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Subscribe to RSSPresident Obama speaks to supporters in Des Moines, Iowa at his final campaign event before election day.
Des Moines, Iowa — For the final campaign event of the 2012 cycle, President Barack Obama returned to where his bid for presidency began.
At a rally downtown here, against the backdrop of the capital, the president and first lady Michelle Obama took the crowd back four years ago, when they were campaigning at the state fair and celebrating the birthday of one of their daughters.
“Tomorrow we get the chance to finish what we started in Iowa,” the first lady said before introducing her husband.
Talking about those early days in Iowa, the president appeared emotional as he started by thanking the volunteers gathered.
"All of you who have lived and breathed the hard work of change, I want to thank you," Obama said.
To the others, he evoked popular lines from his 2008 stump speech.
"When the cynics said we couldn't, you said yes we can – you said yes, we can, and we did. Against all odds and we did," he said. But, he added, “We're not done yet on this journey."
About 20,000 people filled the streets downtown with signs that read “Forward!” They cheered when the president challenged them to fight with him.
"I've got a lot more fight left in me,” he said. “But to wage that fight on behalf of American families, I need you to still have some fight in you too.”
Jason Reed / Reuters
Tears were visible on President Obama's cheek during his final presidential campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday.
His mentions of 2008 also served as a reminder that even at larger rallies, the president’s campaign does not have the same energy as his first. The president seemed to acknowledge that as well when he said, “We’ve come too far to let our hearts grow faint.”
He also told a story he recounted during the 2008 campaign, which on Monday night took on new meaning.
The story was about Edith Childs, the South Carolinian who brought the “Fired up, Ready to Go” chant to his campaign.
This time, the story had a new twist. The Obama campaign had offered to fly Childs to Des Moines for Obama’s last event of the 2012 campaign.
But she refused, the president said, because she didn’t have time. She was organizing people to knock on doors – she thought he still had a chance to win North Carolina.
Concluding the story – and his campaign – Obama said, “And that shows you what one voice can do.”
GOP candidate Mitt Romney has added last-minute events on Tuesday, Election Day, but for Obama, the election has wrapped up.
He flies to Chicago on Tuesday and will spend the day playing basketball – which tomorrow becomes an Election Day tradition – with staff and friends, including his former bodyman Reggie Love, who made an appearance on the trail Monday as well.
"It’s out of my hands now,” Obama said. “It’s in yours. All of it depends on what you do.”
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Obama makes final pitch and R-Money makes final lies.
The Republicans are already trying to steal this election.
VOTE! And then follow up to make sure it's counted.
Clackamas County identifies accused elections worker as Deanna Swenson of Oregon City
Nate Silver's election prediction as of 11:29pm EST tonight:
Obama win 92%
Romney win 8%
GOP'ers - let me be the first to congratulate you on your candidate losing.
And Real Americans (not corporations) have won.
If we don't let them steal another election.
sw philly
Obama makes final pitch and R-Money makes final lies.
A good one; sw philly
"All of you who have lived and breathed the hard work of change, I want to thank you," Obama said.
A tear rolls from the left eye of President Obama as he makes remarks during his last campaign Des Moines, Iowa...
Read more at http://twitter.yfrog.com/9fyft6j#hU6cjBDWMlsQPviz.99
MYTH will never be the compassionate in the fight for the middle class and the poor because he thinks we are fools.
I predict tomorrow all the haters and liars on the right will be boo-hooing as MYTH and Queen Ann ride off into the sunset on her dressage horse.
Buh Bye VoMITT
4 more 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
Real Americans First----WOW I will just call ya RAF....
What are we all supposed to file a court challenge to make sure our vote is properly cast ?
The electors can cast their ballot or whatever it is any way they want in most states anyway...
It is a power move every time....
But it is mostly non-violent here...
Except in 1860.....
But we have come a long way...
And are healing....
I predict compromise and good will to all to come...
Right and Left and Center must unite....
We are the United States of America...
Well, I don't know about ya'll, but around here we can check online to make sure our vote was recorded.
However you do it - make sure your voice is heard!
We should make this the highest turnout election in history.
EARLY RESULTS just In.
OBAMA WINS by a LANDSIDE.
GOD BLESS President OBAMA.
Thank-you President Obama for being our President for the Next Four years.
You've Kept my Family and other Families Safe, from Foreign and Domestic Terrorists
and from those crazy-wacko Teabaggers and those hideous-horrorific Republicans.
I guess the American Public and all Freedom Loving Americans did Not want
that LIAR, TAX-CHEAT, and PENSION FUND THIEF, Mitt Romney,
to get any where Near our sacred White House.
Nobody wanted to GO BACK to those dark-dank-hideous-horrorific days of the BUSH REGIME
of KARL ROVE and DICK CHENEY.
yuck.
Thanks again America for Voting BARACK OBAMA on IN for a SECOND TERM.
It's now OFFICIAL.
Unfortunately even with an Obama win, much of the deck has been stacked against the American citizens. ALEC has changed numerous laws on the state level that affects everyone. Doesn't matter which state, they have had a dramatic affect in laws that the legislators didn't have written by staff, just introduced as their own.
US Congress, hopefully with an Obama win the ultra conservative right will implode on itself for the lies, hatred and fear mongering they use to intimidate everyone else. One can hope people will actually see what is happening. With any more years like the past 2, people might just start realizing that people like Ryan couldn't care less about them, before this guy has a shot at the presidency.
Obama is mostly talk with little to no substance. We cannot afford another four years of waste. And speaking of lies. Bengazi
Right-1738944.............I know it has been said that all politicians lie. I however like the lies of Obama over the lies of Romney. What Mitt says I am absolutely against. I fear what he will do to our nation. I have lived in a country of 'have's and have-nots.' Not pretty.
Wife-Come to the Romney rally you said!
What could go wrong you said!
Yeah lets bring the Kids you said!
Husband-I know I know,but I didn't know they wouldn't let us leave!
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Romney Supporters Illegally Imprisoned at Pennsylvania Campaign Rally
By: Jason EasleyNovember 4th, 2012
Citing 'security concerns', Romney supporters were not allowed to leave his Pennsylvania campaign rally even though the crowd had been waiting in the freezing cold for the tardy candidate for hours.
Reporters at the event tweeted the chaos as Romney supporters were forbidden to leave the event.
Michael Barbaro of The New York Times,
Barbaro then tweeted a clarification that staffers had told reporters that it wasn't cold enough to allow the crowd to leave.
"To be clear. Staffer said that to reporters. Not to mother."
(Here is Jackie Kucinich from USA Today,)
Woman says "I feel like a caged animal!" before pushing through staffer. Said she was here since 2.
(Jackie Kucinich)
Man just pulled me aside and said "My son is on the verge of hypothermia" just as staffer starts letting people out a few at a time.
In this world of instant political media shorthand, the story was changed to Romney campaign won't let his supporters out. In reality, it was the Romney campaign, volunteers, and the Secret Service not letting people out.
