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Supporters cheer as they wait for a speech by Mitt Romney in Manchester, N.H. on April 24, 2012.
Updated 9:48 p.m. ET - Mitt Romney declared victory in his quest to become the Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday and kicked off his general election campaign against President Barack Obama in earnest following a clean sweep of primaries in the Northeast.
Romney's performance in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island allowed him to cap a tumultuous GOP primary cycle that extended longer than many expected. Romney's march toward the 1,144 delegates needed to secure the nomination appeared, at this point, to be all but a formality.
And, eager to begin prosecuting his case against Obama, Romney took a victory lap in the general election swing state of New Hampshire -- rather than appearing in any of the states hosting nominating contests tonight or in the future -- to declare, "a better America begins tonight."
"Tonight I can say thank you, America," Romney told a cheering crowd in the Granite State. "After 43 primaries and caucuses, many long days and more than a few long nights, I can say with confidence -- and gratitude -- that you have given me a great honor and solemn responsibility. And, together, we are going to win on Nov. 6."
Romney faced only token opposition from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul in Tuesday's contests. The former Massachusetts governor had all but assumed the status of presumptive Republican nominee two weeks ago, when his principal conservative rival, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, suspended his campaign.
While President Barack Obama went after the college vote Tuesday, presidential candidate Mitt Romney was prepping for another primary night. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
Major Republican figures had finally begun to rally around Romney and offer their endorsements since that point, but he must still work toward winning the 1,144 delegates needed to formally secure the nomination. Romney had entered Tuesday having secured 698 of the necessary delegates, according to Associated Press projections, putting him on pace toward crossing the threshold in late May or early June.
Tonight's primaries may also signal the last gasp for Gingrich, as well, who had pinned his hopes of continuing his campaign on winning Delaware. But the ex-speaker offered no hint as to his future plans in brief remarks.
"I think it's a very substantial mistake for Gov. Romney to give a general election speech tonight in New Hampshire," Gingrich told reporters Tuesday. "He is not the nominee. I think it's a little insulting to people in these states." But he did indicate at a North Carolina event that "over the next few days, we're going to look realistically at where we're at."
Romney spent the evening focusing not on his remaining primary challenges, and instead trained his sights instead on the task of unseating Obama this fall.
Mitt Romney speaks to supporters in Manchester, N.H. following wins in five more GOP presidential primaries.
"This has already been a long campaign, but many Americans are just now beginning to focus on the choice before the country. In the days ahead, I look forward to spending time with many of you personally. I want to hear what’s on your mind, hear about your concerns, and learn about your families," he said, promising to tell voters more about himself.
For Romney, that re-introduction is a delicate and important task. The most recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that more Americans -- 36 percent -- had a negative impression of Romney than the 33 percent who said they viewed the former Massachusetts governor positively.
On tests of whether he or Obama is seen as more easygoing and likable, or more in touch with the middle class, the president badly outpaces Romney.
Mindful of that, Romney kept his speech keyed in closely on pocketbook issues, warning of "diversions and distractions" from the central issue of the economy.
"It's still about the economy, and we're not stupid," Romney said, referencing the famous political maxim first employed by Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992.
Obama's re-election team has been eager to reuse fodder from the primary season against the former Massachusetts governor in the context of the general election, underscoring the urgency for Romney to put the GOP contest to bed.
"Mitt Romney has spent the past year out on the campaign trail tearing down the president with a negative message that even Republicans who have endorsed him have criticized," said Ben LaBolt, Obama's campaign spokesman. "This marks the end of that monologue. Now he must put his record and his agenda next to the president’s."
GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks to supporters in Concord, N.C. saying he will evaluate his position in the race over the next few days.
Although Santorum dropped out two weeks ago, he’s among the conservatives who are yet to have thrown their support to Romney. NBC News learned Tuesday that the two men will meet on May 4 at a to-be-determined destination, though the meeting wasn't expected to produce an immediate endorsement.
That Romney had not yet won an endorsement before the primary in the state that Santorum had represented in Congress suggests that the rift between conservatives and the presumptive nominee has not yet fully healed.
Gingrich's persistence poses a minor challenge to that effort to unify the party, though the former speaker hints that he may soon address his future as a candidate.
Paul is also promising to forge ahead with his own campaign, perhaps through the late May primary in his native Texas. But Romney might have won the delegates he needs by that point.
NBC's Andrew Rafferty contributed to this report.
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Five states up for grabs
Romney has what he needs and he's already shaken the Etch-A-Sketch. He told millions of conservative voters that he planned to have all illegal immigrants deported, and now that he's the presumptive nominee he's already gearing up to support a GOP version of the DREAM Act.
That's what you get when a plurality of the Republican base indicated that they were more concerned about "nominating a candidate that can defeat Barack Obama" than about "holding conservative values."
The interest on our debt is going to snowball until it takes up a majority of the federal budget (as early as 2025---check PolitiFact). Obama wants to cut the military and grow entitlements. Romney wants to cut entitlements and grow the military.
Seriously, vote for Gary Johnson on the Libertarian ticket. Haven't we had enough Republicrat "Bush did this, Obama did this". Isn't it ridiculous to have these arguments about which party "raises the debt less" than about which party can actually lower it? Give someone else the reins for once.
Ryan WI...
Problem is, a vote for the Libertarian candidate is a vote for Obama...
I voted Bob Barr last presidential election because I couldn't push myself to give it to McCain. Unless Gary Johnson were already making a major impact as a 3rd party candidate such as Ross Perot did some years ago, it's better to vote for Romney. Have to do our best to remove the worst POTUS in recent history this election!
Right, as if they have a "choice." Republicans' only "choice" is if they'll vote or not.
They may as well face it, they're stuck with the "Jobs Cremator".
Obama / Biden 2012
While I agree that it's unlikely America will ever vote for a third-party, I disagree that voting Libertarian necessarily hands the election to Obama. A key group of Obama supporters are young adults (under 25). That's also a powerful Libertarian voting block. And take me for example; I'm probably a little more on the left side of things, but I know a debt crisis when I see one.
At the very, very least, if Libertarians can pull a Ross Perot and get 15% of the vote, they're eligible for campaign financing in 2016 and can slowly try to make an impact.
Thanks for voting for Bob Barr. I was 17 for that election so I didn't get the chance.
TO: cantakenomore who wrote:
The "worst POTUS in recent history" was George W. Bush. Ask anybody who has a memory.
Maybe what you wanted to say was "remove the First Black POTUS". The only President in recent history who was "better" than President Obama, was Democrat President Bill Clinton who is still loved around the world.
Obama / Biden 2012
TO: PerryRyan who wrote:
What is that, a joke? There's only one person left to do any "grabbing"?
Romney, the "Jobs Cremator"!
Obama / Biden 2012
One and done Barry. A vote for the current POTUS is a vote for slavery.
RON PAUL 2012
Willard has made his pivot: he's no longer severely conservative, he's now overwhelmingly envious of Obama, and will say f***ing ANYTHING to get your vote; that includes reiterating that he's still severely conservative, if that's what you want to hear from him.
American Girl...
Not sure who you talk to but anyone/everyone I speak with will agree...it's usually Carter first, followed closely by Obama. But one must remember...Barry still has 6 months or so to continue doing damage to this country. Therefore, I rest my case...worst POTUS in recent history. At least the last 50 years...
a) Mitt flip flop Romney
b) Newt im so broke Gingrich
c) Ron whackadoodle Paul
d) None of the above
Now get out there and vote pukes!
Excuse me, Ron Paul (libertarian leaning) is still in the race. Just because TPTB and the media that they own have dumped him does not mean he is out of it. I am sick and tired of the media telling us who to vote for.
Doubter222...
Well, we already know Obama is inept.
"Un-American Skank", what a racist, bringing up the race card. Is that all you liberals like to focus on. Who cares what color his skin is, Osama is terrible in any skin color you paint him.
American Girl...
There you libbies go again...throwing out the race card. Did you see me once note BO's color? Nope...but that's what you on the left are really good at doing. Seeing something that isn't there. Hell, I'd love to see Romney pick Condi as VP...She's probably one of the most intelligent individuals in this country...
BTW...didn't have to mention gender or color! Guess why?? 'Cause it doesn't flippin' matter!!
cantakenomore, then you obviously have a very limited circle of contacts. What is more disgusting is that while some of us respect our country enough to refer to Mr. Obama as President (as I have done with all past presidents as well), you do not. This is proof to me that you have no respect for yourself or for your country, no matter who you support.
By the way, the damage was started long before President Obama took office and it wouldn't have mattered if he won or Mr. McCain, this country would still be in approximately the same situation as it now finds itself. Many factors are beyond the control of the President which is the price of being dependent on a global economy.
Ryan-WI....well put. Voting GOP or Democrat is truly the wasted vote. Both are corrupt. Both are guilty of decimating the middle class. Both continue driving the country down the road to perdition.
Dan...
Sorry, you must earn respect, pal.
Wonder what you and your "circle of contacts" were calling GB? Hmmm, inquiring minds would like to know!
cant...
I keep waiting for someone's spirited defense of what Mr. Obama has actually accomplished...but instead it's a stream of insults heaped on Mr. Romney, his wife, Newt Gingrich, George Bush, etc.
Maybe his supporters have grown numb after watching the President give the same four speeches over the past four years. Can't wait for the campaign speeches he gives down along the border when he tells his voters down there that he wants "comprehensive immigration reform" and gets a big round of applause from a mind-numbed audience who heard the same speech back in '08 and still thinks Mr. Obama gives a hoot what he's saying to them as long as he gets the applause.
I understand too well, why Obama declares himself black. But in reality he is 1/2 white. Why isn't he telling the people of the U.S.A. is a president for all the races as he is 1/2 white and 1/2 black?
And yes he is inept, ridiculous, a seat warmer, hasn't done one thing to demonstrate that he should be reelected.
He reminds me of Carter, Clinton, LBJ and all the negatives of every democratic president. He has demonstrated his lack of intelligence, initiative and drive. Why hasn't he met with the officials of the Union Prep Charter Academy in Illinois that has achieved the remarkable goal of sending every senior who happens to be from the black ghettos where Obama lived to 4 year accredited universities and asked them to help him overhaul the American education system. NOW THERE IS INITIATIVE AND A WONDERFUL GOAL. Sadly he has to play up to the teachers' unions for their vote, so no creative education improvements.
For most of us Conservitives, Mitt has to say nothing and still get the vote because even if he turns into a some what liberal once in office next year, it still won't be as bad as Obama.
Vote Republican down the line and remove ALL Dems from office for a free republic and move back to the US Constitution.
wize-911967
Ryan-WI....well put. Voting GOP or Democrat is truly the wasted vote. Both are corrupt. Both are guilty of decimating the middle class. Both continue driving the country down the road to perdition.
