Justice Department will monitor polls in about half the country for civil rights violations...

http://sulia.com/channel/united-states-presidential-election-2012/f/4ccd076d-ced3-4914-80c0-dfa77cb8d80f/?source=twitter

One of Romney's plans:

TOTAL lies and deceptions.

Of course Romney wanted GM to go bankrupt.

There was no "private" money available to save GM and so there would be a liquidation.

All warranties void, all dealers out of business, all parts suppliers out of business, millions of workers out of jobs.

Who benefits? Vulture capitalists like Romney's Bain.

Buy up the assets for pennies on the dollar. Sell the patents, sell the manufacturing equipment. Make millions on the blood of the laid off employees of all those companies who made up the auto industry. And make no mistake; even Ford admitted that if the suppliers went out of business they would have folded too. If you think this is the "American Way" you need to go somewhere else to live.

It's a disgrace to all those Americans who have sacrificed for the good of the entire country, not just a few greedy pigs.

OBAMA/BIDEN....2012!!!!

NJ to use military trucks as polling places in storm-battered areas, extends mail-in voting

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nj-to-use-military-trucks-for-voting-in-storm-battered-areas-extends-mail-in-voting-deadline/2012/11/01/46f3a438-2481-11e2-92f8-7f9c4daf276a_story.html?wprss=rss_social-nation-headlines&Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

If you didn't get to see Piers Morgan tonight, hope you can catch a rerun of his interview with Rudy Guiliani. Mr. Guiliani was dissing the President for allegedly mishandling the Benghazi attack, and suddenly during his interview, General Wesley Clark (who had been interviewed earlier), asked if he could address Rudy, and the show's producers put him on. It was priceless to watch.

Rudy Guiliani was obviously stunned to suddenly have a military expert like General Clark appear on screen and contradict everything that Mr. Giluiani was saying, and the General also pointed out how wrong it was for people to publicize the Benghazi attack, and how the Democrats did not politicize a tragedy like 9/11 on the day of the attack, or the day after, or the week after, or the month after ... etc.

Rudy shot back his same rhetoric and then pulled his earplug out and walked off the camera.

He knew he was outmatched!

Justice Department to Monitor Polls in 23 States on Election Day

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/November/12-crt-1312.html

How The Right Wing Has Put The Grand Canyon And Other Public Lands In The Crosshairs This Election

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/10/22/1061981/how-the-right-wing-has-put-the-grand-canyon-and-other-public-lands-in-the-crosshairs-this-election/

Inde, so the General is a liar and Rudy is the font of truth and light. Sure.

Bye the way Ariz. has an iniative on the ballot to annex the Grand Canyon, true, google it. Brewer's crowd are trying the Park Land Grab.

Obama 2012

I think most people have made up their mind by now who they will vote for.

For myself, I am voting a straight Democratic ticket unless there is someone on the ballot that I recognize as an honorable Republican who is willing to compromise to help our country work out its problems.

My only advice to anyone is: Vote against every single Tea Party member."

Independent,

If General Wesley Clark was not being truthful, why did Rudy Guiliani panic and run?

My family howled with laughter watching it.

It was unplanned and perfect, kind of like when the President responded to Mitt Romney's silly comments about our Navy having less ships than it did in 1916, and the President said, "Well, we also have fewer horses and bayonets."

Perfect!

LOL

Romney says he'll balance the budget in "EIGHT TO TEN years" AND slams Obama for not doing it in FOUR...

The deficit was $1.5 trillion when he took office. It is about $1 trillion now. He did reduce the deficit by 1/3.

31 National poll this last week. Romney is ahead in 19 of them, 5 they are tied, and Obama leads in 7.

ooks like the national polls are starting to trend in the direction of the battleground polls. From Real Clear Politics:

RCP Average
10/22 - 11/1 47.5 47.2 Obama +0.3

Rasmussen Reports
10/30 - 11/1 1500 LV 48 48 Tie

ABC News/Wash Post
10/28 - 10/31 1293 LV 49 48 Obama +1

FOX News
10/28 - 10/30 1128 LV 46 46 Tie

CBS News/NY Times
10/25 - 10/28 563 LV 48 47 Obama +1

National Journal
10/25 - 10/28 713 LV 50 45
Obama +5

Pew Research
10/24 - 10/28 1495 LV 47 47 TIE

Obama Ordered Special Forces Mission and saved over 50 Americans on day of Benghazi attack

U.S. Offers New Details Of Deadly Libya Attack

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/11/02/164140811/u-s-offers-new-details-of-deadly-libya-attack

Our unemployment rate would be at 6% if the Congress had passed all of President Obama's spending bills.

12 major spending bills are sitting in Congress right now that should have been passed so President Obama could sign them into law.

Right wingers need to remind themselves of the GOP's obstructionism that has stopped the creation or saving of at least three million jobs.

The American jobs Act would have created or saved two million jobs.

The Small Business tax credit bill would have helped small business create at least one million jobs.

So for you math challenged right wingers you need to remember that the GOP's obstructionism and filibustering of bills has cost us three million jobs plus.

All we get are short term spending resolutions from this failed GOP Congress.

The GOP House failed to pass the Farm Bill:

The GOP House failed to pass the American Jobs Act last year as President Obama asked for in September, 2011. This cost our economy two million jobs:

The GOP in the Senate blocks the Small business tax credit bill that economists say would have created one million jobs in July, 2012.

The DO NOTHING, 9% approved GOP congress has a record 500+ filibusters to stop progress of any kind in the country.

All hurting millions of Americans to stop one man from keeping his job.

1. Big rally? Not many real voters... over 100 of them were TP and neo-con politicos from the Bush years. Nostalgic to go back to that mess?
2. Wesley Clark was super. Guiliani was himself - a windbag paid for by the usual special interests in New York. Biden's comment is still true - a noun, a verb, and 9/11
3. I too will vote straight Dem. The GOP has been taken over by Limbaugh groupies - and I cannot stand the corpulent hand-waver who likes to talk, but can't stay married. White males who are petrified that women and other races might gain true equality in this country.... and who have no manners or class when it comes to women and minorities - these are the GOP/TP now - sad for America..
4. Devdoc - you may not have noticed that the electoral college plays a role in the final decision. Just ask George Bush! National polls tell only a part f the story.

Not only do we need to re-elect the President, but we also need to vote OUT every one of the treasonous congressmen and women that the Tea Party voted in.

Hopefully, we can take back those seats from the Tea Taliban and let the honorable Democrats and Republicans who care about this country continue to lead.

Ohio is solidly blue - it's just a Waste of Time for Romnesia in Ohio

Seeing how the GOP policies that put us in debt and Looking at Mitt Romney's business model and what DAVID STOCKMAN, Saint Ronald Reagan's budget director said about Romney…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/david-stockman-mitt-romney_n_1968106.html

It is obvious that having a $16 TRILLION national debt is not a coincidence.

It was created by the GOP and by design.

Judging by Willard's and his cronies business tactics, the country is ripe for the harvesting.

The GOP will continue to borrow to make their interests "mega-wealthy" and then they will move in and will bankrupt the country, ignore the debt, the money borrowed, and finally keep the wealth.

They will also blame the Democrats and start their...

Wait for it...