(Jackie Kucinich)
Both volunteers and a secret service were trying to keep people in- it was not just Romney staff.
It is difficult to believe that a photo-op obsessed campaign like Romney's would just have security in mind. The people who came to this rally already went through security when they entered, so the whole idea that letting out some cold children would present a security threat is laughable. (The Romney campaign has already demonstrated their fear of children with their refusal to take questions from Nickelodeon, so anything is possible, I guess.) As a person who spent years working with venues and security details, I can tell you that those children and people could have been allowed to leave the venue while posing zero security risk to anyone.
My own experience tells me that this was less about security, and more about Romney preserving the image of viability and vitality that he is desperately chasing around the country.
The point that is being overlooked is that Mitt Romney is supposed to be this organized businessman who can "fix the economy," but he also is the same guy whose campaign pulled the douchebag move of leaving his supporters out in the cold for hours. (His campaign knew they had been delayed. They could have done things to keep the crowd comfortable, but they chose not to.)
Mitt Romney has been unable to shake the impression that he is a corporate raider, heartless SOB, and fair or not, debacles like the one in Pennsylvania will only serve to reinforce this notion.
The storyline that the Romney campaign wanted out of this rally was that they are on the move and expanding the electoral map. Instead, "I feel like a caged animal," is the takeaway line.
Whether it was the fault of the campaign, volunteers, or the Secret Service, this just makes Romney look bad.
Nothing says that you care about regular people like illegally imprisoning your own supporters while you are running late.
Isn't that right, Mitt Romney?
http://www.politicususa.com/romney-supporters-illegally-imprisoned-pennsylvania-campaign-rally.html
The following was writtenby Dan Simpson, a former U.S. ambassador, for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He'll get no argument from me!
Why I'm voting for Obama
I'm a ticket splitter, but this year's choice is clear.
October 31, 2012 12:13 am
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By Dan Simpson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It's that time of year, my last column before the elections on Tuesday. I have tried hard to keep an open mind throughout the campaign, balancing evolving opinions, the fact that I consistently vote a split ticket and the fact that both my father and mother were lifelong Republicans. They would probably roll over in their graves up on Rose Hill if they were to see this column.
My decision to vote for the re-election of Barack Obama has five poles.
• The first is the position stated two years ago by Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. that "the single most important thing we want to achieve" is to make Mr. Obama a one-term president. Mr. McConnell did not say he would work to pass legislation in the best interests of the American people. He said he would work most of all to get rid of Mr. Obama.
Yet Mitt Romney, the Republican Party's presidential nominee, even when he is trying to sound reasonable and bipartisan, has never said Mr. McConnell should step down as the GOP leader in the Senate. That is a reason not only to vote against Mr. Romney, but also to vote against Republican Senate and House candidates.
• The second problem is Mr. Romney's private talk with rich donors in Boca Raton, Fla., in which he wrote off -- inaccurately, by the way -- 47 percent of Americans as "victims," as "dependent on government" who wouldn't vote for him. His comments -- such as "my job is not to worry about those people" -- were those of a rich person who never has had to look with dismay at a pay slip with its deductions for Medicare, Social Security, federal, state and local taxes and believes that the only taxes that count are those that even he can't avoid by stashing his money in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands, or by taking deductions such as the $77,000 for his wife's dressage horse.
It is important to remember, on the eve of the elections, that Mr. Romney still has provided only a limited, edited report of his recent taxes. The information he has yielded is far short of what I had to provide federal authorities in 1989 and 1995 to win Senate confirmation of my appointments to be U.S. ambassador to the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What, exactly, is Mr. Romney hiding? What does he not want the American people to see as they consider his candidacy for the nation's top office, the one where honesty really counts?
• The third reason to vote for Mr. Obama is the astonishing effort on the part of Republicans across the country to roll back the electoral franchise, seeking to hinder voting by the poor, those with limited literacy or bureaucratic skills and those who have moved often, frequently as a result of poverty or unemployment. I quote Republican Pennsylvania House leader Mike Turzai on the subject in June: "Voter ID, which is gonna allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."
I have lived in many countries overseas -- in Africa, Europe and the Middle East -- and I have never seen politicians try to roll history backward in this way, as Republicans would take us back almost to the Civil War with 2012 versions of Southern poll taxes, literacy tests and other barriers to voting so as to improve their electoral prospects. Even the most corrupt governments normally take the public position that they want to increase participation in their elections, not decrease it by erecting barriers to voting. I keep listening for Mr. Romney to criticize these Republican efforts.
• The fourth concern is the makeup of Mr. Romney's foreign-affairs team. Its shortcomings showed up first in his July trip to the United Kingdom, Israel and Poland.
In London, on the eve of the Olympics, he took a cheap shot at America's best friends, the British, over what he professed to see as their lack of security preparedness for the games. He did this to make himself look good by comparison as head of the Salt Lake City Olympics. In the event, the London Olympics took place with no security problems.
Mr. Romney then took fundraisers with him to Israel, looking at Jerusalem as a potential land of milk and honey for campaign contributions. I guess he went to Poland to use it as a platform to substantiate his questionable claim that Russia is America's "No. 1 geopolitical foe."
Mr. Romney's international-affairs advisers are a collection of Bush-era, failed neoconservatives -- those wonderful people who brought us the Iraq war -- such as the comical John R. Bolton, Dick Cheney liaison Eric Edelman, ex-CIA counterterrorism officer and Blackwater security firm executive Cofer Black and former ambassador Richard S. Williamson. The thought of any of these people occupying key national security positions -- secretary of defense, secretary of state, national security adviser -- is enough to make one say a prayer while humming "Speed Our Republic."
• Finally, I cannot get past the impression that the only thing Mr. Romney believes firmly is that he should be the first Mormon president of the United States, and that it is morally acceptable to say anything to anybody to achieve that goal. The whole series of his appearances and statements, through the Republican primaries and his campaign against Mr. Obama, leads me to that conclusion.
For that reason, if for nothing else, I don't want Mitt Romney to be elected president and will vote for Mr. Obama.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/dan-simpson/why-im-voting-for-obama-659929/#ixzz2BQaUzI26
It's been a long-standing tradition, to NOT campaign on election day... unless you are hugely desperate!
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama says it best:
http://www.barackobama.com/share/forward-colin-powell-endorses/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=obama&utm_content=Colin+Powell+former+Secretary+of+State+and+chairman+of+the+Joint+Chiefs+of+Staff&utm_campaign=em12_20121102_ft_act&source=em12_20121102_ft_act
I guess we'll never know what happens, when you strap a dog on top of Air Force One.
The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah's largest newspaper, has endorsed President Obama, too, and the editorial in which they explain their choice is very telling:
"...this is the Mitt Romney we knew, or thought we knew, as one of us.Sadly, it is not the only Romney, as his campaign for the White House has made abundantly clear, first in his servile courtship of the tea party in order to win the nomination, and now as the party’s shape-shifting nominee. From his embrace of the party’s radical right wing, to subsequent portrayals of himself as a moderate champion of the middle class, Romney has raised the most frequently asked question of the campaign: 'Who is this guy, really, and what in the world does he truly believe?'"
