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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.”
Reuters, Getty Images
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crocodile tears... empty chair last day!
Romney pays no taxes for 13 years. This man doesn't need to be President, he needs to be in jail. Not withstanding the fact that it's a "LEGAL TRUST" I just not "American". How can anyone vote for this lying slim ball. No wonder McCain didn't select him as VP, he saw his tax returns.
Oh, by the way, put the Govenor of Florida in jail too for violation of the US Constitution.
PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR 4 MORE YEARS TOMORROW.
Two-term President Barack Obama
From the article above:
Over the last three weeks, President Obama has made up all the ground he lost from the Denver debate, and now leads comfortably in all the polls including nationally.
The last three weeks alone should convince the MAJORITY of Americans we are MUCH better off with the leadership and poise of President Barack Obama.
The Governor, however, has seen his campaign implode and looks more and more like the Republican’s version of Michael Dukakis.
Here’s a recap of the Governor’s last three weeks of his bungled candidacy:
First: The final debate where the President waxed the Governor on foreign policy convinced the majority of Americans that we are much safer with Barack Obama at the helm.
Second: The nation saw a true leader in the President’s superb handling of the crisis before and after Hurricane Sandy and got the glowing praise from Republican Governor Christie.
Third: The endorsement from General Colin Powel and Mayor Bloomberg, both Republicans, was more proof that intelligent people know President Obama’s going to win this election.
Fourth: The Salt Lake Tribune endorsed President Obama because the great state of Utah, Mormon capitol of the world, can’t trust the lying Governor.
Fifth: The Governor’s botched photo-op at Wal-Mart in Ohio where his staff bought canned goods then GAVE them to people entering the store shocked Americans.
Sixth: The Governor’s double-down lying of the Jeep debacle convinced American’s he is a pathological liar and he simply can’t be trusted.
Seventh: The Governor isn’t even campaigning in his home state of Michigan because he will LOSE that state.
Eighth: The Governor isn’t even campaigning in Massachusetts where he was Governor because he will LOSE that state.
Ninth: The Governor’s running mate, Congressman Ryan, calls him “Stench” and the Congressman will LOSE his state of Wisconsin.
Tenth: Americans will never forget the Governor’s total distain for 47% of American’s and are reminded every day of his elitist sense of entitlement and privileged.
Simply put, the Governor is the worst candidate the GOP has had in 36 years.
President Obama will win Tuesday in a Landslide victory that can only be interpreted as a complete rejection of the Governor’s pathological lying, John Boehner’s FAILED Tea Party House of Representatives, the Tea Party’s FAILED propaganda campaign of lies against the President, as well as the Tea Party’s constant berating and reproach of Woman, Minorities, and the hard working Poor and Middle Class.
Thumbs up! Let's reelect President Obama and say HELL NO to the Republican Party's hateful, intolerant, and destructive agendas!
Get out and VOTE!
"PLEASE PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THIS! In the event you are planning to vote democrat no Nov. 6, when you go into the voting booths, DO NOT SELECT THE BUTTON "all democrats" first, because Barack Obama will be excluded from the vote. However, if we choose "Barack Obama" first, then "all democrats", he will earn our votes." Of course then in the text it says to forward this on to others because they are trying every trick in the book to hurt the democrats voting chances.....please clarify on this matter.....I'm afraid people will fall for this scare tactic and I do not know where this test originated from. I only know that it came from a friend who is currently in New York City. Maybe this is something that area is dealing with at the polls due to Superstorm Sandy? Any feedback would help. Thank you.
Yes, the select all Democrats works. If you select Obama first, you will have to select all of the Democrats individually. A hassle, but it's just another conserva-troll trick.
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
It is truly amazing how stupid and delusional all the Libtards in this blog are. Just saying something and repeating it over and over does not make it so.
The fact is that nationwide more Republicans have registered to vote than Democrats, and all polls show fewer Dems to be voting this time around. Several polls also show that 12% to17% of those who voted for Obama in 2008 are voting for Romney in 2012.
Within a 75 mile radius of where I live, there are less than 20 Obama signs along roadways and in yards. There are many thousands of Romney signs everywhere... at businesses, homes, on cars, along highways. There is zero enthusiasm for Obama.
Democrats are going to have a very rude awakening come tonight, and I can't wait. The party of losers and leeches and failures is going to be kicked to the curb. The welfare and freebies are ending. Someday maybe some of you will realize that this was a good thing, as electing Romney kept America from undergoing a complete and total financial collapse. Others will continue to blame everyone but yourselves for your failures in life and stupidity.
ROMNEY / RYAN 2012 how sweet it is!
Lot's of desperate republicans posting, Who's sorry now we ran Willard Milton Romney...
Ann Coulter " If we don't run someone like Chris Christy, and we run Romney we will LOSE" The only quote from Ann I agree with. LOL
Get out the tissue's Romney is going to lose, on the other hand with the re-election of President Obama the country wins!!!!
O&JOE Forward not back!
I saw this morning that Florida went from Lean Romney to Lean Obama. All the momentum is on the President's side. Follow through. Get out and vote.
I think the electoral college is a pretty sure bet. If FL goes blue, it's over. I still want to see Obama win the popular vote by a bigger margin than when we sent home McComplain/Lipstick in 2008.
Make it a landslide. Obama/Biden 2012 - Romney/Ryan 1040
And where do you get your data? From Fox I guess. You have got it all wrong. Everything I have read says just the reverse. I have new voters in my home that will be casting their first votes for President of the USA and they are voting for Obama. My husband who was a registered Rep. has changed his party to Dem. so I guess you are just grasping at straws and trying to tell yourself, against all odds, that you have a logical reason for Romney. The American public has seen through him and will vote for the best candidate OBAMA.
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.
The bottom 47% who pay no taxes and live off of welfare ARE losers. And if you think this nation can survive with almost half of the population contributing nothing and needing everything, you obviously have failed math.
The debt created by Obama will fall directly in the laps of the middle class. There are not enough rich to tax to make a difference. You have all been fooled by Obama's class warfare. Should Obama be re-elected the day will come when you would beg borrow and steal, even more than you do now, to have Romney for president.
ROMNEY / RYAN 2012 its gonna be a landslide!
Hurricane Sandy has done of us all a favor-
by causing us to focus on Romney's skewed thinking:
Consider Romney’s advice for storm & disaster survivors:
"Don’t be a victim, and stop looking for handouts!"
And.... ask your parents for help!
Heck, Romney will dismantle FEMA and the EPA
(= more $$$ for his people/corporations).
Leave it to the states, he says.
Yeah, sure. The damage from Katrina was FOUR times Louisiana’a state budget!
Maybe Romney will make us dams.... out of his used Etch-A-Sketches?
What we need is a tidal wave.......of voters.....
to sweep these kind of guys out of power.
THAT is the BEST way to help the victims of present and future Sandys.
...AND ....the best way to help yourself, and your family.
Obama does not dismiss 47% of America like Romney.
Obama says: This is not a Republican America.
This is not a Democratic America.
This is the UNITED States of America.
p.s. This is not mere rhetoric. For in many ways, Mitt Romney's opposition to federal disaster relief programs is what the election is all about. President Barack Obama supports using government to help those in a crisis get back on their feet. Mitt Romney believes that government has no role in helping people who are dealing with disaster. Those two very different views of America's future are on the ballot next week. Your choice. Choose well. Choose as if your life depended on it.
Because some day.....it just might.
We know from Mitt's values (or lack of them) that he's not a Christian.
But heck, he's not even a Mormon. Come on Mitt, let’s be honest:
YOUR REAL GODS ARE MONEY AND GREED.
And your saints are those who have the most money
..... those who want to BUY this ELECTION - and this COUNTRY
......and TO HELL with the rest of us.
They try to drown us out with their dollars.
But WE still have a voice. And it’s called our VOTE.
We need a President for ALL the people -
NOT a President of the wealthy, by the wealthy,
and for the wealthy. And for sure, that ain’t you Mitt.....
