President Obama, our decisive Decider-In-Chief : signed the Equal Pay Act right off the bat.
Romney will not say yes or no. Equal Pay for women is a HARD DECISION? (he has a wife?)

Looks like BIG presidential decision-making is going to be just TOO difficult, for poor old Salesman Romney.

Romney wants a new, additional $5 trillion tax cut for the wealthy, ON TOP of extending the Bush tax cuts. But will not tax the wealthy a penny more to pay for it. He will either put more on the deficit - or our taxes will go up.

Who wants a couple of sheister Norquistians in the oval office, at the beck and call of the 0.01%-er Adelsons/GOP corporates, and foreign transnationals?

FACT: Two thirds or more of Americans want to cut Defense spending.

FACT: Romney wants to ADD TWO TRILLION dollars more to Defense spending.

But - just like Romney's $5 trillion dollar tax cut (that he denied at Debate #1):

FACT: Romney won't say how he will pay for the 5 + 2 = $7 trillion additional spending.

FACT: Not only that, the Joint Chiefs of Staff DON'T WANT another $2trillion spent on Defense.

Updated for 1:00pm EST on Sunday, November 4, 2012:

*** Mischief alert: Quite a bit of suspect outlier polling favorable to Romney being floated out in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan today in the face of multiple polling which confirms strong Obama leads in each of these states. The Karl Rove axiom of 'shape perceptions to alter outcomes,' perhaps?

Obama's leads have been strengthening in Ohio and Nevada over the weekend and Romney has stabilized his position in both Florida and North Carolina.

Iowa, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Virginia remain in a state of flux with new RCP numbers likely to be released within hours.

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Real Clear Politics (RCP) consistently has been the "go-to" source for accurate averaged daily polling data for both FOXNEWS and NBCNEWS. With less than 35 hours to go in the 2012 presidential campaign, RCP continues to report that Obama leads in eight of their 11 toss-up states with Romney leading in three.

In descending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Obama, followed in ascending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Romney, here are the published averaged numbers from RCP as of 1:00pm EST together with the most recent FiveThirtyEight election night probabilities of victory for either candidate:

In WISCONSIN, with 10 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 4.2%, down from 5.0% on Saturday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 94.2% chance of victory here, up by 0.9% from Friday and by an astounding 8.5% since Tuesday.

*** It should be noted that RCP's average in Wisconsin has been influenced by an outlier poll from the right-leaning Rassmussen which has the race at a dead heat when four other current polls have Obama leading by 8.0%, 7.0%, 3.0%, and 3.0%. In fact, the 7.0% Obama lead was affirmed recently by another Right-leaning poll (WeAskAmerica) which is wholly funded by the conservative Illinois Manufacturing Association.

In PENNSYLVANIA, with 20 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 3.9%, down from 4.1% on Saturday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 97.3% chance of victory here, up by 1.2% from Friday and by a significant 3.2% since Tuesday.

*** It should be noted that RCP's average in Pennsylvania also has been influenced this weekend by the release of an outlier poll from the conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review which has the race at a dead heat when two other findings have Obama's lead at 6.0% and 3.0%.

In MICHIGAN, with 16 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 3.8%, down from 4.0% on Saturday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 98.8% chance of victory here, up 0.4% from Friday and by 0.7% since Tuesday.

*** It should be noted that RCP's average here has been influenced by yet another outlier poll released by Baydoun/Foster (D), a self-described Democrat-leaning voter analytics consulting firm based in Michigan, which has Romney up by 1.0% when four other polls have Obama leading by 6.0%, 6.0%, 5.0%, and 3.0%. In fact, the 5.0% finding for Obama was published late last week by Rasmussen, another Right-leaning poll. The irony is that Baydoun/Foster has consistently produced polling results which favor Republican candidates up and down the ticket in Michigan and their results, by and large, remain highly suspect.

In OHIO, with 18 electoral votes, Obama's lead has settled at 2.8%, up from 2.6% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 85.0% chance of victory here, up by 4.3% from Friday and by an astronomical 11.7% since Tuesday.

In NEVADA, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.8%, up from 2.4% on Friday.
FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 89.5% chance of victory here, up by 2.3% from Friday and by an astonishing 9.8% since Tuesday.

In IOWA, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.5%, up from 2.0% on Saturday morning. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 83.1% chance of victory here, up by 1.5% from Friday and by an astounding 9.2% since Tuesday.

In NEW HAMPSHIRE, with 4 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 1.5%, down from 1.8% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama an 79.4% chance of victory here, up by 0.7% from Friday and by an astounding 9.1% since Tuesday.

In COLORADO, with 9 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 0.6%, down from 0.9% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Obama a 68.1% chance of victory here, up by 2.4% from Friday and by an astronomical 12.7% since Tuesday.

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In VIRGINIA, with 13 electoral votes, Romney's lead has fallen to 0.3%, down from 0.5% on Friday. Interestingly, FiveThirtyEight increased Obama's chance of victory here (and not Romney's) to 71.0%, up by a substantial 6.2% from Friday.