"Redistribution of Debt"

That means pass the national debt payments to the lil' guys. (You)

$16,200,000,000,000.00 national taxpayer debt negatively affects ALL Americans. Enjoy the wine Independent:)

"Obama's old plan: spend, spend, spend

Obama's new plan: tax, tax, tax

Save America! Romney/Ryan"

Yes, I see. I like it.

Now....how we gonna fund, say, our national defense? FEMA? Air Traffic Control....etc...etc...etc...?

That's not an "independent thought"... I'm a small business owner, job creator, provide health care for my employees and have five children. Romney could care less about small business owners. Did you listen to his tax plan or at least the "pick a number" tax plan that he would talk about? Romney’s tax goes to 0! How convenient for him. Trickledown or as I like to call it “let them eat cake” economics has been proven a failure time after time. For my children, my business and the future of America, Obama 2012!!!

The only hope for Romney supporters who don't want to see a second Obama term is to hope the Mayan prophesy comes true and the world ends on 12-22-12.

Devdoc12able

"Obama, "Americans do not leave people behind". Unless you are in Libya"

This is completely off Hannity's (screened) radio show. What else do you have in the 'original thoughts' bucket??

Forbes:

For A Better Economy, Vote Democratic:

• Personal disposable income has grown nearly 6 times more under Democratic presidents

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown 7 times more under Democratic presidents

• Corporate profits have grown over 16% more per year under Democratic presidents (they actually declined under Republicans by an average of 4.53%/year)

• Average annual compound return on the stock market has been 18 times greater under Democratic presidents (If you invested $100k for 40 years of Republican administrations you had $126k at the end, if you invested $100k for 40 years of Democrat administrations you had $3.9M at the end)

• Republican presidents added 2.5 times more to the national debt than Democratic presidents

• The two times the economy steered into the ditch (Great Depression and Great Recession) were during Republican, laissez faire administrations

Mitt the liar is unqualified for any office.

Watching the meltdown after after the republicans lose the election will more then make up for the garbage we have had to listen to for the last year.

I am going to watch the election on Faux News. It will be the best comedy show ever.

"Welfare up 32% under Obama's watch.."

I assume you mean "private" vs "Corporate" when you toss out the well-worn 'welfare' word??

There is NO reason to believe the Republicans

They like to make bogus promises and predictions.

They tell you lie after lie about the future to elect them.

When was the last time they held on to their word?

What have Republicans done for America in the last 40 years?

Republicans want you to trust them but are you verifying that trust?

Did you look at the cause for the national debt?

Did you notice that it is all Republican policies?

Did you notice that Obama spent to fix Republican failed policies?

Did you know that Obama's fixes are working?

Did you know that we need more fixes?

Did you know that the Republicans do not want those fixes?

Did you know that Republicans want to bring back the same failed policies?

Do you think that Republicans deserve to be in power?

What have they done to earn it?

Republican polices have created a massive national debt of $16 TRILLION.

Do you think that Romney, Mr. 1%, Mr. anti-47%, Mr. "I like to fire people" is looking out for you?

Romney / Lyan have been in the middle of all the country's problems.

They're the cause.

They want more "redistribution of debt" from their interests to you.

Did you know that the tax cuts they give out are coming back in superpac accounts?

Do you know who is paying for their campaign?

Why do they have secret MILLIONS overseas?

Why are they lying so much?

You need answers.

Good luck!

GOP obstructs voting in Florida.

Nobody has to wonder if the GOP can win an election legitimately. Everyone who is breathing should know they cannot.

Florida governor Rick Scott is fighting to prevent democrats access to in person early voting and severely limits times in which votes may be cast.

Absentee ballots requested in early October still not delivered to residents in mostly Democratic counties. Big surprise there!

See it on Rachel Maddow - tonight's show.

Isn't lying a sin? Whole lotta republicans going to H,E, double hocky sticks.

Oh thats right not if your a Morman or German.

Independent Thought

Readers never mind BO 2012, he has been cutting and pasting for 4 long years. Just like Obama, merely words.

FROM HIS PROFILE:

BO 2012

Member Since: 6/2012

Fact checking is not hard. "Independent Thought" my ass!!! LMAO. Why are connies so stupid?

50,000 attended in the Romney Rally Cincinnati.

30,000 last week in Butler County

Bill Clinton 2800 in Akron last night

Romney 12,000+ in Cuyahoga falls 2 weeks ago. BTW Summit county went for Obama in 2008.

Obama 15,000 weeks ago in Columbus.

Romeny 12,000+ in Canton, Ohio a week ago.

The ground numbers don't match the poll numbers.

Seems like a lot of fishy problems with voting right now.

Florida voter obstruction:

Hopefully this link to the Rachel Maddow show will take. If it isn't there is't because I can't seem to create links on msnbc.

#49668824

#49668824

One huge factor not much discussed, in particular by the mainstream liberal media, and in all social discourse is that race is still taboo, and how it is distorting the polls. We live in PC self-imposed censorship. Specifically there is a huge self-censorship factor with many people, particularly whites, as to their public support for Obama when in actuality many feel discomfort in publicly betraying our first African-American president for this other 'oh-so-white' alternative, even though on deemed merits the alternatives will get the votes.

Romney is patently so much more accomplished than Obama.

Romney will win ... it is not going to be close.

5 Ways Republicans Have Sabotaged Job Growth...

1. Filibustering the American Jobs Act.

Last October, Senate Republicans killeda jobs bill proposed by President Obama that would have pumped $447 billion into the economy. Multiple economic analysts predicted the bill would add around two million jobs and hailed it as defense against a double-dip recession. The Congressional Budget Office also scored it as a net deficit reducer over ten years, and the American public supported the bill.

2. Stonewalling monetary stimulus.

The Federal Reserve can do enormous good for a depressed economy through more aggressive monetary stimulus, and by tolerating a temporarily higher level of inflation. But with everything from Ron Paul’s anti-inflationary crusade to Rick Perry threatening to lynch Chairman Ben Bernanke, Republicans have browbeaten the Fed into not going down this path. Most damagingly, the GOP repeatedly held up President Obama’s nominations to the Federal Reserve Board during the critical months of the recession, leaving the board without the institutional clout it needed to help the economy.

3. Threatening a debt default.

Even though the country didn’t actually hit its debt ceiling last summer, the Republican threat to default on the United States’ outstanding obligations was sufficient to spook financial markets and do real damage to the economy.

4. Cutting discretionary spending in the debt ceiling deal.

The deal the GOP extracted as the price for avoiding default imposed around $900 billion in cuts over ten years. It included $30.5 billion in discretionary cuts in 2012 alone, costing the country 0.3 percent in economic growth and 323,000 jobs, according to estimates from the Economic Policy Institute. Starting in 2013, the deal will trigger another $1.2 trillion in cuts over ten years.

5. Cutting discretionary spending in the budget deal.

While not as cataclysmic as the debt ceiling brinksmanship, Republicans also threatened a shutdown of the government in early 2011 if cuts were not made to that year’s budget. The deal they struck with the White House cut $38 billion from food stamps, health, education, law enforcement, and low-income programs among others, while sparing defense almost entirely.

Obama has presented a budget each year as required by law.

What did the House of Representatives do with them?

Hum, guess we are still waiting for a vote?