Using a tax shelter called a CRUT (charitable remainder unitrust) that was held by the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Mitt Romney was able to pay zero taxes (legally) every single year from 1996 to 2009. Why did he stop in 2009? Because he would make public his 2010 tax return, that is why.This tax loophole was killed by Congress in 1997. However those including Romney that were already using it were allowed to continue it. The way it works, is that Romney makes a "charitable" contribution to the Church of Latter Day Saints and it goes into a trust. Since the trust is held by the church, the money is tax deferred. Any capital gains, are non taxed because of the charities status. Like an annuity, the donor gets a charitable tax deduction and an stream of cash payments. When Romney dies, the church accepts full ownership..
Bloomsberg's attorneys estimate as the Romneys have received these payments, the money that will potentially be left for charity has declined from at least $750,000 in 2001 to $421,203 at the end of 2011.....Romney has refused to answer any thing on this topic. His campaign puts out that it was all legal....Legal perhaps. Ethical for the president of the United States? Well, only if you want a crook running the country.... Imagine! Legally stealing from your church!."
For Romney to Win, State Polls Must Be Statistically Biased
THE. BEST. POLLING. DATA. EVER.!
Nate predicts on Nov. 6,
President Obama is 85.5% 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: *OHIO* - 86%
President Obama chances of winning: IOWA - 83%
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%
The NY Times has made President Obama a 92% favorite to win this election! All we have to do is to get out and VOTE to make it happen!
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!
Just how bad you yoo have to be for a Utah paper to reject the Mormon candidate for President:
Tribune endorsement: Too Many Mitts
Obama has earned another term
First Published Oct 19 2012 12:13 pm • Last Updated Nov 05 2012 12:54 pm
Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for business and the bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our largely Mormon, Republican, business-friendly state.
But it was Romney’s singular role in rescuing Utah’s organization of the 2002 Olympics from a cesspool of scandal, and his oversight of the most successful Winter Games on record, that make him the Beehive State’s favorite adopted son. After all, Romney managed to save the state from ignominy, turning the extravaganza into a showcase for the matchless landscapes, volunteerism and efficiency that told the world what is best and most beautiful about Utah and its people.
In short, 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?"
The evidence suggests no clear answer, or at least one that would survive Romney’s next speech or sound bite. Politicians routinely tailor their words to suit an audience. Romney, though, is shameless, lavishing vastly diverse audiences with words, any words, they would trade their votes to hear.
More troubling, Romney has repeatedly refused to share specifics of his radical plan to simultaneously reduce the debt, get rid of Obamacare (or, as he now says, only part of it), make a voucher program of Medicare, slash taxes and spending, and thereby create millions of new jobs. To claim, as Romney does, that he would offset his tax and spending cuts (except for billions more for the military) by doing away with tax deductions and exemptions is utterly meaningless without identifying which and how many would get the ax. Absent those specifics, his promise of a balanced budget simply does not pencil out.
If this portrait of a Romney willing to say anything to get elected seems harsh, we need only revisit his branding of 47 percent of Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, yet feel victimized and entitled to government assistance. His job, he told a group of wealthy donors, "is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Where, we ask, is the pragmatic, inclusive Romney, the Massachusetts governor who left the state with a model health care plan in place, the Romney who led Utah to Olympic glory? That Romney skedaddled and is nowhere to be found.
And what of the president Romney would replace? For four years, President Barack Obama has attempted, with varying degrees of success, to pull the nation out of its worst financial meltdown since the Great Depression, a deepening crisis he inherited the day he took office.
In the first months of his presidency, Obama acted decisively to stimulate the economy. His leadership was essential to passage of the badly needed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Though Republicans criticize the stimulus for failing to create jobs, it clearly helped stop the hemorrhaging of public sector jobs. The Utah Legislature used hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to plug holes in the state’s budget.
The president also acted wisely to bail out the auto industry, which has since come roaring back. Romney, in so many words, said the carmakers should sink if they can’t swim.
Obama’s most noteworthy achievement, passage of his signature Affordable Care Act, also proved, in its timing, his greatest blunder. The set of comprehensive health insurance reforms aimed at extending health care coverage to all Americans was signed 14 months into his term after a ferocious fight in Congress that sapped the new president’s political capital and destroyed any chance for bipartisan cooperation on the shredded economy.
Obama’s foreign policy record is perhaps his strongest suit, especially compared to Romney’s bellicose posture toward Russia and China and his inflammatory rhetoric regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Obama’s measured reliance on tough economic embargoes to bring Iran to heel, and his equally measured disengagement from the war in Afghanistan, are examples of a nuanced approach to international affairs. The glaring exception, still unfolding, was the administration’s failure to protect the lives of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, and to quickly come clean about it.
In considering which candidate to endorse, The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board had hoped that Romney would exhibit the same talents for organization, pragmatic problem solving and inspired leadership that he displayed here more than a decade ago. Instead, we have watched him morph into a friend of the far right, then tack toward the center with breathtaking aplomb. Through a pair of presidential debates, Romney’s domestic agenda remains bereft of detail and worthy of mistrust.
Therefore, our endorsement must go to the incumbent, a competent leader who, against tough odds, has guided the country through catastrophe and set a course that, while rocky, is pointing toward a brighter day. The president has earned a second term. Romney, in whatever guise, does not deserve a first.
It's important to note the Salt Lake Tribune, the newspaper that published that editorial, has the largest circulation in Utah. Mitt's losing this election. Period.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/55019844-82/endorsement-obama-president-romney.html.csp
Mormons stick together. I know. I'm one. I lived in SLC from 1966 to 1968, and I was never so glad to leave a place than when we moved out of Bountiful (SLC suburb).
The Tribune IS the biggest newspaper in Utah. They must not like what they see in Romney. I don't either.
He is wrong about America, and wrong FOR America. Not just 47% wrong. 100% wrong.
I just read, in disbelief, that Ryan said today that "Barack Obama is a threat to christian values" Its amazing what he and Mitt will say to win the Presidency. That statement is absolutly insane. If you believe that statement, you are just as nutty as they are. The right wingers say that the President is leading this country down the path of socialism, well it looks like they want the country on the path to a theocracy. HIPOCRITS WANTING TO STEAL FROM THE POOR AND GIVE TO THE FILTHY RICH , NOW WANTS US TO BELIEVE THIS IS THE WILL OF JESUS CHRIST ??? I KNOW '' MORONI '' HAS REALLY WACKED THEIR HEADS !!!!
CHRISTIAN VALUES also oppose '' PREJUDICE '' , lynchings , adultery , fornication , shacking up , lying , stealing on your 1040 , whoremongering , cursing , smoking , drinking , pill popping , weed toking , drug dealing , jealousy , and coming against your president that he put in office. and the beat goes on. sooooooo who has no sin , and can judge others ????? !!!! throw the first stone !!!!!!! IT WILL BE EASIER FOR A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE , THEN FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN !!!!!!!!! BECAUSE THE RICH GETS '' GREEDY '' , JUST LIKE ROMNEY
Utah state slogan: Our Jesus is better than your Jesus.
This election is about two things, Capitialism vs. Communism, Nikita Khrushchev said back in the 50's, and we are seeing it happen right before our very eyes. He said " We can't expect the American People to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism until they awaken one day to find that they have communism". This is the choice we have, a current POTUS who preaches and believes in Marxism or Romney who is a Capitalist, they cannot co-exist, people watch out, this is not a scare tactic, this is slowly happening, and remeber Krushchev also said we will take your country without even firing a shot!! Communist hate everything that our country stands for, we must stop it now!!!
Nice fantasy world you have there. Is it air conditioned?
Maybe Republicans suppressing the non-partisan CRS Report showing tax breaks for the rich DON'T help the economy, and in fact only creates increased inequity?
Maybe how the Romney/Ryan ticket is the WORST ticket ever in regard to foreign policy credentials? Mitt, you knew you wanted to be POTUS -- You should have served in the military, you should have studied more topics than ways to rip off other people including GM.
Maybe how the economy has managed to improve despite nonstop Republican obstructionism? Oh, you can just see McConnell and Boehner's butts burning as the economy continues to improve.