In FLORIDA, with 29 electoral votes, Romney's lead has risen to 1.4%, up from 1.2% on Friday. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Romney a 53.8% chance of victory here, down by 1.0% from Friday and by a stunning 10.9% from Tuesday.

*** It should be noted that RCP's average in Florida does appear to have been hyper-inflated by two recent outlier findings in favor of Romney, the first a 6.0% margin yesterday from the right-leaning Mason-Dixon Group with localized results for only the two cities of Tampa Bay (site of the 2012 RNC) and Miami (Marco Rubio stronghold), the second a 3.0% margin from Gravis Marketing, a polling firm funded in large part by BAIN Capital, and an appreciably older finding by The Sunshine State News, an ultra-conservative website/blog which had Romney leading by 5.0% on October 24. Minus the influences of these extreme outliers, Romney's true lead is likely well under 1.0% and quite possibly closer to that of dead heat.

In NORTH CAROLINA, with 15 electoral votes, Romney's lead is holding at 3.8%. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Romney a 78.7% chance of victory here, down 1.2% from Friday.

So...

In order for Obama to win re-election the least complex route would be through maintaining his current lead in the five toss-up states where his existing margins are widest (Wisconsin at 4.2%, Pennsylvania at 3.9%, Michigan at 3.8%, Ohio at 2.8%, and Nevada at 2.8%). Doing so would bring his electoral vote total on Election Day to 271. In this scenario, Obama could still surpass 270 while failing to hold Iowa, New Hampshire, and Colorado.

However, should Obama fail to hold the strategic prize of a hotly-contested Ohio, the loss could effectively be neutralized by any of the following combination of wins from states where FiveThirtyEight is currently forecasting Obama victories:

Path #1: Obama loses Ohio but holds the remaining three states where he presently leads, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Colorado resulting in 272 electoral votes.

Path #2: Obama loses Ohio but steals Virginia while also taking only one state from among New Hampshire, Iowa, or Colorado resulting in 270, 272, or 275 electoral votes, respectively.

Interestingly, with Romney's lead having diminished significantly in Florida over the past two weeks and with Hurricane Sandy forcefully highlighting the stark contrast between the candidates regarding the value and necessity if not the mere existence of FEMA in a state which has perhaps the greatest dependence on federal storm relief efforts in the nation, a 3rd path has now emerged which could provide for some interesting election night television:

Path #3: Obama comes from behind to win Florida. This scenario would require only that Obama win the three states in which his present leads are widest (Wisconsin at 4.2%, Pennsylvania at 3.9%, and Michigan at 3.8%), resulting in 276 electoral votes.

For Romney to unseat Obama, he not only would have to hold the three states in which he presently leads, North Carolina, Florida, and Virginia bringing his electoral vote total to 248, but also steal victories in at least one of the following possible combinations from states currently leaning Obama, listed in descending order of likelihood based on the reverse engineering of current FiveThirtyEight numbers for election night chances of victory:

Path A: Romney steals both Ohio and Colorado resulting in 275 electoral votes (least unlikely outcome).

Path B: Romney steals both Ohio and New Hampshire resulting in 270 electoral votes.

Path C: Romney steals both Pennsylvania and Colorado resulting in 277 electoral votes.

Path D: Romney steals both Pennsylvania and New Hampshire resulting in 272 electoral votes (most unlikely).

Working against two of these scenarios (Paths A and B) are rising averaged polling numbers over the past two days for Obama in Ohio; however, in that same forty-eight hour period Romney has succeeded in reducing Obama's averaged leads in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and New Hampshire. Perhaps somewhat mystifyingly, the Romney campaign continues to make pronouncements alluding to their having embraced the "Pennsylvania Strategy" included in Paths 3 and 4 above, the two paths which have the least likely chance of success.

So, is this a bold strategic maneuver on the part of Eric Fehrnstrom or a feint designed to counter Obama's anticipated re-allocation of campaign resources to a quantifiably softening political landscape in Florida? If it's the latter, a review of the published travel schedules for the President and key Democrat surrogates in these final two days does not suggest the Obama campaign is taking the bait.

In any event, should Romney fail to steal either Ohio or Pennsylvania he could overcome this shortfall by capturing the four other states in which Obama's current leads are smallest (Colorado at 0.6%, New Hampshire at 1.5%, Iowa at 2.5%, and Nevada at 2.8%) resulting in an electoral vote total of 273.

FiveThirtyEight this morning estimates the chance of Election Day victory for each candidate as follows: Obama 85.1% (up significantly from Friday morning's 80.9%) and Romney 14.9% (down by a similar margin from Friday's 19.1%).

FiveThirtyEight now also projects that on Election Day the final electoral tally will be as follows: Obama 307 (up 8 from Wednesday's 299) and Romney 231 (down 8 from Wednesday's 239).