Seriously flawed....if you are so against the repub or the dummies, then look at the person, rather than the party. There is only one person who actually cares for you, me and the country. take time and watch yesterday's video on squawk box.....
Dont know if the link will show, so google ron paul squawk box 04/23/12 ...it is very informative, and this guy really knows what is going on!!! He is the only choice.
While Obama may be a good talker....that is all he is....a good talker...and most of his talking is lying! Romney couldnt sit and discuss the economy, like Ron Paul in this video, if his life depended on it.
Anyway, for those who actually care to look at the candidates before pasing judgement, and before making two of the biggest mistakes (Obama and Romney) of your life. You owe it to yourself!
Yeah, you are so right about Romney in comparison to Obama. After all, Obama is a record breaker. Let us look at some of the new "records" Obama has set as president:
1. Record long-term unemployment
2. Record deficits
3. Record national debt
4. Record decrease in home sales
5. Record decrease in home prices
6. Record high home foreclosures
7. Record declines in wages
8. Record income inequality
9. Record string of months with 9% or greater unemployment
10. Unprecedented loss of Triple A credit rating
11. Record amount of money raised from Wall Street companies
12. Record increases in insurance premiums
13. Record increases in numbers on government assistance
14. Record MONTHLY deficits that eclipse the YEARLY deficits under Bush
Yeah, Obama has had a "record"-setting presidency Record Epic Fail !!!
Mitt's got the easiest election strategy ever: 1) Here's Obama's record and 2) I'm not Obama.
Team Romney 2012 - Because Blamin' Bush Done It Ain't Good Enough No More !!
Obama 2012
fake news...
Boy, that took some deep thought, eh? LOL!
uhhhh....ABO 2012!
Senator Barack Obama Explaining his 2006 Vote Against Raising the Debt Limit
From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
You got that right Skippy, Americans Deserve Better!
These are serious times, we need serious people & your time is up Barrack Obama!
mqira....I'm on your side. I would vote for Ron Paul regardless of his party affiliation. I don't think I'll get the chance. I have a feeling the GOP establishment will threaten, coerce, lie, bribe or do just about anything to keep him out of the picture later this year. In the end Paul basically is a Libertarian so that vote is the next best thing.
Propaganda news media!
No meaningful opposition?
http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q22012/romney-nomination-in-doubt-brokered-convention-likely647/
for the people
Ron Paul 2012!
Exceptional video by Free Market America, please take a minute to watch.
http://youtu.be/CZ-4gnNz0vc
Question: If Obama wanted to destroy America, what would he do differently than what he’s doing now?
Where can we place bets on this Las Vegas perhaps? Who is going to win The (R) or The (D) cause if either wins we all lose. So I might as well get some cash Gambling on it.
Obviously The republicans think Mitt has a chance. And I do not think he does. But hey the republicans thought Mcdummy would win as well. And that did not happen.
This is making me wish Ron Paul gets elected. At least the next four years would be some sort of change. If Mitt wins invest in Military if Barrack wins invest in food and survival gear. Cause both have agendas against the average citizen.
There is no Conservative Candidate except Ron Paul.
the conservatives are STAGGERINGLY good at forgetting the the time period 2000-2008 (thats the one where the economy collapsed right at the end of its presidency).
Of course Barack Obama is President of all the American people! Why does he have to spell that out for you with a pie chart of his racial composition? You're the one who doesn't get it.
Put yourself in his shoes for a moment, if it is possible for you to do that. He is the child of an African father and a white American mother, raised entirely by the American side of his family with almost no contact with his father. At a certain age he understood that, because he has dark skin, the world would see him as a black man. His identity as a human being has been partially shaped by YOUR prejudices.
Why does it matter what color his skin is? That only matters to people who cannot look beyond superficial appearances to the person inside.
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
We would live in such a nation TODAY, if everyone would grow up.
Barack Obama is a fine human being, a man of character, intelligence and unselfishness. Disagree with his political philosophy if you wish, but give him credit where credit is due.
If you cannot recognize a good man when you see one--whatever he looks like-- the failure belongs to YOU.
Bottom line =
Obama = A man who wants to be a dictator/ destroy the Constitution/ destroy our Democracy and replace it with Socialism & Complete control of the citizens by means of the Government.
Romney/Republican candidates = A chance for THE PEOPLE of THIS country to keep what so many have died to protect. FREEDOM!
FreedomRulez... who brainwashed you??
Fox? Glenn Beck? Limbaugh?
Think for yourself.
cantakenomore
Have to do our best to remove the worst POTUS in recent history this election!
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Thank goodness term limits did that for us. george bush wasn't thew wosrt in recent history, he was the worst period, slightly ahead of Richard Nixon (I'm not a crook) and The Sleeper------Ronnie Ray Guns. While both parties have done immeasurable damage to this country, the favorites of the right have certainly done the most.
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Justified Defiance
3. Record national debt
It appears ignorance knows no bounds. george bush more than DOUBLED the national debt, from a little over $5 Trillion to $11 Trillion. Obama hasn't even come close to that record in spite of having to clean up the most damaging financial meltdow (caused by both parties) in this country's history. You can say what you like but the undeniable fact is this: the economy has GROWN the last three years in spite of the best efforts of the rethugli-cant leaders, Mitch and Johnny.
FreedomRulez
Bottom line =
Obama = A man who wants to be a dictator/ destroy the Constitution/ destroy our Democracy and replace it with Socialism & Complete control of the citizens by means of the Government.
Romney/Republican candidates = A chance for THE PEOPLE of THIS country to keep what so many have died to protect. FREEDOM!
#1.33 - Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:05 PM EDT
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!! I can't laugh hard enough!!! That "Moronic" way of quasi thinking is what got the Dumbest azzhole in the whole wide world for President; yes George the Dumb ass Bush, THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.A. AND THAT IS A FACT NOT JUST SOME STUPID UNFOUNDED RUMOR, like the ones that the intellectually challenged crowd pukes out all the time. Take a look in the mirror, you and the rest the intellectually challenged individuals like yourself are responsible for our predicament, you guyS ARE THE ONLY ONES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DISASTER AND SH!TTY ASS OF A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY THAT WE INHERITED FROM DUMBASS BUSH!!! Now shut up, and, do the one thing that you know how to do properly which is collecting you SSI, or SSC check every moth; which by the way is a socialist system of coverage. and safety net.
This great country can not take 4 more years of a neighborhood organizer in the White House. Admit that you made a mistake in 2008 and vote for the recovery to start now!
Romney 2012, because Obama's $5trillion in 'stimulus' spending mostly was flushed down the proverbial toilet! Vote for leadership and conservative fiscal responsibility!
kaybeetoys, who brainwashed you? MSNBC, NBC, ABC, Chris Matthews, Rachel Madcow, etc.? Get a brain and look at what this current "intellectual" is doing to our once free nation.
FreedomRulez.....
So many people speak conveniently about Freedom when it suits their purpose. I say Freedom is a Democratic Presidency with a Republican run Legislature. Checks and Balances, remember that?! Obama can't push everything he wants through and neither can the Republicans. Compromise = Freedom.
Speaking of the Republicans, I think that the main reason so many of you are pro Romney has nothing to do with Obama. It's all about that Buffett plan that is going to help the middle class grow and dig into the rich man's pocket. Let me tell you something. You can only tax(steal) from the Middle and Lower class for so long. Yes, there are more middle class than there are upper class, and they should pay a larger share. I get that. Obama just wants to even the playing field because that same middle class outspends the upper class as well and is the driving force behind the economy. We're just asking the Wealthy to pay an even amount, which will help the economy even more as jobs will start being created. The private sector is starting to hire again, albeit very slowly.
If a Republican president is elected, they will reverse everything done during the Obama administration by raising taxes on those who can not afford to pay any more than they already are. The Republicans say that the middle class should live within its' means, but they are also the ones truly driving this economy. To tax them higher(or to institute tax cuts and loopholes for the Wealthy) might cause a catastrophic downturn that could very well plunge this nation(and perhaps the financial world) into a Depression, the likes of which haven't been seen since 1929.
A Better America Begins Tonight. I like it.
It beats the stuffing out of WTF, I Need Four More Years To Finish The Job, We Can't Wait- or any of the Obama discards.
Doesn't it strike any of you liberals as strange that his campaign slogan search is as failed as his presidency?
Or that he got booed at Fenway Park?
It's all over but the moaning.
If the USA were a Major League Baseball team and Obama was the Pitcher, he would have been pulled from the game and sent back to the minors a long time ago.....
The rookie clearly can't handle it and needs more seasoning... years to figure it out!
Let's finish the season on top! Romney 2012!
miked-332794 said:
Let me get this straight, you would prefer we make a bigger mistake and put us back on the road to economic collapse?
Conservative fiscal responsibility? Like what? Raising the taxes on the middle class and small businesses(which, by the way, will make it difficult for them to survive)? Instituting tax breaks and loopholes for both the wealthy and corporate interests? Yeah, that's gonna really put us on the road to recovery....good luck with that.
American Son: you really don't seem to understand how capital gains taxes works. Now, there are some people out there, former Obama supporters who get it. They do indeed understand that Obama's attacking the 'rich,' wanting them to pay their 'fair' share is beyond naive. Do you understand how capital gains taxes work? Even the playing field by killing the jobs producers. Take from the rich, give to the poor, the Robin Hood plan sounds real tasty, except for the startling fact that when you raise those taxes, revenues go waaay down.
His plans will indeed drive investors and businesses off-shore, and, are you aware of the fact that Germany, Holland, Mexico, and India have no capital gains taxes? Canada, China and japan all have rates much lower than 30%. Soooo, using common sense, if you were a business, where would you go? Stay in America and get taxed to death or leave the country? BTW: Obama is attacking companies for not hiring here and then he says they aren't paying enough taxes and his sychophantic followers, unable to put tow and two together, go Yay Obama, stick it to those rich guys....yay...until there are no jobs and the dole, funded by taxes, runs out.
LOL! So many panties are going to be twisted once the President wins re-election. I need to keep ample stock of cheese to go with all the whine coming from the right. Looks like 4 years worth...
I have to agree with you Sinister... but it will take an extra effort from Acorn or whatever they call themselves these days to get all those cartoon characters out to again vote multiple times for Obama for your wish to come true!
Why else would the democrats prevent the use of IDs to protect the integrity of the votes registered? I understand someone tested that by using Eric Holder's name to vote in his district... of course this wasn't publicized much in the old liberal media, was it! wink, wink!
Justified Defiance - you are spot on except this one
Record amount of money raised from Wall Street companies
While his take was a record, each year is a new record.
Since business makes up between 1 - 5% of the voting population, they use their money to tell people who they see as better for the economy.
