clinton said Tuesday at the McNamara Alumni Center at the University of Minnesota, according to Minnesota Public Radio. "And that's because, notwithstanding what Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan say, I am more enthusiastic about President Barack Obama than when I campaigned for him four years ago."
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So why are they calling it a victory center? What the hell is that all about?
Maybe it's the old "Mission Accomplished" bravado?
But seriously, beyond the rallies disguised as hurricane donation efforts, Romney refuses to answer reporters questions about whether he (Romney) would really end FEMA. Well of course he'd end it!
Remember paying your doctor with chickens? These plutocrats are peddling privatization of everything so they can profit from it. Just because the private sector does the work, it doesn't mean the work isn't still being paid for with your tax dollars.
And leaving everything to bankrupt states is the same as ending assistance, and they dang well know it. Remember, we're supposed to pay for all this by having bake sales at our local churches. Greedy self-serving 1%ers -- that's all Romney/Ryan are -- they aren't in it for you.
Hmmm, Minnesota, the one and only state that Walter Mondale won in the 1984 election against Ronald Reagan.
Maybe Lyin' Ryan was looking for some already-cleaned pots to wash for a photo opp.
or maybe he thinks he & Myth Robme are so delusional they think they have a chance to win in Minn! LOL!
Nate Silver's 538 blog says . . .
President Obama will will Minn - 97.3% likely
President Obama also has an 86% chance of taking Lyin' Ryan's home state of Wisc;
Also,
The President's chances of winning in OH are 73% . . .
and his chances of winning in VA: 58% . . .
Colo: 56% . . . .
Nev: 80% . . .
and he has a 73% liklihood of winning 295 Electoral College votes . . .
and a 69% chance of winning the popular vote.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
Nate Silver is accurate because he aggregates ALL the polls, and is more interested in being CORRECT, than he is interested in any candidate winning. His reputation depends on ACCURACY.
VOTE DEM! O & Joe, 2012; Myth Robme, 1040's (we KNOW he lied on his Mass taxes, and he probably lied on his Fed taxes)
Can you imagine NY coming up with 40 Billion on it's own?
Can you imagine La. having to deal with Katrina on its on? Oh, that's right, FEMA was so screwed up at the time under the Repubican leadership, they did have to go it alone for a long while....
O&Joe 2012
I saw Ryan's name in the article's title. We all know what that means:
Liberal Spam Fest Ahoy!
They get scared every time the news mentions an article about Ryan or Romney campaigning.
EXACTLY! JM&J! do these two EVER stop doing things for publicity when they said they would work for the people and stop campaigning?
Obama/Biden 2012
Just as in 1972, we are seeing a President and his minions engage in the classic 3D defense (Deny, Denigrate, Demand proof) when caught in the lie that will bring him down. Just as in 1972 it will not work! Deny that anything happened. Denigrate the person posting the facts. Demand proof of every little detail to drown the discussion in minutiae. It will not work!
The tide of evidence is rising and sooner or later it will drown Obama just as Nixon was drowned early in his second term.
I pray Obama doesn't win reelection. At least Nixon had the grace to resign. I don't think Obama does.
All of Obama's failures get the same left wing makeovers "it wasn't his fault" "the Republicans were mean to him" "Bush did it first" "he never really said he would do that" "here is something he accomplished" ... Scrape away all the excuses and the facts are still there:
On every single day of Bush's presidency, there were more people going to their jobs than on any day of Obama's presidency.
Obama has been a fumbling amateur in foreign policy, reversing himself repeatedly, supporting our enemies and disrespecting our friends.
The list of his failures is long, but what will bring him down is the fact that Obama knew it was a terrorist attack on our consulate. Had he told the truth at the time, he would have been admitting that he had committed a huge error in judgment not to grant the consulate's security request on the anniversary of 9/11. To prevent that, Obama deliberately mischaracterized the attack as a “spontaneous demonstration.” And now his lie and his incompetence are exposed!
He may thrash around like a hooked catfish. He may even be reelected. But he will eventually be brought to justice.
Kannin,
Shut up.
You're a smart poster and the drivel above ... just that ... drivel.
Obama/Biden 2012
Uh, Layton? Somebody elect you Mayor of this site? Who the heck are you to tell anybody to shut up?
Listen my friends
And you will see,
What King Obama
Has done to you and me.
On January twentieth
Two thousand and nine,
He took control
We started our decline
.
With record unemployment
And people forlorn,
Our tax money spent
Poverty the Norm.
With free phones for some
And EBT cards too,
The lazy ones come
Freebies from me and you.
On November the sixth
Two thousand and twelve,
You must go vote
Or were going to hell.
The country deserves better
Than the King and Moochele
,America must survive
And ring the liberty bell.
John D. USN 71-77
*****Correction***** from my post @ 1.4 . . .
Nate has just updated his #'s, and so I will too! :-)
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President Obama will will Minn - now 97.9% likely
President Obama also now has an 88% chance of taking Lyin' Ryan's home state of Wisc;
Also,
The President's chances of winning in OH are now 78% . . .
and his chances of winning in VA: 62% . . .
Colo: 61% . . . .
Nev: 83% . . .
and he has a 77.4% likelihood of winning 299 Electoral College votes . . .
and a 74.5% chance of winning the popular vote.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
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But, don't get complacent, Dem's!
VOTE O & Joe, 2012; Myth Robme, 1040's (we KNOW he lied on his Mass taxes, and he probably lied on his Fed taxes, too!)