Lastly, although it makes no difference in terms of the final result which can only be determined by the Electoral College, FiveThirtyEight currently predicts a national popular vote distribution on Election Day as follows: Obama 50.6% (up from Thursday's 50.4%) and Romney 48.3% (down from Thursday's 48.6%).

With only 35 hours of campaigning left, and with Friday's published October jobs report playing to predictably mixed reviews (economy adding more jobs than expected; unemployment rate ticking up one tenth of one percent to 7.9%), holdout voters may now be left to nothing more than the proverbial 'feel in their gut' as Tuesday approaches.

Don't forget to stock up on the 7-layer dip for an exhilarating night of television on Tuesday!

A new survey from New England College has President Obama leading Mitt Romney by 6 percentage points in New Hampshire, 49.5 percent to 44.4 percent.

Obama leads by 10 points with independents, who make up a plurality of the electorate in the Granite State. He also has a wide lead with women. “If Governor Romney is going to close the gap on the President he will need to perform significantly better among women,” polling institute director Ben Tafoya said.

An NBC/WSJ/Marist survey from New Hampshire earlier this week found Obama up by 2 points, within the margin of error.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/11/02/poll-obama-up-six-in-new-hampshire/

This President and First Lady have done more for vets than anyone.

GO to: www.whitehouse.gov/issues/veterans

I notice the newest Republican mantra is "Vote for Romney to SAVE America."

Is this a subliminal message meant to turn out the evangelical vote? If so, it's not going to work in NH which is more mainstream Protestant and Catholic. "Are you SAVED? is a common exclamation in the South, as I understand, but it's not a New England thing. Sorry, Romney! You don't know how to talk Yankee!

Have I said that Romney is a putz?

I think I have and it's still true.

Don't vote for a putz. Vote for Obama.

For Romney to Win, State Polls Must Be Statistically Biased

THE. BEST. POLLING. DATA. EVER.!

Nate predicts on Nov. 6,
President Obama is 85.1% likely to win 307 Electoral College votes!
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President Obama chances of winning: the popular vote - 80.5%
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President Obama chances of winning: IOWA - 83%

President Obama chances of winning: *OHIO* - 85%

President Obama chances of winning: WISC - 94%

President Obama chances of winning: PA - 97.1%

President Obama chances of winning: VA - 71.%

President Obama chances of winning: NH - 79.4%

President Obama chances of winning: NV - 89.5%

President Obama chances of winning: CO - 68.1%

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of the last 21 polls, Obama is ahead in . . . . 17, 2 ties, Myth ahead in NC & FL :-)

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O & JOE . . . VOTE! :-)

STILL BAFFLED BY MYTH ROMNEY??? THIS MAKES SENSE . . .

"ROMNEYISM"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/romneyism_b_2069095.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

The ten guiding principles of Romneyism are:

1. Corporations are the basic units of society. Corporations are people, and the overriding purpose of an economy is to maximize corporate profits. When profits are maximized, the economy grows fastest. This growth benefits everyone in the form greater output, better products and services, and higher share prices.

2. Workers are a means to the goal of maximizing corporate profits. If workers do not contribute to that goal, they should be fired. If they cannot then find other work that helps maximize profits in another company, their wages must be too high, and they must therefore accept steadily lower wages until they find a job.

3. All factors of production -- capital, physical plant and equipment, workers -- are fungible and should be treated the same. Any that fail to deliver high competitive returns should be replaced or discarded. This keeps an economy efficient. Fairness is and should be irrelevant.

4. Pollution, unsafe products, unsafe working conditions, financial fraud, and other negative side effects of the pursuit of profits are the price society pays for profit-driven growth. They should not be used as excuses to constrain the pursuit of profits through regulation.

5. Individual worth depends on net worth -- how much money one has made, and the value of the assets that money has been invested in. Any person with enough intelligence and ambition can make a fortune. Failure to do so is sign of moral and intellectual inferiority.

6. People who fail in the economy should not be coddled. They should not receive food stamps, Medicaid, or any other form of social subsidy. Coddling leads to a weaker society and a weaker economy.

7. Taxes are inherently bad because they constrain profit-making. It is the right and responsibility of individuals and corporations to exploit every tax loophole they (and their tax attorneys) can find in order to pay the lowest taxes possible.

8. Politics is a game whose only purpose is to win. Any means used to win the game is legitimate even if it involves lying and cheating, as long as it gains more supporters than it loses.

9. Democracy is dangerous because it is forever vulnerable to the votes of a majority intent on capturing the wealth of the successful minority, on whom the economy depends. The rich must therefore do whatever is necessary to prevent the majority from exercising its will, including spending large sums of money on lobbyists and political campaigns. The most virtuous among the rich will go a step further and run for president.

10. The three most important aspects of life are family, religion, and money. Patriotism is a matter of guarding our economy from unfair traders and undocumented immigrants, rather than joining together for the common good. We owe nothing to one another as citizens of the same society.

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On Tuesday we'll decide whether these should be the guiding principles of America.

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IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT FOR AMERICA?