In 2000 & 2004 it went to Bush Narrowly. In 2008 it went to Obama, because they saw McCain as no economic genius and the fact that Finance had crashed.
This is not to say that they are geniuses, because clearly Obama has left everything tied up in knots. They, like typical Americans fail to understand that although a president can effect change through his proposals, the real key is what will pass in congress.
Democrats villify business, because they associate business with Republicans. But, the reality is that Business only is voting with their wallets. We, the american people simply need to make certain that business gets a fair shake. When business gets a fair shake, we all move forward.
Obama should win by a substantial margin. Ask yourself this WHAT PROMISES WERE KEPT BY THE RETHUGS ? NONE? Sounds "right" to ME! The last IMBECILE RETHUG occupant of the White House did his DAMNEDEST to try to RUIN the USA (under "guise" of "patriotism", of course) Pounding sand down an oily RATHOLE in that LIE OF LIES - IRAQ! And yet (for some unknown reason) you konserrvatif DIMBULBS expect the REST OF US to fall right into line with your associated BULLSH IT!..Tell yah what DIMBULBS - that DOG won't HUNT! First off, the reichwingreligionazis in "control" of the party have made it so that I (me, myself) could support ANY of the current list of the ones previously running for "Oberfuehrer of the 4th Reich" (which is what the USA is about to decay into given the vitriolic politics and politicians)
The old ways of "compromise and bipartisanship" have apparently lost whatever meaning they HAD (say, 50 years ago) to the GOTP. Of course, I am in favor of tossing out probably 75% of congress (since there is so much political BULLS HIT going on FROM BOTH PARTIES - sorry to say, that's unlikely)
What we NEED - TERM LIMITS, CUT SPENDING (try 50% right off the TOP in "defense") and INCREASE REVENUES. Otherwise we are on the slippery slope to becoming a GREEK URN. Fully fund Social Security - it WAS supposed to be "paid for" - and eliminate the upper limit on SS taxes on income. Go to a single payer health care insurance system and eliminate services for non-admitted immigrants
I may be liberal, but I'm NOT STUPID!
Romney now says that the rich should be congratulated. Some have become quite rich from robbing the banks. Should they be congratulated as well? Does a pile of money, even if ill-gotten, make one a success in Mr. Romney's book?
I said last year this time none of the Teaparty candidates would win, the real Republican party wanted Mitt, now the Teabagers better get in line or they will be a third party next cycle!
canary-in-the-coal-mine @1.47
We all know your not stupid,
You do realize you are quoting Dr Paul's domestic program almost to a "T"?
Who are you going to vote for?
TO: Confussed-1578043 who wrote:
President Obama, with a straight Democratic Ticket to back him up!
Obama / Biden 2012
Yup, your vote for socialism and the loss of the constitution is just what we need.
Ron Paul
The dog issue has blown up in Axelrods face, just like the Ann Romney attacks, the Sandra "big Train" Fluck kerfuffle, just like the nasty spat with the Catholic Church, just like the demagoguery of Keystone, the silver spoon commentary from the Bammy, and now the attack on Mormonism by the Obama cut out dem governor from Montana.
Quite a litany of BS third rate attacks by axelrod/Obama/ and surrogates that have all failed to lay a glove on Mitt.
People see BHO for what he really is with these low rent personal assaults -- a smack talking wanna be street hustler who will say anything to stay in power.
Say NO To Obama2012 --- The Experiment Has FAILED!
What part of the Constitution did the evil Obama take away from you dum@!$%#s?
The right of conscience and free exercises thereof as expressly provided for in the first amendment of the United States constitution dictates that Congress shall pass no laws effecting the freedom of religion or effecting the free exercise thereof; which means congress cannot mandate a litmus test be administered in exchange for access to public commerce.
Obama-care mandates that everyone that wishes to participates in public commerce must first agree to violate their conscience by contributing to acts that their conscience cannot accept.
This is the very definition of tyranny - Stalin and Hitler were tyrants....and so is Obama.
One & Done - Cuz Community Organizers Sux For a POTUS.
I am voting for Ron Paul.....
@American girl.....what is your favorite thing about Obama??? Is it the Tresspass Bill.....is it the NDAA? Is it that he has continued Bush's policies....oh wait, you probably dont like that one!
I know why you are voting for Obama...is it his singing qualities?
Just curious!!!!
Anyway, I am voting for Ron Paul, because i care about each and everyone of us...if there is no us, there is no USA...
Obama 2012
Psalms 2012:
Obama is the messiah I do not want.
He leadeth me beside still factories
He restoreth my faith in the Tea party.
He guideth me in the path of unemployment for his party's sake.
Yea, tho I walk through the valley of the free cheese & bread line, I shall fear no hunger, for his bailouts are with us.
He has Anointed my income with taxes, My expenses runneth over my income.
Surely, poverty and hard living will follow me all the days of my life,
The Democrats and I will forever live in Government housing.
But I am glad that I am free.... Amen.
Obama is not going to win a second term. That's all there is to it. If you heard a room full of business men talking about Obama, it would make your ears bleed.
They've seen enough....Anybody with a job and bills, has heard and seen enough. You can call them what you want.
Obama is done. Kaput
For 2 YEARS Obama had a majority with the White House, Congress and House controlled by Democrats. He could have passed any law! He did not need a single republican vote for any bill to pass. He could have promoted jobs and worked to strengthen the economy yet he passed a horrific and still undefined health care program that was so bad that he couldn't get his own party to vote for it. He had to buy their votes with huge tax cuts and wheelbarrows full of money for their states. The measure passed only after the congress used an extremely rare tactic. He and his super majority failed miserably to change the direction of the country....
The Obama experiment has been a complete failure. He lied about everything in his campaign to become president.
Justified Defiance - Perhaps a room full of business men in Texas where you live. You are going to be quite surprised when President Obama wins re-election. Mitt is a poor choice for your party. Aren't you embarrassed?
What is the republican version of the Dream Act? Willard winning the election. There is not a snowball chance in hell that Willard is going to win. So far many of my conservative friends are planning to stay at home now the Willard the flipflopper has pivoted to the general election.
He has already pissed off his base. And his base cannot bring themselves to vote for President Obama so they are going to stay at home.
Wow the general has not even started and Willard is loosing support.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Stupid question kimH ...like most everything else you post on here...
How do you KNOW i LIVE in Texas? LOL ...just because i have some art work for an AV?
Find someone else to harass and insult.
Conservative friends lol, no Democrat has conservative friends, you cannot call someone a friend when you wish them and their family harm for not being a Democrat.
Disagree with a Democrat and they hate you forever, it is this hate and closed-mindedness that make a pro choice, pro gay marriage, pro decriminalization of drug abuse voter vote straight ticket Republican.
I live in a very blue area so I'm well aware of the way Democrats act towards their fellow Americans, it is simply a moral obligation to vote Republican because even a divisonary person such as Limbaugh is far more tolerant, fair minded, and respectful of his opposition than any Democrat alive in America today.
JD - Sorry buddy. You put yourself out there so don't complain when the stupid things you say draw remarks that hurt your feelings. You say some pretty awful things about President Obama. That offends me. Once again - aren't you embarrassed?
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
The only sane choice!
kimH --- Yes....you have proven you are "sorry" and no i'm not your "buddy" nor am i "embarrassed"
Unlike you... i have fought for the country i love, for freedom, for the right to say what i feel. These rights are being taken away from us more & more each day.
We are getting farther away from being "One Nation Under God"
I am not a Republican or a Democrat....I am a PROUD AMERICAN, and unlike those in the white house now i have always been proud to be an American- even when they have boneheads in office like this administration.
If you don't like my comments, don't read them, or use the ignore feature, if you can figure out how to use it.
I will vote for Ron Paul, even if I have to write him in.
JD - I think I get it now - because you fought for your Country you have the right to say what you feel but those of us who don't agree with you do not have the right to say what we feel. You love your Country but anyone who doesn't agree with you doesn't love their Country. You should be embarrassed, buddy.
I'm doing the only rational thing my thinking mind can think of. Insanity-doing the same thing over and over again expecting a diffrent result. OB or Mittens= 4 years of talk and more debt. Ron Paul, or God help us all. (btw I'm not even religious, I just know we wont make it out of this whole if not)
Vote for Abo ....anybody but Obama.
WTG Kim...Tell that blowhard bonehead where to get off....and way to embarrass him
Obama is evil and Romney is insane. What else is new? :)
NOBAMA 2012 the only choice to save our nation!
This election is going to be very close. No canidate is going to win by a landslide. The swing states will probably determine the next president. Pennsylvania is already leaning Republican.
So much ignorance
Just some of Obama's failures.
For Libya alone, he should have been impeached, the War Powers Act of 1973 did not grant him authority to make the decision, alone, to send the U.S. military into Libya. The War Powers Act state that the conflict must be in some way a threat to the U.S. Libya was in no way a threat to our national security.
You thought Newt Gingrich was a crook for making money off of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac?? Look who is number two on the list on this list. Keep in mind nearly everyone was donated too to make it look fair but the amount to Obama is rediculous. Not in it for the special interests huh...
2 billion to Brazilian oil company after banning drilling off our own coast...campaign funder to the Obama Administration, George Soros, is invested into the Brazilian company Petrobras.
Obama pushes Green energy companies while regulating other energy sources. As the investments fail or these green companies go bankrupt, only the company CEO's benefit from the billions of taxpayer dollars. You can check out Solyndra as an example. Or you can check out the 700 million+ dollars that the Obama Admin gave to a company with ties to Nancy Pelosi. Google it!
Auto Industry payback to unions. Obama uses taxpayer dollars to payback the unions for their generous campaign donations.
Chrysler companies shut down...788 of the 789 donated to the
republican party Coincidence?
Wall Street Obama slaps wrist of donors:
EPA Carbon Offsets to Cronies:
Obama job losses. The Obama administration maintains that the stimulus plans were successful yet there are 2 million less jobs since he's been in office. 1 trillion dollars and 2 million less jobs???
The housing stimulus alone is basically the government buying up all of the failed mortgages and then who is left to pay for, not only the stimulus but the maintenance on these homes??? The taxpayer. Just last year alone cost the taxpayers over 500 million dollars to maintain foreclosed homes.
Obama Government dependency. The number of dependant Americans has gone up while Obama has been in office. Milk and cookies for everyone...
National Debt
The National deficit has increased by nearly 5 trillion dollars in the 3 and a half years Obama has been in office compared to Bush's 5 trillion dollar increase in the 8 years he was in office. You can youtube the video of Obama promising to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term.
Troop Withdraw
Obama promised to bring all of our troops home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (youtube the video) but only moved the troops from Iraq to Afghanistan increasing the troop count there significantly. Since the increase troop deaths have spiked and we are still no where near bringing them home. If only they cared about our own borders as much as the Afg/Pakistan borders.