Ambassador Stevens believed strongly that an attack was likely, and made multiple unambiguous requests for additional security in Libya.
In June 2012, the Consulate in Benghazi, Libya was damaged by an improvised explosive device. Stevens reported to his superiors that an Islamist group (Ansar al-Shariah?) had claimed credit for the attack. Shortly after that a British Embassy convoy in Benghazi was also attacked. And again, Ambassador Stevens requested more security forces for Benghazi.
Karen Keshap and Shawn P. Crowley, State Department employees, as well as Eric Nordstrom the State Department's Regional Security Officer, all made multiple complaints about the inadequate security in Benghazi. Crowley, had even apologized in an email for "being a broken record" on the subject of inadequate security in Benghazi.
In response to all these requests, the Obama Administration refused to increase security at the US Consulate in Benghazi, at all.
On the morning of September 11, Ambassador Stevens signed a three-page cable, labeled "sensitive," in which he noted "growing problems with security" in Benghazi. As before, he was ignored.
As a direct result of Obama's arrogance and incompetence, four Americans died! And now he is engaged in the most frantic coverup since Watergate.
Don't worry Kannin,
It's the usual left noise... I see that they still practice being a BULLY. Hate to break this to you, Layton, but this is free speech... If Obama has his way he would like to sweep this under the rug and have America forget about this little "bump in the road"... Sorry...Barry doesn't get off that easily...
And now, instead of repeating the Axelrod designed response about being affronted by even being asked the questions- Obama will respond that he is busy restraining power lines, sweeping sand, and otherwise engaging in hurricane recovery efforts- so he cannot, possibly, answer questions about his lies about Bwnghazi.
True story- today, Obama got himself invited to a conference call with mayors, governors, and utility executives. Obama's contribution?
He told the utility executives that he wanted them to "prioritize" getting the power back on.
Now, I'm sure the utility executives were just stunned at his brilliance- why didn't they think of that! Get the power back on- what a great idea!
Meanwhile, thousands of travelers stuck at Newark Airport are going to be stuck yet another day- my flight got cancelled because Obama wants to see the aftermath of the hurricane in person.
Funny, is it not- he wasn't in such a rush to see the aftermath of Isaac. Then again, it wasn't that close to the election. Too bad I will not be at the terminal. If given the chance, I'd ask why he sent his minions out to lie about a video being to blame for the Libya attacks; when he told me he was "affronted", I'd say, "thank you for sharing. Now, answer the question".
no jo ...
I can post what I will Miss invite the world to the naked tattoo fest. Get over yourself.
I own my posts ... do you???????
Kannin and I have had actual discussions in the past ... without your snarky bs in the middle. I respect his posts. Yours .....
Why don't you post that link again to your "festanaked" again??????
And don't go all "you don't have a tat" crap.
Obama/Biden 2012
no jo,
You have to forgive the left...they are getting desperate and becoming unhinged. They are only showing their true colors by bullying people that don't agree with them.
We can't vote for Obama, the plutocrats might have to give up thier jets! Oh no!
Kannin, bla bla bla bla bla
Obama/Biden
JK1963 ...
Not unhinged. Not at all and there is no bullying in my statement. Small-minded people call those that step on a gnat a bully. The rest of the world call it thankful. No gnats in my statement other than those that fly around outside. You and no jo, live in a world of total hatred and can't accept the fact that you are totally blessed by living in the United States. Your hatred of your President is something that you can thank this country for. People have fought and died for your ability to post your angst against your Commander in Chief. You both take it for granted. Malala Yousafzai would so LOVE to have the freedoms that you both enjoy.
I embrace and love my country.
You two ... better get on your knees and thank God that having a book and seeking knowledge is something you are entitled to under our Constitution.
Enjoy your snarkiness. I hope your knees don't get stuck to the floor of the gummy gross theatre you're both in.
Obama/Biden 2012
Bullies only succeed when one allows them.
I don't.
Layton,
With every post you prove exactly why the vast majority of Americans loath people like you. Telling someone to shut up is just another form being a bully. It's really a shame that you can't see that. Perhaps you were raised in an abusive household where your parents told you to "shut up" and you thought that was the norm in society. I do feel sad for you because you walk around with blinders on and foolishly believe every word the President says.
And I've had loved ones and friends that have died for this country and know all too well the sacrifices they made for our country. It's people like you that like to hide behind the flag and hide behind those very rights like some spoiled child thinking that you are "entitled" to them, rather than for fighting (and dying) for them.
Perhaps someday you will actually grow up, and appreciate those that sacrificed their lives. It's too bad that the families of the four that died in Libya couldn't say that they died for a nobel cause, only that they died because their Commander in Chief let them down...
Ryan is widely despised in Wisconsin so he's running up to pander to the Vikings!
no joe as long as your the bullie then that's ok ha
were is there Obama lied and people died crap at I neveget tied of that crap
you republicans dont have a leg to stand on!
Doesn't it say SOMETHING that Romney is within the margin of error in a blue state like Minnesota???? I'd be worried Democrats. Very worried.
That's if they have Romney voting machines in Minnesota
And I thought the "Birthers" were complete losers.
They are worried. Why do you think they spam every article that mentions Romney's campaign. Just pointing out the pattern I've noticed (I don't care if it pisses of the spammers when I do.)