FORWARD - Obama/Biden - Four More Years!
Uhhhh, I think Joseph McCarthy died a long time ago, friend. We also have put a man on the moon. Try to keep up.
Hurricane Sandy has done of us all a favor-
by causing us to focus on Romney's skewed thinking:
Consider Romney’s advice for storm & disaster survivors:
"Don’t be a victim, and stop looking for handouts!"
And.... ask your parents for help!
Heck, Romney will dismantle FEMA and the EPA
(= more $$$ for his people/corporations).
Leave it to the states, he says.
Yeah, sure. The damage from Katrina was FOUR times Louisiana’a state budget!
Maybe Romney will make us dams.... out of his used Etch-A-Sketches?
What we need is a tidal wave.......of voters.....
to sweep these kind of guys out of power.
THAT is the BEST way to help the victims of present and future Sandys.
...AND ....the best way to help yourself, and your family.
Obama does not dismiss 47% of America like Romney.
Obama says: This is not a Republican America.
This is not a Democratic America.
This is the UNITED States of America.
p.s. This is not mere rhetoric. For in many ways, Mitt Romney's opposition to federal disaster relief programs is what the election is all about. President Barack Obama supports using government to help those in a crisis get back on their feet. Mitt Romney believes that government has no role in helping people who are dealing with disaster. Those two very different views of America's future are on the ballot next week. Your choice. Choose well. Choose as if your life depended on it.
Because some day.....it just might.
We know from Mitt's values (or lack of them) that he's not a Christian.
But heck, he's not even a Mormon. Come on Mitt, let’s be honest:
YOUR REAL GODS ARE MONEY AND GREED.
And your saints are those who have the most money
..... those who want to BUY this ELECTION - and this COUNTRY
......and TO HELL with the rest of us.
They try to drown us out with their dollars.
But WE still have a voice. And it’s called our VOTE.
We need a President for ALL the people -
NOT a President of the wealthy, by the wealthy,
and for the wealthy. And for sure, that ain’t you Mitt.....
You are one brain cell away from being the typical Obama robot, just another lib who can't think for themself!
When Obama the undercover muslim, illegal immigrant loving President leaves office I am going to have a huge celebration. I cannot wait till this incompetent guy is out office.
Knowing that he is going to lose the election, Romney has decided he will write a book.
The book will be titled "Fifty Shades Of Binders Full of Women".
You better have a lot of patience, because that will be January of 2017, bud.
Keep trying to spread the hate libs. If theres hate in your heart let it out you socialists. Obummers going down. Real Americans are tired of being stepped on by the government. Bye bye obummer!
The GOP/RNC " Pathological Liar " never stopped his "Crazy Conservative Clown Campaigning." The GOP/RNC "Romulian" is out touch with the American People, and is out touch with reality. The GOPRNC "Speculator and Chief" has no clue of what the Middle Class, the Working Poor, the elderely, and the disabled are living in right now. The nation needs a true President, and not a "Corporate Boss." President Obama is with out a doubt the true Commander and Chief of the United States. That is fact!
joe mamma, we don't have to spread hate, it's all over the country. Its called Rethuglican.
I think your selection of a poorly hidden slur shows where the hate is. You're on ignore, joe.
In the United States, at least through the next election, we have the freedom to vote for the candidates of our choice. When considering presidential candidates, I give great consideration to the opinions of those who have sworn allegiance to "support and defend" our Constitution. No, I don't mean the beltway politicos who violate their oaths daily, but those in the ranks of our Armed Services, who have sworn to defend our Constitution with their lives, those who keep the Flame of Liberty burning bright.
You already know that a majority of active duty officers and enlisted personnel support conservative candidates, but as the father of an active duty Airman, I thought it might be instructive to list the senior retired military personnel who have endorsed the presidential candidates. (These are the official lists from each campaign.)
Senior officers endorsing Barack Hussein Obama:
Gen. Wesley Clark, USA, Gen. Colin Powell, USA, Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, USA, Adm. Donald Gutter, USN, Adm. John Nathman, USN.
Senior officers and decorated personnel endorsing Mitt Romney:
Adm. James B. Busey, USN, Gen. James T. Conway, USMC, Gen. Terrence R. Dake, USMC, Adm. James O. Ellis, USN, Adm. Mark Fitzgerald, USM, Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, USAF, Gen. Tommy Franks, USA, Gen. Alfred Hansen, USAF, Adm. Ronald Jackson Hays, USN, Adm. Thomas Bibb Hayward, USN, Gen. Chuck Albert Horner, USAF, Adm. Jerome LaMarr Johnson, USN, Adm. Timothy J. Keating, USN, Gen. Paul X. Kelley, USMC, Gen. William Kernan, USA, Adm. George E.R. Kinnear II, USN, Gen. William L. Kirk, USAF, Gen. James J. Lindsay, USA, Gen. William R. Looney III, USAF, Adm. Hank Mauz, USN, Gen. Robert Magnus, USMC, Adm. Paul David Miller, USN, Gen. Henry Hugh Shelton, USA, Gen. Lance Smith, USAF, Adm. Leighton Smith, Jr., USN, Gen. Ronald W. Yates, USAF, Adm. Ronald J. Zlatoper, USN, Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson, USAF, Lt. Gen. Edgar Anderson, Jr., USAF, Lt. Gen. Marcus A. Anderson, USAF, Lt. Gen. Buck Bedard, USMC, Vice Adm. A. Bruce Beran, USCG, Vice Adm. Lyle Bien, USN, Lt. Gen. Harold Blot, USMC, Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, USA, Vice Adm. Mike Bowman III, USN, Vice Adm. Mike Bucchi, USN, Lt. Gen. Walter E. Buchanan III, USAF, Lt. Gen. Richard A. Burpee, USAF, Lt. Gen. William Campbell, USAF, Lt. Gen. James E. Chambers, USAF, Vice Adm. Edward W. Clexton, Jr., USN, Lt. Gen. John B. Conaway, USAF, Lt. Gen. Marvin Covault, USA, Vice Adm. Terry M. Cross, USCG, Vice Adm. William Adam Dougherty, USN, Lt. Gen. Brett Dula, USAF, Lt. Gen. Gordon E. Fornell, USAF, Vice Adm. David Frost, USN, Vice Adm. Henry C. Giffin III, USN, Vice Adm. Peter M. Hekman, USN, Vice Adm. Richard D. Herr, USCG, Lt. Gen. Thomas J Hickey, USAF, Lt. Gen. Walter S. Hogle, Jr., USAF, Lt. Gen. Ronald W. Iverson, USAF, Lt. Gen. Donald W. Jones, USA, Vice Adm. Douglas J. Katz, USN, Lt. Gen. Jay W. Kelley, USAF, Vice Adm. Tom Kilcline, USN, Lt. Gen. Timothy A. Kinnan, USAF, Vice Adm. Harold Koenig, M.D., USN, Vice Adm. Albert H. Konetzni, USN, Lt. Gen. Buford Derald Lary, USAF, Lt. Gen. Frank Libutti, USMC, Vice Adm. Stephen Loftus, USN, Vice Adm. Michael Malone, USN, Vice Adm. Edward H. Martin, USN, Vice Adm. John J. Mazach, USN, Vice Adm. Justin D. McCarthy, USN, Vice Adm. William McCauley, USN, Lt. Gen. Fred McCorkle, USMC, Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney, USAF, Vice Adm. Joseph S. Mobley, USN, Lt. Gen. Carol Mutter, USMC, Lt. Gen. Dave R. Palmer, USA, Vice Adm. John Theodore "Ted" Parker, USN, Lt. Gen. Garry L. Parks, USMC, Lt. Gen. Charles Henry "Chuck" Pitman, USMC, Lt. Gen. Steven R. Polk, USAF, Vice Adm. William E. Ramsey, USN, Lt. Gen. Joseph J. Redden, USAF, Lt. Gen. Clifford H. "Ted" Rees, Jr., USAF, Lt. Gen. Edward Rowny, USA Vice Adm. Dutch Schultz, USN, Lt. Gen. Charles J. Searock, Jr., USAF, Lt. Gen. E. G. "Buck" Shuler, USAF, Lt. Gen. Alexander M. "Rusty" Sloan, USAF, Vice Adm. Edward M. Straw, USN, Lt. Gen. David J. Teal, USAF, Lt. Gen. Billy M. Thomas, USA, Vice Adm. Donald C. "Deese" Thompson, USCG, Vice Adm. Alan S. Thompson, USN, Lt. Gen. Herman O. 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Dyches, USAF, Major Gen. Jay T. Edwards, USAF, Major Gen. John R. Farrington, USAF, Rear Adm. Francis L. Filipiak, USN, Rear Adm. James H. Flatley III, USN, Major Gen. Charles Fletcher, USA, Major Gen. Bobby O. Floyd, USAF, Rear Adm. Veronica Froman, USN, Rear Adm. Vance H. Fry, USN, Rear Adm. R. Byron Fuller, USN, Rear Adm. George M. Furlong, USN, Rear Adm. Frank Gallo, USN, Rear Adm. Ben F. Gaumer, USN, Rear Adm. Harry E. Gerhard Jr., USN, Major Gen. Daniel J. Gibson, USAF, Rear Adm. Andrew A. Giordano, USN, Major Gen. Richard N. Goddard, USAF, Rear Adm. Fred Golove, USCGR, Rear Adm. Harold Eric Grant, USN, Major Gen. Jeff Grime, USAF, Major Gen. Robert Kent Guest, USA, Major Gen. Tim Haake, USAR, Major Gen. Otto K. Habedank, USAF, Rear Adm. Thomas F. Hall, USN, Rear Adm. Donald P. Harvey, USN, Major Gen. Leonard W. Hegland, USAF, Rear Adm. John Hekman, USN, Major Gen. John A. Hemphill, USA, Rear Adm. Larry Hereth, USCG, Major Gen. Wilfred Hessert, USAF, Rear Adm. 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Richard Louis Ursone, USA, Brig. Gen. Earl Van Inwegen, USAF, Brig. Gen. Terrence P. Woods, USAF, Brig. Gen. Mitchell Zais, USA, Brig. Gen. Allan Ralph Zenowitz, USA
I pray that for my son and millions of young people serving our nation in uniform the Office of President and Commander in Chief will soon be occupied by a man who will restore the honor and integrity due that office -- Mitt Romney.