Immigration
The Obama Administration, to gain the vote of Hispanics, offered amnesty and entitlements to illegal aliens..key word...ILLEGAL... why are illegal aliens offered incentives for breaking the law? Just the opposite of National Security.
Obama openly admits he is a Muslim and believes that the US owes the structuring of America to the many Muslims that have helped build this country. Youtube it...straight from the horses mouth. Not to mention he is the only U.S. President in history to BOW!!!! to a Saudi King yet ignores the Queen of England. Despicable..... Youtube that as well.
Obama extended the Patriot act another 4 years, signed the NDAA and HR347 along with many other new laws that are nothing more than violations to our rights and the Constitution.
Obama promises in a campaign speech that he will make the government "transparent" and that there will be no more secrecy in the government and that any new law that comes across his desk will first be available to the public, for 5 days, online to review and give feedback....There has been no such viewing and the government is in more secrecy today than it's ever been.
He told everyone exactly what they wanted to hear and then has done nothing but the opposite while in office only setting up more campaign donors for his next campaign in 2012. These are just some of the reason's he is not fit to run the country along with reasons he should be impeached and prosecuted
Ron Paul is the only Politician that has spent his whole political career trying to fight back for our rights. He is the only one that truly believes in the Constitution. Google or youtube Ron Paul.
www.ronpaul2012.com
RON PAUL 2012 for President
More than likely it will not take all of the links attached. For that I apologize. You can google or youtube them all.
Doug Davis-5086244: It's amazing that you nailed the ONLY three areas where the ideology of liberalism, which claims to be pro-choice, actually sort of lives up to that claim: Abortion. Gay Marriage. Recreational drug use. I've been saying the same thing, and the citing the same three areas for years.
Those three issues are the ONLY ones where they want no government intervention or interference, unless of course, it's to get the government to pay for something to do with it. However, in every other area of your life, they want to control and regulate you to the highest degree possible, right down to how much water your toilet can flush and what kind of light bulb you should or shouldn't be allowed to use.
astronymind,
Well Said, but these DEMTARDS just don't get it.
Obama = Harvard Law School
Romney = Harvard Law School AND Harvard Business School
Romney = created RomneyCare in Massachusetts, where he lives.
Obama = Hired the SAME team to create ObamaCare, which Romney used to create RomneyCare.
Romney = busted twice for using illegal hispanic gardners and landscapers on his home in Massachusetts.
Obama = He is a better singer and dancer, and is openly honest about his Liberal Politics.
Romney = Cannot dance, sing , chew gum, eat cheesy grits, wear Blue Jeans without looking stiff and silly,nor can he EVER convince folks that he is a conservative,after he created RomneyCare.
Boy, the liberal storm trooper are out in force today! The site is littered with opposing view collapsed posts! More proof of the left's desire to tread on the Constitution and limit free speech!
Storm Troopers were Nazis......Nazis were conservative Germans.....Republican extremists are the equivalent of Nazis,less the anti-semitic patter.
Justified Defiance
People see BHO for what he really is with these low rent personal assaults -- a smack talking wanna be street hustler who will say anything to stay in power.
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The thing I love about you rethugli-cons is how short your memory is. Everything you've posted today pertains to the rethugli-con party, even more so than the current President. Have you forgotten the Swiftboat Commanders for the Right Wing Truth? Americans understand exactly what the rethugli-con party stands for and the majority are saying: NO THANK YOU!!!!! And now you are running a nominee who has spent the better part of 6 YEARS just trying to get your nomination. How funny. America repudiated Mittens in 2008 and we will do the same in Nov.
Pennsylvania may well be heading Republican, but it and Ohio is leaning Obama right now and not significantly moving toward Republican. The reason Ohio is leaning Obama has to do with the perceived improvement in Ohio's economy. We are getting more jobs, but not from Obama, but rather because of the changes that Kasich has made with the help of the Republican Majorites in the Legislature.
This is early yet, and until after the convention, things can change pretty quick.
Nazi=Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party).
Not that facts matter but how many conservative socialists do you know? Extremists are extremists but socialists were Nazis.
Highspeed dirt... LOL
1. he is stretching the use of the "executive order" to usurp the constitutional definition of separation of powers and duties between the legislative branch, executive branch and supreme court.
2. The supreme court is currently deciding if obamacare and the individual mandate with penalties attached is constitutional.
3. He has become the first sitting president to authorize the invasion of a sovereign nation in order to assassinate a despicable individual and then publicly admit it. While not directly tied to the constitution, is this really a good foreign policy to publicly promote?
4. Where was the congressional approval within 90 days for our military actions in libya that went beyond the UN's "no fly" zone? Even bush2 got congressional approval for a coalition led military action in iraq.
With such an attitude, could other breaches be far behind?
Amen and Amen Bill Thomas!
astronymind
So much ignorance
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You must be looking in the mirror. When was the ground work for the fiscal mess laid? During george bush's administration. HE increased our debt by close to $6 Trillion dollars. HE started TWO wars and paid for them OFF the budget books. HE was President when we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. HE was President when the housing bubble burst. Whether you like it or not the damage from his eight years as President are not going to be undone within three or four years, just as New Orleans wasn't rebuilt over night after Katrina. I guess you'd also like to blame Obama for the financial mess Europe is in now, a mess which affects our economy. Or maybe the fact that China isn't growing as fast as it was is also President Obama's fault.
Now you want us to vote for the party that wants to wage war on women, gays, minorities, etc., all of whom are Americans. I say "NO THANK YOU".
You know, about two months ago I read an article where a couple of studies looked at the intellectual levels of Liberals vs conservatives. The studies pointed to the fact that cons were less intelligent and more easily led than Liberals. After reading post after post on here and other sites I believe those studies got it right.
Yes!! Romney has to win in the 2012 election or America is done. You Lib's, who aren't capable of analyzing the facts are going to take the rest of us down with you: you flipping idiots.
imwhitewolf
rethugli-con - Can you possibly be any more ridiculous? Get a life away from supercilious insults that mean nothing except show you ignorance.
Liam - other than the bonehead moves that the allies used against germany after WWl regarding war reparations the nazis had a strategic plan for taking over the german government. They targeted the german communist party with defamatory propaganda and attacks to eliminate them as any type of political presence. Then they moved onto the jews, gypsies and other minorities with the same type of policy.
Obama is using the same type of approach with the right and wealthy while he wink-winks at his own wealthy supporters. Many newsvine posters are even wanting to promote a strong one party system and obama has made it clear that he is in favor of big government.
I've decided to give up on doing something worthwhile with my life and instead vote for the man who's most likely to give me free stuff whether I've earned it or not. Why work if you don't have to?
OBAMA IN 2012
BTW, if the Obama people are still looking for a new campaign slogan, BO already sang it:
"Let's Stay Together"
Good post American! I just wish the liberal's could 'read'! And I bet this will be another 'truth' collapsed by the close minded libbies!
yo i cannot wait to September so i can vote DEMOCRAT!!!!!! they separate that in NYC. Today was the voting for slime Republicans.... It will be a hella fight all the way to the November polls but my vote is democrats because PERSONALLY a republican in office WE ARE @!$%#ED but a democrat in office we are SCREWED because Obama is FIXING past practice that none will see the experience of the end result BUT maybe OUR FUTURE GENERATION WILL!!! I rather be SCREWED because at lease theirs some lubricant used BUT being @!$%#ED is straight dry ending in REPERCUSSIONS!!! lmao!!!!!!!!!! #MY OPINION!
I guess being elected a delegate is clearly not an honor. Look who was just elected: tex-478405
Barack probably had to deal with dolts like him from day 1. Simple majority means nothing when filibustering becomes a way of life.
Mitt will deceive all those who have decided to vote for him b/c they easily fooled by the simple-minded rhetoric...sorry to say but it's probably the same fools who voted for Barack b/c they really thought real progress could be made in four short years despite following a political system predicated on back deals, stalling, and plain posturing for media coverage.
...end first rant
CAN anyone say one positive thing about Obummer? What has he done to create a better nation? I looked up and down and see nothing.
Now we have a clear choice in November a successful businessman who knows not only how to run a huge company but knows politics as having been the governor of Massachusetts where he worked successfully with an all democratic state congress.
He is intelligent, has two degrees, not afraid to show his education documents and definitely not a back door marxist socialist and knows business inside out.
Obama is dumb. He could not work with his democratic congress. He has no business experience. He can not get along with anyone in his administration. Stupidly killed bin Laden when he should have ordered him taken alive. Has absolutely no experience even after three years what it is to be a top chief executive. Obama is a fraud, fool and a fake.
This is the reality, folks: Romney is a robot.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Rub of green,
Were you recently elected a delegate as well? If so, it would prove my point that becoming one clearly is not as significant as I once thought.
Or maybe you are just another one of those people who pander to a cause though not really understanding why you support such a cause. But have no fear, there are many more people just like you who support someone who sounds great with overarching generic lines...like..."when I become president I will restore the America we once knew and loved." Simply hearing one line like that is probably good enough for you to say..."yes, I'm voting for you...b/c you sound like a president." LOL!
You, like many others are hilariously absurd!
Sigh...sigh...sigh....sigh!!!!
Dictionary72 = the typical fool who hears something he/she does not understand and supports it wholeheartedly. I'd love to try and sell him/her/shim some ocean front property in Idaho. If I use the correct words, he just might bite! I mean he/she/he-she seems dumb enough.
John-900908 You really can compare this incompetent racist, know nothing who claims marxists and hides his pass with a successful businessman who was a great governor, is intelligent, has ideas and knows what this country needs?
What has Obummer done in the last three years but sit on his ass and export jobs, promise illegal aliens everything under the sun, played up to the unions and lied about his lack of accomplishments. The solar projects he visited in Arizona and New Mexico were started under Bush. Don't forget the $500,000,000 he gave to the Finnish electric car company who bamboozled Biden! Obummer should have stayed a community activist or stayed working for that small law firm. He is so far in over his head, he doesn't know he drowned.
"Storm Troopers were Nazis......Nazis were conservative Germans.....Republican extremists are the equivalent of Nazis,less the anti-semitic patter."
liam-1161783, To call the Nazis conservatives is a bit of a stretch. Even Hitler scorned both the left and the right in Germany at the time as he developed Nazism meaning "National Socialism". The Nazis practiced a peculiar form of Fascism. Bing "Nazism" and read for yourself. While the Nazis had some far right aspects to there ideology, they where a hybrid of left, center, and right-wing views.
Hitler called the Volksvagen Beetle "The People's car". A rather left-wing label. He practiced Fascism and so does the Socialist leftist strongman Hugo Charvez of Venezuela and our President Barack Obama. Obama has done everything in his power in the last three years to consolidate power to himself, the executive branch, and to the Federal Govt. itself.