I like how they run around calling other people stupid, yet at the same time post nothing but lies, insults, childish nick names like "Romnesia", and reply to their own comments when they are ignored. Sigh.... I'll be happy when Romney finally gets elected. Hopefully the spamming will die down, and some sanity will be brought to this nation.
That's if they have Romney voting machines in Minnesota
They already have their defense prepared when Obama loses.
If the President wins its "The will of the People." If Romeny wins "HE CHEATED!" Man. Liberals, please stop claiming you have the monopoly on intelligence when you post garbage like this.
Two words: Cognitive dissonance.
and wishful thinking!!!
O'Gara's Bar and Grill is not in downtown. It's actually the bar that Charles Shultz lived above as a kid. It's an icon of St. Paul and the best place to be on St. Patrick's Day. It's working stiffs and yuppies (do we still use that word?) who go there for ice cold beer.
O'Gara's Bar and Grill is surrounded by mom and pop shops and businesses. Aside from the Starbucks across the street there isn't a corporate chain in site, just small businesses who have struggled the past four years. But who indeed did 'build that'.
'Ryan visited an unexpected state just one week before Election Day: the traditionally Democratic-leaning Minnesota'
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so it's a Blitzkrieg?? or just as unexpected as Frankenstorm Sandy: either way it's not pretty
40 empty chairs.....the voting machines LIE has already been debunked by Snopes.com....but keep repeating a lie enough, and it could become fact.....More liberal propaganda
http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/votingmachines.asp
To those who insist on believing the polls and Nate Silvers' Electoral Projections.
The Obama campaign responded to Republican claims that romeny was doing well in the swing states.
The Obama campaign correctly states that the early vote in Obama won counties are up and some republican counties up but not so much. This is correct if you view thing form 30,000 feet.
Republicans came back with analysis based on precincts that showed the Republican precincts were up and the democrat dominated precincts are lower, just as polls have been showing for months that the democrats are not as energized as the republicans.
Then yesterday, Gallup reports that Romney is up 52 - 46 in the early vote. Reports from a number of states are coming in showing that not only are Republicans are ahead of the democrats in early voting, but the number of democrats and republicans now expected to be about equal on election day.
From Florida, the word is that Romney is winning the I-4 Corridor that Obama took in 2008? He who controls I-4 wins Florida.
In Ohio, almost all the polls agree that Romney is up by 19 points amoung independents. In the last 12 years, the winner of Ohio won the independent votes, even if they only got 5% more than their opponent.
I looked at the Quinnipiac polls today. Still using 2008 numbers and then some in favor of the Democrats.
The question I needed answered was would the polling companies moderate so they could say they are accurate, or will they continue down the current path. Quinnipiac answered the question.
My son saw all the Secret Service people in Hudson, Wisconsin yesterday when Lying Ryan was visiting, but he didn't see many people or so called voters there? Is that a good sign?
Before getting to the event, Romney said it was about the relief effort and he wouldn't make any political comments while he was there - that's why he refused to answer political questions.
Can't you people take a break from politics for at least a day when there is a disaster? Both candidates took a break - it's sad that many here and in the press continue to politicize everything in life - even the deaths and misfortunes of others.
If Ryan is in Minnesota, that means it's come into play! Obama's house of cards is collapsing on all sides.
As for Wisconsin, I did not see 1 single person sporting an Obama/Biden pin or sticker at the Packer Game last Sunday, however Romney/Ryan support was everywhere. THAT IS A GREAT SIGN!
All Ryan did was stop and grab a bite to eat in St. Paul. There were no scheduled appearances, Minnesota is not all of the sudden clamoring to the Romney/Ryan Campaign. He was on his way to Hudson, WI. probably because there was nowhere for him to campaign in the battleground states because of Sandy. If a person needs to be a Hudson, WI, you fly into Mpls/St. Paul.
As far as the Packer fan sentiment. Why would anyone expect different from fans that pay $250 a share for the priviledge of shoveling snow from the bleachers of Lambaugh Field for free. Believing the Green Bay Packers organization doesn't make any money, while they wear thier $100 Aaron Rodgers jersey and sip out of the Green Bay Packer Beer Mug.
Hardtostarboard,
Da! Fool! did you ever think that the people sitting around you and paying huge amounts for a ticket to one game of Packers are not the same people trying to put food on their table for their children after losing their jobs when the bushwhacker almost ruined our whole banking system!
Did you read my post that my son saw the Secret Service people for Ryan in Hudson, Wisconsin but few if any voters!
clwyd-...., there are far more Joe-6Packs who attend Packer games than 1%ers. I have a job to do each game-day that exposes me to 10,000's of fans. I'm just relating what I saw, no exaggeration either. That's not to say there were no Obama supporters there, they just weren't displaying it if they were.
Secondly, to place all the blame on Bush for the 2008 financial crisis shows your lac of understanding of how we got into that situation, your unquestioning loyalty to the left, and willingness to believe anything they say as gospel. Democrats had as big, even bigger role in causing the problems we're trying to recover from now.
Maybe he and Marcus Bachmann can call Larry Craig over from Idaho or wherever he's living for some quality male bonding time.
LOL thats a funny one. Craig is living in ID and is still trying to have his conviction overturned.
Ryan had to sneak back into his home state?
Ryan's from Jaynesville, Wisconsin....not Minnesota.
True---Ya think so? Wisconsin will push Romney and Ryan over the top. Obama is going back to Chicago.