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/55019844-82/endorsement-obama-president-romney.html.csp
Thats right it's his FINAL pitch!!!
Tomorrow he starts packing and needs to start worrying about how he's gonna pay for that 40 Million dollar spread in Hawaii!!!
HAAAHAAAAAAAAHAAAAAA!!!!
BYE BYE OBAMA!!!
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Just because fivethirtyeight says Obama has over 91% chance of winning, that doesn't mean he has won. Get out and vote for the President today. I'm getting ready because the polls open at 7:00 here in Georgia. I don't expect there to be enough of my party to swing this state, but I don't care. I'm voting my conscience, and I could never vote for Wrongme.
What voters are saying about Obama:
1. "The Affordable Care Act is saving my daughter's life."
2. "Obama is for the vets. He helped us wind down in Iraq, he's improved mental health
policy with VA benefits."
3. "Obama stuck his neck out for us, the auto industry. He wasn't going to let it just
die, and I'm driving in this morning because of that, because of him."
4. "Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive."
5. "Supreme Court Supreme Court Supreme Court."
6. "Arithmetic. Mitt Romney's tax cuts do not add-up"
7. "He cares for the 100 percent."
8. "When Obama came into office, he successfully renewed our country's place in the
community of nations, making cooperation in tackling the world's challenges possible."
9. "The actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been
very, very solid."
10. "I was really very grateful to him for standing up for those kids who are having a
really rough time out there because of their orientation."
11. "For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United
States as a place where we are all in this together."
12. "He has a real plan for rescuing the economy that passes the 'math' test."
13. "Having someone in office who understands how powerful our voice can be is very
important."
14. "I am voting for Barack Obama and Joe Biden because I can trust them to care for
the middle class and restore the American dream."
15. "The first measure he signed into law after becoming president was the Lilly
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act -- so a female high school counselor or physical education
teacher can fight for equal pay for equal work."
16. "I believe in the America he wants for my grandchildren."
17. "We need four more years of repair, of helping the middle class achieve a
sustainable economy."
18. "I've watched him fight for our country, stand by the middle class, the working
class, the military, the education of our children, universal health care, women, the
environment, and matters of national and domestic security."
19. "The gifted 12-year-old I taught, whose parents were deported and left her here
with her grandmother, will be allowed to stay and finish her education. She's been in
the U.S. since age one."
20. "I want our president to place scientific evidence and risk management above
electoral politics."
21. "I have four children who are under 26 and able to stay on my health care plan.
That's been huge."
22. "He's fighting to defend and better Social Security and Medicare -- because
millions of Latino seniors rely on them."
23. "Thanks to the President's efforts to keep student loan rates low, I can expect to
save nearly $1000 as I work to repay my student loans. And I don't have too many of
those, thanks to the Federal Pell Grant program."
24. "It's been wonderful to have President Obama as a champion for access to health
care for all women in this country."
25. "Re-electing Barack Obama would lead to a stronger economic recovery than would be
the case were Mitt Romney to win on November 6th."
Don't forget to cast your vote for Roseanne Barr.
...and The New York Times Endorsement of Obama, October 27, 2012...
Barack Obama for Re-election
The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold...An ideological assault from the right has started to undermine the vital health reform law passed in 2010...Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act...even the very right to vote is being challenged.
That is the context for the Nov. 6 election, and as stark as it is, the choice is just as clear.
President Obama has shown a firm commitment to using government to help foster growth. He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless. Mr. Obama has impressive achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent on stopping him that they risked pushing the nation into depression, held its credit rating hostage, and hobbled economic recovery.
Mr. Obama prevented another Great Depression...The Dodd-Frank financial regulation was an important milestone.
Mr. Obama, who appointed the impressive Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, understands how severely damaging conservative activism has been in areas like campaign spending.
For these and many other reasons, we enthusiastically endorse President Barack Obama for a second term, and express the hope that his victory will be accompanied by a new Congress willing to work for policies that Americans need.
I'm certain Obama failed Biology...hearts grow faint he says...that would be the brain the doc says...and Obama better "hope" the dimocrat's brains haven't had a "change" from the "faint". It takes people with an IQ lower than their shoe size to believe "you know you can trust me". A trustful politician is an oxymoron...
Thank you President Obama. Whatever the outcome of this election, you should have your head held high for the class you've shown in this campaign. I believe that honesty and fairness will always prevail. Best of luck for 4 more years leading this great nation.
All of these long lines and 21 page ballots are a surprise to me. I once had to wait about 2 minutes to vote. It was 2008 perhaps. There are no lines around this Democratic area, and the ballot is one double side sheet. If California can do this, why can't everyone else? The good people hit by Sandy excepted.
I'm voting for President Obama, but, you do understand if Congress continues on their pathetic path with Boehner at the top of what he calls "his house," the same pathetic congressional games, with him in charge will continue, nothing will change. The obstructionist republicans who are in Boehners pocket will continue to defy every, and anything President Obama does.
John Boehner and the Republican House cost many American Police, Fireman, and Teachers their jobs in 2011-2012. He was correct on his 2010 assertion that election was all about jobs, Americans losing theirs… He's costing returning American Servicemen jobs by not signing the Jobs Act for returing Veterans...
OBAMA/BIDEN....2012!!!!...
Since all you right wing nuts won't be around tomorrow...I'll gloat now....
TeeHee, Snicker Snicker, Giggle and a hearty Gafaw!!!
Touching to see someone still retain humanity through this brutal process. Obama / Biden FORWARD!
Lean Forward- we're not done phuking you yet.
What Barry is really saying..... "You have to re-elect me, there's still so much to do to complete the wrecking of the US economy & complete the destruction of the free enterprise system.... beside, I need to cover my tracks better so no one will ever find the things I did under-the-table & off-the-books"
Romney/Ryan Express............ ALL ABOARD to real CHANGE..............
The SKY is FALLING the SKY is FALLING, run away.
wow I cant believe how many people that have been convinced that BO is a good president. He has almost wrecked this country. He said we would have change and that's all I have left is change, and now he is printing money we don't have the gold to cover devaluing the dollar just like the Chinese. What next think ill start looking for land in Montana or Canada this crap is getting out of hand, but by all means vote for him cause he is black, and will let women have abortions. wow that will get this country back on its feet.
Our President said that he would bring the nation together. That did not work.
Our President said that he could work with the opposition party by reaching across the isle. That did not work.
Our President said that his administration would be free from lobbyists. That did not work.
Our President said that his administration would be the most transparent ever. That did not work.
Our President said that he would fix the economy within three years. That did not work.
Our President said that his health care bill would lower health care costs. That did not work.
Our President said that he would not raise taxes on 95% of Americans in any way. That did not work.