Give Boehner a call, maybe he can give you some details about that!

No budget is going to be passed until the Bush tax cuts expire.

The headline should have read, "Romney holds desperation rally, but still loses on Election Day because he is a douche and no one wants to return to the policies of W and the Repugs that got us into this mess." Okay, it's a bit wordy, but you get the idea.

GermanGem...

"Corporations are people." The U.S. Supreme Court "Corporations are people, my friend." Willard "Mitt" Romney
"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." Benito Mussolini

Is that the right direction?
People should watch what they wish for.

Hey, we're only at 30,000 feet. Do you wanna' crack that window a bit?

"more freedom: Vote Romney"

Have America's women seen this bumper-sticker? Gays that would like to have and value marriage vows? If not, Think they would buy one? Display it proudly??

Obama's budget proposal garnered ZERO Republican votes and ZERO Democrat votes.

How can Romney run to be the president of the United States when he is the lead job provider in china?

Or when he keeps most of his money in offshore accounts?

Or when he was a draft dodger that said he supported the Vietnam war, but took deferments and played in France while our soldiers died?

Romney doesn't let those 47% people get in his way, it is all about money.

It is all about getting the rest of the money the greedy rich didn't get when they caused the crash of the economy.

Romney hires these same 17 of 24 of his advisers from Bush/Cheney so they can get the job done this time.

Romney drains the country like he did to every company he bought..........for every last penny.

Romney uses our country’s entire infrastructure, all of our tax money to take jobs and money out of the United States. Romney's heart is where his money is....in offshore accounts in foreign countries.

Vote Obama/Biden 2012 protect America

Romney is a liar! He can't be trusted as the most powerful leader in the free world, His character as a leader in America will create a moral decline for America and the world. Being a leader is serious business! He is worse than ex-Pres. Bush!!!

Read carefuly...

Court Unseals Potentially Devastating Testimony by Mitt Romney in Friend's Divorce Case

"Mitt Romney is being accused of lying under oath to protect the old boys' network--and the documents have just gone public."

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/breaking-court-unseals-potentially-devastating-testimony-mitt-romney-friends-divorce

This is so rich from so many libs on this blog with this cartoonish depiction of Romney as an industry heavy and Obama as a saintly protector of the little guy. CLINTON was the MOST FINANCIALLY DESTRUCTIVE PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY and OBAMA is the proud inheritor of his policies:

A) HE, no one else, with the assist of his Goldman Sachs and Wall Street buddies - Robert Rubin, Lawrence Sommers, Timothy Geithner, et. al., and Alan Greenspan (Fed) (and some of these people where brought back by OBAMA to his administration!) - repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1934 which kept Commercial Banking, Investing Banking, and Insurance separate; and with this repeal led to the meltdown of TRILLIONS of dollars of speculative non-oversight investments by banks and financial institutions.

B) HE, no one else, and despite warnings from many councils of economists, industry groups and labor unions truly opened the flood gates on free trade towards LABOR-SINKHOLES economies such as China with NO labor- and product-return to capital, value-added safeguards to protect key industries and sectors in the U.S., as other countries do, such as even the Europeans when drafting similar treaties. In the process HE is the one who set the stage for true syphoning out the manufacturing/industrial base of our country!

C) HE, along with the usual suspects above (and again the same people brought back by OBAMA to work for him) purposely undermined his own chief regulator on market derivatives, Brooksley E. Born, Chief of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, by preventing her, through their insistence, in taking action on regulating the emerging subprime derivatives market which she rightfully predicted will lead to a major world disaster. (Duh ... does anyone remember the crash of '08?). Anyway, such lack of regulation led to a market of 800 to 900 Trillion (with a T) of mostly toxic derivatives. (How much were Bush's hare-brain adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan cost? ... 1, 2 Trillion?).

CLINTON IS BY FAR THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FINANCIAL PRESIDENT and OBAMA has taken most of these people in! Romney was no wheres on the radar screen in the decision making on any of the above

Chuck: I'm a small business owner, "female," job creator, provide health care for my employees and have "four" children. "Obama" could care less about small business owners.

Looks like we need a bipartisan leader, because Obama is just as responsible in the marriage as the obstructionists.

Romney/Ryan for Female's, families and for hard work

Al:

Sadly, with Obama, the conspiracies will become ALL of our realities. Go ahead roll that dice. I know how to swim and hate the violin.

Romney/Ryan 2012

@ BO 2012,

Those and others are the reason Romney not only wants to be President but needs to be in order to keep him self from going to jail. Its sad people would elect a criminal for a President. Shame on all of you, I hope you realize all the lies he has told are lies and not let his money persuade you. He's going to be worse than Nixon and you can bet your kids lives there will be another war if he is elected. He has no idea how to handle Iran nor will he care, it's not his kids that will be fighting. I can only hope mine are out of the Military before the next one.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755822/ns/msnbc-the_ed_show/#49651463

Mitt's loss this year will cause the Republicans to begin to earnestly begin to rebuild the brand- starting by telling the TeabagEE's and religious right to get a butt-job.

I wonder what in God's name will you guys do if Romney wins this thing. What will you say about the republican party then? For a race to be this close indicates that they must be doing something right. Obama is the incumbent and should be kicking Romney's butt. He is not. I am not guaranteeing a Romney win. I am just wondering what makes you think he is sure to lose. I find it strange given the reality of this campaign and the closeness of the polls.

Drive:

I am female, and I see Romney as freedom. The damn pills are $9 bucks, two fancy Starbucks or unlimited texting, per month. If you think abortion will ever really change, I have some Facebook stock to sell you.

Even here in California, where liberal is the norm, they voted down gay marriage. It is not JUST a Republican ideology.

Romney/Ryan 2012

Law enforcement arrested Roxanne Ruben, who is a registered Republican here in Las Vegas for trying to VOTE more than once, I knew the only way the GOP would even have a chance they would need to CHEAT, check it if you think this really did not happen, now the question is how many REPUBLICANS did that did not get caught! Doing something right did I hear that correctly ...... LOL I Hope they put her away for the full 4 years. GOOGLE it ....

Robert:

"psst...let's chat after the election."

Corruption?

Romney/Ryan for a Strong America

Hmmmmmm,

Well it appears that the taxpayer bailed-out Chrysler is looking back and now considering cutting costs by shifting production of all Jeeps to China, which has a strong desire for Jeeps.

In a Bloomberg interview, Jeep's president said the automaker plans to restore Jeep production in China, suspended in 2009, and is considering making all Jeeps in China. "Fiat SpA, majority owner of Chrysler Group LLC, plans to return Jeep output to China and may eventually make all of its models in that country, according to the head of both automakers' operations in the region," reported the business wire service.

Mike Manley, chief operating officer of Fiat and Chrysler in Asia and president of the Jeep brand, told Bloomberg, "We're reviewing the opportunities within existing capacity" as well as "should we be localizing the entire Jeep portfolio or some of the Jeep portfolio" to China.

Chrysler builds Jeep SUV models at plants in Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Manley said the firm is in talks with China's Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2511703#.UIlutq5eJ2K

Fiat SpA (F), majority owner of Chrysler Group LLC, plans to return Jeep output to China and may eventually make all of its models in that country, according to the head of both automakers’ operations in the region.