Not if Florida flips because of Romney's ridiculous stance on FEMA. It's down to 1.3% and falling daily.
MSNB--------Maybe.
There is no such place as "Jaynesville."
Tack,
Okay, you got me.....it's spelled Janesville, just as boring as the town itself, I'm sure.
Jaynesville looks better, though.
I'm in FL, and I'll be very surprised if Obama wins here. It's possible, but I don't think it's likely. Just doing the yard sign survey, in 2008 there were tons of Obama signs and almost none for McCain. Now there are as many or more Romney signs (although not a ton of either) - and I live in a heavily Democratic area.
clinton and bidon where there also...hmmm..why I wonder???
Typical Axelrod....when you have victory within grasp, counter your opponents every move, no matter where they go or why.
Spell much?
OMG = Obama Must Go
OMG = Obama Must Go
Yep! Go right back to the White house for 4 more years.....
O&Joe 2012
Why did Obama let Chris Stevens die?
Why did Obama let Chris Stevens die?
For the same reason Romney let that guys wife die, who worked for the company that was takenover by Bain Capital, you stupid Douche bag. .
Hey GT.....Seven years later. It doesnt take much to hoodwink you. You actually believe that.?
No I don't believe it, I was making the point that Obama didn't let anybody die any more than Romney did...But the fact that you took me serious only shows me the "Low info" voter I'm dealing with....
O&Joe 2012
GT----Youre darn right I take this seriously. It is serious! Obama watched the Benghazi attack for seven hours while Tyrone Woods plead for authorization to go in and help the Ambassador. Tyrone lost his life doing what he knew to be right. Wheres the Commander n Chief?
PS. The lady that died from cancer had her own medical insurance. Why didnt she use it?
usunderattack: you should take the situation seriously and you should take just as seriously the fact that you are apreading false and misleading information formulated and begun by Mitt Romney.
The New York Times reported in an Oct. 14 article, “Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster.”
Stevens may have been in Benghazi meeting with Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin to oversee, negotiate, or inspect an ongoing covert CIA operation to supply weapons to the counter-Assad fighters.
Obama has always shown great enthusiasm for supporting all the Muslim Brotherhood “uprisings” in Egypt, Libya and now Syria. I think that the information in the consulate and in Chris Stevens' head posed a significant political danger to Obama. This may have been information on kickbacks to Obama's numbered bank accounts, or simply his ideological preference for Muslim jihad.
In short, it seems President Obama has been engaged in gun-walking on a massive scale. The effect has been to equip America’s enemies to wage jihad not only against regimes it once claimed were our friends, but inevitably against us and our allies as well. That would explain his administration’s desperate and now failing bid to mislead the voters through the serial lies, stonewalling, and deflections.
Time...Not true! I didnt hear this from Romney. The info comes from legitimate emails and former generals who are in the loop. No disinformation here.
The info comes from legitimate emails and former generals who are in the loop. No disinformation here.
Chain-mails! LOL!!!
No, you would rather my son got to Lybia and die! right?
There is no such place as "Lybia."
Are "legitimate e-mails" like "legitimate rape"?
The President did not let him die.
It will all be over soon and these Righties will climb back into their cages and caves!
Nothing was going to stand in his way of campaigning and movie star parties.
With that bunch showing up, I hope everyone kept their hands on their wallets!
From the great state Minnesota that gave us the great liberal Humphrey. I think not romney/ryan Minnesota is to smart! Obama/Biden 2012!!!!!!!!!! vulture/crying 1040's??????????
Hubert Humphrey was a conservative.
Hubert Humphrey.. Lyndon Johnson's right-hand man during his Excellent Adventure (a.k.a. Vietnam).
Ground Crew. Hubert Humphrey served as vice president under Lyndon Johnson. I know school and history was tough. JFK> Lyndon Johnson> Hubert Humphrey. All Liberal Democrats. Duhhh/
Following the attack on the US Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi, administration spokespersons, including White House spokesman Jay Carney, maintained for two weeks that the attacks likely were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film. They offered no evidence to support that contention. Not the slightest shred of evidence indicated a spontaneous protest The attack started in late evening and went on to 4 in the morning. Not a single report or photograph indicated protestors with the usual crude signs. Just well armed terrorists with heavy weapons.
And yet Obama and his Administration continued to insist it was a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film. They fabricated that story out of thin air just to cover up the fact that Obama had made a catastrophic error so serious that it borders on treason.
And yet conflicting reports are still coming in! Really, do you intend to join the treasonous drumbeat of Romney and become just another in a mass of those who no idea of what they are saying and less regard for the truth and yet say it anyway. You want to be just one more MittHead?
Yep, but the reports only conflict with Obama's lies. They are entirely consistent with the information available on Sept 11, 2012. For example: On October 17 The New York Times reported that "Libyan authorities have singled out Ahmed Abu Khattala, a leader of the Benghazi-based Islamist group Ansar al-Shariah, or "Partisans of Islamic Law," as a commander in the attack." This confirmed the unclassified email that Obama had received just two hours into the attack on September 11.
I'm sorry to insert truth into your lie bubble. I can see that you are only intent on believing what is convenient for you in order to maintain your world view. Not going to let truth disuade you? You could be working for the Romney campaign.
What "truth" TFT? Do you deny that our consulate was attacked by heavily armed terrorists?