HECK NO, VOTE O & JOE! :-)

Final Fact Check - Who Tells the Truth More

From politifact.com. Counting as true, statements rated as true or mostly true.

Romney = 62 true or mostly true statements out of 202 checked statements

Romney tells the truth 30.6% of the time.

Obama = 205 true or mostly true statements out of 247 checked statements.

Obama tells the truth 45.3% of the time.

Don't believe me go to politifact.com and do the math yourself.

Correction. On Obama, the denominator should be 452 checked statements.

Romney's obsession of prevarication is schizophrenic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

American's take note!!!

Obama's first debate is very telling as to who is as a president of the USofA.

Ill prepared, lackluster and so egotistical that he found preparation beneath him.

Romney/Ryan 2012

CLINTON ENDORSES ROMNEY!

In an interview with CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight," Bill Clinton, a top Obama surrogate who is set to raise cash with the president next week, directly contradicted Democrats who have attacked Romney's business record, suggesting it does qualify him for president.

"I think he had a good business career," Clinton told guest host Harvey Weinstein, a movie mogul who is one of Obama's top fundraisers. "There's no question that in terms of getting up and going to the office and, you know, basically performing the essential functions of the office, the man who has been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold."

Adding that he has "friends" in the private equity business," Clinton suggested it was dangerous for Democrats to go after Romney's record at Bain Capital—adding that in private equity, "like everything else you try, you don't always succeed" in saving companies or making them more productive.

"I don't think that we ought to get into the position where we say this is bad work," Clinton said. "This is good work."

Thank you Bill Clinton, your endorsement proves Romney is the right choice for America.

Greed isn’t someone wanting to keep more of what they earn, its people demanding a greater share of money that someone else has earned.

I'll vote for anyone who will try to improve my standard of living ...without destroying someone else’s!

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

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

Romney's "Real Americans"..........everyone else is chopped liver?

Jim, please tell me what a "Real American" is? My family's American experience began in 1720 when Samuel McDowell landed and headed for the Virginia Kentucky Territories does that qualify me and mine as real Americans? Your view of America is skewed and needs adjustment.

Obama 2012

CHRYSLER CONSIDERS MOVING JEEP OFFSHORE!!!!!

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

Greed isn’t someone wanting to keep more of what they earn, its people demanding a greater share of money that someone else has earned.

I'll vote for anyone who will try to improve my standard of living ...without destroying someone else’s!

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

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

Jim -- Seriously, really? This is your post, this is it? You make the case better than I could how pathetic rightwingers have become.

Live free or die!

How appropriate next Tuesday.

I vote for freedom. I vote to re-elect.

New Hampshire. Look to your neighbor to your south. I used to live in Ayer, Massachusetts. I know what a lame, absentee governor Wrongme was. They don't want him back; that's why Massachusetts is firmly in the Obama camp.

Help send Wrongme home (wherever that is. it is one of six states. You claim him?)

OBAMA’S JOBS COST $200,000 EACH AND ONLY PAY $25,000 EACH.

60% of the jobs lost were good mid-wage paying jobs, 58% of Barrack Husseins jobs are low-wage jobs replacing them.

Forward?

Seems more like REARWARD!

Obama aide explains 'voting is best revenge' comment.

Obama cites gains of more than 5 million new jobs since he took.

Hmmmm, 5 million jobs.

We The People are on the hook for the $863 billion $timulu$. Remember, this is borrowed money. For this "investment" we have allegedly been blesses with these 5 million jobs. Simple math shows this has cost us over $200,000 per job. If this isn't enough to outrage you about Keynesianism, you are hopelessly indoctrinated.

Now, let me educate you about what types of jobs your $200,000 investment are being created.

Although six in 10 jobs lost during the Great Recession paid mid-level wages, the majority of new jobs created in the recovery -- positions such as store clerks, laborers and home healthcare aides -- pay much less, according to a new study by the National Employment Law Project.

The study covered jobs created from the first quarter of 2010 through the first quarter of 2012.

Lower-paying jobs, with median hourly wages from $7.69 to $13.83, accounted for just 21% of the job losses during the recession. But they've made up about 58% of the job growth from the end of the recession in late 2009 through early 2012.

Those jobs have been concentrated in three industries: food services, retail and employment services, such as office clerks and customer service representatives, the study found.

In contrast, mid-wage occupations with median hourly wages from $13.84 to $21.13 -- jobs such as construction workers, real estate brokers, and data entry clerks -- have accounted for just 22% of the new jobs in the recovery after making up 60% of the job losses in the recession.

So, we're paying $200,000 to create jobs making $25,000 a year. I'm not an economist but it would seem like our return on investment isn't very good.

THESE ARE THE "GREEN SHOOTS", THE "RECOVERY SUMMER" AND WHAT "FOCUSED LIKE A LASER" GIVES US.

Greed isn’t someone wanting to keep more of what they earn, its people demanding a greater share of money that someone else has earned.

I'll vote for anyone who will try to improve my standard of living ...without destroying someone else’s!