Fiat is in “very detailed conversations” with its Chinese partner, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. (2238), about making Jeeps in the world’s largest auto market, said Mike Manley, chief operating officer of Fiat and Chrysler in Asia. Chrysler hasn’t built Jeeps there since before Fiat took control in 2009.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-21/fiat-says-china-may-build-all-jeep-models-as-suv-demand-climbs.html

In another potential blow for the president's Ohio reelection campaign, Jeep, the rugged brand President Obama once said symbolized American freedom, is considering giving up on the United States and shifting production to China.

Such a move would crash the economy in towns like Toledo, Ohio, where Jeeps are made and supplied, and rob the community of the economic security they thought Obama's auto bailout assured them.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/10/25/chrysler_alive_but_jeep_about_to_shift_production_to_china

Michigan, 22 Oct. (AKI/Bloomberg) - Italian car gian Fiat, which controls the Chrysler Group plans to return Jeep output to China and may eventually make all of its models in that country, according to the head of both automakers’ operations in the region.

Fiat is in “very detailed conversations” with its Chinese partner, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. (2238), about making Jeeps in the world’s largest auto market, said Mike Manley, chief operating officer of Fiat and Chrysler in Asia.

Chrysler hasn’t built Jeeps there since before Fiat took control in 2009. “The volume opportunity for us is very significant,” Manley, who is also president of the Jeep brand, said in an interview at Chrysler’s Auburn Hills, Michigan, headquarters.

“We’re reviewing the opportunities within existing capacity” as well as “should we be localizing the entire Jeep portfolio or some of the Jeep portfolio.”

Chrysler, which entered an alliance with Turin, Italy-based Fiat as part of its US-government-backed bankruptcy, is relying on growth in China to counter weakness in Europe’s auto market. The carmaker is targeting 500,000 annual sales outside North America by 2014, more than triple its overseas deliveries in 2009.

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Business/Asia-Fiat-says-China-may-build-all-Jeep-models-as-SUV-demand-grows_313817399262.html

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

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

Zero:

It is a tight race, and none of us know what is really going to happen. The reality is, for the most part we are all not very different from each other. However, this is a huge election, that has reverberations that could impact the balance of my lifetime. It makes me sick to think that we have even the slightest possibility of becoming a nation like Greece.

Romney/Ryan with Christie for a "bipartisan" United States of America

I just love "Independent Thoughts" tag line: "Romney/Ryan 2012 for a "United" States of America." Uhhh, which United America are you referring to, Independent?

* Is it the 47% that Romney wants nothing to do with?

* Is it the 1%?

* Is it all of the SuperPAC donors that are trying to buy this election for him? (85% of all SuperPAC donations went to Romney)

* Is it the military contractors who will profit immensely from his "peace through strength" wars that he intends to start?

Odd, for someone who wants to represent the entire nation, he seems to have little interest in the 'little people' who aren't rich like him.

Rachel Maddow the truth sayer? Who knew. Run Run people.

Gross.

Romney/Ryan 2012

It is "United" meaning the sitting President values the oval office, security briefings, press conferences, bargaining, compromise and using elbow grease to do the tough stuff....that's all.

Not one who was on Pimp with a Limp on the Anniversary of 9/11!!

Romney

Sam627556

Law enforcement arrested Roxanne Ruben, who is a registered Republican here in Las Vegas for trying to VOTE more than once, I knew the only way the GOP would even have a chance they would need to CHEAT, check it if you think this really did not happen, now the question is how many REPUBLICANS did that did not get caught!

Hmmmmm, look what I found Sammy!

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/update-dnc-fires-staffer-caught-purportedly-helping-woman-vote-twice/

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/police-probing-democrat-caught-in-video-sting/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ3Zndjmc5w

Go away with your faux righteousness.

Remember, you Libbies are the ones that advocate the “vote early and vote often” meme.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

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

Yep both sides cheat but the DNC fired the worker didn't they?

thinkingman-3118694

I just love "Independent Thoughts" tag line: "Romney/Ryan 2012 for a "United" States of America." Uhhh, which United America are you referring to, Independent.

* Is it the military contractors who will profit immensely from his "peace through strength" wars that he intends to start?

Discounting your other asterisks as typical Liberal nonsense, you do realize that all our tanks, battleships, warplanes and other military equipment is built right here in America, right?

You Libbies need to get a grip on your irrational disdain for your most feared bogeyman, the military industrial complex.

Between companies like Lockheed, General Dynamics, Boeing, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman and smaller defense shops and suppliers who feed into the industry, defense manufacturers and their suppliers employ around 1 million workers combined.

Not to mention the multiplier effect you Liberals so love, the numbers are in the millions of jobs.

You do realize that the military is one of the 16 Enumerated Powers that our Constitution mandates our Federal government to fund, right? Not more dysfunctional and unsustainable Progressive entitlement and social programs that are filled with waste, fraud, abuse and corruption.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

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

Sam627556

Yep both sides cheat but the DNC fired the worker didn't they?

Fair enough.

Now let me challenge you with your own conundrum,

now the question is how many Democrats did that did not get caught?

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

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

moshuluu

GM did go bankrupt for about 5 minutes. That was one of Obamas conditions for the bailout. The bailout amounted to Obama buying GM shares at $100 a share. Why Obama had GM go bankrupt was to deal with their retirement obligations. Thousands of retired GM workers go their pension reduced by about 60%. The Union went along with this because it was an at gun point offer. Take this and be quite or lost all the retirement your people were promised.

Obama then sold off the GM shares he bought for $100 a share to China for $30 a share.

China is currently building 17 auto plants for their new CGM Chinese Government Motors.

Guess where most of GM's jobs are going??

FORWARD??????

BTW When Obama bankrupts the country guess what happens to all those retirement obligations the government is obligated to? Social Security, Veterans and retired government workers?

Just remember what Obama did to the retired GM workers because thats whats coming!

Uhhh, where in the Constitution does is say that 'though shalt spend endlessley, without forethought, on wars we do not need in order to support the jobs programs offered up by the military?' You do realize, JimSpence, that more money has been wasted on military procurement that the military doesn't want, doesn't need, and specifically asked Congress NOT to spend.....than on all other social programs combined? You are suggesting that we spend on the military for no other reasons than to keep people employed.....and we, the taxpayers, foot the bill? You do realize that Romney has promised to increase military spending NOT because we need more weapons, but because of the jobs that will create? You do realize that wars are a necessary component of a program to continuously increase military spending regardless of the need?

No, I guess you don't....because the military is the 'sacred cow' of the right. Please, next time you pass by someone begging in the street because they are disabled and funding for disabilities programs (read: "welfare") have been shut down by Romney....please remember to tell them "but, surely you must feel more secure, safer now that we're buying more planes for the military." Do your part....

All we will have to worry about is the old lib ladies trying to burn this mother @!$%#er down...Landslide incoming....!

Is this change you can believe in? Do you really want four more years of this crap? I say, NO THANKS! --

Over 8% unemployment for a record 43 months in a row! It's now said to be 7.9%, up from one month ago, which still stinks. Oh, BTW, they didn't include California in the totals, which has over 10% unemployment. Duhhh. So, it's still over 8% folks.