Truth,
The only thing that is convenient is that you choose to believe the Liar-in-Chief. And it's been a month already...please you can't possibly believe that it would take this long to complete an investigation? The only thing that is going on is a coverup by the Obama administration....
Try focusing on other more important issues... It is very disrepectful to call the President of the United States a lier! What earth did you come from?? You must be one of those people that did not graduate from high school. Are you one of the 49%?? If Romney is President your welfare check will stop...so find a job and get off your ass.
Don't you have more important things to talk about???
Why do you Republicans have names like freedom fighter or indpendent thought or time for truth does that make true if you have these name LOL
O by the way I havent heard Obama lied and people died for 5mins you guys must be slipping like there were millions people died you guys take the cake
Your just jeolous that Obama got Ben and the Iraq war really accomplished great job Obama
Obama 2012
Lots of conjecture, very few facts at this point. In the meantime, the "timeline" is being completed by the paranoid conspiracy theorists who've whipped themselves into a lather of righteous indignation. @Kannin and JK1963, the Benghazi attack is being investigated by a bi-partisan committee and the truth will come out when all of the facts are known. It takes time to assemble information, and to jump the gun (like you guys seem to want to do) does a disservice to ALL involved, from our Ambassador up to and including the American people.
You guys are being played by Murdoch and the Fox News clowns. There was and is no "cover-up" and we are all interested in the FACTS. Both SOS Clinton and President Obama have accepted blame for how the information was interpreted and are clearly interested in the TRUTH.
No-one is trying to gloss over Benghazi, but you'll notice that we're also allowing the investigation to proceed without pressure or prejudice. This is what reasonable people do.
yer spelling needs some work.
LIST OF OBAMA LIES 2012 - UPDATED -
CROP FAILURE (OBAMA LIES WHEN HE SAYS PAUL RYAN IS BLOCKING DROUGHT RELIEF)
Source:NationalReview
SO IT BEGINS: OBAMA LIES, CLAIMS ROMNEY-RYAN WILL RAISE YOUR TAXES
Source: Breitbart.com, August 12, 2012
Barack Obama has been proven by more than one fact checking organization to be a habitual liar.
“I am told that Governor Romney’s new running mate, Paul Ryan, might be around Iowa the next few days,” he said while in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “He is one of the leaders of Congress standing in the way. So if you happen to see Congressman Ryan, tell him how important this farm bill is to Iowa and our rural communities.”
House passed bill on August 2, 2012 (Paul Ryan voted yes)
The American automobile industry has come roaring back…So now I want to say what we did with the auto industry, we can do it in manufacturing across America. Let’s make sure advanced, high-tech manufacturing jobs take root here, not in China. And that means supporting investment here. Governor Romney … invested in companies that were called ‘pioneers’ of outsourcing. I don’t want to outsource. I want to insource.
Forbes- Outsourcer-In-Chief: Obama Of General Motors
“You Didn’t Build that”
A few examples
While writing the previous piece where Washington Post’s The Fact Checker gave Barack Obama four Pinocchios on a statement he made on April 30, 2012, I clicked over to PolitiFact and took a look at the Obama File they keep where they have three pages of statements made by Barack Obama that were rated false statements.
Obama- If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it “would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact- Slim majority, not unprecedented)
Obama- “For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
Obama- “Preventive care … saves money, for families, for businesses, for government, for everybody.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact- Wrong in 2009, and wrong today)
Obama- “Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
Obama- “I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. … We’ve got about 60 percent done in three years.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact- “In the Works” does not equal “done”)
Obama Admin.- Under President Barack Obama, the United States has “doubled our exports.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
Obama Admin.- The president’s proposed budget “will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact-A mangled reference to a prior talking point)
Obama- Under the White House’s budget proposal, “we will not be adding more to the national debt” by the middle of the decade.
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact-Revenue would equal outlays, but he ignores growing interest on the debt)
Obama- Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected “the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact-Score two to two on judges’ decisions on constitionality)
Obama- “I didn’t raise taxes once.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact-We’ve tracked a few increases)
Obama- When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, “it only affected widows and orphans,” and when Medicare began, “it was a small program.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact-A grain of truth in the big picture, far off on the details)
Obama- The Bush administration had been “giving (auto companies) billions of dollars and just asking nothing in return.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
Obama- “The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact-Big donors bankrolled much of Obama’s campaign)
Obama- “We’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact-We found at least four)
Obama- When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, “Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact-More than one did)
Obama- Insurers delayed an Illinois man’s treatment, “and he died because of it.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(Insurer’s decision was reversed and man lived three more years)
Obama- Health reform will “give every American the same opportunity” to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
Obama- Preventive care “saves money.”
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
(PolitiFact-Covering preventive care for everyone is a net cost)
Obama- (No earmarks in spending bill)
Truth-O-Meter rating: False
That was only from page one of Obama’s false statement PolitiFact files.
(Note- Skipped one from page one because while PolitiFact rated it as false it was because Obama misspoke and quoted the wrong time frame, so I don’t count that as an outright lie to the American people, just sloppy.)
Page two is here and page three is here.
Noteworthy- Those three pages do not include the five instances where Obama was ruled worse than “false” but were called “pants on fire” false.
The another three pages of statements that are listed as “mostly false” on the Truth-O-Meter.
Mostly false statements by Obama or his administration- Page one here, page two here and page three here.
All those listed above are from one fact checking organization, PolitiFact, which leaves one to wonder how many lies Obama has told in total since organizations often fact check different statements.