Obama's greatest fascistic achievement was ObamaCare. It has over 2,000 pages of power grabing extremism as the law was designed to help the Federal Govt. take over one sixth of the American economy and allows the central govt. to unlimited intrusion into the lives of every American from the cradle to the grave.
A fascist is a fascist and a controler is a controler! No matter if he is getting back at Jews for what he believes they did to his country, or if he is getting back at persons of another race because he thinks all of them held his own people down for centuries.
John-900908 I am sure Obummer or Biden will be overjoyed to buy your ocean front property in Idaho. After all Biden believed the Finnish car company was going to use an old G.M. factory in Delaware and use American workers to build their electric cars. Biden didn't even read the contract that Obummer signed giving the Finnish company $500,000,000 to take back to Finland.
If Obama and Biden are so naive as to keep on giving away money, they would be glad to give you some to buy your ocean front property in Idaho.
John you still have not said one benefit that the country derived from having Obummer as president.
kaybeetoys You can buy cheap all the tootsietoys on ebay and lay on the floor and pretend you know how cars work and how Obummer managed to do nothing as president for three years.
imwhitewolf And exactly what would you have done after 9/11? Sat sucking your thumb and sit on the other? No one wanted to spend the money and no one wanted war, but the U.S. had to make examples and prove not to be paper tigers. I am angry that they played kindly with Iraq and Afghanistan.
Going back to the invasion of Europe during WWII. Eisenhower was very worried about the devastation that the invasion was going to cause France and asked DeGaulle what he thought. DeGaulle immediately stated that the French would withstand any hardships to be free again.
Bush should have gone in with all the military might of the U.S. cleaned out Iraq and Afghanistan and left. BTW they did find WMD in Iraq, it was discovered by the Dutch troops. Look it up. Also why did Saddam order 20 nuclear triggers that was confiscated by England. Don't be lazy do a search.
@justified defiance
For 2 YEARS Obama had a majority with the White House, Congress and House controlled by Democrats. He could have passed any law! He did not need a single republican vote for any bill to pass.
OMG are you funny....Obama had a majority for A FEW WEEEKS...2 years?????
OMG
It takes 60 votes to overcome a filibuster in the US Senate, which is now the default to get pretty much anything done. As Scarborough well knows, the Democrats didn’t reach that 60-seat threshold in the Senate until Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) was sworn in on July 7, 2009. They lost that majority upon the swearing-in of Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) on Feb. 4, 2010, just under seven months later. While state politician Christie can possibly be forgiven such an error, someone with Joe Scarborough’s reach and influence ought to have better than a 71% margin of error.
As Mother Jones‘ Kevin Drum points out, though, the actual amount of time the Democrats held a filibuster-proof majority, when you factor in the late Sen. Ted Kennedy‘s illness and the winter recess, amounts to 14 weeks.
If our founding fathers saw what Obama is doing to our country, they would punch him in the face.
HA HA ...all the loser Dems on this thread think their only hope is to get the folks that KNOW Obama is a more than failed experiment to 'vote' Ron Paul to take votes from Mitt...lol...gud luk - Obama=EPIC FAIL
Excuse me...but calling President Obama, Dems, liberals nazis is passe, last weeks word to use from the Republican list of words is over. Check your hand picked word list from the republican party and you will see your talking point insults for this week is to use the word communist over and over. For the Fox News watchers this will of course will be believed as studies have shown that people who watch Fox News are dumber for it. Do search to see the studies, Fox News Dumber. After that do search on Newt Gingrinch word list. Then see the fact on how republicans are fed words everyday to influence their minds even though the info is false! We Dems even have to teach you facts about how you are manipulated by your party.
Obama/Biden 2012
Justified Deniance isn't concerned with things like facts, don't bother.
btw anyone know who Romney's running mate will be? Rubio, Rice, Jeb and all the other short listers are running away from Mitt like teens in a slasher movie.
Dictionary 72...so WMD's were found in Iraq?...better tell Bush and his staff that, because they all admitted there were no WMD's in Iraq!...AAAAAhahahahahahahaha
Aaaaaaahahhhahahahahahaha..........................................aaahahahahahahahaha Quick... have Powell announce that again at the United Nations............AAAAhahahahahahahahaha
And let the mud slinging begin.......WAIT......it already has (see above).
Yep, Mr. Obama is out beating the bushes again with Obama Bucks to get those votes since he cannot run on his "policies".
I wonder why the Democrats did not nominate Barney Frank as a contender on the Democratic ticket. Hey, DNC spokes people.....Hilary Rosen, Ed Schultz, Bill Maher, Chris Matthews.....you need to talk about that on your shows. Heck, he could do a better job.
Romney and a straight Republican ticket for a strong America !!!
starsailing
Insert foot in mouth....
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the
greatest security threat we face."
--Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
--Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of
mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by: -- Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
- -Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces
for his cronies."
-- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
President Harry Truman in 1948: "The Republicans … will try
to make people believe that
everything the Government has done for the country
is socialism. They will
go to the people and say: "Did you see that social
security check you
received the other day—you thought that was good for you,
didn't you? That's just too bad! That's nothing in the world but socialism. Did
you see that
new flood control dam the Government is building over there for the
protection of your property? Sorry—that's awful socialism! That new hospital
that they are building is socialism. Price supports, more socialism for the
farmers! Minimum wage laws? Socialism for labor! Socialism is bad for you,
my
friend. Everybody knows that. And here you are, with your new car, and
your
home, and better opportunities for the kids, and a television set—you
are just
surrounded by socialism! Now the Republicans say, 'That's a
terrible thing, my
friend, and the only way out of this sinkhole of
socialism is to
vote for the
Republican ticket.'" And President Truman made that Speech 64 Years AGO!!!
The republicanCrimeCartel is Still Doing the SAME EXPLOITATION OF PEOPLE
THEY ARE NOTORIUS FOR. AND, according to KingGeorgeTheVacuumBrained, it is
called "free market" capitalism; with families in the streets and 21%
Unemployment, And Endless Financially Ruining wars created by this Rogue RepublicanCrimeCartel Looking To DO IT AGAIN. They Belong in Prison where dangerous people are disposed of.
Remember Fellow and Sister Americans: A vote for ANY
republicanCrimeCartelSoldier, Rommel, is a vote Against Yours and Your Family's
WellBeing
Justified Defiance,
Do not be quick to think that the majority of our citizens are going to believe Romney's slick and phony campaign themes. Only by default is this candidate "winning" the GOP presidential ticket. The slate of conservative candidates handed over to their selfish supporters was and is woefully unqualified to be president. Every month had a new GOP politician in the lead. Thus, with these "choices" the party's believers played "musical chairs." The party's elitist and draconian political platforms have awakened many of our citizens. The economic, political and social slide that this country has been on begin in 1980. Another 4 years of the GOP in the White House will plunge America over an economic cliff.
Obama/Biden 2012.
But Romney isn't a christian!
How many of you didn't vote just because you didn't like who your choices are?
25Walker
Go figure Walker....?? Did you have a stroke?
September 2007: [Democratic-controlled] Congress raising the debt limit to - $9.815 trillion
July 2008:[Democratic-controlled] Congress raising the debt limit to - $10.615 trillion
October 2008: [Democratic-controlled] Congress raising the debt limit to - $11.315 trillion
December 2009: [Democratic-controlled] Congress raising the debt limit to - $12.394 trillion
February 2010: [Democratic-controlled] Congress raising the debt limit to - $14.294 trillion
What are we now?
ALMOST 16 TRILLION!?!?! Way to spend our tax money
Mr. Big $PENDER OBAMA - Epic Fail
The fact remains that Romney still can't get a decisive victory in any state.
The anti-Romney votes are piling up.
If our founding fathers saw the obstructionism the republicans have done, they would punch them in the face.
For 2 YEARS Obama did not have a super majority with Congress. He did need a republican vote for the ACA, thank you Rep. Snowe.
Never heard of it. I checked every dictionary and can not find a definition on Obummer. Even my word check flags it. Perhaps if you could state exactly what you mean instead of posting ficticious words, one might be able to decifer your request. It makes the rest of your post seem like... uneducated babble.
For a blogger with the word 'dictionary' in his/her name, you must not use it much.
Justoneguy...I stand by my words.........There were NO WMD's found in Iraq. Spin however you like. Powell quit the cabinet after being made the fool by Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeldt. Too funny.......Run that by Powell again...really....too funny. Get out of that bomb shelter and shut off Fox news and join the rest of world reality.
@justoneguy, the difference is, the democrats had used false intel on Hussein's WMD program to claim he was a threat but didn't act on it, whereas the republicans chose to invade Iraq after the CIA had shown the intel was false.
@Justified Defiance; You're comparing Obama's mandate that contraception be included in health insurance coverage to the atrocities that were committed by Stalin and Hitler? As someone raised in a jewish household whose grandparents fled Germany to avoid the final solution, I am personally appalled that you would make such a comparison. Any Holocaust survivor that read your post would be even more pissed off than me. IF ONLY Hitler's biggest sin was mandated the provision of contraceptives with public healthcare. I would kick your ass if I ever met you!!! Go @!$%# yourself you tea bagging @!$%#. Using a tragedy like that to further your political beliefs. You're pathetic.
It's going to be a really interesting time in Tampa when the entire country is informed that delegates from Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado and who knows how many other states have handed the state to Ron Paul. Will they try to keep a brokered convention out of the main stream coverage as well?
What's really pathetic is the Republic Party. I've been a Republican since the first time I could vote - and that was for Barry Goldwater in 1964.
It looks and sounds like the Republican Party is trying to "pull out all the stops," to prevent Mr. Obama from getting reelected.
However, so far, the Republican Party has provided only four very marginal presidential wannabe candidates.
IF, the Republican Party does not get very serious, very soon, about finding a couple of quality candidates, the election of 2012 will be handed to Mr. Obama, on a sliver platter.
I am extremely disappointed to see that Romney, Santorum, Gingrich and Paul, were the only choices the GOP could come up with for POTUS candidates. Really! Is that the best we have to offer? Out of ALL the Republican business leaders, people experienced with running large corporations, no one else can come to the rescue of the Republican Party? That really pisses me off. I believe that if Willard does get the GOP nod, it would be like handing the election to Mr. Obama; and, unfortunately, millions of dollars will be poured down the advertising rat hole.
I believe that Willard Romney is out of touch with the common person. He and his wife do not know what it is like to sweat making the rent or house payment. The more Willard and his wife try to look and act like "normal folks" the worse it gets. (Case in point: Especially with the recent news that Willard is installing an elevator for his cars; and, what’s with his costume of blue jeans and sport coat...?) From the time he was a child, Willard grew up in a very wealthy family. Willard is definitely part of the ½ of 1%...