tell me , all you republicans out there , all you democrats out there , all you americans out there , '' how can governor romney '' go on his campaign fiasco , the day after this storm hit these beautiful citizens , and say he is going to eliminate '' fema services to hard hit americans '' ??????? !!!!!!! tea party of the greedy , '' how can you vote for these kind of heartless people ??? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because real Americans can help themselves. States can run their own disaster relief services. Another "useful idiot" spewing hate.
Your messiah obama has forgotten the people that do not matter to him, there are folks starving in parts of NYC and the east coast, no water no food no power. Some idiot told him he'd done a great job so he forgot about those still without assistance and went back to campaiging!
Americas problems started August 1971!!
These are things Republicans don't want you to remember!!
With inflation unresolved by August 1971, and an election year looming, Nixon convened a summit of his economic advisers at Camp David. He then announced temporary wage and price controls, allowed the dollar to float against other currencies, and ended the convertibility of the dollar into gold. OUR MONEY IS WORTHLESS!! Only the Full faith and credit of the U.S.A.!!
Thanks Nixon!!
Then Reagan come along!!
The first signs of impending trouble are the exploding budget deficits themselves. They began, of course, under the parlous economic stewardship of Ronald Reagan. Reagan cut the marginal tax rate on the wealthiest of Americans from 70% to 38%. He promised it would spur an orgy of investment and rocket the economy to new levels of production and prosperity. Instead, his supply side economics did the exact opposite. It produced the deepest recession since the Great Depression.
LOST REVENUE!!!
Bush blew through Clinton's surplus in his first year. The 2004 deficit reached $415 billion, a record. Still, its real size is masked by the fact that Bush has shifted $150 billion from the Social Security trust fund in order to make the shortfall look smaller. It's like pretending you're richer when you move money from one pocket to another. Both sums have to be repaid, so the real amount borrowed is the $415 billion nominal deficit plus the $150 billion from Social Security or $565 billion. This is why Bush lost his Presidency!!
The Congress owes SOCIAL SECURITY $565,000,000,000
BUSH WAS THE SAME AS ROMNEY!! SAY ANYTHING!! AND SCREW THE MIDDLE CLASS!!
700,000 JOBS WERE BEING LOST UNDER BUSH!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 4 for 44
The Republican governor of the great state of New Jersey, Chris Christie, seems to think President Obama did his state a great and invaluable service by facilitating disaster relief measures that aided the people of "Joisey". Maybe the idiots here are those people who hate too blindly and cannot see the truth displayed right in front of them.
Thats because New Jersey doesn't have its own diaster relief service. Duh..... I don't hate i'm free. I don't want the chains of socialism draped over me.
Why doesn't NJ have its own disaster relief service? What's stopping them? Oh yeah, they left it to the federal government, and the feds seem to be doing a pretty good job of pulling NJ's fat out of the fire, according to Christie. Duh...
It doesn't matter anyway, since Mitt has flipped his flop on the subject of FEMA since Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast. You could have seen that coming a mile away, right?
Another GOP got caught on audio tape putting his foot in his mouth. John Koster (WA) a Republican Congressional Candidate referred to "the rape thing" twice in his statement when saying no abortion for rape or incest victims. And yesterday I read that ex-preacher Mike Huckabee said if you voted for Obama - you were going to hell. What has happened to the Republican Party? how can you demand america to turn to romney's '' MORONI GOD '' OR YOU'RE GOING TO HELL ??? !!!!!!!
The GOP has been taken over by the extreme right wing white christian lunatic fringe. It is no longer the party of Eisenhower, Reagan, Dole, and Dirksen. It's sad, really.
Whats really sad is what has taken over the Democratic party. Back in the 1960's they had more Honest People. Since than it has been down hill for both parties.
Every voter should think carefully about what Obama is really about. His ideology of fundamentally transforming America has been at work for the past 4 years and failed as shown by the state of our country now.
Obviously the unemployment, economy and national debt and deficit has gotten worse since he took office and he can't defend this except to blame everything and everyone but himself. Blaming Bush usually is the theme even though he's been in charge for 4 years.
His will never admit to his broken promises and failures but continue with more false promises citing needing more time and another term. Obama intends to stay the course with the same failed policies to expand already proven failures.
This is the goal and ideology of an extremist fundamentalist transforming America regardless of the consequences. His obsession in his beliefs are not only financially suicidal but a threat our welfare and national security.
He is the most divisive and destructive President ever, he was never qualified to be Chief Executive or a Commander in Chief.
Fast And Furious and his Benghazi Failure was a result of his incompetence and impotence with his appeasement foreign policies a complete disaster in the Middle East. The majority of our military would tell you how they really feel about him if they could without repercussions.
His political ads and speeches show just how ugly and vicious his campaigns have been the kind of person he really is. That should be a bright red light and warning.
We can't afford another 4 more years of this kind of a failed and extremely divisive president who has split this country like no other.
You are willing to turn our policy decisions over to Romney and his crew of GWB Administration leftovers. I think that is a bad idea, given how their policies turned out the last time we left them in charge.
If those guys were such visionary leaders, we would not be in need of recovery. John McCain would have sailed to victory by repeating all of the Bush talking points rather than running away from him. Romney would not be spending so much time explaining how his policies, while the same as GWB, will somehow magically turn out better (maybe it's the magic underwear?). Bush would be on the campaign trail instead of playing a game of "Where's Dubya".
DEPERATELY SEARCHING FOR POWER , SOUNDS LIKE THE ROMNEYS LIFE STORY , LOL !!!!! ;
OK. What’s Mitt’s known successes over the years?
1 - He successfully bankrupted companies for $90 million a pop profit, putting thousands of white people out of work
2 - He successfully hid our money in offshore accounts..