Our President said that his stimulus spending bill would solve our employment problem. That did not work.
Our President said that he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. That did not work.
Our President has provided an economic "plan" for the next 4 years that is mathematically impossible. That cannot work.
I see a pattern here. Our President said that if he could not fix the economy within three year that he did not deserve a second term.
The economy is recovering. I think you are confused.
I see a lot of people making some pretty heavy handed predictions. Can't wait to come back tomorrow. LOL
I can hardly wait to see the racists heads explode when they realize it will be another four years under the Obama administration....
GooooooObama!
Roll Blue Tide!
It's over for Obama.
Romney voters are energized and Obama's turnout will
not be at 2008 levels.
Here liberty - This is for you:
We will not roll over for a handful of billionaires.
The NY Times is giving President Obama a 92% chance of winning the election and I haven't seen a single major news organization predicting a Romney win, not even FOX. Still, that is all the more reason to get out and vote! Let's keep America on course!
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/nov-5-late-poll-gains-for-obama-leave-romney-with-longer-odds/?hp
Reelect President Obama! He is clearly our only rational choice!
I just wanna be a fly on Mitch McConnell's wall when he realizes his sole purpose in life (defeating Obama) has been flushed down the toilet. I mean I would pay GOOD money to see that!
Mitch McConnell's NEW primary goal: Make Obama a two-term President!
Roadkill - literally laughed out loud. Nice!
I once knew a guy whose handle was flyonthewallz. He was always coming up with the tastiest inside stuff about DC.
I guess the redhead in IL is sleeping......I can't sleep through the excitement...
Plus the Eagles just lost...
I can live with that but living with R-Money protector is not acceptable to me or 58 million voters(My prediction of the winning total....
R-Money will have 51 million haters.....20% of that will be every registered voter in TX and LA...
Mitt knows he's lost. Look at the pictures.
So close, but too many people saw through the charade.
No matter how hard the billionaires try, they just can't find a convincing enough liar to be their trojan horse.
Jim --- I live in E.WA. and am voteing staight democrat.
GO Pres. Obama 4 more for 44
RAF - turns out we weren't for sale after all.
Not EVERY voter in LA.
Obama/Biden FORWARD!!!
sw philly -
"I guess the redhead in IL is sleeping"
My guess, he's back in IL looking for someone who can make him a toupee from his mustache after it is shaved off...
Oh sure Bill Clinton spoke himself hoarse on Obamas behalf so Hilary can vote for Romney. That is quite the distorted reality there
You must be smoking with Nevada - if you two think Hillary voted for Romney.
Don't you know? Any rumor or outlandish lie they hear from their talking heads is unquestionable fact.
Fox news told me the sky was red. So don't you libbies dare tell me it's blue!
Seems lots of voters have campaign fatigue, so regardless of who wins and loses, it's all good that the obnoxious phone calls, mailers and door tags, media ads, news coverage, endless snipping, bickering and blathering, and the door-to-door campaigners finally stop.
Sure would like to see federal legislation passed where voters can opt out of all the nonsensical and badgering calls and exorbitant waste.
I live in Washington State so we probably don't get as much of it here. There is a ton of outside money on TV trying to buy the governor's office. I record everything I want to watch and fast forward through the commercials. And I don't answer the phone unless I know who it is.
The poor people in Ohio must be ready to explode.
This is the GOP's dream....Low turnout equals GOP win....Because the haters always vote...
We just need all of the decent folks to vote.....
Good always triumphs in the end...
Ooops just rambling.....
Jim --- Sorry- posted wrong place , check post 3.2
4 more for 44
Equity,
Do not get too comfy. It starts up again Summer of next year for the 2014 mid-terms. The only way we stop the crap we have seen this election is to overturn Citizens United, impose donation limits, and force all donators to sign their name on a public record and their donation amount.
Hear, hear!
JimS12345...
JimS, you have no idea, it has been add after add after add, thankfully, it ends today and we can get back to our regularly scheduled commercials!
Now, on to the topic of the next President.....Obama/Biden all the way!
JimS, the voters in Virginia are sick of the ads, phone calls, mailers ad nauseum as well. Most of us have turned to watching the caller ID and not answering if we don't know the caller. Virginia is usually a battleground state and we get full-blast campaigning. I will be SO HAPPY tomorrow that the commercials and calls and mailers will be DONE!
We Have Come to far?!!? What planet are you on??!!
Yes.
We have come too far.
No more Bush doctrine.
Jody,
Planet earth. Most Republicans on the Vine come from Uranus. Oh sorry, Urectum.
...or a black hole of some nasty sort.
we are all lemmings now right ... we've come to far not to jump off the cliff ... lets move forward!
Now we know why Romney won't reveal his tax returns.When your a 1% Global Vulture Capitalist.When your Money is your Country anything is possible :
Dutch Source Confirms – Romney Paid ZERO Taxes
November 5, 2012
By Nathaniel Downes
New documents http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2680/Economie/article/detail/3342442/2012/11/05/Romney-ontwijkt-belasting-door-sluipweg-via-Nederland.dhtml%26hl%3Den%26client%3Diceweasel-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:unofficial%26prmd%3Dimvns&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=nl&twu=1&u=http://www.ftm.nl/original/bain-capital-en-de-holland-route.aspx&usg=ALkJrhidXPViIYHcaKD4IX_z6d09pRDONQ" target="_blank">released by the newspaper Volkskrant from the Netherlands yesterday detail how Mitt Romney took advantage, through his former firm, of a 9-figure tax loophole. When he retired in 1999, his golden parachute enabled him to operate as a company manager and executive, for purposes of investment, for 10 years. And so began Romney’s direct use of the “Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich” tax avoidance scheme.
The documents released by Volkskrant detail out the Bain Capital Fund VIII, a fund in which Mr. Romney holds considerable interest, based in the Cayman Islands. The way the fund is set up is, there are two forms of investors, general investors and the partners. While the general investors put up the majority for the $3.5 billion needed to set up the fund, the partners, such as Mitt Romney and family, only had to put in 0.1% of the funding, yet have ownership over 30% of the fund. Sweet deal if you ask me.
Now comes the Irish angle. In 2004, Bain, along with a consortium of other firms, created the firm, Warner Chilcott, which absorbed the Irish pharmaceutical fIrm, Galen. Bain then offloaded the debt it had accrued from the aquisition on to the new firm. The Bain shares of the firm are held by Bain Capital Fund VIII. Originally this firm was headquartered in Bermuda, taking advantage of the nation’s tax laws and the transferred debt to avoid paying taxes on any profits raised.
When the Obama administration announced its intention to close the original loophole of using Bermuda, Warner Chilcott announced its intention to change its headquarters to Ireland. During this change, its shares were then lumped with a Dutch firm, Alter Domus, creating yet another loophole. Due to a piece of Dutch law, the participation exemption allows for Dutch firms operating in Ireland to avoid paying all taxes on money earned from those shares. By lumping the two firms together, Alter Domus could claim to be such a firm, allowing it to absorb any profits through the loophole.