Over $16.2 trillion in debt and counting? He increased it six trillion rather than reduce it five trillion as promised.

Over 14% unemployment for blacks.

Anemic economic growth, year after year, after year.

No budget for the past three years as required by the Constitution.

A healthcare plan that will cost over three times what they said it would, was opposed by over 60% of the population, sucks over $700,000,000 out of Medicare to help pay for it, and wasn't even read by any member of Congress that voted for it? How could you vote for a bill you haven't even read?

Solyndra FAIL and cover-up (or at least no due diligence) that cost taxpayers over half a billion dollars.

FAILURE to protect our embassy in Libya resulting in the deaths of four Americans, and the cover-up afterward. Obama stalling until after the election.

Fast and Furious FAILURE, resulting in the death of a boarder control officer and the cover-up by the Obama administration. Holder held in contempt of Congress. Case still not solved due to Obama's stalling.

This presidency is a failure and it is time for Americans to realize it and vote for a man that is highly qualified to lead us out of it, Mitt Romney.

Read this article from Thomas Sowell before you even consider to vote this November. Forward it to your family and friends:
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If Obama wins, "then the fate of America -- and of Western nations, including Israel -- will be left in the hands of a man with a lifelong hostility to Western values and Western interests.
President Obama is such a genial man that many people, across the ideological space, cannot see him as a danger.
For every hundred people who can see his geniality, probably only a handful see the grave danger his warped policies and ruthless tactics pose to a whole way of life that has given generation after generation of Americans unprecedented freedom and prosperity.
The election next November will not be just another election, and the stakes add up to far more than the sum of the individual issues. Moreover, if reelected and facing no future election, whatever political constraints may have limited how far Obama would push his radical agenda will be gone.
He would have the closest thing to a blank check. Nothing could stop him but impeachment or a military coup, and both are very unlikely. A genial corrupter is all the more dangerous for being genial.

Watch the movie, "2016", this weekend, before you vote.

thinkingman-3118694

Uhhh, where in the Constitution does is say that 'though shalt spend endlessley, without forethought, on wars we do not need in order to support the jobs programs offered up by the military?' You do realize, JimSpence, that more money has been wasted on military procurement that the military doesn't want, doesn't need, and specifically asked Congress NOT to spend.....than on all other social programs combined?

Really Thinker?

Are you sure?

Lemme show you something.

The federal government made at least $125 billion in improper payments in 2011.

Washington spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.

The Congressional Budget Office published a “Budget Options” series identifying more than $140 billion in potential spending cuts.

Examples from multiple Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of wasteful duplication include 342 economic development programs; 130 programs serving the disabled; 130 programs serving at-risk youth; 90 early childhood development programs; 75 programs funding international education, cultural, and training exchange activities; and 72 safe water programs. The cost estimate for this is between $100 billion and $200 billion annually.

The Institute of Medicine reported that health care waste, fraud, abuse and corruption (WFAC) is estimated to cost taxpayers more than $750 billion annually.

Now, Thinker, I want to you to read this one nice and slow because I’m almost sure that you are one of those social and economic justice nonsense advocates.

Government auditors spent the past five years examining all federal programs and found that 22 percent of them–costing taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually–fail to show any positive impact on the populations they serve.

Read this one nice and slow a few times. These are our government watchdogs telling us our own government is wasting nearly $125 billion annually on social programs that do NOTHING for the populations they serve.

NOTHING!!!!!

This is the perfect example of your sacrosanct Liberal "welfare" programs you so idolize. More money to do less. Just like your wars of poverty, drugs, crime and illiteracy. Failures!

If you’d like I can give you more than 400 more examples of the massive WFAC in our government. But I’m sure this will all fall on deaf ears because you are a THINKER who has been indoctrinated in the typical fear mongering of the Left to deflect the real problem with our economy, our massive government, and instead blame the military.

Now, if you can show me how much more than all this WFAC the military costs us every year I’ll be happy to further discuss the topic with you. If not stop hoping for change from a junior senator whose only accomplishments in life were a few picnics as a community organizer and writing a couple books about himself.

Uhhh, where in the Constitution does is say that 'though shalt spend endlessley, without forethought, on hundreds of social programs and entitlements’?

Please don’t embarrass yourself by using the “General Welfare Clause”, “Necessary and Proper Clause” or the “Commerce Clause”, none of them are applicable.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

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

Romney is walking around with the confidence of not a winner but of a cheater, because of the influence of massive voter fraud for him in this election. The story is being suppressed in this country but not in the UK where you can read about it by searching on the web for 'retired NSA analyst proves GOP is stealing elections'.

Voting is one of most precious rights and now the proof that we are having our democracy undermined by the treacherous GOP.

Wow. Really sick s--t here from obsessed rightwingers who apparently only read what enforces their fantasies. Romney's son Tagg owns the voting machines in Ohio and Colorado. They can be easily fiddled with and their owners will refuse to provide any information due to "proprietary issues."

The Mormon Church holds all the death records in the nation, as they routinely "convert" the dead to Mormonism. Wonder how many mailed ballots will be delivered with votes from the beyond. The republicans know how to steal an election, they did it in 2000, and the SCOTUS will support them.

The GOP would no longer accept Reagan & Goldwater, as it's become the most radically fascist organized political group in American history. Posting here we read spin from people desperate to be rid of our President because of the color of his skin, yet they try so hard to appear rational.

Thomas Jefferson warned us over 200 years ago that democracy would fail when monied corporations took the power of government. It's happening now. Lincoln feared the same when he had to rely on the railway corporations to move his troops. EIsenhower warned us of the military/industrial complex, but somebody here thinks it's great because it employs so many! It also kills many, and every country in history that's assumed the role of world police collapsed in 200 years. We need to rebuild our infrastructure, develop a smart electrical grid, and new technologies for clean energy--providing millions of jobs.

Ryan is saying we cannot afford to teach our kids or feed them when they go hungry--1 in 4 are malnourished and go to bed hungry every night--but Ryan's budget says we must feed our private defense contractors instead.

Romney wants to defund FEMA or privatize it. His purpose in giving all federal authority to the states is to balkanize America so government is powerless to protect our soil, air, water, and food supply. The states could not respond to a superstorm without fed coordination and funding--many many more would die in natural disasters occurring more & more frequently.

He'll strip Congress of it's authority to regulate interstate commerce and put the Chamber of Commerce in charge--we can see see that in Robert's recent opinions in Citizens United and on the Affordable Care Act.

So many here have been blinded by their racism and duped into voting against their own best interests. If Romney wins and tears apart the social contract, sooner or later the affected majority will revolt.

ROY WILSON-336103

This "bud's" for you!!!!

http://www.dpcc.senate.gov/files/documents/CRSTaxesandtheEconomy%20Top%20Rates.pdf

A detailed report by the independent and unimpeachable Congressional Research Service that was NOT published due to heavy GOP pressure.

Why? Because it says EXACTLT what I've been saying for months... that tax cuts for the rich DO NOT help the economy and, in fact, only cause a wider disparity between the rich and the middle class.

Tax cuts at the top ENCOURAGES executives to remove money from the business and tuck it away in off-shore accounts.

Tax cuts at the top DISCOURAGES executives to reinvest profits back into the business.