3 - He is successfully avoiding disclosing his tax returns that shows that he didn’t pay taxes.
4 - He has successfully ran a State as Governor that was 47th in job creation.
5 - He is successfully avoiding talking about his Mormon religion.
6 - He is successfully avoiding associating with minorities (especially black people). Because, you know, they are beneath him.
7- He is successfully avoiding associating with white trash. Because, you know, they are beneath him. Sorry, Tea Party people.
8 - He is successfully building a car elevator in his home. You know why. So that his pampered wife will not have far to walk when leaving her 3rd level bedroom.
9 - He will successfully lose the bid for the Presidency.
The Pulse: The smearing of a president: From start, unrelenting, unfair
November 05, 2012|By Michael Smerconish
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://articles.philly.com/2012-11-05/news/34930994_1_president-obama-anti-obama-barack-obama
Obamacare is socialism. Romneycare is not socialism. How the righty tighties came to those conclusions is beyond me, since Obamacare was patterned after Romneycare.
I refuse to be forced to consider facts. Thank you.
Wrongme/Lyin 1040
I got emotional, too, knowing that this campaign is over, and that we will have for President either the same "freedom-loving" clown who signed the NDAA into law and renewed the Patriot Act, or some cult member who will do whatever God... er, Thomas S. Monson... whispers into his ear behind closed doors at a Mo Mo temple.
Romney's Campaign trained poll watchers to mislead voters at the polls:
The Romney campaign held 6 - 8 training sessions across Wisconsin in the past 2 weeks. Poll workers are under orders to say they are "concerned citizens" if questioned.
Link to Romney poll watcher training schedule + Romney volunteer observer documents
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TWO EXAMPLES of misleading information distributed by the Romney Campaign:
CLAIM: Page 8 lists 10 items as "The ONLY acceptable forms of "Proof of Residency".
FACT: The list is incomplete. There are many other documents people can use to prove residency that are not included, such as letters from public schools, student loan papers, correspondence with a Native American tribe in WI, vehicle registration, and food stamp correspondances. In addition, the list fails to mention that homeless voters may use an affidavit froma public or private social service agency as proof of residency.
CLAIM: If a handicapped voter is unable to come to the polls to vote, an assistant can deliver the ballot to the voter if the CEI verifies the elector's proof of residency.
FACT: Under Wisconsin law, the CEI (Chief Election Inspector) does not have to verify proof of residency so long as the voter is registered.
The Romney campaign knows that confusing & inaccurate information on Election Day slows down the voting process, discourages voters who wait in line, and drives down turnout. GOP voter suppression has been HUGE in this election cycle. Citizens have the legal right to vote. Election workers should be forwarding this right, not creating obstacles to voting. Forwarding disinformation is an attempt to eliminate our voices, inhibit progress and maintain the status quo.
I want answers from the GOP on why they cut funding for our embassies as well.
I also want you righties to admit, that foreign policy did NOT change with the president. The way terrorist view this country doesn't just CHANGE when a president does. ALthough Pakistan hates us more now that OBL is dead
P.S. How can you support a MAN like ROMNEY who used the murder of an ex navy seal for his campaign? Don't you find that a complete disgrace and pathetic
Vice President Joe Biden had a couple minor gaffes Sunday in Ohio.
He's mistakenly referred to "President Clinton" instead of "President Obama."
Biden told a crowd of 1,200 people at Lakewood High School that a Republican ad claiming Jeep will move jobs out of Ohio was "pernicious," and a sign that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is desperate to win the state.
The gaffe-prone Biden said the ad claims "President Clinton bankrupted Chrysler so that Italians could buy it to ship jobs overseas to China."
Earlier in the day, in a conversation inside a Cleveland diner, Biden referenced Slovakia and his role in convincing President Clinton to go after former Serbian President Slobodan Milosovic.
He was presumably referring to Slovenia, the nation that formed part of Yugoslavia before it broke up into several independent countries.
In addition, Biden recently referred to Virginia's Democratic Senate candidate Tim Kaine as "Tom" and complained to an Ohio audience about TV ads "here in Iowa."
Biden, who also is known for going off script, did not correct himself on Sunday and the crowd at the high school outside Cleveland appeared not to notice.
In the United States, at least through the next election, we have the freedom to vote for the candidates of our choice. When considering presidential candidates, I give great consideration to the opinions of those who have sworn allegiance to "support and defend" our Constitution. No, I don't mean the beltway politicos who violate their oaths daily, but those in the ranks of our Armed Services, who have sworn to defend our Constitution with their lives, those who keep the Flame of Liberty burning bright.
You already know that a majority of active duty officers and enlisted personnel support conservative candidates, but as the father of an active duty Airman, I thought it might be instructive to list the senior retired military personnel who have endorsed the presidential candidates. (These are the official lists from each campaign.)
Senior officers endorsing Barack Hussein Obama:
Gen. Wesley Clark, USA, Gen. Colin Powell, USA, Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, USA, Adm. Donald Gutter, USN, Adm. John Nathman, USN.
Senior officers and decorated personnel endorsing Mitt Romney:
Adm. James B. Busey, USN, Gen. James T. Conway, USMC, Gen. Terrence R. Dake, USMC, Adm. James O. Ellis, USN, Adm. Mark Fitzgerald, USM, Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, USAF, Gen. Tommy Franks, USA, Gen. Alfred Hansen, USAF, Adm. Ronald Jackson Hays, USN, Adm. Thomas Bibb Hayward, USN, Gen. Chuck Albert Horner, USAF, Adm. Jerome LaMarr Johnson, USN, Adm. Timothy J. Keating, USN, Gen. Paul X. Kelley, USMC, Gen. William Kernan, USA, Adm. George E.R. Kinnear II, USN, Gen. William L. Kirk, USAF, Gen. James J. Lindsay, USA, Gen. William R. Looney III, USAF, Adm. Hank Mauz, USN, Gen. Robert Magnus, USMC, Adm. Paul David Miller, USN, Gen. Henry Hugh Shelton, USA, Gen. Lance Smith, USAF, Adm. Leighton Smith, Jr., USN, Gen. Ronald W. Yates, USAF, Adm. Ronald J. Zlatoper, USN, Lt. Gen. James Abrahamson, USAF, Lt. Gen. Edgar Anderson, Jr., USAF, Lt. Gen. Marcus A. Anderson, USAF, Lt. Gen. Buck Bedard, USMC, Vice Adm. A. Bruce Beran, USCG, Vice Adm. Lyle Bien, USN, Lt. Gen. Harold Blot, USMC, Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, USA, Vice Adm. Mike Bowman III, USN, Vice Adm. Mike Bucchi, USN, Lt. Gen. Walter E. Buchanan III, USAF, Lt. Gen. Richard A. Burpee, USAF, Lt. Gen. William Campbell, USAF, Lt. Gen. James E. Chambers, USAF, Vice Adm. Edward W. Clexton, Jr., USN, Lt. Gen. John B. Conaway, USAF, Lt. Gen. Marvin Covault, USA, Vice Adm. Terry M. Cross, USCG, Vice Adm. William Adam Dougherty, USN, Lt. Gen. Brett Dula, USAF, Lt. Gen. Gordon E. Fornell, USAF, Vice Adm. David Frost, USN, Vice Adm. Henry C. Giffin III, USN, Vice Adm. Peter M. Hekman, USN, Vice Adm. Richard D. Herr, USCG, Lt. Gen. Thomas J Hickey, USAF, Lt. Gen. Walter S. Hogle, Jr., USAF, Lt. Gen. Ronald W. Iverson, USAF, Lt. Gen. Donald W. Jones, USA, Vice Adm. Douglas J. Katz, USN, Lt. Gen. Jay W. Kelley, USAF, Vice Adm. Tom Kilcline, USN, Lt. Gen. Timothy A. Kinnan, USAF, Vice Adm. Harold Koenig, M.D., USN, Vice Adm. Albert H. Konetzni, USN, Lt. Gen. Buford Derald Lary, USAF, Lt. Gen. Frank Libutti, USMC, Vice Adm. Stephen Loftus, USN, Vice Adm. Michael Malone, USN, Vice Adm. Edward H. Martin, USN, Vice Adm. John J. Mazach, USN, Vice Adm. Justin D. McCarthy, USN, Vice Adm. William McCauley, USN, Lt. Gen. Fred McCorkle, USMC, Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney, USAF, Vice Adm. Joseph S. Mobley, USN, Lt. Gen. Carol Mutter, USMC, Lt. Gen. Dave R. Palmer, USA, Vice Adm. John Theodore "Ted" Parker, USN, Lt. Gen. Garry L. Parks, USMC, Lt. Gen. Charles Henry "Chuck" Pitman, USMC, Lt. Gen. Steven R. Polk, USAF, Vice Adm. William E. Ramsey, USN, Lt. Gen. Joseph J. Redden, USAF, Lt. Gen. Clifford H. "Ted" Rees, Jr., USAF, Lt. Gen. Edward Rowny, USA Vice Adm. Dutch Schultz, USN, Lt. Gen. Charles J. Searock, Jr., USAF, Lt. Gen. E. G. "Buck" Shuler, USAF, Lt. Gen. Alexander M. "Rusty" Sloan, USAF, Vice Adm. Edward M. Straw, USN, Lt. Gen. David J. Teal, USAF, Lt. Gen. Billy M. Thomas, USA, Vice Adm. Donald C. "Deese" Thompson, USCG, Vice Adm. Alan S. Thompson, USN, Lt. Gen. Herman O. "Tommy" Thomson, USAF, Vice Adm. Howard B. Thorsen, USCG, Lt. Gen. William Thurman, USAF, Lt. Gen. Robert Allen "R.A." Tiebout, USMC, Vice Adm. John B. Totushek, USNR, Lt. Gen. George J. Trautman, USMC, Lt. Gen. Garry R. Trexler, USAF, Vice Adm. Jerry O. Tuttle, USN, Lt. Gen. Claudius "Bud" Watts, USAF, Lt. Gen. William "Bill" Welser, USAF, Lt. Gen. Thad A. Wolfe, USAF, Lt. Gen. C. Norman Wood, USAF, Lt. Gen. Michael W. Wooley, USAF, Lt. Gen. Richard "Rick" Zilmer, USMC, Major Gen. Chris Adams, USAF, Rear Adm. Henry Amos, USN Major Gen. Nora Alice Astafan, USAF, Major Gen. Almon Bowen Ballard, USAF, Major Gen. James F. Barnette, USAF, Major Gen. Robert W. Barrow, USAF, Rear Adm. John R. Batlzer, USN, Rear Adm. Jon W. Bayless, USN, Major Gen. John E. Bianchi, USA, Major Gen. David F. Bice, USMC, Rear Adm. Linda J. Bird, USN, Rear Adm. James H. Black, USN, Rear Adm. Peter A. Bondi, USN, Major Gen. John L. Borling, USMC, Major Gen. Tom Braaten, USA, Major Gen. Robert J. Brandt, USA, Rear Adm. Jerry C. Breast, USN, Rear Adm. Bruce B. Bremner, USN, Rear Adm. Thomas F. Brown III, USN, Major Gen. David P. Burford, USA, Rear Adm. John F. Calvert, USN, Rear Adm. Jay A. Campbell, USN, Major Gen. Henry Canterbury, USAF, Rear Adm. James J. Carey, USN, Rear Adm. Nevin Carr, USN, Rear Adm. Stephen K. Chadwick, USN, Rear Adm. W. Lewis Chatham, USN, Major Gen. Jeffrey G. Cliver, USAF, Rear Adm. Casey Coane, USN, Rear Adm. Isaiah C. Cole, USN, Major Gen. Stephen Condon, USAF, Major Gen. Richard C. Cosgrave, USANG, Rear Adm. Robert Cowley, USN, Major Gen. J.T. Coyne, USMC, Rear Adm. Robert C. Crates, USN, Major Gen. Tommy F. Crawford, USAF, Rear Adm. James P. Davidson, USN, Rear Adm. Kevin F. Delaney, USN, Major Gen. James D. Delk, USA, Major Gen. Robert E. Dempsey, USAF, Rear Adm. Jay Ronald Denney, USNR, Major Gen. Robert S. Dickman, USAF, Rear Adm. James C. Doebler, USN, Major Gen. Douglas O. Dollar, USA, Major Gen. Hunt Downer, USA, Major Gen. Thomas A. Dyches, USAF, Major Gen. Jay T. Edwards, USAF, Major Gen. John R. Farrington, USAF, Rear Adm. Francis L. Filipiak, USN, Rear Adm. James H. Flatley III, USN, Major Gen. Charles Fletcher, USA, Major Gen. Bobby O. Floyd, USAF, Rear Adm. Veronica Froman, USN, Rear Adm. Vance H. Fry, USN, Rear Adm. R. Byron Fuller, USN, Rear Adm. George M. Furlong, USN, Rear Adm. Frank Gallo, USN, Rear Adm. Ben F. Gaumer, USN, Rear Adm. Harry E. Gerhard Jr., USN, Major Gen. Daniel J. Gibson, USAF, Rear Adm. Andrew A. Giordano, USN, Major Gen. Richard N. Goddard, USAF, Rear Adm. Fred Golove, USCGR, Rear Adm. Harold Eric Grant, USN, Major Gen. Jeff Grime, USAF, Major Gen. Robert Kent Guest, USA, Major Gen. Tim Haake, USAR, Major Gen. Otto K. Habedank, USAF, Rear Adm. Thomas F. Hall, USN, Rear Adm. Donald P. Harvey, USN, Major Gen. Leonard W. Hegland, USAF, Rear Adm. John Hekman, USN, Major Gen. John A. Hemphill, USA, Rear Adm. Larry Hereth, USCG, Major Gen. Wilfred Hessert, USAF, Rear Adm. Don Hickman, USN, Major Gen. Geoffrey Higginbotham, USMC, Major Gen. Jerry D. Holmes, USAF, Major Gen. Weldon F. Honeycutt, USA, Rear Adm. Steve Israel, USN, Major Gen. James T. Jackson, USA, Rear Adm. John S. Jenkins, USN, Rear Adm. Tim Jenkins, USN, Rear Adm. Ron Jesberg, USN, Rear Adm. Pierce J. Johnson, USN, Rear Adm. Steven B. Kantrowitz, USN, Rear Adm. John T. Kavanaugh, USN, Major Gen. Dennis M. Kenneally, USA, Major Gen. Michael Kerby, USAF, Rear Adm. David Kunkel, USCG, Major Gen. Geoffrey C. Lambert, USA, Rear Adm. Arthur Langston, USN, Rear Adm. Thomas G. Lilly, USN, Major Gen. James E. Livingston, USAF, Major Gen. Al Logan, USAF, Major Gen. John D. Logeman Jr., USAF, Rear Adm. Noah H. Long Jr, USNR, Rear Adm. Don Loren, USN, Major Gen. Andy Love, USAF, Rear Adm. Thomas C. Lynch, USN, Rear Adm. Steven Wells Maas, USN, Major Gen. Robert M. Marquette, USAF, Rear Adm. Larry Marsh, USN, Major Gen. Clark W. Martin, USAF, Major Gen. William M. Matz, USN, Rear Adm. Gerard Mauer, USN, Rear