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

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

JimSpence, it's easy to see that you are on the staff of Romney/Ryan. You know damn well that election day is not November 7th. Just trying to use dirty tricks because the republicans know it's the only way Romney can win. He's not able to get elected on his platform (if anyone even knows what that is). Didn't his mom ever teach him that honesty is the best policy?

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

Jim,

You could go to jail for conspiring to commit election fraud. Seriously go look it up.

The President said that he would bring the nation together. That did not work.

The President said that he could work with the opposition party by reaching across the isle. That did not work.

The President said that his administration would be free from lobbyists. That did not work.

The President said that his administration would be the most transparent ever. That did not work.

The President said that he would fix the economy within three years. That did not work.

The President said that his health care bill would lower health care costs. That did not work.

The President said that he would not raise taxes on 95% of Americans in any way. That did not work.

The President said that his stimulus spending bill would solve our employment problem. That did not work.

The President said that he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. That did not work.

I see a pattern here. The President said that if he could not fix the economy within three year that he did not deserve a second term. The President also said:

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

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

Hmmmm, Optimistic & Geowil . . . . do you think "Jim Spence" is "advertising"? if so, mark his posts as such, please!

:-)

Geowil

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

Jim,

You could go to jail for conspiring to commit election fraud. Seriously go look it up

I KNOW!!!!!

I've already had the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, NSA, a Navy Seal Team and Big Bird come to my house!!!!!!

I was really a scared.

But they all shook my hand and thanked me for exercising my 1st Amendment Rights of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Press.

Boy was I glad at least somebody in this corrupt administration still believes in our Constitution seeings how Barrack Hussein keeps trampling all over it. Funny isn't it? An alleged Constitutional professor and he hates it so much to even admit he doesn't believe it's a Charter of Negative Liberties.

ROTFLMAO!!!! You Libbies are so thick. If you or any in your indoctrinated cabal don't know when our election day is you don't deserve to vote. If anyone is that stupid the last thing we want is them deciding who will get us out of this mess that Progressivism has caused.

Now go away and go back to sniffing Barrack Husseins chairs, you've been doing it for 4 years I don't want to break your addiction to mediocrity.

Greed isn’t someone wanting to keep more of what they earn, its people demanding a greater share of money that someone else has earned.

I'll vote for anyone who will try to improve my standard of living ...without destroying someone else’s!

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

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

@ Independent thought

American's take note!!!

Romney's third debate proved he was not qualified to be CIC.

Vote to Re-elect our Commander-in-Chief president Obama.

OBAMA/Biden 2012

The real false attacks have been committed by Romnesia against the great record of Obama achievements.

Final Fact Check - Who Tells the Truth More

From politifact.com. Counting as true, statements rated as true or mostly true.

Romney = 62 true or mostly true statements out of 202 checked statements

Romney tells the truth 30.6% of the time.

Obama = 205 true or mostly true statements out of 247 checked statements.

Obama tells the truth 45.3% of the time.

Don't believe me go to politifact.com and do the math yourself.

Correction. On Obama, the denominator should be 452 checked statements

Romney's blueprint for recovery, "Trust me" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Romney's blueprint for recovery, "Trust me" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Obama's proven blueprint for recovery (because he's been the acting president for 4 frickin' years) is a complete failure. If you think saddling your kids and your grand kids with trillions of dollars in wasted bailouts and bloated government is recovery you're in for a sorry awakening. America is heading towards a fiscal cliff. If Obama is re-elected and continues to spend like he does we will be past the point of no return. That's when you don't have enough cash to pay for the interest on the debt. Continuing to print money for free cell phones has the rest of the world laughing at us.

Romney/Ryan 2012

American:

Obama's Blue Print for Recovery: REVENGE! Now that is bipartisan?

Romney/Ryan for a "United" States of America

Romney is for the Ununited States of America. He wants to give most of what the federal government does to the states. We could be like 50 different countries.

Jim - that was the way the constitution was designed. The concept of United States of America was a take off from city-state concept of Greece. The difference between the USA and Greece is they were only in alliance and didn't have to respond to intruders of other states if they didn't want to.\

But, you see JimS that is EXACTLY what the Republicans WANT. Theocratic/Pluotcratic dictatorships, ALL across the country, OUR country. Why do you think, that the number one line out of the mouths of the right wing is "take our country back"? Kind of a scary thought, huh? And it would be more like 50 different "kingdoms", because the "Governors" would be "appointed" not elected. This is what will be known as, "the new world order", something that the Republicans have been working towards for DECADES !!!! Obama/Biden 2012!!!!! VOTE !! VOTE !! VOTE !!!!!!

Decider-in-chief? More like Divider-in-chief. "Vote. Voting is the best revenge". Idiot-in-chief

New Hampshire please VOTE for Obama/Biden We are New Englanders and want whats right for our country.Go vote like your life depends on it cause it does!

Pigotry,

As Clinton said, look at the folks on the down ticket.