With Warner Chilcott holding onto $2.8 billion of Bain Capital debt, its dividends can avoid a majority of taxes. Add in the ability to issue special dividends, such as the $4 per share issued http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2680/Economie/article/detail/3342442/2012/11/05/Romney-ontwijkt-belasting-door-sluipweg-via-Nederland.dhtml%26hl%3Den%26client%3Diceweasel-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:unofficial%26prmd%3Dimvns&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=nl&twu=1&u=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-15/warner-chilcott-said-to-set-rate-on-600-million-dividend-loan&usg=ALkJrhiXoYnFNkcMFtGgoB8ghY4QCISASw" target="_blank">this year alone. This directly fed Mitt Romney an estimated $2 million for 2010 and 2011, all tax free. On Mitt Romney’s 2011 tax return he avoided using his full deductions to raise his tax rate, and kept much of this tax avoidance scheme under wraps. A cross-reference of it with the Bain Capital documents above, however, reveals the tie and tax avoidance system.
Romney’s 2008 financial disclosure reveals that he holds over a million dollars in the fund. With his ability to launder money through this scheme, along with his use of a charity as a tax dodge, it is easy to see how Harry Reid was right after all.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/11/05/dutch-source-confirms-romney-paid-zero-taxes/
I didn't even read all of this...Don't need to..I know R-Money protector is a lying cheat....He is not hiding those returns for nothing.....So we can make up whatever we want....
No Presidential candidate in the last 30 years has released fewer that 5 years of tax returns.
Can you imagine the Republicans saying to Obama, "Never mind, Mr. President, we don't need to see your tax returns"????
H Y P O C R I T E S
And now loser hypocrites.
FYI, partisan hatred like both of you are displaying is why we are where we are. Attitudes like yours are part of the problem, not the solution.
Thank you for your information on ROBney. I have been hoping somebody from the IRS would toss their career to bring Willard's tax returns to light. He hid them in a 1994 senate race, 2002 gubernatorial race and again in 2012 for the presidential race.
Did anyone ever wonder why McCain picked Palin over ROBney in 2008? McCain could see ROBney would be a huge risk if anybody finds ANYTHING on him. ROBmeBlind makes Nixon look like a sweet Disney character. And, guess who's paying for it?? American taxpayers... Republicans, Democrats, Independents... anybody who REALLY works for a living. Tricky Dick looks like he couldn't compete with the corrupt soulless person who unfortunately represents the horrifying Republican platform.
It would be ironic if Romney's strategy of hiding his returns to hide zero taxes was what took him down. I knew he couldn't release them without a firestorm.
Zero would expose him in another bald faced lie, and this one would really be a kick in the crotch.
Aw13: It is not partisan hatred to demand some basic background information from someone you are considering hiring. This makes it easier to determine that individuals moral fortitude.
Romney has been found to have no morals or conscience and we are not hiring him to work for us. He would be a bad employee.
Also legal papers have been filed. Mr. Romney will be spending time in court.
Legal Analysis Outlines Potential Crime In Mitt Romney’s Financial Disclosures | MoveOn.Org
So where was all this info during the debates? If Clinton can be investigated for Whitewater, then all is fair to bring up Romney's tax shields in Europe.....Ask Mr. Adelson how much tax savings he will get if Romney wins. 2B perhaps. Adelson bought and paid for the Republicans!
AW13: When the Minority Leader of the Senate makes it his only goal to bring down the democratically elected President of the United States, you are going to have the citizens that elected the President push back.
Partisan bickering is one thing. Spitting in the face of Americans is quite another. Take up your issues with the traitor McConnell as you are asking him to step down.
cant blame anyone on wanting to dodge taxes over the last couple years. i dont think anyone likes paying child support the the welfare moochers.
Have to wonder if Willard Milton Romney would be asked to leave the Mormon Church if they found out how much money he made and did not give his full 10% tithe. From what I understand, that would the equivalent to a Catholic committing a mortal sin... don't know this be fact... just sayin' ! ! !
4 more 4 44
OBAMA/BIDEN FOR AMERICA
Romney/Ryan for themselves :-(
My comments can be found at:
I reject the republican attacks on our President and will be voting for him today:
The Pulse: The smearing of a president: From start, unrelenting, unfair
Michael Smerconish, Inquirer Columnist
POSTED: Sunday, November 4, 2012, 4:01 AM
This election has always been a referendum on Barack Obama. For some, not on matters of substance. They can't have it both ways. It's hypocritical to distribute a vicious, false narrative about him while fancying yourself a patriot and a great American. Vilify a sitting president of the United States with fiction and innuendo, and you are neither.
I objected when George W. Bush was the subject of undeserved hyperbolic criticism, but the baseless scorn heaped upon President Obama makes Bush's detractors look diplomatic. The president, the office, and our nation deserve better.
It's been unrelenting. The day after Obama took office, Rush Limbaugh told Sean Hannity he wanted him to "fail." Later,Glenn Beck called the president a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred of white people." Donald Trump's birtherism took hold while words like socialist were uttered with increased frequency. And a prairie fire of falsehoods spread through the Internet suggesting, among other things, that Obama is a Muslim or refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, paving the way for Dinesh D'Souza's fictionalized "documentary" 2016, which characterized Obama as fulfilling the anticolonial agenda of his father - a man he literally knew for just one weekend!
Among the usual memes used to undermine the president is the threat of some apocalyptic cataclysm, usually in the form of an assertion of federal power, like the seizing of guns. These predictions demand unthinking acceptance of the notion that the president, like a bizarre Manchurian candidate, is saving his nefarious agenda for a second term that might never arrive. By my count, the website Snopes.com has evaluated and debunked 103 of 124 Internet assertions about Obama.
Just before Hurricane Sandy hit, Ann Coulter called our sitting president a "retard," Sarah Palin mocked his "shuck and jive shtick," and John Sununu openly questioned Gen. Colin Powell's weighty endorsement as being motivated by race. At least earlier in the campaign there was some effort at camouflage. Such as when Mitt Romney aired an anti-Obama welfare commercial that falsely suggested Obama supported handouts ("They just send you your welfare check") when, in fact, Obama was accommodating requests of several governors, two of them conservative Republicans, to try new ways to put people back to work. A similar sentiment was expressed by Romney when he maligned the 47 percent who don't pay federal income taxes, overlooking that 83 percent of that group are either working and paying payroll taxes or they're elderly.
And, almost daily, there have been dire warnings about Obama, often with sirens, from the Drudge Report. Example: the Sept. 18 edition featuring a hideous picture of Obama (eyes closed) emblazoned with the all-capped quote: "I ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN REDISTRIBUTION," a 14-year-old excerpt that conveniently excised the future president's explicit embrace of "competition" and "marketplace." No wonder I routinely field calls from radio listeners who, with no hint of embarrassment in their voices, say things such as "I call him 'comrade' " or "he's not my president."