Shall I go one?

The GOP shut down this report because it refutes the GOP "meaning of life". It absolutely KILLS Romney's economic "plan" and exposes it as a total farce.

What say you Republicans?

The reason I stood in line for 2 hours to vote for Obama is simple. MITT WANTS TO LOWER TAXES EVEN MORE ON THE RICH. The ones that have destroyed this country over the past 30 years or so. I do not care or give a chit about anything else atm, but making those people pay. Rick Scott's sorry a$$ needs to pay back some of the money he stole from Medicare, taxes will do that. I could start going down a list of people that should not have the money that they do and did anything to get it. Taxes will make them pay back what they stole. Maybe they should have not been so greedy and selfish. Taxes provide a vital role much like friction and are to limit the magnitude or amount that people can acquire. The universe demands four times the power to double your velocity, and will tax you at a rate up to 100%. Our system should be the same, or else people break it. It needs to be harder to make more money, the more money you have, not easier. If it is easier to make more money the more you have we enter a condition called "exponential runaway" which the system cannot ever supply.

I still want to know where the f*** all you Mitt supporters were at 30 years ago? You know when we first lowered taxes to below 70% back in 1982 when the country did just fine from 1940 to then with a 90% to 70% top tax rate, and we were all against commies/socialism. Amazing how well businesses did and how many new products were introduced, but according to the rich RWNJs now, that should have never worked. Worker's wages went stagnant back in the 1960's when the top tax rate was lowered from 90% down to 70%. Small business started to decline and has been on the decline ever since the top tax rate was lowered from 70%. People tend to lie, cheat, and steal less when they are not rewarded for it. Stop rewarding them for it and letting them keep all their ill-gotten gains. Taxes will do that. The last four years have been all about a whole, huge, whooping 4% tax increase. The people of this country have suffered all so a small group of a-holes can have their 4% tax break. Maybe had you been willing to fix the mess you created I would not be so pissed at you. You cause the problem and refuse to be part of the solution, just more of the same B.S. that I have heard over the past 30 years or so.

RWNJs still talking about Jeep...LOL. You can tell who pays attention to what is going on.

The army of Republican heavyweights included former presidential candidates like Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Arizona Sen. John McCain. They will disperse across the country.

I thought I smelled something, it's all the tea-republicans spreading around the country like flies on SH*T.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

Yesterday, in their "Closing Arguments"

Obama at his Campaign Rallies----" Don't boo, Vote, Vote, Vote for REVENGE"

Romney at his Campaign Rallies----" Vote for Love of Country"

#1.98....Minor correction:

"Don't boo, Vote, Vote, Voting is the best REVENGE"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5urR_mTTcY

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.

Mitt,

I hate this lying piece of crap. Let me count the ways! 12,000,000 jobs! Yes, I will lower the price of ink and create 2,000,000 more tattoo artists Mitt! Lies, lies and more lies about Jeep and on and on!

Justice Department will monitor polls in about half the country for civil rights violations...

For voter fraud........not so much. Go figure.

I guess we all forgot about 2006 when new home construction closed down and tons of other businesses started going under.... People were getting laid off left and right.... The republicans were in the White House, let us not forget the Bush years....

What the hell ever would make someone think Romney is ever going to make anything better for anyone exept that 1%.... Just wondering....

Hopefully, after President Obama is re-elected, the majority of Americans can boycott any advertisers associated with FOX and its tabloid news. I saw this strategy work back when I was involved with the Parents Television Council when my children were young and concerned parents wanted to keep tv shows with mature themes off of family hour. Thousands of letters and emails were sent to the sponsors of these shows and it was encouraging to see how many sponsors quickly dropped those programs that were not suited for family time. The FOX channel was one of the worst as I recall.

It is unhealthy for anyone to be subjected to the brainwashing of FOX news. That agency and its one-sided, biased reporting is the equivalent of the National Enquirer news rag and the scariest part is that some intelligent people are actually falling for it. It has already caused enough disruption and unrest in this country.

Time to boycott its sponsors.

G-Man:

And...you are yelling about 170 good jobs?

How about the 1861 Solyndra employees told to leave in the night before the FED's rushed the building the next morning? Obama played venture capitalist with your and my tax dollars!

Vote him out!

Romney/Ryan for a Strong America

Al in Visalia CA "From Real Clear Politics:"

Gee, I wonder why you left off Gallup - Romney +5%.

Wart:

"would make someone think Romney is ever going to make anything better"

because Romney likes a challenge, is willing to compromise, security briefings would mean something different than T-time, and he will be found, actually on the job.

Romney/Ryan

Dee:

"racism"

Enough with the racism shame, it isn't going to work four years later. And by the way, you liberals are the ones ALWAYS spouting the word and keeping the issue alive.

If Romney wins and tears apart the social contract, sooner or later the affected majority will revolt.

Guess what, the 53% taxpayers, just might revolt and QUIT...how about that? No-one and I mean no-one is entitled to my check book.

Romney/Ryan 2012 for a Strong America

Romney /Ryan same ole Republican BS different ticket - don't tell me your going to fall fot it again especally after Bush/Chaney almost took you out completly. After all you're still paying for their total destruction agendas of 2000/2004. I won't list the screw-ups, too many to mention and you already know what they were.

CAREFULL WHAT YOU WISH FOR - AMERICAS TOO FRAGILE TO TAKE ANOTHER REPUBLICAN PUNCH TO THE GUT.

Honest:

That darn Bush word keeps popping up time and again.

"A punch to the gut," would be the least of our worries, imagine the annihilation with Obama's international allegiances. "psst."

Romney/Ryan with Christie for a "United" States of America

Independent Thought

Your attempts to rationalize with the indoctrinated Liberal bobbleheads about outsourcing and/or offshoring by Romney is futile.

Most of them have no idea how Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors or other equity investment companies work. They simply read their sacrosanct biased partisan sources such as Huff-N-Puff Post, the New York Slimes, Washington Post, Mother Jones and other nonsense and are incapable of doing any real research on their own.

I have been asking any of them to provide an accurate number of all the jobs Romney, while at Bain Capital, has outsourced for months. So far the response has been,,,

'crickets'

They have no idea what they are talking about. They just keep parroting the lies and propaganda their comrades Barrack Hussein, Debbie Whatsername Slutz, the DNC and other dysfunctional sources tell them to.

They fixate on irrational issues like contraceptives, personal taxes, Big Bird and other bogeymen to simply deflect from the incompetence of Barrack Hussein. They constantly blather about some mythical cliff we were all saved from that the same economists who never saw the economic collapse coming now claim. How can you believe anyone’s post-apocalyptic evaluation when they never saw the apocalypse coming? Only in the secluded Liberal mind does this not make sense.

The Liberal faux concern about the 170 jobs at Sensata is just more of their fixation on irrelevant issues as that company has been outsourcing and offshoring since the 1950's. Of course none of them will simply research the companies own web site that explains it, they just continue their biased blathering to deflect.

Even when their favorite "FactCheck.org" discredits the Romney outsourcing claims, they just follow in their typical lemming fashion.

http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/obamas-outsourcer-overreach/

This is the level of lies and deceit Liberals will promote to protect our statist presidents lies and deceit. They all know what a horrible mistake they made in 2008 but instead of admitting it they continue to support Barrack Hussein simply to try and save what little dignity they have left.