Adm. William J. McDaniel, MD, USN, Rear Adm. E.S. McGinley II, USN, Rear Adm. Henry C. McKinney, USN, Major Gen. Robert Messerli, USAF, Major Gen. Douglas S. Metcalf, USAF, Rear Adm. John W. Miller, USN, Rear Adm. Patrick David Moneymaker, USN, Major Gen. Mario Montero, USA, Rear Adm. Douglas M. Moore, USN, Major Gen. Walter Bruce Moore, USA, Major Gen. William Moore, USA, Major Gen. Burton R. Moore, USAF, Rear Adm. James A. Morgart, USN, Major Gen. Stanton R. Musser, USAF, Rear Adm. John T. Natter, USN, Major Gen. Robert George Nester, USAF, Major Gen. George W. Norwood, USAF, Rear Adm. Robert C. Olsen, USN, Major Gen. Raymund E. O'Mara, USAF, Rear Adm. Robert S. Owens, USN, Rear Adm. John F. Paddock, USN, Major Gen. Robert W. Paret, USAF, Rear Adm. Robert O. Passmore, USN, Major Gen. Earl G. Peck, USAF, Major Gen. Richard E. Perraut Jr., USAF, Major Gen. Gerald F. Perryman, USAF, Rear Adm. W.W. Pickavance, USN, Rear Adm. John J. Prendergast, USN, Rear Adm. Fenton F. Priest, USN, Major Gen. David C. Ralston, USA, Major Gen. Bentley B. Rayburn, USAF, Rear Adm. Harold Rich, USN, Rear Adm. Roland Rieve, USN, Rear Adm. Tommy F. Rinard, USN, Major Gen. Richard H. Roellig, USAF, Rear Adm. Michael S. Roesner, USN, Rear Adm. William J. Ryan, USN, Major Gen. Loran C. Schnaidt, USAF, Major Gen. Carl Schneider, USAF, Major Gen. John P. Schoeppner, Jr., USAF, Major Gen. Edison E. Scholes, USAF, Rear Adm. Robert H. Shumaker, USN, Rear Adm. William S. Schwob, USCG, Major Gen. David J. Scott, USAF, Rear Adm. Hugh P. Scott, USN, Major Gen. Richard Secord, USAF, Rear Adm. William H. Shawcross, USN, Major Gen. Joseph K. Simeone, USAF and ANG, Major Gen. Darwin Simpson, ANG, Rear Adm. Greg Slavonic, USN, Rear Adm. David Oliver "D.O." Smart, USNR, Major Gen. Richard D. Smith, USAF, Major Gen. Donald Bruce Smith, USAF, Rear Adm. Paul O. Soderberg, USN, Rear Adm. Robert H. "Bob" Spiro, USN, Major Gen. Henry B. Stelling, Jr., USAF, Rear Adm. Daniel H. Stone, USN, Major Gen. William A. Studer, USAF, Rear Adm. Hamlin Tallent, USN, Major Gen. Hugh Banks Tant III, USA, Major Gen. Larry S. Taylor, USMC, Major Gen. J.B. Taylor, USA, Major Gen. Thomas R. Tempel, USA, Major Gen. Richard L. Testa, USAF, Rear Adm. Jere Thompson, USN, Rear Adm. Byron E. Tobin, USN, Major Gen. Larry Twitchell, USAF, Major Gen. Russell L. Violett, USAF, Major Gen. David E.B. "DEB" Ward, USAF, Major Gen. Charles J. Wax, USAF, Rear Adm. Donald Weatherson, USN, Major Gen. John Welde, USAF, Major Gen. Gary Whipple, USA, Rear Adm. James B. Whittaker, USN, Rear Adm. Charles Williams, USN, Rear Adm. H. Denny Wisely, USN, Rear Adm. Theodore J. Wojnar, USCG, Rear Adm. George R. Worthington, USN, Brig. Gen. Arthur Abercrombie, USA, Brig. Gen. John R. Allen, USAF, Brig. Gen. Loring R. Astorino, USAF, Brig. Gen. Richard Averitt, USA, Brig. Gen. Garry S. Bahling, USANG, Brig. Gen. Donald E. Barnhart, USAF, Brig. Gen. Charles L. Bishop, USAF, Brig. Gen. Clayton Bridges, USAF, Brig. Gen. Jeremiah J. Brophy, USA, Brig. Gen. R. Thomas Browning, USAF, Brig. Gen. David A. Brubaker, USAF, Brig. Gen. Chalmers R. Carr, USAF, Brig. Gen. Fred F. Caste, USAFR, Brig. Gen. Robert V. Clements, USAF, Brig. Gen. Christopher T Cline, USA, Brig. Gen. George Peyton Cole, Jr., USAF, Brig. Gen. Richard A. Coleman, USAF, Brig. Gen. Mike Cushman, USAF, Brig. Gen. Peter Dawkins, USA, Brig. Gen. Sam. G. DeGeneres, USAF, Brig. Gen. George Demers, USAF, Brig. Gen. Howard G. DeWolf, USAF, Brig. Gen. Arthur F. Diehl, USAF, Brig. Gen. David Bob Edmonds, USAF, Brig. Gen. Anthony Farrington, USAF, Brig. Gen. Norm Gaddis, USAF, Brig. Gen. Robert H. Harkins, USAF, Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Honeywill, USAF, Brig. Gen. Stanley V. Hood, USAF, Brig. Gen. James J. Hourin, USAF, Brig. Gen. Jack C. Ihle, USAF, Brig. Gen. Thomas G. Jeter, USAF, Brig. Gen. William Herbert Johnson, USAF, Brig. Gen. Kenneth F. Keller, USAF, Brig. Gen. Wayne W. Lambert, USAF, Brig. Gen. Jerry L. Laws, USA, Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Lennon, USAF, Brig. Gen. John M. Lotz, USAF, Brig. Gen. Robert S. Mangum, USA, Brig. Gen. Frank Martin, USAF, Brig. Gen. Joe Mensching, USAF, Brig. Gen. Richard L. Meyer, USAF, Brig. Gen. Lawrence A. Mitchell, USAF, Brig. Gen. Michael P. Mulqueen, USMC, Brig. Gen. Ben Nelson, Jr., USAF, Brig. Gen. Jack W. Nicholson, USA, Brig. Gen. Maria C. Owens, USAF, Brig. Gen. Dave Papak, USMC, Brig. Gen. Gary A. Pappas, USANG, Brig. Gen. Robert V. Paschon, USAF, Brig. Gen. Allen K. Rachel, USAF, Brig. Gen. Jon Reynolds, USAF, Brig. Gen. Edward F. Rodriguez, Jr., USAFR, Brig. Gen. Roger Scearce, USA, Brig. Gen. Dennis Schulstad, USAFR, Brig. Gen. John Serur, USAF, Brig. Gen. Joseph L. Shaefer, USAF, Brig. Gen. Graham Shirley, USAF, Brig. Gen. Raymond Shulstad, USAF, Brig. Gen. Stan Smith, USAF, Brig. Gen. Ralph S. Smith, USAF, Brig. Gen. Donald Smith, USA, Brig. Gen. David M. Snyder, USAF, Brig. Gen. Michael Joseph Tashjian, USAF, Brig. Gen. Richard Louis Ursone, USA, Brig. Gen. Earl Van Inwegen, USAF, Brig. Gen. Terrence P. Woods, USAF, Brig. Gen. Mitchell Zais, USA, Brig. Gen. Allan Ralph Zenowitz, USA
I pray that for my son and millions of young people serving our nation in uniform the Office of President and Commander in Chief will soon be occupied by a man who will restore the honor and integrity due that office -- Mitt Romney.
let's do this !!!
tell me , all you republicans out there , all you democrats out there , all you americans out there , '' how can governor romney '' go on his campaign fiasco , the day after this storm hit these beautiful citizens , and say he is going to eliminate '' fema services to hard hit americans '' ??????? !!!!!!! tea party of the greedy , '' how can you vote for these kind of heartless people ??? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#40.1 - Tue Nov 6, 2012 4:18 AM EST
joe mama-2591591
Because real Americans can help themselves. States can run their own disaster relief services. Another "useful idiot" spewing hate.
#40.2 - Tue Nov 6, 2012 4:24 AM EST
edwin jackson
Your messiah obama has forgotten the people that do not matter to him, there are folks starving in parts of NYC and the east coast, no water no food no power. Some idiot told him he'd done a great job so he forgot about those still without assistance and went back to campaiging!
#40.3 - Tue Nov 6, 2012 4:26 AM EST
let's do this !!!
Americas problems started August 1971!!
These are things Republicans don't want you to remember!!