As for the VP choice, should Romney choose Rubio, to win the "brown vote?"
Nope. Because the hillbillies will say, "We don't want no VP that speaks Mexican!!!"
Obama 2012
Voting for every Democrat in every race I can.
JustOneGuy (If only this were true!)
In the year of 2004, the American electorate repeated their voting folly of the year 2000.
Realizing our goof, many Americans almost did have a stroke.
Here is your answer:
...your party's "achievements" before Obama...
- The Gross Dosmetic Product shrank
- An economic collapse and U.S. Recession
- 30 States went into recession at the state and local level
- Unemployment hit a 14 year high
- A loss in Consumer Confidence
- Due to Wall Street and Bank Fraud, the Collapse of the Housing Market and Massive Home Foreclosures
- Low Home Prices
- The Grand Theft of the U.S. treasury by Billions of dollars
- The substantial loss of jobs in the manufacturing sector
- A sharp increase of Americans without Health Insurance
- A stark increase in Hunger in America (does this sound 3rd world)
- Corporate Cronyism in power
- From 2000-2008, a 5 Trillion Dollar increase in the U.S. debt.
Truman did say...if you want to live the "Republican Good Life," Vote Democratic!
JustOneGuy
...And sadly, 9/11/2001.
You know Romney is toxic to the republicans when desperate Pawlenty says no way to being V.P. choice.....
If Romney wins the Election for President in 2012, what is he going to do about Afghanistan? Promises made to Karzai can be broken, by the Sealing of a Partnership with them. The War has to end.
I see that as one of the most key issues---It will also be the Economy, and what is happening at the time.
Things can "turn in an instant". Romney has not said one thing about the War in Afghanistan, nor Iran.
This is equally as important as the Economy here. Will the spending continue?
He needs a VP who has had Military Experience; not sure Marco Rubio can fill the Position.
REB-1013231
imwhitewolf
rethugli-con - Can you possibly be any more ridiculous? Get a life away from supercilious insults that mean nothing except show you ignorance.
reb---you are funny. I love it when folks like you make comments like yours but what makes your posts totally irrevelant is the fact folks like you NEVER complain when it's a con making "supercilious insults" about the Dem Party. You can't have both ways. If it's wrong to make fun of the rethugli-cant party, then it's wrong to make fun of the Dem Party. Unfortunately, some people, yourself included, are too ignorant to understand that YOU are a big part of the problem in this country today.
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dictionary72
imwhitewolf And exactly what would you have done after 9/11? Sat sucking your thumb and sit on the other?
No dictionary, I'll leave the thumb sucking to bush and his cronies. You know the ones who, like dick cheney, used whatever means available to stay out of the military. I was drafted in Jun 1972, spent eight years on Active Duty, then eighteen years in the Guard/Reserve. My retirement benefits start next Monday when I turn sixty.
I agreed with invading Afghanistan. I did not agree with the invasion of Iraq. Iraq had no part in 9/11 and bush/cheney took their eyes off the main problem to wage a private, thrumped up vendetta. While they watched Iraq, they left Afghanistan on the rear burner and we are now playing for their stupidity.
All I see from your post is that you are another right wing con who wants to rewrite history. The sad thing is Americans have finally woken up and they see you folks for exactly what you are---fear mongering, liars who have been bought and sold to the highest bidder, which I hate to tell you isn't you. Is the Dem Party really any better. No but let's take a serious look at your past few Presidents starting with Richard (I am not a crook) Nixon. You idolize Ronnie Ray-Guns but he was nothing more than a high deficit, increase the size of government President who sign the largest tax increase in US history into law. Nothing more needs saying but george bush II was the worst President in US history.
Imawhitewolf:
Who gave you vinegar to drink?
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For Pete's sake, who let the collapse cowards out?
Look, it's the Tabernacle Choir in those photos! Yep, just like Jon Huntsman said, it's like the Communist Party in China blocking any descent. Or maybe like the N. Korean mourners at the funeral procession of Kim Il Sung. Whatever it is, it looks suspicious!
Pleeeeease people, don't make the same mistake you made in 2008. Do yo have a death wish for
freedom? Do you want America to be Greece on steroids? Super meltdown with hyper inflation.
The media are experts on deception, Mitt Romney has proven competence, if you want cool
arrogance and incompetence, watch SNL.
Lol yeah, I thought the same thing. I don't think they could have chosen a better (worse?) picture if they tried.
RD-Mitt shows his stuff right away to the brainless followers. He supports the Ryan budget that cuts funding to students via Pell Grants and comes out on Television and supports the continued low interest on student loans. Do his supporters understand that he is already shaking the etch a sketch? Conservative or liberal-it seems he is both. Who is the real Mitt? Only his hair dresser knows for sure.
What an ignorant statement! Ever heard of Alberto Gonzales, (under Bush became thehighest-ranking Hispanic in government to date). Democrats thought he might become a Supreme Court nominee and trash talked the guy until he resigned from office without giving any explanation. Republicans LOVE Rubio, and the guy would make a great VP. Why don't you try telling the ActorAndy Garcia Republican Hillbillies won't accept him and see what kind of response you get. Republicans Love Hispanics because the vast majority of them are Christian and have many of the same moral and work ethics conservatives try to promote. Save your bigot, rascist comments for the Daily Kos where fools will buy your dribble.
Straight ticket voters on either side of the isle prove it is not about the person, it is about the party. Straight ticket voters don't need to think, they don't need to be informed, and they are in a large part why our political system is so corrupt. Politicians need only climb on a ticket for their base to support them, so they can turn their attention to taking care of themselves. The Democratic Party is as far left liberal as they accuse the Republicans of being far right. Fringe ideology on both sides.
If you had to lay down odds as to whether this country is salvageable or not, it would probably be about 10-1 odds against. With the same idiots in Washington that caused this mess, both sides for those that can be honest with themselves, why expect different results? Washington has been talking about fixing social security, medicare, waste, fraud, spending, tax reform, and of course our skyrocketing debt for DECADES. No surprise with the same people in Washington we are still just talking about it.
So the odds are really not good for the survival of this country. A financial collapse is imminent, which is part of the reason investors are heading to China just like all the jobs. So continuing down this path of self destruction with Obama makes no sense. He had his chance and he has failed miserably. There is no part of his agenda that offers even a ray of hope. We simply cannot risk four more years of the train wreck we have in the White House. For as slim a chance as this country has to survive, it has no chance with Obama.
successful businessman??? I think not...
Romeny and his boys got filthy rich and everyone else got unemployed. This isn't my idea of success. If he has that kind of success as POTUS, it won't be a 1% nation...it'll be a .1% nation with starving people wandering the streets like 1934. Wanna vote Romeny? Go ahead but you better lay up a heavy supply of food first and make sure your house is paid for.
want some more???
Up and down this vine Democrats crow Obama in 2012 without stating why. When pressed to say anything good about Obama they trash Romney. Clearly Democrats cannot in good conscience write down the great accomplishments of Obama without also condemning Republicans and Romney as somehow evil.
That is extremely telling and should serve as an embarrassment to Democrats.
Are you Democrats really proud of :
The list can seemingly go on forever.
Now let me write down the accomplishments of Obama as I see it.
Why are firearm sales increasing? Nevermind, return to your flock....
Peace to the world and the country, but know Americans will not stand for any form of tyranny.
Don't count any chickens just yet. Romney got only 58% of the Republican vote in the Pennsylvania primary. He did better in other states.
President Obama drew almost 150,000 more voters to the polls than Romney did yesterday in Pennsylvania.
YAY!!!!!
Congratulations to Mr. Romney! A surprisingly strong showing for a man with no firm stance or conviction on anything.
God Bless him and all who sail with him. The GOP has held their noses and swallowed the poison pill and with all likelihood will suffer the consequences in the Fall.
I love it when a plan comes together, just as I said it would, ten months ago. Sometimes I amaze myself! It's in the bag kids, now let's get to work rousting the GOP out of the House.
Obama/Biden 2012
Thomas Blue, I'd like to read more. Would you please cite the source of your quotes about Romney?
We need to hit him hard on his record as a job cremator.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
ldo,
Romney has created more jobs with his campaign team then Obama has for the whole country.
Rational American: Thank goodness "as you see it" does not really count.
There is an unusual amount of hatred being posted today. You can almost smell the panic; the kind of irrational panic that comes from recognizing that Obama has done a pretty good job during his first term and nobody with any sense in the GOP wants a part of 2012 - hence the clown showhave been subjected to.
I believe Obama to be a sincere person and, given a second term without obstructionists, this country will prosper.
No doubt the liberals do nothing but bash Republicans. They can find no fault with the Democrats since honesty is not in the liberal dictionary. There is never any mention of what Obama has done right. Obama has no record of success, yet that doesn't seem to matter to his supporters, as long as they can continue to play the blame game. Yes, the blame game, now that is where Obama and his supporters are quite simply, the experts. When you have the blame game working so well, I guess Obama and his supporters see no need to offer any real solutions.
No record - apart from 25 contiguous months of economic growth, a gradual reduction in unemployment, a collosal swing in monthy job losses to job creation, kids up to 26 staying on your health insurance policy, the potential of millions getting insurance in 2014, withdrawal from Iraq and disposing of Osama Bin Laden?
These are just a small part of his record of success which you say does not exist. Romney stated last night, "Just hang on a little longer, America. Help is on the way." And you believe that, Rick? I think President Obama has pulled us out from the brink of a depression - yet Romney wants us to hang on so we can go back to GOP policies!
I certainly hope not.
ROMNEY 2012 - Experience and Leadership
belfast lad;
Done a pretty good job you say? So doing nothing he vowed to do is a "pretty goo job" to you? He said unemployment would not exceed 8%, it's still above 8 and if you count all the folks the government doesn't it's 11.5%. The latest job numbers are heading back down, the housing market still sucks,( and most economists say the real bottom hasn't been found yet), the debt is growing at rates never seen before, He spend $65 million a day for his first hundred days in office with 0 return. That's more than the 6 Presidents before him combined. A second term will bring more of the same and if our debt goes high enough or our credit rating is down graded again perhaps China called it's notes, What then? Default? I don't speak Mandarin or Cantonese, how about you?.
On a brighter note, Mr. Obama was able to post a personal adjusted income of $1.7 million dollars. Meaning his pre-adjusted income was closer to $3.95 million So I guess he "Hoped to Change" his finances, Mission Accomplished.