Their best evidence? Obamacare - crafted by the same people who wrote Romneycare. Critics ignore that the Affordable Care Act is premised upon personal responsibility and was born in a right-wing think tank. Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning website of the Tampa Bay Times, called the idea that Obamacare represents a "takeover" of the health-care system the 2010 Lie of the Year. And while some have also labeled the president a "socialist" for signing the $831 billion stimulus, no one ever used such language when Bush acted similarly with the $700 billion TARP.
In the final days, the critics have turned to Benghazi, drilling down on the shifting narrative regarding the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, but ignoring that, as the Wall Street Journal reported on Oct. 22, "The CIA was consistent from Sept. 13 to Sept. 21 that the attack evolved from a protest." There's another problem with the criticism. Romney now gets intelligence briefings, too. Perhaps that's why he took a pass on this kerfuffle when Libya was the first question at the final debate.
So why the attention on the recent 9/11? Perhaps to deflect attention from Obama avenging the first 9/11. Most disturbing, the president's critics have sought to diminish that achievement by treating his order as a no-brainer. As a candidate in 2008, Obama was roundly criticized when he said (to me and others) that he would act on intelligence regarding the al-Qaeda leader even if he were in Pakistan. To Bush that was "unsavory." To John McCain that was "naive." Hillary Clinton said this was "a mistake." Joe Biden said Obama "undermined his ability to be tough." And Romney regarded that pledge as "ill-timed" and "ill-considered." Imagine the criticism Obama would have faced if the mission had failed.
The reality is that there is much to be admired in the president and his rise to power. Replace Kenya with Poland or Germany, and you'd have observers rightly saying that only in this country could such a career path be possible. He is a loving husband and father who, with the first lady, is ably raising two daughters in the glare of the White House. He is an intellectual heavyweight. And his personal ethics have been above reproach.
Real patriots vote for or against candidates based on substance, not smears.
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/michael_smerconish/20121104_The_Pulse__The_smearing_of_a_president__From_start__unrelenting__unfair.html
Amen!
Michael must have missed the $150-$200 million worth of attack ads that the Obama campaign and its surrogates have thrown at Romney over the past year. One year ago the Obama campaign knew they couldn't defend their record and had no game plan for the future other than more of the same, so they doubled down on going after Romney on a political and personal level, which worked until the very first debate when Romney was able to portray himself to the American people as a reasonable guy and viable alternative to Obama without the filter of a biased mainstream media, thus destroying Obama's campaign strategy and around $200 million worth of campaign ads up to that point in time.
In fact, Obama has run what many objective observers would classify as one of the most negative, if not the most negative campaigns in U.S. political history, not to mention his constant interruptions in debates (even though he had more speaking time in all 3 debates), his demeanor, and his name calling and concoction of a new disease (Romnesia-personally Romney should have hit back with Barackoholism, a condition you get when you drink too much of the Obama kool aid!)
As far as Benghazi is concerned, guess Michael doesn't know how to read or has missed the news lately. Security forces on the ground, who were actually there, are disputing the story being floated by the CIA and/or Obama administration. Second, he should watch the recently disclosed 60 Minutes interview. It's rather obvious, that after 2 months, Obama is both lying and he/his administration were totally incompetent in the handling of Benghazi, before the attack, during the attack, and especially after the attack. Benghazi is a microcosm of the Obama administration, which is why it's important.
From the Washington Times (Oct. 26, 2012):
And:
See, Obama's money represents millions of "little people". And Romney represents a few deep pockets.
That's what we mean by "buying the election".
What do you think Sheldon Adelson is going to expect as the return on his "investment" of the over $70 million he's given Romney? Scary stuff. Mitt better be running for the Caymans.
Uncle Bob: THANK YOU!!
An exceptional statement which really sums up the behavior towards the President of the United States of America. Despite any differences Americans may have made fun or complained loudly, but the perpetual bombardment of lies and innuendo are overwhelming. I am doubly impressed with Mr. Obama in his manners dealing with RUDE audience members and even an amazingly RUDE congressman screaming "Liar!" while congress was in session!! The bar just keeps dropping on how disrespectful and cruel these people are. Mr. Obama's accomplishments exceed everything George W Bush did in EIGHT YEARS... creating MORE JOBS in FOUR YEARS; bringing down the vast majority of Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. I hope other people realize look where we were 4 years ago... things aren't the best they could be, but with a cooperative congress just think how much might have been done to benefit America. The oathes to the constitution seem to have taken a back seat to oathes made to Grover Norquist and the absolute dedication to NEVER cooperate with President Obama. Hopefully, our votes will be enough to overwhelm all the voter suppression schemes so that we might get a Democrat majority and FAST TRACK our recovery.
I hope everybody thinks carefully about what their vote will mean to this country if they haven't already voted.
Best wishes to all.
I just cast my ballot. Straight blue.
Romney said yesterday. 'We're going to take all of those things done over the last 4 years, the stimulus, Obamacare, and so on, and we're going to do them all over again.'
Wow, that is some change. Changing his story and now, he not only embraces Obama's foreign policy, he has changed his domestic policy to be the exact same thing.
No wonder he caught Obama off guard in the first debate. You can't fight a shape shifting ghost like that.
I can't believe that mainstream media managed to shield Obama from any serious answers about leaving our people to die in Benghazi. Its like they circled wagons and tried to forget those Americans that gave their lives.
Tuesday we should forget those who forgot Benghazi, cancel your newspaper if they were silent.
To those still beating the Benghazi drum:
Most Americans understand that when we go into very dangerous parts of the world, things happen.
Obama didn't send us there, but it sounds to most of us as though the GOP is trying to make political hay out of the tragic, but not unforeseeable, consequence of something your own party undertook.
The truth will be found. Adjustments will be made. The value of mistakes is what you learn from them.
But making a huge mistake in choosing our President based on this one incident is not rational.
Um...how do you feel about imaginary WMD's?
Let's not forget that for the 2010 and 2011 Consulate Security Budget, Paul Ryan reduced the worldwide budget by HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars. You would think he was thinking clearly in that many of these regions are highly volatile... Gee, I guess that escaped him or could it be an opportunity to allow security to become so lax that an attack was facilitated?
Well 9/11 happened and NO military planes were in sight to escort or shoot down ANY of these "hi-jacked" planes. FOUR commercial carriers without contact to Air Control for an extended length of time... no curiosity from control towers or a military response? Well, you'll be glad to know at least the one that "they claimed" had crashed in Pennsylvania ACTUALLY LANDED in Chicago. Gee, maybe I just see too many movies...
Harry-3603195, you're a lying idiot. More democrats voted for that then republicans. So STFU. Paul Ryan didn't reduce anything. Unlike Obama, Paul Ryan knows he's not King. And 9/11 was not a conspiracy, you left wing loon.
sure it is. there are plenty of other people out there for the job that dont have that on their rap sheets. why would you presume we are reduced to only 2 possible people in the nation that can do this job. Obama dosnt need a second term ... move him out and get another in there to give it a go. 2nd terms should be held for only the most outstanding performances of leadership and decison making ... not just because the other guy smiles funny or is rich and successful.
id vote for an inanimate object before i voted for anyone supporting "share the wealth" ideals like obama.