Barack Obama has been proven by more than one fact checking organization to be a habitual liar.
Lies During Third Year
I will walk on that picket line with you, if workers are denied the right to bargain.
Youtube
In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Obama said that American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years.
www.breitbart.com
I’ve done more for Israel’s security than any President ever
Obama aided Islamic Extremists take over of Egypt/ Libya – Weapons pour into Gaza
Virtually every Senate Republican voted against the tax cut last week
Examiner
“Every idea that we’ve put forward are ones that traditionally have been supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.”
Like Raising taxes?
Obama met highly qualified out of work teacher Robert Baroz
He wasn’t out of work and Obama never met him.
GOP Responsible for Obama Jobs Bill Not Passing
Dems Rejected Jobs Bill
You have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach. Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts. So the notion that somehow the American people aren’t sold is not the problem
Gallup Poll: Only 69%
These are obligations that the United States has taken on in the past. Congress has run up the credit card, and we now have an obligation to pay our bills.
Looks like it’s been incurred mostly in the years of Obama
Jobs Bill Paid for
Seems not so much Paid for
Then you’ve got their(GOP)which is dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance
Barack Obama, campaiging in Asheville, NC, 10/17/11
I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.
American.com
USA producing more oil than ever before
Petroleum Insights
Fence between US and Mexico is “Practically Complete”
Department of Homeland Security says 5%
Rich doesn’t pay their fair share.
National Taxpayers Union
Mitt Romney would deny gay people the right to adopt children.
Cnn Interview
Lies During Second Year
Obama claimed the SCOTUS decision in Citizens United v. FEC, “open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections.
nationalreview.com
No signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law
Obama Lies to Keep Czars
No “boots” on the ground Libya
Anyone that has worked with the AC-130 gunship can tell you, you need spotters to let aircraft know where the targets are. Usually it is Special Forces, Rangers etc trained for this mission. It’s CIA Agents in Libya on the ground
Reform will also rein in the abuse and excess that nearly brought down our financial system. It will finally bring transparency to the kinds of complex, risky transactions that helped trigger the financial crisis.
Obama Lies About Financial Reform Bill
All Americans WILL BE were, “surprised, disappointed and angry” about lockerbie bomber
Obama Memo
I will not rest until the BP Oil Spill stops
Obama’s Schedule
The health care bill will not increase the deficit by one dime.
Campaign and Presidency
If you like the health care plan you have you can keep it
TownHall
“Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.”
U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., September 9, 2009.
ObamaCare Fee is not a new tax
Obama denies healthcare is a new tax on all Americans
We have run out of places in the US to drill for oil.
Obama’s oval office speech in June 2010
Now suddenly if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you can be harassed, that’s something that could potentially happen.
Arizona Immigration Law
Doctors choose amputation because they get better compensation. Greedy Doctors taking out tonsils for more money.
Claims never documented
The Health Care Package will pay for itself
Time
Republicans don’t have a single idea that’s different from George Bush’s ideas — not one.
Hmm Immigration?
We shouldn’t Mandate the purchase of health care
Democratic Debate Lies
Obama says he’ll save average family $8,000 in gas
Video Proof
I am immediately instituting PayGo “Pay as you go”
Said during a speech immediately after the Trillion Dollar “Shovel Ready” bill.
I got the Message from Massachusetts
Daily Bail
Lies During First Year
We began by passing a Recovery Act that has already saved or created over 150,000 jobs.” – caught cooking the books and now changed to ‘jobs supported’ versus ‘created/saved’
AP fact Checker
Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit. … That wasn’t me.” – Congress, under Democratic control in 2007 and 2008, controlled the purse strings that led to the deficit Obama inherited.Obama supported the emergency bailout package in Bush’s final months — a package Democratic leaders wanted to make bigger.
AP fact Checker
Collective salvation
Obama calls himself a Christian
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Obama Inauguration. 20 Jan 2009
Cut Deficit in Half by end of first term
Associated Press Video
Health Care deals will be covered on C-span
Obama Lies
As President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide
ABC
Recovery Act will save or create jobs
ABC News
Unemployment rate will be 8.5% without stimulus.
Obama Lies
No Earmarks in the $787 Billion Stimulus
CNN
I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan
Specator.Org
We have launched a housing plan that will help responsible families facing the threat of foreclosure lower their monthly payments and refinance their mortgages.
Obama Lies
I am not somebody who promotes same-sex marriage.
NPR
Guantanamo bay to be closed within a year
Council on Foreign Relations.
Won’t Raise taxes on those making less than 250,000 per year.
Businessweek: Obama Agnostic on taxes
List of Tax Promise Violations
2008 Campaign Lies
I will walk the picket line with you, if workers are denied the right to bargain
Youtube
No more wiretapping of citizens
Youtube
Mr. Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” but “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
News Busters
I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Obama campaign would accept public funding
ABC
Minimum Wage will increase to $9.50/hr
A Socialist
Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995 fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment.
Mounting Heath Care Lies
Didn’t know Jeremiah Wright was Radical
Dreams of My Father – A radical Socialist.
Would have the most transparent administration in History
Cato Institute
We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way.
Boston Globe
I have visited all 57 states.
Snopes
I’ll get rid of earmarks
Source: Any bill passed during presidency
When a bill lands on my Desk, The American people will have 5 days to review it before I sign it.
Campaign Speech
My father served in World War II.