In fact Clinton will be making an appearance in St. Cloud MN, the county seat of Sterns county. Home to three colleges . He will be speaking for Obama and Jim Graves who is within striking distance to unseat Michele Bachmann.

Jim Graves?? Barkman is in GRAVE danger. wooooof!...I mean...oink...

Final Fact Check - Who Tells the Truth More

From politifact.com. Counting as true, statements rated as true or mostly true.

Romney = 62 true or mostly true statements out of 202 checked statements

Romney tells the truth 30.6% of the time.

Obama = 205 true or mostly true statements out of 247 checked statements.

Obama tells the truth 45.3% of the time.

Don't believe me go to politifact.com and do the math yourself.

Correction. On Obama, the denominator should be 452 checked statements

Bloomberg knows Best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would I love to see Jim Graves take Bachmann's seat? Ohh, Hell Yes!

Powell knows Best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Dems are on the Kusp of taking back the House. Nancy Pelosi will get back to be the Speaker of the House, after serving as the Speaker of the House of Pancakes since January 2007.

Farideh, still wishing for a personal bj, isn't that called Penis Envy?

Obama 2012

farideh - yes, we'll see him as he campaigns for Hillary in 2016 - then he'll be First Gentleman???? (Not totally sure how they'll refer to the husband of a female President!)

Obama/Biden 2012

Wow, Bill Clinton. The best time to be president as he road the technology bubble. No other president was blessed with such perfect timing. American companies like SGI, Iomega, etc were booming. Yup the economy was going to be great during that time period no matter who was in office. I even thought Bill was great until he screwed it all up by sticking his willy in an interns mouth.

Oh Bill... so close to being one of the greats but you had to disgrace the Presidency and more importantly You lied face to face to the American people. You should have blamed it on a video Bill. Seems like that works these days.

Romney/Ryan 2012

American -

And Obama is following in lying slick WIllie's footsteps.

I will admit that lying about Benghazi is much worse than lying about cheating on Hillary.

I wonder what Hillary thinks about being thrown to the curb by both of the liars in her life.

Clinton had to lie he had no choice. That was the normal response. even though it wasn't right.

So let me understand this. If you are a democrat it is:

a) OK to get BJ's from someone other than your wife in the Oval office

b)OK to lie to the american people about it

c) Ok to create a 2012 campaign ad with a young girl who likens losing her virginity to voting for Obama

Classy guys, really classy... I hope none of you have daughters.

Romney/Ryan 2012

American, no because geting a bj in the Oval Office is very tacky and not a good activity to be engage in, however, the country is over it and should you be. Can't deny Bill can sure explain things in human terms as opposed to Romney/Rove speak saying and explaining absolutely nothing, no specifics, just lofty bs being fed to adoring fans. If I had a daughter and she got a bj in the oval office that is her business and not mine, stop being a hypocrite, nobody cares any more.

Obama 2012

DREAM, I don't give a good god damn how many babes Clinton was boffing. That's his business, not yours and a puritanical & prurient Republican Party, hell bent on destroying him.

If you want to use your twisted reasoning, what about Ben Franklin, a major league whore master, old G.W. himself, Thomas Jefferson and many, many more.

I just don't care what a politician does in their personal life. It simply does not interest me.

Ozzie Boy,

But you guys all seem to get so bent out of shape with Mr. Romney's personal life? It wasn't so much that Clinton had his peepee cleaned... it's that he lied to all of us face to face. You all call Romney a liar but give a hall pass to Clinton?

Are we still looking for WMDs?

Clinton gets a pass. In fact, any president who creates a budget surplus should get 72 virgins.

Did you really say "Tax Cheats"?????????????????

You've got to be kidding pal, one of the biggest tax cheats in the entire nation just happens to be your party's presidential nominee. Tax shelters around the world, Cayman Islands, phoney residences in Massachussetts and elsewhere and can you say Swiss bank accounts???

That's one hell of an example to set for the nation, a candidate for the presidency who does everything in his power to screw the U.S. Treasury. And don't tell me it's legal. Of course it is, tax laws are written by the rich, for the rich and the advantages that a richy, rich boy like Willard the DRAFT DODGER receives is positively obscene. His own father, who Willard idolizes did not go nearly as far in atttempts to beat the taxman. He paid a fair tax rate for someone in his financial position and did not devote his entire life to screwing the government. Your boy Mitt is a shameless draft dodging, tax cheating bum, who despises the poor and working class people and seeks to create an oligarchy for himself and his billionaire buddies.

They just don't get it. They speak as if Obama has been president for the last 12 years.

Republicans are lucky if they can remember 12 days ago. Which makes it easy for Romney to change is position on everything every week or so because his suporters don't remember what they were. And they are pleased that Romney isn't giving any details about his policies because they wouldn't understand them anyway.

I wonder how the "Jeep is moving their entire production to China" lie is going for him.