Obama shed some tears because after looking at his own internal polls and analyzing the latest polls from Gallup, Rasmussen, Wall St. Journal/NBC, etc.,, after taking into account oversampling of democrats, that independents break for the challenger, and that undecideds usually favor the challenger, he knows he’s not going to win re-election.
Here’s the good news: Kenya has their Presidential election in March of 2013, so he can run for office there. I’m sure they’d give him 2 terms, so he can spend the next 10 years screwing up their country instead of ours. Besides, he’d be closer to his family and he wouldn’t have to worry about his birth certificate! LOL…
You deserve yourself, unfortunately the president thinks you deserve better. He's a better man than I.
@Kenishere - Here's an idea for ya, moron; why don't you go over to North Carolina and start signing your name for the "All-White, All-Male, All-Evangelical, All-Hetero" rebel army and make preparations for a massive genocide of anyone who isn't you.
I'd love to see the look on your face when the thugs of South Compton gully you alive - and guess what? A majority of them'll be black, and all of 'em will be mad as hell that you brought that birther issue up YET AGAIN.
Because, y'know, apparently the so-called "Voice of God" says no black man or woman of any race may be president of the US - that is the responsibility of the King of All Godly White Men, y'know?
What about Romney's birth certificate?? It's a FACT that his grandfather left the U.S. to evade laws (sound familiar?) regarding the fact that he wanted to keep all FIVE WIVES. Romney even admits his father was BORN IN MEXICO so how do we know Romney's not really a Mexican trying to return the lands Mexico lost in the war between Mexico and the U.S.?? Furthermore, if ANYBODY accepts Romney's father as an American even though he has admitted being born in Mexico, why would anybody care where Obama was born? He WAS born in Hawaii and his mother came from KANSAS (not in OZ) so even if Obama was born in Siberia, his mother was an AMERICAN and he has U.S. citizen status. Study up, kids! You're showing your immaturity by jumping through the first hoop Faux Noise Canal offers instead of researching our laws. Duh.
Harry, 'tis a good idea to leave a yapping loon like this alone. I imagine once he realizes he's yelling at a brick wall, he'll ultimately croon until the Reaper gives him a nice poke in the keister.
I hear Satan's favorite food during Winter time is hypocrites....
kenishere, pretty desperate to post something, eh!!! don't worry, it will be over soon and you can enjoy 4 more years of President Obama and vice president Biden.
It's over for Obama.
Romney voters are energized and Obama's turnout will not be at 2008 levels.
I think you've fallen into the Romnesia trap.
Repeating lies doesn't make them true.
The right wing lunatic fringe will lose this election by a very healthy margin. There is no doubt President Obama will be reelected. However, it will be entertaining to watch the far right bawl and squall about a rigged election when the results are finalized!
Still, it's critical to get out and vote! Reelect President Obama! He is clearly our only rational choice!
Can you spell BENGHAZI?
How about LIBYA?
Yep. But I bet 90% of your party can't point to them on a map.
But they probably can tell you that they can see those countries from their back yards.
I'm not condoning the Banghazi handling at all, but bottom line is, our leadership built a coalition of support that overthrew a brutal dictator without putting boots on the ground. In total 4 died. How'd Iraq work out?
And the Libyan people themselves went after the attackers and drove them out of their compound. They know who their friends are.
Why did Obama and his staff lie for 2 weeks about who and how the attacks happened? That's what bugs me.
They didn't lie. The e-mail saying who it was was highly classified by the CIA and couldn't be released. Obama said right away that terrorists would not deter us in Libya. The statements about the video were about the unrest throughout the Middle East, not just Libya. All of the information that the liar Hannity uses nightly comes from White House releases, so how can he call this a cover up?
Don't worry, OBAMA, With a flat-lined economy and the way you abandoned our country-men in Benghazi and the Northeast, I will be working until the polls close to make sure you don't get another FOUR TEARS to do more harm to this country that I love.
Finish what you started? What did you start???
Best argument there is for not going back to the policies of the GOP:
Private Sector Payroll Employment
This was the CNN Money headline in Bush's last month of office:
Job loss: Worst in 34 years
Employers slashed 598,000 more jobs in January
Would you really vote for that again? Romney's tax plan was written by the same guy that wrote Bush's.
Damn right I'm happy about the last 4 years. The real question is, do you want 4 more like the last 4? Or 4 like the 8 before Obama?
New Rule
If you voted for Bush who lied and caused the deaths of over 4,000 Americans in Iraq.
You can't fake concern over 4 deaths in Libya for political points.
Jan,
So how are you going to make sure that the President doesn't win this election? You can get up to five years in prison for voter tampering. You can't even suggest to voters who to vote for while you are working the polls.
Since Obama has been president how many lives have been lost in Chicago?
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
Funny how that quote is forever linked to Bush, isn't it?
Remarks to the Diet, Tokyo, Japan. (February 18, 2002)
How embarrassing for our country.
I just watched that video on YouTube, it's tragicomic.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on [pauses, laughter]— shame on you. Fool me [pauses, laughter] you can't get fooled again."
—Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
And to think there are people out there that don't believe he is THE worst president in US History.
Using your own quote, shame on you. I bet you voted for Party Boy Bush twice. Shame on you.
LoL
(surprisingly by 28%+)....should be by 64%
OBAMA 2012
These kinds of forums make me laugh. All of you are so convinced that Obama is going to win (and some think by a landslide)... It's like you've convinced yourself that the lie is true and can't see the through the fog that has riddled the Obama campaign supporters since he got to his first election campaign stop.
"Obama had a tear in his eye..." oh, how sweet. tug tug--heart strings. Sorry, I don't want a pansy for POTUS. Vote for your guy though; no one is stopping you. But, I know you'll say that someone was when it turns out that he loses.
A friend and I put out a few hundred signs near polling places (yessss, more than 100 ft away) in JeffCo tonight... and only saw 2 Obama signs the entire time. That, ladies and gents, is the ENTHUSIASM GAP.
sweet dreams folks. the reckoning has come.
"pansy"?
How old are you? 90?
tayatayat - Where in Jeffco? I'm in Aurora, and I need a Romney/Ryan sign. I have a Dole/Kemp, Gore/Lieberman, Kerry/Edwards, and a McCain/Palin.... get the picture. Btw......
Obama/Biden 2012!
tay .... we (americans) don't "think" Obama will win by a landslide .... we KNOW Obama will win this easily .... mitt da twit was way too transparent with his lies ... i'm a 47%'er and never will be in a 1% ... i love this country ....