On Wednesday, when real American's will be celebrating the election of Mitt Romney, we will finally rid ourselves of this irrational and destructive combination of Keynesianism and social/economic justice. Instead of dwelling on Big Bird we can finally concentrate on big issues. America is exceptional, contrary to the Liberal mindset.

It's time to promote American exceptionalism that Romney embraces instead of mediocrity that Barrack Hussein represents.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

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

BO...........................as with most liberals, so much of what you "know" simply isn't "so". (Ronald Reagan)

Jim:

Keep fighting the good fight, it is worth every click of the keyboard.

Romney/Ryan 2012

Three days left and I can finally watch the telly without having my reverie interrupted by ominous voiceovers.

Heres how I see it, based on trends in polling, Sandy aftermath and some anecdotal evidence.

House: Republicans retain, lose maybe 5 seats

Senate: Republicans take, with 51 or 52 seats

Presidency: With somewhere around 305 EVs...Romney

I'm curious to see how the Left will react to this.

I am pasting a post from Sandy Radcliffe who, I think, did an excellent job of reporting. See Sandy’s writing below:-

“Tagg Romney's Company Misled Reporters About Its Relationship With Ponzi
Scheme–Linked Firm Lee Fang on October 12, 2012 - 8:10 PM ET

Is there anything this Dirt Bag won't do? So the Caymen Island Accounts are not
just his, he is also helping his kid to rip off people.”

THIS IS ANOTHER POST FROM SANDY RADCLIFFE:

Remember the quote from Newt Gingrich about Romney? “How can you debate
someone who lies about everything?”...more

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Under Gov. Romney, Massachusetts fell to 47th out of 50 in job creation:

Before Romney’s time as governor, Massachusetts ranked 36th out of 50 in job

creation, but over the course of his tenure the state ranked a dismal 47th out

of 50—even as the national economy was growing. The Bay State only beat Michigan,

Ohio, and Louisiana—which was still recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Gov. Romney created or raised over 1,000 taxes and fees:

Though he promised he wouldn’t raise taxes as governor, he increased taxes and

fees by as much as $750 million per year, leaving the average taxpayer to pay
an extra $1,227 in state and local fees and taxes. During his first year in office, Romney

raised fees on milk, driver’s licenses, hospitals, nursing and barber licenses,

and even on the blind.

Gov. Romney left behind a huge budget deficit:

Romney broke his pledge to balance the budget and left his successor, Gov.

Deval Patrick, with a $1 billion budget deficit. Long-term debt increased by

16% over Romney’s four-year term, and he left Massachusetts with the highest
debt per person in the nation.

I would NEVER vote for Rob-Me; after one term as Massachusetts Governor, the People of the State of Massachusetts decided the same thing, INCLUDING REPUBLICANS!!!!

Hillary Clinton's former Senate state director, Gigi Georges:

“For most of my life, I’ve been an active Democrat. I am proud to have worked for President Bill Clinton and then-Senator Hillary Clinton, and, during that time, I saw firsthand what can be accomplished by strong, bipartisan leadership. I know what it means to work across the aisle on issues that are important to the American people. And that’s why I am supporting Mitt Romney. Governor Romney has a plan to restore the prosperity this country deserves and expects. He will work with people of good will no matter what their party, and he will pursue the policies that are in the best interest of our country, no matter who proposes them. That’s what President Obama promised to do four years ago. But like so many of his promises, bipartisan cooperation is just another one he has broken. We can’t have four more years of failed policies and two parties that can’t work together. We need the change Mitt Romney is offering.”

ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ROMNEY OWNS/HAS INTEREST IN VOTING MACHINES- SIGN THE PETITION

SIGN THE PETITION AT:http://www.credoaction.com OR google "Voting machines tied to the Romneys could decide the election in Ohio"

Voting machines tied to the Romneys could decide the election in Ohio

Could a voting machine company with deep financial ties to the Romney family help Republicans steal the presidential election in Ohio?

It could happen. If this year's presidential election comes down to the electoral votes in Ohio, the deciding votes could be cast on electronic voting machines manufactured by Hart Intercivic.

Tell the Department of Justice: Don't let Republicans steal the election in Ohio with Romney-owned voting machines.

A 2007 study conducted by Ohio's Secretary of State showed that Hart Intercivic's touch screen voting machines could be easily corrupted. The New York Times reported:

At polling stations, teams working on the study were able to pick locks to access memory cards and use hand-held devices to plug false vote counts into machines. At boards of election, they were able to introduce malignant software into servers.¹

Hart Intercivic is majority owned by H.I.G. Capital which controls two of the five seats on the Hart Intercivic board. An investment fund with deep ties to the Romney family and the Mitt Romney for president campaign, H.I.G. Capital was founded by Tony Tamer, a major bundler for the Romney campaign, and it is one of the largest partners of Solamere Capital, an investment fund founded by Tagg Romney and Spencer Zwick, Mitt Romney's chief fundraiser from the 2008 presidential campaign.² This makes the Romney family part owner of the voting machine company, through it's interest in H.I.G. Capital.

Tell the Department of Justice: Don't let Republicans steal the election in Ohio with Romney-owned voting machines.

What's more, three other H.I.G. Capital directors are major fundraisers for the Romney campaign, and H.I.G. Capital is the 11th largest contributor to the Mitt Romney campaign.³ Two of the company's directors, Douglas Berman and Brian Schwartz, were even in attendance at the Boca Raton fundraiser⁴ where Romney infamously declared:

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what... who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it... These are people who pay no income tax...[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.⁵

And as if the ties between Tagg Romney's Solamere, Romney contributors at H.I.G. Capital, and Hart Intercivic weren't astonishing enough, two members of Hart Intercivic's 5-member board of directors made direct contributions to the Romney campaign. That's right. Directors of the company that makes touchscreen voting machines that could decide the presidential election in Ohio, have made contributions to the Mitt Romney for President campaign.

It is disturbing and dangerous that Hart Intercivic, the company that makes the machines that will count many of the votes in Ohio on election night has deep financial ties to family members of Mitt Romney. And that its leadership has been actively involved presidential campaign by donating and bundling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Mitt Romney. The fact that these machines are easily corruptible touch screen voting machines makes matters even worse.

Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are locked in a tight election race which could very well be decided by Ohio's 18 electoral votes. We must take action now.

Thank you for all you do to protect the integrity of our Democracy.

Independent thought,

Romney and Lying Ryan for repeal of Roe v Wade, lack of work so the rich can sit back and pay their 14% tax rate with loopholes on money mommy and daddy left them ( along with off-shore hidden accounts), for lies about Jeep moving to China, for being behind 28% in his home state where the voters already know his lies and for flip-flopping record that he has set leaving us all wondering what he really or what they really believe in!

Obama/Biden 2012 Four more years to finish the recovery and not take us back to trickle down economic! It didn't work for bush, there's that word again, and it will never work!

My guess is that none of the 600 small business owners whose businesses suddenly flat-lined and collapsed in my home State in a period of two months during the summer/fall of 2008 will be voting for Bush/Cheney - I mean Romney/Ryan - or ANY GOP/TP this time around.