Farideh,

And that bitter division of which you speak has been fostered by your rapacious, relentless warriors for the wealthy, who pledged to make Obama a one-term President at the outset of his term and then proceeded to act uniformly to block every piece of economic legislation Obama offered, thereby creating legislative gridlock, and then complained about how Obama failed in growing the economy and in generating more jobs that millionaires and billionaires sent overseas to spend their Bush tax cuts that your party fought so feverishly to preserve. Your party engaged in minority rule by resorting to filibusters many more times than any other political party in any Congress in history, and then blame Obama for the consequences of your party's own obstructionism.

Your phony liars complain about "class warfare" even though they have been transferring middle class wealth for the past 32 years. "Trickle down" has been repeatedly shown to result in "trickle up," and your candidate for President told his wealthy cronies that 47% (or 48% or 49%) of Americans pay no taxes at all, lazy people who would rather live off the sweat of productive taxpayers rather than work or seek work despite the fact that 91% of all federal entitlement benefits are paid to elderly retirees, the disabled, and to children whose parents make less than what is defined as the current poverty level, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:

"Using the 2010 federal budget and U.S. Census data , the [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities] finds that 53 percent of all government entitlement benefits are going to people who are over 65 years old. Another 20 percent of the benefits went to disabled people, while 18 percent were going to people in a working household. The data was for the government's 2010 fiscal year. That means that 9 percent of entitlements went to people who were not elderly, disabled or living in a household in which someone had worked at least 1,000 hours in a year.

"The analysis included Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, SNAP (otherwise known as food stamps), Social Security Insurance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the school lunch program, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the refundable component of the Child Tax Credit.

"Taken together, that accounts for $1.8 trillion of the approximately $2.1 trillion in benefit costs the government paid out in the 2010 fiscal year, according to the researchers. The report said most of the remaining money went to federal and veteran retirement benefits, which it excluded from its calculation.

In addition, the report included about $130 billion in state funding for benefits such as Medicaid."

The March 23, 2012 article is "Who's using government benefits: Mostly, the elderly" by Allison Linn of NBC News.

And, of course, the 47% who don't pay federal income taxes do pay payroll taxes, state taxes, property taxes, excise taxes, gasoline taxes, and sales taxes. The dogmatically uninformed who insist on the myth that virtually half the country is made up of "lazy, self-entitled Freddie Freeloaders" are actually unwittingly inveighing against their parents and grandparents, those too disabled to work, and against children in working families whose income is below the poverty line. Republicans are great at demonizing some Americans (recall that they used to demonize a fictional Black woman who had one baby after another to accumulate welfare benefits to buy a pink Cadillac, but racism is so passé now) and provoking divisiveness for political gain, as they do by saying, as to the 47% argument, Romney “may have been inelegant, but what he was saying was true.” What you Republicans believe is a disgraceful affront to the people of America and a disdainful departure from reality.

Your sheeple spat on a Black Congressman entering Congress to vote on Obamacare and began calling Obama the second coming of Hitler, Stalin, the Devil. Your people sought to discredit him by assailing his place of birth, his grades in college, and they drew pictures of him that made him look like Hitler and the Devil.

Republican ideologues used disinformation, divisiveness, and false propaganda to seduce the fearful, the poorly educated, gun nuts, and religious fundamentalists into voting against their economic interests. Notwithstanding all of your party's attempts to pit the economically productive against the allegedly unproductive, you dare blame Democrats for dividing America? You live in an alternate reality, Farideh.

I so look forward to Tuesday night, when voters will silence your party's attempt to bamboozle Americans into giving yet more tax advantages to so-called job creators who only create jobs overseas, into destroying the labor movement, into turning back the clock on women's reproductive rights fifty years, into creating a police state for suspected illegal immigrants, and into destroying the concept of progressive taxation to further satiate America's ruling class.

FORWARD, don't you know by now, "Only little people pay taxes"???

FORWARD, don't you know by now, "Only little people pay taxes"???

If Romney wins, it will be sad that Leona Helmsley didn't live long enough to see her dream come true.

When did that happen? 1990? 1991?

Oh. 160 years ago.

Was Mitt there?

Simple -

It's called distraction. The liberals are still trying to justify voting for Obama to themselves. After all, what record can Obama run on?

Jerry,

I can understand your reservations. The difference between the two candidates is you know what to expect from Obama. He has been the president for the past 4 years. For me, personally, I would rather give Mr. Romney a chance than to prolong Obama. He will spend our grand kids into oblivion. I wish you the best of luck with your decision.

I read all the stuff from the right wing crazies here but I'm not so sure that they will actually vote for Romney. Do they really want to go back to Bush's economic policies? Do they really want another war in the middle east? Do they really want to cough up and extra few thousand dollars in federal income tax so rich people like Romney can pay nothing? I don't think so. They just like to argue. My ex-wife was like that.