OBAMA 2012
How many of those romney/ryan signs are next to the stars and bars flags?
pussy work better for ya? was trying to keep it somewhat clean... but, apparently MSNBC doesn't care
A true patriot, obviously.
What do you think the Founding Fathers would have to say about that?
what do you care? you (and those like you) have thrown every piece of knowledge and wisdom they ever had into the trash.
care to step it up a bit??? You're boring me. I'm about to leave this liberal propaganda site. MSNBC does not report actual news. They create it with fake stories and false truths.
And I suppose Westborough reports the facts - as they come straight from the mouth of Joseph Smith, Lord King, Reincarnation of the Almighty Son of God, Jesus Christ?
Please, do entertain me with this douchebaggery. I'm rather bored, as you can see - I mean, I can't stop my fists from shaking!
who the hell is talking about the crazy Westborough Baptists??? they're insane. what does that have to do with me?
please keep your hate targeted and relevant.... because, otherwise, I don't know what you're talking about.
don't hate me because you hate God... you've got bigger fish to fry.
tayatyat, if you don't like this site why don't you go to Russia. Maybe Pravda will be more to your liking. They may even believe all the BS you keep spouting. After all it's run by communists.
I stand proud to know that I have cast my vote for the most qualified man for the job of POTUS, Barack Obama. His color has nothing to do with my support but his integrity has everything to do with it! I find it impossible to vote for a pathological liar who disrespects me as a veteran and as a citizen of the United States of America. I find absolutely NOTHING in Mitt Romney worthy of praise or admiration when he continues to tell and promote one lie after another as though he is speaking to a child or an animal without the capacity to reason his lack of integrity! When I make the comparison between the two men I can't help but think that though they are both wealthy, Barack as President has done all within his power to work on behalf of We The People, Barack has done this through deeds, while Romney has done absolutely nothing on our behalf but yet has the audacity to tell us that his primary goal if elected is to lower taxes for the Filthy Rich in a continuation of GW Bush's trickle down theory of economics! The only real plan Mitt Romney has is to become president! As a veteran the thought of calling Willard Mitt Romney my Commander In Chief makes me want to puke!
A recent poll of veterans shows them voting 2 to 1 for Romney, whats up there!!
I'm a Vietnam vet as well and the reason I'm voting against Obama has nothing to do with his skin color, I learned 40 years ago to really hate communist!! Communist Obama needs to go back to Chicago!!
I am a 28 yr. veteran and voting for Obama. Edwin, your comments about 'communist Obama' is irrational. Why? Because he got the affordable care act passed? Or is it because he took power away from banks to give pell grants to college kids. Or is it because he believes us 'regular' folks should be able to earn a fair wage for our labors? Or is it because he believes our nation is composed of citizens, some become quite wealthy due to the efforts of government as in internal structure and laws for business and they should contribute more in their good fortune for the good of the nation? These wealthy folks should be lucky they don't live in England if that is so. Is that a communist nation? Your comment smacks of pure partisanship and an excuse for finding a way to blather.
This veteran voted a straight Democrat ticket. I want to protect me and mine from the aristocracy.
@Miklkit....
I am on my way to the polls now......straight Democratic ticket as ALWAYS!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
HILLARY CLINTON 2016
Obama
Yo Momma!
U Nose
Dis Brotha
Gots TO GO!!
dats rite:)
What a lame speech . I think the man should of hired some speech writers that were able to write a motivational speech . So many of the speech writers now days are just full of crap .
Real Americans First . In Oregon , the actions of one republican does not matter . It is a bleeding heart democratic state . Always has been , always will be and always will be . Hell they can not even bring back the death penalty with a vote of the people because the so called Governor over ruled it and wont allow it . Its a state that it does not matter what the people want . The political ones do as they like anyway . Besides what does one persons actions have to do with everyone in the party ? That is called stereotyping ..
obama / biden 2012 !!!!
BLAH BLAH BLAH...Nate Silver has the President as an 86% favorite this morning with a projected 306 electoral votes.
It's over. Barring MASSIVE GOP VOTER FRAUD, it's in the bag!
Go vote, make history.
Four more for forty-four
Obama/Biden 2012
I can't think of any rational reason anybody who wasn't a multi-millionaire would vote for Mitt Romney.
He's proven to be a bald-faced liar, a flip-flopper who changes his stance more than his underwear, completely out-of-touch, with zero integrity. He refuses to give details about his so-called economic plan (and what little he's deigned to divulge has independent analysts saying in order for it to work it would actually RAISE taxes on the middle class), he won't answer any reporter's questions, refuses to release his tax returns...on and on.
He is so far from what a President should be, it's not even funny.
Do those who would vote for Romney have some sort of disconnect problem? Did they not notice that he was way far right during the primaries and for 90% of his campaign and - then - he becomes all moderate during the debates and reverses 95% of what he had said a few days before? Did they not notice when management at Chrysler said he must be in some alternate universe (a nicer way of saying he was lying about Jeep)? And then he continued to run that ad about Jeep? The outright lies and constant flip-flopping? Did that go unnoticed? Did they never ask themselves exactly why there were so many people added to the welfare rolls? We had a, hopefully, "once" in a lifetime awful recession - not brought about by President Obama. A hell of a lot of people lost jobs, homes and a way of life. I'm so very proud we have a system where these families were not just left to starve, even when it costs me (us) money. But because so many equate being black and being on welfare, the Romney types used that to insinuate (never used the words, but we understood) that since our President was not white, he was just sending checks out willy-nilly to all those free-loading black folks. That is just disgraceful politics and frankly shows a lack of humanity.
So, looks like it's caught up with the Romney types. Even a reasonably intelligent elementary school student who can add, can add up the electoral votes to see that President Obama is going to be re-elected. You tea baggers on this site, perhaps, can't add; but the republican "machine" can. That's why beginning this weekend and continuing right now, they are starting to make excuses for why Romney will lose. They are blaming Sandy. Why? That don't actually say this, but it's because it shows how much we need big government, i.e., Fema, and how a President should act during a national crisis - and the American people saw it.
in my life time , i've seen the times of segregation , at school on the day of the assassination of martin luther king , brave soldiers of vietnam , segregated water fountains , restrooms , restaurants , mother being turned from eating in whites only eateries while vacationing in florida with people she worked for , lynchings going on in different parts of my world , uneasiness in the black communities , and then '' low-n-behold '' , we are given the the '' MOST POWERFUL POSITION IN THE WORLD '' !!!!!! I LOVE MY COUNTRY , THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OF !!!!!!!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA !!!!!!!!!
Romney and Republicans further down the food chain for the first time began
imagining another four years of Democratic rule in the White House.
First, a handful of Republicans battling for election in close Senate races
in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Nevada publicly distanced themselves from Romney’s surreptitiously videotaped comments that “47 percent”
of Americans think of themselves as victims, pay no income taxes and are
dependent on government support. ”That’s not the way I view the world,” said
Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., who is struggling to fend off a challenge by Democrat
Elizabeth Warren.
Obama has LOOONG coattails!