The Videos and the Facts
Have troops out of Iraq by March 31, 2009
News Video
Seniors Making less than 50,000 will not have to pay taxes
YouTube
Would not vote for any bill supporting troop funding without a firm withdrawal commitment from the Bush Administration.
He has done nothing but continue the Bush admins strategy and to explain how the “surges total failure” has now become his greatest achievement.
Present Votes Are Common In Illinois
NPR
I Won Michigan
Huffington Post
I won Nevada
The Nation
I don’t Have Lobbyists
US News
My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad
Crooks and Liars
I Have Always Been Against Iraq
Washington Post
My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country
CNN
Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.
Obama Campaign Video
I Barely Know Rezko
Sun Times
My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church
ABC News
You're begging the Right to just ignore this scandal until after the election?
Sorry United WE Stand, ain't gonna happen!
All Right Mitler propaganda supporters. Why don't you cut and paste on your Fox website, oh wait you cant they don't have an open blog. Your lists are funny, the funny thing is that everything Mitler says is a lie. The Real republican party will be dropping you Tea Baggers like used condoms filled with knuckle babies. Maybe you can try to get the disposal of condoms made illegal.
Lying Ryan is on Dem Turf. Go back to Washington and peddle your lies somewhere else.
You are going to loose the election because people can see through your falseness and lies. We don't believe in what you are feeding us and if you were in office, you would down grade our country.
Go back to where you came from you big @#$%
I think it is fun to watch a network like MSNBC panic as their DNS party dies. The clowns on MSNBC TV really crack me up for several reasons.
All of their network news shows have crappy ratings
They are a total biased mouth pieces for the DNC. They do not even try to pretend to have a unbiased panel during debates etc.
They Fume and trash Fox News non-stop which cracks me up because O'reillys show alone has more viewers than Crazy Chris Mathews, Maddow, Fuming Lawrence combined. It must be nice to vent your craziness to the 3 drug induced viewers you have that stumble across your channel.
It will be fun on election night to watch them lose their minds as their party goes down in flames
My question is how long until the folks in MSNBC management realize their network is losing money and viewers. Its ratings are a joke, and many people I know boycott sponsors of their news shows. It’s never going to get better ratings wise as long as MSNBC continues to staff their shows with liberal hate filled DNC zealots. I am an independent and I can't stand listening to Chris, Maddow, Lawrence. It is one thing to support your party but it is quite another to try and spin everyone in the repubican party as Adolf Hitler. I have never heard MSNBC say anything positive about anyone out side the DNC. I am sorry but I dont watch TV to listen to this type of hate crap.
The question we're all asking, @Shiftinggears, is why then, do you waste your precious time here? Oh, wait, are you ANOTHER independent that voted for Obama in 2008?
Like me, he's here to stop the lies. Some people don't know this is not an honest media source and mistake it for news.
Oreilly Rarely tells the whole truth and i have personally heard him outright lie. He injects his own opinions in no matter how twisted. Fox News is not a accurate source of news. In fact people that watch fox news eclusively are some of the most misinformed people out there. The truth is that you can't trust any of them to be totally accurate. They are a disgrace to journalism.
They are here because FOX will not let anyone disagree with them. Whether it be talking over individuals on their programs or posting comments to their web site. You cannot allow propaganda to be interrupted with the truth. They did at one time allow comments on their web site but could not stand everyone telling them they were wrong. So much for "fair and balanced".
ted Oreilly is and entertainment show kind of like john stewart it's not a news show neither is Hannity or Tachael Maddow there is a big difference. they may talk about things going on in the news but they don't claim to be newscasters!
The economic engine that is the American economy is going to create 12 million new jobs over the course of the next four years no matter who's elected President. That's right. According to two highly respected, independent economic analysis firms, Moody's Analytics and Macroeconomic Advisors, the economy is going to create 12 million new jobs over the course of the next four years no matter who's elected president.
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Also, Here's a link to Bill Clinton speaking at the University of Minnesota yesterday: [url][/url]
Starts at about 1 hour, 5 minutes. Connections a little clunky, but a terrific speech.
Everyone is ignoring the 2010 election cycle, when it was so obvious that the voters were turning sour on Democrats. I think many people are going to be surprised at the states that Romney/Ryan win. The media, the polls and wishful thinking don't decide elections, people do and it may be a landslide in favor of Romney/Ryan next week.
Alot has happened since 2010 the republicans incongress promised jobs,jobs, jobs and did not create a single one or pass any legislation that would. They blocked every single thing offered by obama. His policies were never given the chance to pass or fail. we will never know whether they would have helped or not. The republicans hurt the economy much more than they helped. Dems in the senate were guilty of the same behavior. They all need to be held accountable. It maybe a landslide for Obama also. romney and ryan are full of BULLcrap.
You got that right on.
Beware of the "silent majority" that Reagen identified, before they showed up to vote for him. The polls and the media didn't see them coming then and they didn't see them coming in 2010. Hopeful thinking and full support from the Media and Polls doesn't win actual races, unless a majority of voters are informed zombies, that can't think for themselves. I think we are heading into a landslide next week, that the pollsters and media don't see coming, because they have been drinking their own bathwater so long, they totally ignore the advantages their opponents have. Their only resort is to attack all conservative candidates personally and that should obvious to everyone.
Biggest storm in history since the start of record keeping.
Mother Nature & Al Gore VS Koch's propaganda machine. Who do you believe now?