The thing that gets me every time is that you guys keep saying all this cr@p about Obama spending our grandchildren into oblivion, when all you have to do is check the facts and you'll see that most of the increase in the debt is a result of policies that were in place before Obama was elected. Without the Bush tax cuts, the wars, Medicare Part D, and the economic collapse we would have been reducing the debt all this time, and there would be no economic crisis. He may not have fixed everything as quickly as we would have liked, but he got no help from Republicans. How long did it take to recover from the Depression? Considerably more than 4 years. Since your argument amounts to bullish!t, there must be something else going on.

Jerry from Or It is people like my mother that have been republicans for more than 50 years. She is a devout christian, and was married almost 60 years until my dad passed away. She is voting for Romney. she explained to me that she feels that romney will do less damage to the economy than obama. She also said that she would prefer a mormon president to a muslim president. She also stated that she would vote for Romney because there was in here eyes no other choice. I concluded that if the Gop nominated a serial killer for the republican nomination that my mom would vote for him. It was beyond my comprehension also. It still is.

americandreamer101 The grass always looks greener on the otherside of the fence.Until you jump over that fence and look the other way. Romney does not deserve a chance because of his lies and deciet. The man is only in this to make himself and billionaires that are backing him billions upon billions. We already know that will happen under his proposed tax plan. We already know what he thinks about 47% of Americans. We already know how he would have handled the foreclosures He would have let the foeclosure crisis hit bottom so investors could come in and scoop up all the home lost and then rent them out for a profit. We allready know how he woul have handled the auto bailout. HE said let detroit go bankrupt and get privatre loan garaurantees. However no private banks were willing to do that at that time. We already know how he would handle terrorists. At first he said that we need to exhaust all other means before we go to war. We don't need all of the killing.Then two minutes later when asked how he handle the "Bad Guys" he said that he would kill the bad guys. This is a man that you trust to be president? With the economy slowly getting better you want a man like this to come in and upset every thing that is good. It is obvious that you and millions of other people are not paying attention to the candidate that you are voting for.

Ted, Are you saying that Obama doesn't have the finacial backing? He spent a billion dollars running the most negative ad campaign we have ever seen in history. He's worth at least 10 million and you and I both know that second presidency or not he will make out like a bandit after his term. Why do you demonize Romney for his American success story but not Obama? How does a community organizer end up with 10 million? Man that's the gig I want...

No one can run for president in this country with out a boat load of dough. It's sad but true. And yes, I'll take a chance with the greener grass. I'd rather vote for Love of Country than Revenge...

DREAMER YOU just ignored every point that i made about Romney Those were things that i personally heard him say. You are lost. Of course it takes alot of money to run a campaign and you discount all of Romneys negative campaign.Romney was a success at stealing peoples pensions bankrupting companies and sending jobs to china. Go ahead that say obama does the samething and i will tell you that is wrong also. I demonize romney because he is the most dishonest candidate i have seen in my life and he deserves to be demonized.Go ahead and vote for him. You think that he really loves this country. Remember it has been shown that he has lied 60% of the time thruout his campaign. Romney is a crook.

Calm down Ted. I'll address Detroit with you. Obama saved GM and Chrysler right? How did he do that exactly? He took your money and my money and bailed out the unions. I have a friend that worked at GM in management and he lost everything. They did not take care of him. Does GM now make a better product because of the bailout? Chrysler? What fundemental changes have occured at either company that makes them healthier? But the bigger question is this... Why did Ford not need to take the cash? Is it because they run a better business? Make a better product? If the government thinks it's OK to borrow money from China (remember we don't have any money) to prop up a failed business then what about all of the other failed businesses in the US? All we did was kick the can further down the road. GM is still in trouble. Obama didn't fix a thing. He only prolonged the inevitable.

Don't you think that it's sad that GM couldn't figure out how to make money selling cars? Toyota does. Ford does. What is it about Chrysler and GM that put them in jeopardy? Here's what I think should happen. No bailout money. GM and Chrysler go into bankruptcy but the really clever guys in Detroit (and there are a lot of them) will jump on the chance to keep the cream of the crop (good product lines like Cadillac) and make a go of it. They can do it. They are smart enough and America, with it's free enterprise system, will reward them for it.

My republican interpreter has the day off but returns tomorrow. If he can understand what you just said, I will respond.

You can thank your union teachers for your lack of comprehension skills.

Who is the accused rapist? Never mind, I forgot you have a tendency to over dramatise things.

Juanita Broddrick. Since she was accusing a liberal president, feminists didn't believe her story and pilloried her. Of course, this is the organization that accuses all men, except those who support their right to suck brains out of half-born babies.

Your a rapist, now you are an accused rapist.

Money has been the center piece of Romneys campaign. I fear money can buy influence and change peoples minds to vote against their best interests. A person that thinks for themselves can not be bought by slick Mitt, but many can. I have to think for myself as a women because the Ryan camp will work hard to take my rights away, nominate Judges that will change the laws to favor a right wing agenda. Slick Mitt does not tell us who or what he is. Money has made him a person that looks down on the 47% like me. I get that and I don't buy into his lies. "When someone shows themselves to you believe it". A very wise women said that, Slick Mitt showed himself to be dishonest a long time ago, believe it!