Obama will win if we get out the vote, and looks like we will. Romney has been caught in so many lies that the few good people in the Republican party are probably rethinking their party affiliation. I just hope the tea baggers get a little patriotism and start working with President Obama.

Here's what the non partisan Congressional Research Service has to say about cutting taxes to increase income. (Summary below)

Throughout the late-1940s and 1950s, the top marginal tax rate was typically above 90%; today it is 35%. Additionally, the top capital gains tax rate was 25% in the 1950s and 1960s, 35% in the 1970s; today it is 15%. The real GDP growth rate averaged 4.2% and real per capita GDP increased annually by 2.4% in the 1950s. In the 2000s, the average real GDP growth rate was 1.7% and real per capita GDP increased annually by less than 1%.

There is not conclusive evidence, however, to substantiate a clear relationship between the 65-year steady reduction in the top tax rates and economic growth. Analysis of such data suggests the reduction in the top tax rates have had little association with saving, investment, or productivity growth. However, the top tax rate reductions appear to be associated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution.

The share of income accruing to the top 0.1% of U.S. families increased from 4.2% in 1945 to 12.3% by 2007 before falling to 9.2% due to the 2007-2009 recession. The evidence does not suggest necessarily a relationship between tax policy with regard to the top tax rates and the size of the economic pie, but there may be a relationship to how the economic pie is sliced.

Since Romney's whole platform is refuted by these findings, Senator Mitch McConnell (R) blocked the release of the Report. It surfaced again in the Nov 1 2012 New York Times.

silverton-2953905

Clearly you know nothing about small business.

WELL SAID DeeTurner, WELL SAID Good Lady. And For the Very Few NAIVE American voters who are thinking of voting for Mitt Tax Pittance Rommel and Lyin'Ryan out of desperation and hope that THESE TWO
MONSTERS will rescue your life, Better look AT THE FACTS. CountDracula
and EdddiMunster are going to keep the bush TAX EVASION BONUSES FOR THE EVIL
RICH In Effect: with TheCount's Crappy excuse? "I won't LOWER the taxes on
the Rich!!!!" Well, Thanks Count, as you 1-10% and Corporate
rich already pay the Lowest taxes in American History and taxes are
REALLY on the Backs of Working Americans @37%. AND!!! WE DO NOT Get A
Universal HealthCare System Like THE SANE Countries Have; Instead We GOT SCREWED By KingGeorge THE VacuumBrained and his republicanCrimeCartel "WMD" War. Gas and Oil Prices????,
What a Sucker Punch AT Voters. The Count and EddiMunster PERSONALLY Dreamed up
the $4.00p/g at the pump to blame it on Prez O, Like their pals in the House Of Reptiles STALLING Prez O Legislation to Create Meaningful Jobs and Careers. JUST WHO do you voters think
sets Gas& Oil prices, "Healthcare" policy prices, Hiring, Job/Career Outsourcing,
Burger Flipping pay for NET $4.50p/hr while TheCount and HIS
republicanCrimecartel Soldiers are SUCKING YOU DRY for
$4.00p/gal gas and oil,
$1100.00p/m for "healthinsurance", while, Rommel's FRIEND, the ceoVampire
at united healthcare, took home $128,000,000 *CASH*, PLEASE Research This So
YOU KNOW PhantomBeast IS NOT BSing You, Paid No taxes with capital Gains
LoopHoles, Thanks to The republicanCrimeCartel which Perverted the tax laws FOR
THE EVIL RICH, leaving WE American TaxPayers to Pay HIS Taxes. These Clowns are
aristocrat decendents of the Plantation and Slave Owners who were the ruling
idiots who started the civil war and ran the south into ruination; SOUND
FAMILIAR? AND PRESENT DAY, these
republicanCrimeCartelCROOKS convinced NAIVE voters to vote them into controlling the
House Of Representatives, PROMISINF Renenewed republican power to be used to
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HELPFUL Bill Prez O has created and backed for Creating jobs and helping WE
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give it ALL AWAY to themselves and
the 1-10% and Corporate Rich
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Jim Spence, Anybodies attempt to rationalize with those who are easily brainwashed to the lies of Romney and Lying Ryan are futile! You better get your ticket to China so you can get one of the first jobs at the new Jeep factory ! LOL!

If your a woman and vote GOP you must check the box 'breeding stock' when asked your sex.

It wasn't too many years ago that women could not vote. It wasn't too many years before that when women were considered a mans property.

This is women's freedom 101. The GOP would fundamentally deny you.

This is real, this is how they think, do you get it yet?

The President's efforts to solve our unemployment problem and to control the deficit have not worked. The President's economic plan for the next four years is devoid of detail and budget and is mathematically impossible.

The Obama administration document on the stimulus stated what the stimulus was designed to do. According to that document if the stimulus were passed unemployment would not go above 8%. That did not happen. The Obama administration created and used this document to sell the stimulus spending bill as the solution to the nations unemployment problems. The stimulus did not solve our unemployment problem. According to that official administration document if the stimulus did its job as it was designed then unemployment should now be well below 6%. Furthermore, if the stimulus bill had done its job then the President would not have to propose a second stimulus. The numbers in that document were not presented as speculation, they were presented as specification. This official Obama administration document said what the stimulus was going to do. Clearly what the Obama administration said would happen did not happen.

To me, reelecting the President means 4 more years of the same just hoping that things change. The President's new program to fix the the economy is just more of his same on going program to fix the economy. My biggest concern is all of the debt that has been building up. I estimate that an additional 5 trillion dollars of debt will end up costing the tax payers 50 trillion dollars to repay in 180 years. I agree with the President when he stated:

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities. Instead,interest payments are a significant tax on all Americans–a debt tax that Washington doesn’t want to talk about. If Washington were serious about honest tax relief in this country, we would see an effort to reduce our national debt by returning to responsible fiscal policies.

Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.

~ Senator B. H. Obama, March 2006

While the rest of America is praising FEMA for its quick response to the Sandy disaster, I just heard some guy over at FOX quoted as saying that FEMA was not doing things fast enough, "like getting generators to people."

Come on, people.

I know that Mitt Romney wants to get rid of FEMA, but anytime there is a disaster, States are crying out for FEMA to get there. Those folks at FEMA are working their tails off to help people, and the GOP/Tea Party cannot even give credit where credit is due.

Like fixing the economy catastrophe that Bush/Cheney created ... GOP/TP blames the President for "not fixing it fast enough."

Now, they blame FEMA instead of praising them.

Typical.

You comment is a prime example of why Obama will lose this election. People don't want a President that empowers such vile and nasty people.

Now, that is f'ing hilarious! Republicans shout "Liar!" during presidential speeches, have labeled Obama everything from Muslim to Communist to Socialist, have even questioned repeatedly in the face of overwhelming evidence his very American citizenship ...

And, you, you have the unmitigated gall to suggest that the American people don't want a President that empowers vile and nasty people.

Hahahahahaha! You just damned the entire Republican party!

Republicans, just remember that when Mitt goes to vote tomorrow in MASS. he will still be trailing by 28% in his home state. He says he will be bi-partisan, but he was bi-partisan enough to use his veto 800+ times. He's a lying piece of crap and the people know that already. Hopefully, the rest of us won't have to find out the hard way!