With inflation unresolved by August 1971, and an election year looming, Nixon convened a summit of his economic advisers at Camp David. He then announced temporary wage and price controls, allowed the dollar to float against other currencies, and ended the convertibility of the dollar into gold. OUR MONEY IS WORTHLESS!! Only the Full faith and credit of the U.S.A.!!
Thanks Nixon!!
Then Reagan come along!!
The first signs of impending trouble are the exploding budget deficits themselves. They began, of course, under the parlous economic stewardship of Ronald Reagan. Reagan cut the marginal tax rate on the wealthiest of Americans from 70% to 38%. He promised it would spur an orgy of investment and rocket the economy to new levels of production and prosperity. Instead, his supply side economics did the exact opposite. It produced the deepest recession since the Great Depression.
LOST REVENUE!!!
Bush blew through Clinton's surplus in his first year. The 2004 deficit reached $415 billion, a record. Still, its real size is masked by the fact that Bush has shifted $150 billion from the Social Security trust fund in order to make the shortfall look smaller. It's like pretending you're richer when you move money from one pocket to another. Both sums have to be repaid, so the real amount borrowed is the $415 billion nominal deficit plus the $150 billion from Social Security or $565 billion. This is why Bush lost his Presidency!!
The Congress owes SOCIAL SECURITY $565,000,000,000
BUSH WAS THE SAME AS ROMNEY!! SAY ANYTHING!! AND SCREW THE MIDDLE CLASS!!
700,000 JOBS WERE BEING LOST UNDER BUSH!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 4 for 44
#40.4 - Tue Nov 6, 2012 4:28 AM EST
Sailcat-2064101
The Republican governor of the great state of New Jersey, Chris Christie, seems to think President Obama did his state a great and invaluable service by facilitating disaster relief measures that aided the people of "Joisey". Maybe the idiots here are those people who hate too blindly and cannot see the truth displayed right in front of them.
#40.5 - Tue Nov 6, 2012 4:31 AM EST
joe mama-2591591
Thats because New Jersey doesn't have its own diaster relief service. Duh..... I don't hate i'm free. I don't want the chains of socialism draped over me.
#40.6 - Tue Nov 6, 2012 4:41 AM EST
Sailcat-2064101
Why doesn't NJ have its own disaster relief service? What's stopping them? Oh yeah, they left it to the federal government, and the feds seem to be doing a pretty good job of pulling NJ's fat out of the fire, according to Christie. Duh...
It doesn't matter anyway, since Mitt has flipped his flop on the subject since Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast. You could have seen that coming a mile away, right?
#40.7 - Tue Nov 6, 2012 4:53 AM EST
let's do this !!!
Another GOP got caught on audio tape putting his foot in his mouth. John Koster (WA) a Republican Congressional Candidate referred to "the rape thing" twice in his statement when saying no abortion for rape or incest victims. And yesterday I read that ex-preacher Mike Huckabee said if you voted for Obama - you were going to hell. What has happened to the Republican Party? how can you demand america to turn to romney's '' MORONI GOD '' OR YOU'RE GOING TO HELL ??? !!!!!!!
Obama is the same as Bush to.
Thanks joe mama,but I don't take voting advise from ret. Military Officers. But if I was looking for advise from them. I'd pick someone that crafted our quickest,most easy victory,Gen. Powell, before from others that used to call him boss.
I am so tired of people acting like those individuals who choose to go to war are saints. I really have to question why they do so, is it love of the fighting, love of the glory, self preservation is a natural instinct and to go against that is just off. I for one appreciate the craziness of those people because without them someone else would have to die, but to cite that as an example of why we should vote is just crazy.
joe mammy, give it a rest noboby is reading your BS. You're taking up space that a person with a brain could use.
Rich, if that many military can see fault with Obummer, then they must know something.!
My son, a MS/USAF (25yr veteran) supports Mr. Romney and I will add him to jo mamma's listing of those decorated military who see thru obummer's lack of leadership!
In reality....who we elect as president is not going to be what turns the economy (and the deficit) around. We need to kick our Congress in the ass and get them to start actually working for their pay and benefits.....with timely legislation and cooperation across party lines. Without it...neither candidate stands a chance of making any more progress in the next four years than was made in the last.
PREJUDICE AND BIGOTRY WILL DESTROY AMERICA , IT WILL LITERALLY STOP THE BLESSINGS OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD OF HEAVEN '' IN OUR COUNTRY '' !!!! WE'VE GOT TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT WE ARE ALL BROTHERS !!!
When all is said and done, President Obama will prove to be the victor in this race. People who want to hand those responsible for any failures in the recovery can pin the tail directly on the republican congress , for what I feel are treasonable acts...they were , and are still willing to sell out every American , for the sole purpose of regaining political power. They should all be tried for treason, anyone who feels that the blame falls on the President are '' dead wrong. ''
Most who vote against the President do so for one of the following reasons and those alone...they are either bigot racist, low information fox news addicts, Mormons who are allowing themselves to be blinded to the truth, impatient folks who somehow felt that President Obama had Harry Potter's wand tucked in his pocket and figured he should have made some miracle happen, or lastly , you are just business thieves , who want to exploit the masses for profit , and personal gain.
I can not abide a liar, Romney has proven to be exactly that. You Mormons out there who will still vote for Romney , really have me concerned, I wonder how you can vote for this person despite all the facts that show him to be a dishonest cheat and a liar with no moral values...anyone who had any sense of morality and truly follow the teachings of faith could not behave the way he does , either in their business practices or their political aspirations !!!!
tayatayat-A friend and I put out a few hundred signs near polling places (yessss, more than 100 ft away) in JeffCo tonight.
Is that in Mississippi or Alabama ? We aren't expecting to win the Red States. The people there always vote race over their own interests.
Come dear Mr President, lay your head on the laps of all the Edith Childs of the world and rest a while. Let us wipe the sweat on your brow and tears of compassion from your cheek.
We shall take over the labor of love to give you another well-deserved term of Four More Years of sincere and dedicated service to the people.
We, The People, are here for you just as you have our backs.
We're fired up! We're ready to go!
The American people will be watching both sides. The coruption is usually more on the democatic side, over the years they have learned to hide it better. After all they are so much more cleaver tham Republicans.
james-The American people will be watching both sides. The coruption is usually more on the democatic side, over the years they have learned to hide it better. After all they are so much more cleaver tham Republicans.
Haha,that's a funny joke. Since all the fraud and voter suppression has been found on the Republican side. You think we do it more,but are just smarter about it. Typical Republican,here's your sign,lol.
From your reply I can tell you are really young, and have paid little attention to history. You and others will be doomed to repeat it. Typical young Dem.
A cleaver is used to cut meat. You need to pay more attention to your native language, and leave the politics to the adults.
President Obama, you have not been fighting on the behalf of American families, but rather fighting on American families. Our voices are strong and will not be denied; for this reason you will cease to be our President after this election. America must not fail again. There is a vision that was imbedded deep in the hearts, souls and minds of intelligent, strong and moral leaders years ago - a dream that America and the people who are its citizens would all be free, prosperous, capable and able to pursue a great future. Our founding fathers helped to mold and structure this great and noble nation and God blessed it. No longer will you be able to divide us or collapse our hunger for individualism and our thirst for prosperity. This great nation is a place where people are responsible and think of future generations. We are strong and able to stand on our own without being controlled by a government. Keep your scraps....we provide for ourselves.
Romney/Ryan..2012 Our new President and Vice President...God knows we are tired of the last four years
TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION , AND AMERICANS LEFT HOMELESS ; tell that to '' mr. polygamist '' , and his band of caring republican conservative tea party of the '' STEAL FROM THE DIRT POOR , AND GIVE IT TO WALL STREET AND THE KOCH BROTHERS ''. THEY FEEL YOUR PAIN , AND THEY KNOW ENTITLEMENTS ARE WHAT'S HURTING YOU. all you homeless and desperate people need is '' A CAN OF BEANS , LOL , LOL , LOL , haaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa heeeeeeeeeeeeeee heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee it's their gift , that they want to keep on giving !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!