Now. some more reality for some of you. What part of ALL dirty, ALL the time is it you people just can't comprehend? "Politician", Noun, Term used in polite company to describe, a Liar, Thief and/or scoundrel. All politicians share the predilection of talking out of both sides of their mouth, two faces, making statements not based in fact, promises they can't keep, and are so removed from the real world as to be laughable. They have no idea what life in the middle class is like because they have never lived there, Not one of them. Mr. Obama may have had humble origins, but suffer no illusions, HE has lived an easy life long enough to know he doesn't want to go back. We not have 4 political disciples, Democrat, Independent, Republican, and tea party. Now when you use them to form an acronym you get D.I.R.T. You think this happenstance? Seriously. You couldn't get an honest person elected at gun point. And IF you did, D.C. would corrupt them in minutes. The greatest trick the Devil ever played on man was convincing him he doesn't exist. When you see a suit wanting you vote, that's him. ALL DIRTY, ALL the TIME, it is just that simple. You have only to look at their portfolios to see where their loyalties truly lie. ALL dirty, just as the acronym suggests. Wake up people, it later than we think.
So...pulling B.S. out of one's nether regions has become the standard M.O. of the GOP, even extending to random internet posters?
FACT: the Obama campaign has more paid staffers in a single state than Romney has on his administrative campaign staff.
Quit with the mis-representations.
ETHICS required.
....sub 2% growth is good to Belfast Lad. With inflation at what percentage? Got it, Belfast Lad is economically challenged and is ok with pathetic growth following a major recession. Obama has effectively lowered your expectations, no wonder you are satisfied with this 'success.' So that unemployment he stemmed, do you believe the numbers? They get restated every month (always negatively) and Obama does not count those who just gave up.
Potential for millions to get health insurance! - see SCOTUS lad and report back on that. It will be scrapped.
Thank goodness my vote cancels out your vote. Perhaps your apathy will result in you and a lot of Liberals staying home Nov 6.
Where's your outrage over Big Technology making $12 Billion in a quarter (Apple)?
@KayBee
Why does he need such a large campaign staff if he is so wonderful? Is he organizing the community? Getting illegals registered? Getting New Black Panther folks bused to the polls to swing clubs? Is he getting dead people to vote (again)?
You ought to Youtube James O'keefe's video on voting fraud as Eric Holder, what a hoot.
Will someone please explain how deregulation and more tax cuts for the job creators (Romney and Ryan want two this time, reinstating Bush's , and a new one for the top 2%) will suddenly begin creating jobs for all America, when three GOP Administrations have proven it does not work, and in fact all it does is create more wealth in the top 2%, who now own 40% of all American Assets?
Why will it be different this time? Romney and Ryan are clueless, pandering to the 2%, and destroying America's greatest strength, its people, as now almost 50% of all Americans now meet the Federal Government's definition of "living in poverty", ie: a family of 4 has income of less than 22K.
All Reagan's trickle down economic theory has accomplished is move massive amounts of wealth to the job creators, and decimated the middle and working classes while creating massive deficits to allow the 2% to accumulate that wealth.
Now, what is the GOP solution for America? More of the same. No way, no how. 3 Administrations of failed GOP trickle down economic theory is enough. Facts are facts, and the GOP does not have the economic facts on its side. Clinton showed us how to do it, Bush and the GOP showed us how to destroy it.
Wasn't Gingrich the architect for the Contract with America that balanced the budget that you dems like to take credit for?
If Clinton is to be credited then Obama is to be blamed now. Can't have it both ways.
Highspeeddirt, kimH-1330542, kelly-1883794, Roadkill-1862226, imwhitewolf, don't make it personal. First rule:
You're each suspended for a day for violating #1 of the Code of Honor.
Great article about unions taking their toll on Moderate Democrats. Really demonstrates the diminishing middle argument (the compromise) in the house and senate.
To those too put off to click on the link the important statistic is in 2008 when Obama was elected there were 54 Blue Dog Moderate Democrats and now there are 26! Unions have targeted moderate Democrats in favor of more union loyal politicians. And you guys think the Tea Party is to be the only reason we have an impasse in the congress.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/25/moderate-democrats-vanishing-breed/
@dictionary
Iraq became a member state of the Chemical Weapons Convention in 2009, declaring "two bunkers with filled and unfilled chemical weapons munitions, some precursors, as well as five former chemical weapons production facilities" according to OPCW Director General Rogelio Pfirter.[117] No plans were announced at that time for the destruction of the material, although it was noted that the bunkers were damaged in the 2003 war and even inspection of the site must be carefully planned.
The declaration contained no surprises, OPCW spokesman Michael Luhan indicated.[117] The production facilities were "put out of commission" by airstrikes during the 1991 conflict, while U.N. personnel afterward secured the chemical munitions in the bunkers. Luhan stated at the time: "These are legacy weapons, remnants." He declined to discuss how many weapons were stored in the bunkers or what materials they contained. The weapons were not believed to be in a usable state
WRONG, YOU STATE WMD's WERE FOUND, well they were old outdated and vertually unuseable leftovers from 1991...
TRY AGAIN
Go Ron Paul!
It's too late for him. The GOP turned him down. Vote Gary Johnson on the Libertarian ticket!
The GOP might have turned him down but the people sure haven't. If there was honest counting of the delegates we would see that Mr. RON PAUL is the most favorite. It is disgusting how they are screwing him and the people who voted for him. Wait and see at the convention. Vote out all incumbants.
RON PAUL 2012 The truly only honest candidate.
Look at the official counts coming out of Minnesota and Iowa. Ron Paul will either tie for, or win first after racking up half of each state's delegates.
Voting a 3rd party ticket is always the way to get the incumbent back in office. All it does is take votes away from Mitt Romney in this case because most of the Libertarian votes would have went to Mitt if there were no 3rd party.
A 3rd party vote will keep Obama in office.
The GOP turned on themselves and the rest of the people! Except for Ron Paul!
If Romney was a decent man, he would step down and endorse RP right now. If it isn't obvious beyond all doubt to him that Dr. Paul is the only one who can win against Obama and lead this nation out of its current downward spiral, then Romney has to be incredibly deluded and should not be considered presidential material. If it *is* clear to him that RP should be the next POTUS and he fails to step down and endorse him, then he is nothing more than a power-hungry elitist who should never be POTUS.
Ron Paul 2012!
It seems the most probable "good for this nation" GOP candidate who should be running against Obama, is Ron Paul.
Although it seems that some of his ideas are a bit much, it might be exactly what we need. He has been consistent with what he believes most all his political career. So I, as more of a liberal and very likely to vote for Obama if the current Romney buffoon wins all the delegates, want Ron Paul to be the Reps number one choice.
It is true that the media hardly ever mentions him. It is true that the so called secured delegates are not all that secure. So, if Ron Paul becomes Obama's opposition, it is going to be one heck of an election year.
Might i add, this is one of the most important, if not, the most important election year in many many decades. This is the turning point, and something must be done. Or else the U.S.A will start to dwindle.
Obama/Biden 2012 ... or maybe Ron Paul 2012 ... hmm.
Good post UrOpinionIsValid,
That is exactly how I felt 4 years ago until I witnessed Obama reinstate the Patriot Act, continue the TSA, continue the War on Drugs, continue wars over seas despite never going through congress first.
Now for me, there is no one but Paul.
Vote "none of the above". Make them select new people and not these shmoozers. Rich people don't know reality. All they care about is thier wealth. Vote a homeless man into office and let him run the country, he would probably do a better job than these "educated" rich people. :)
Who is Ron Paul?
Oh ohhh the invisible old man
Many RP'rs here could any of you tell me which type of "Gold Standard" he would like to institute?
I will still vote for Dr. Ron Paul The republican party in new hampshire and several other states did not report
the truth that Dr. Paul really won shame on you RepUBLICAN PARTY as now you remind me of a crooked old henry the 8th system. oh i'm registered as a independent now. also as a Christian man that lives in the south the fake southern baptist convention elite will get whats coming to them ie using the church for your financial gain You have been blinded by the truth
Unlike the "Paper Standard", which you must feel compelled to defend, gold is of limited availability and used as currency for much of world history. I'm talking about the atomic number 79, Au kind of gold; you can't just print it the next time your fraudulent banker friends decide to screw the US and world over.
OMG...now Gary Lars...or whoever instead of Mitt? You Dems are gettin desparate.
It's funny to read this, because the DELEGATES just handed Minnesota, Iowa, possibly Colorado and several other states that were supposedly Romney's to Ron Paul... yesterday. Tomorrow (in coming weeks), it will be Penn and several others that Romney supposedly won today.
Actually, it is the die-hard Ron Paul fans who are getting desperate. They do not realize that he is age inappropriate for POTUS. Mr. Paul was born on August 20, 1935. (You can do the math.) Hint - 77.
We have already had one "senior citizen" president, recently, and that was Ronald Reagan. He was 70 when he became POTUS. More likely than not, he had the onset of dementia during the last two years he served as POTUS - and - in all probability, it was Nancy Reagan who helped run things.
If Ron Paul was younger, say in his 50s, Mr. Obama would not have a chance at a second term.
All Corporate Raider Romney will offer us is misery, Grandma thrown into the streets, Our jobs shipped over seas, And Corporate Billionares becoming Trillionares.
in 2012 vote Obama save Grandma, Save Womens Rights, Save Education, Save our jobs Do it now!!!
WhistleBerries, I always find it interesting when someone triess to argue a point by changing the subject, but I'll work with you here: The DELEGATES FROM IOWA AND MINNESOTA JUST HANDED THE RESPECTIVE STATES TO RON PAUL: (77 years old, and unlike Regan in almost every respect both in theory and practice as I'm sure you're aware).
Didn't anyone tell Romney 1144 delegates are required to get the nomination? Funny how you don't see anything about the fact that Ron Paul was declared the winner in Iowa and Minnesota
Like it or not, Fair or not, the choice for President will be between Romney and Obama, period, end of story.
If you cast a vote for Romney you are also casting a vote against Obama, if you cast of vote for anyone else you are casting a vote for Obama, it is as simple as that. I don't care what name you write in or how you justify it, it's a vote for Obama and everyone knows it.
Only an Obama supporter could say Obama who wants to eliminate Medicare Advantage, and cut Medicare by 500 million dollars is for the elderly. Obama who pays his female employees an average of 18% less the their male counterparts is for womens Rights. And the guy who has banned offshore drilling, shot down Keystone Pipeline, and has added so many regulations and taxes that corporations are running towards moving overseas is going to save our jobs. Education has gotten so bad places like Chicago and Detriot only have a 50% Graduation Rate from high school. Stop your bumper sticker campaign and pull your head out of your a$$ to the truth.
Logicreguired,
"If you don't vote for Romney you cast a vote for Obama" Well that is what the GOP is hoping for. This is why they think they can get away with voter fraud and alienating the young that they said they wanted to bring IN to the party. As bad as Obama is it is very tempting to teach the GOP a lesson. There is also little difference between Obama and Romney, both are complete puppets. A lot of people are sick of the equally inept choices we are given. We need a third party more than ever.