I know still no proof until trees start growing at the south pole.
Out of Al Gores facts during the movie, he is documented as being wrong about 35 things like mosquitoes "climbing to higher altitudes".
I like Al Gore, but he went a little over the deep end in An Inconvenient Truth.
I am a conservative, not religious, believe in global warming, evolution, and that sometimes abortion is cruel and wrong, and in the early stages, it is sometimes for the best.
My point is, Al was pretty goofy about all that hoopla though.
During a radio interview on Oct 26, Obama said that in the immediate wake of the attack he issued several directives, including one to “make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to.”
“There appears to be a discrepancy between your directive and the actions taken by the Department of Defense. As we are painfully aware, despite the fact that the military had resources in the area, the military did not deploy any assets to secure U.S. personnel in Benghazi during the hours the consulate and the annex were under attack,” the HASC chairman wrote.
“I find it implausible that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the commander of U.S. Africa Command and the commander of U.S. European Command would have ignored a direct order from the commander in chief,” the letter states.
It asks Obama to shed light on “to whom did you issue this first directive and how was this directive communicated to the military and other agencies — verbally or in writing?” The HASC chairman also wants to know if Obama on that day directed the military to “move available assets into Libya” and if he gave military commanders authority to “take any and all necessary measures to secure U.S. personnel, including specifically the authority to enter Libyan airspace.”
I believe that Obama's claim that he "issued several directives, including one to “make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to” will turn out to be one more lie in a long series of lies throughout his presidency.
All you libs screaming about wanting to privatize FEMA are nuts. Do you honestly think that FEMA has a staff of thousands of people sitting on their hands just waiting for a disaster to react to? HELL NO! They have a plethora of private contractors in the waiting to respond. You know, private businesses that drop what they may be doing to go and get paid for going where FEMA tells them to. The utility crews that come from all over the nation, PAID to come. Debris cleanup, paid to come. and on and on. It is practically private business as it is. FEMA is just the coordinating body. Nothing more. So get off of it already.
why did mr bush let so many die???
would you vote for bush and dick?
Romney and Ryan look like such salivating door-to-door used car salemen campaigning so feverishly at this time of tragedy.
It was hard to even watch Romney at his so called "relief rally",...right where he wanted to campaign and try to gain support yesterday anyhow,....he sounded like such an insincere douche bag,...."AWKWARD",...
..."ah yes",.."and I see have purchased some groceries in this time of need",.....his eyes all hollow with the exhaustion of perpetual guilt and emptiness. The man is not sincere. Look into his eyes.
If there was anything positive at all that has come from this tragedy,...it is that we all can see the value of supporting each other in the time of need.
Now we will begin to again appreciate what it means to be,...and have,...and NEED a neighbor.
The entire GOP platform is about cutting ties and letting the "winners" distance themselves from the "losers". They apparently seem to think that everyone in need (the 47%) is in need because of their own negligence.
How about now ? Is that the case ? Are these people in need because they have been neglectful ?
Is this even America anymore ? ...or is it the United States of the corporate "winners",...and those other unnecessary people without an MBA ??...or is the United States of "I got mine,...you get yours" ??
This coming Tuesday, November 6th 2012,...get out and vote for "We the people",....vote to keep America together,...vote Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
There was hardly any goods on the tables and the truck was fairly empty. A pallet of water doesn't make a truck load! His rallies are pretty much empty rooms, haven't you notice the cameras don't scan the crowds? Romney is done. Christie is driving in the last nails of his coffin as now. It's a complete turn around from earlier when Christie was hammering the Mayor of Atlantic City (a Democrat) yesterday. Something I thought was totally uncalled for, unjustified and not true! I think its a smoke screen because he knows if he continues to slam the President he may not get the help he needs from FEMA. Only time will tell. Romney on the other hand said he has found a place for the aid he has helped put together and believe it or not it won't be going to an Independent Governor in New York. I guess this is how Romney plans on reaching across the isle?
serf......great observation of romney. 'eyes all hollow with the exhaustion of perpetual guilt and emptiness. the man is not sincere. look into his eyes.
as has been said repeatedly, the man has NO core.
Why doesn't Ryan or more importantly Romney go to Wisconsin and talk to the 170+ people that are about to lose there jobs to China. They could tell the how they would like them to donate to the people hurt by Sandy.
I was going to write how disgusted I am with McCain but I think I'll just say McCain STFU!
Why
are so many so surprised that Myth Romney stood in front of 67 million voters
and lied thru his teeth??? That is the GOP way!!!
George
H. W. Bush "Read my lips no new taxes"!!!
George
W. Bush "Republicans will be compassionate conservatives"???
Mitt
Romney "I never said I was going to give the rich an additional 10 percent
off on their taxes"&&&
I'm
starting to think I like the idea of Romney winning. And when he gives he and
his rich buddies more tax breaks and takes this country's economy over the edge
of that cliff that President Obama has worked so hard to pull us back from with
nothing but treasonous opposition from the idiots on the right, I am going to
love it.
Then
when the right pulls out the second trick in their three trick pony act, I
might actually weep for you idiots when he sends your kids into war so he and
his rich buddies can get even richer while your kids come home in boxes.
And
the third trick is to deregulate everything, banks, insurance companies,
utility companies and its "bend over middle class"!!!
ROMNEY
RYAN 2012 BRING IT ON
Romney WILL NOT take Mn. Come on Chuck Todd, get a clue would ya.