As bad as Obama is it is very tempting to teach the GOP a lesson. The GOP doesn't learn from these so called lessons, (McCain 08') and the don't suffer from bad policies put in place by Obama like you and your family will.
There is also little difference between Obama and Romney, both are complete puppets. They may both be puppets but there is a difference. Your health care is going to be taken over by the government, Obama care is just the first step to doing what the real goal is and that is government ran health care. Once the government runs the health care system they can control everything you do with the excuse it is to bring health cost down.Romney is against Federal Run Health Care and for that one reason alone he gets my vote.
A lot of people are sick of the equally inept choices we are given. We need a third party more than ever. No one gets the perfect candidate, it is always a choice between the lessor of two evils. I like Ron Paul, but I would not consider him my ideal candidate, or my first choice. I like Romney, but again he is not my first choice or my ideal candidate, but I would vote for either Romney or Paul over Obama. We don't need a third party, we just need to continue to move the GOP party more to our world view, and this may take time. Third parties only do one thing and that is take away votes from one of the candidates in our two party system.
Token opposition?Ron Paul 2012.
Raz,
The mainstream media avoids saying his name, the media and the government don't want people to vote for someone that will put an end to the gravy train.
Ron Paul is a racist and a demented old man that doesn't have a chance in hell of becoming President - and for good reason - a Radical and a Genuine Loser Emeritus. Mitt Romney is a waffler and a squirmy liar who will do or say anything to get elected. All of you GOP-pers (uh-huh) conveniently forget that our economic downturn happened because of your guy - the man - the idiot Prince, may I remind you - the incompetent G W Bush. Romney just wants to repeat the same policies so I have to ask , what's wrong with you people? And so with 3 years of obstructionist Repub actions, President Obama is supposed to be a miracle worker and turn around the economy? Keep drinkin' the FOX Kool Aid . . . my vote is for President Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress.
murphy2983, Lay off of the Uncle Barry cool-aid. Maybe if good old Uncle Barry actually did something besides appear with celebrities and in front of cameras, we wouldn't be in a f'd up situation. And don't you dare try to blame it on Bush. That was 4 years ago. Uncle Barry had more than enough time to fix things. He made it worse.
Ron Paul 2012. More liberty, less government.
Obama and GW Bush both robbed us blind and will continue to. Romney would do the same. I know Ron Paul will never get elected, but look at the choices. An ultra privileged multi millionaire who will say and do anything to get elected versus a man who spends like a lunatic and pushes for things like the NDAA (and yes, a lot of that is Bush's fault, but just look at the way the debt is going. This nation has twenty years at best before something has to give and if Obama believes in freedom why give the president the power to abduct US citizens through the military). It's time to stop arguing Repub or Dem - they're both destroying our country. One is just as bad as the other.
Ron Paul probably is a little racist and something of a nut, but at least he believes in the constitution and fiscal responsibility. That's two more beliefs than any other candidate I have ever seen in twenty years of voting.
Ron Paul 2012
rerere, If you think the 3 1/2 years that Obama has had with the worst Congress in history is enough time to fix all the problems that accumilated over 8 years under Bush, than you sir didn't fully realize the mess this country is and was in. Also, to say Obama made the country worse is statistically not true. Do some research buddy.
It's always easiest to pick out someone that knows nothing at all about Ron Paul, will not spend the time to find the truth, yet will spout off their misguided opinion anyhow. They are the ones that call Ron Paul Racist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGH77lZsglU
I'm voting for the guy that made this speech.........
Four years ago Barack Obama dazzled us in front of Greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. But after we came down to earth, after the celebration and parades, what do we have to show for three and a half years of President Obama?
Is it easier to make ends meet? Is it easier to sell your home or buy a new one? Have you saved what you needed for retirement? Are you making more in your job? Do you have a better chance to get a better job? Do you pay less at the pump?
If the answer were “yes” to those questions, then President Obama would be running for re-election based on his achievements…and rightly so. But because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions, distractions, and distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and in a different time. But not here and not now. It’s still about the economy …and we’re not stupid.
ROMNEY2012, the Marxist/Socialist Experiment has FAILED!
Ron Paul will be sucking up to Romney soon enough--- It is time to start exposing Romney s vapid,cynical, souless record---Marxist/Socialism for Corporations, not a whit for the great middle class that built this great country. Send the Morman Bishop back to Malibu!
I have some advice for Romney: Dont take Cheney's advice!
let dickless cheney take Romney out hunting and help us alllll.
I got it. Nice thought
Thank god Dick Cheney is not a Democrat, Democrats don't accidently shoot someone as Cheney did, nope Democrats shoot people with the intent to kill them, see registered Democrat George Zimmerman.
hey doug! are you black? That sounds more racist than anything ive read so far!
Ron Paul wants a pony.
It's too late, now. You're stuck with Mitt Romney. John McCain was at least a war hero. Mitt is a corporate raider not a military one. Bad to worse. It' s too late, now.
I'm sure the people will hold their nose an vote for Mitt (dog-on-the-car-roof) Romney. That's one foolish idea!
Good news though for the properly elected, US born, President Barack Obama!
He'll wipe the debate stage with "Willard".
Obama/Biden 2012
Foolish Idea, you better back off the drugs, it's affecting your judgment. He is not going to be running against Willard. He will be running against RON PAUL.
Say what you want about Romney, but at least he only put a dog on the roof of his car, not the roof of his mouth !!!
Poochelle kept a close eye on Bark Obama... in case he went to the dogs.
Another vote for Paul! I can't wait for the California primary where I can cast my vote for Ron Paul. The only politician I have ever been truly excited about.
JD - Old, old, stupid and ignorant post or were you trying to be funny?
There is no compromise between Capitalism and Socialism.
And by the way, Congress was controlled by the Demwits his first two years. The Senate is still Dem controlled. The Senate recently rejected Obamas proposed budget 97 to 0.
Not one Dem voted for it because it sucked so bad! LOL!
Even his own party will no longer support this loser!
One & Done - Cuz Community Organizers Suck For a POTUS.
poor Bo, should be man's best friend not a snack.
Webster would be a good source to see that stupid and ignorant would be the Hypocrat, a mindless Obama-bot who can offer nothing more than hate, lies, and hypocrisy.
Take a look at any great society city, where Democrats have controlled it completely for the last 4 decades. Their "work" totally fits the definition of genocide. Not a single Republican has ever committed an atrosity in the ballpark of that of a Democrat voter and supporter. With the internet ignorance is no longer an excuse for the Democrat voter. Amazing that Democrats were actually less evil during their klan starting days than they are today, that takes work, evil work.
Obama intends on giving hard working Americans' money to the Muslim Brotherhood to start small businesses....or promote terrorism.
Either way, it's another demonstration of why anyone is better than Obama.
Good one about the roof of the mouth joke JD
weery one: The only thing worst than a liar and a cheat is a liar and cheat that believes it's the right. How can you say such lies about president Obama knowing they are lies? You are the worst kind of fool.
dlb98: Stop drinking the Uncle Barry kool-aid.
Fact, Mitt is going to get his azz mopped all over the debate stage by Obama. Also notice how nobody wants to be Mitt's running mate? I wouldn't touch the political albatross with a ten foot etch-a-sketch either!
Justified Defiance
There is no compromise between Capitalism and Socialism.
And by the way, Congress was controlled by the Demwits his first two years.
LOL Texas, no wonder
WRONG COWBOY
It takes 60 votes to overcome a filibuster in the US Senate, which is now the default to get pretty much anything done. As Scarborough well knows, the Democrats didn’t reach that 60-seat threshold in the Senate until Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) was sworn in on July 7, 2009. They lost that majority upon the swearing-in of Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) on Feb. 4, 2010, just under seven months later. While state politician Christie can possibly be forgiven such an error, someone with Joe Scarborough’s reach and influence ought to have better than a 71% margin of error.
As Mother Jones‘ Kevin Drum points out, though, the actual amount of time the Democrats held a filibuster-proof majority, when you factor in the late Sen. Ted Kennedy‘s illness and the winter recess, amounts to 14 weeks.
Dan - and they cheated to get the seat - repercussions are on the way as an investigation is being opened . . . . Finally.
There is no way you can have more votes in a precinct than people who actually signed in to vote, yet it happened in a number of predominantly democrat precincts. Because one republican judge was judge of the elections, he did the honorable thing and recused himself. The rest is history.
It's obvious by many of the posts on here that the blind are still leading the blind. They refuse to see the truth or believe that the truth will set you free. They still see Obama with rose colored glasses; at least most of them do according to their stupid remarks and downright lies. I was encouraged when a friend of mine told me how the blacks she worked with were outraged with Obama and sorry they ever voted for him in the first place even agreeing that he was the worse "president" in history. They swear they will vote for anyone but him in November. I applaud them! I'm encouraged to see a lot of blacks follow Herman Cain and I wouldn't mind a bit if Mitt chose him as a running mate. Most of the black voters will vote for Obama though just because of the color of his skin although he is half white. They would rather have a half white president than a white one because most are racists as is plain to see on this thread. Some people will say anything to get a vote for Obama even lie about his opponent, but of course that can be seen through easily enough. Of course there are the trolls and those with who comment negatively about Mitt more than once using different user names; that is easily seen through as well; they almost say the exact same thing. With all that said just remember this when you go to the polls: God will judge you and hold you accountable for the way you vote and if you are a real Christian you will ask yourself, "WWJD?" (What Would Jesus Do?) One of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shall not kill"; Obama voted three times as a Senator to allow babies who survived abortion to die a slow agonizing death without medical intervention and that is murder anyway you look at it and so is abortion and he is pro-choice. Do you think God is pleased with that? Would God be pro-choice? Not! Obama is yet to speak out against the gay agenda & God says that homosexuality is an abomination. Actions speak louder than any words and from what I've seen I have to agree with the ones who said he was a Muslim because I see no Christian traits in him whatsoever; however I do see him leaning toward and even complimenting his Muslim brothers and he admitted he was a "Muslim" on his elementary school records. He's a Muslim through and through. A Muslim in the WH. How embarassing for the United States of America! Give me a Morman anyday over a Muslim!! Go ahead; collaspe my comment - but you read it first and that's all that really matters to me. I had my say. Only difference is I told the truth~(BTW, I'm not getting back on here so if you respond to me I won't see it so you're just wasting your time - just so you know.) PS: Did you read that Facebook now has 9 trillion subscribers? They had a poll and asked fb subscribers who they would vote for; Romney or Obama. 96% said they would vote for Romney while a paltry 4% said they would vote for Obama! Yet the liberal media said they polled 1,000 people today and Obama was ahead by 6%! See, more lies! The American people won't be deceived. Romney will win!
Few things Rosegirl777..
1) Learn what a paragraph is.
2) There are only 7 billion people on the entire planet.
3) Stay away from Fox News and the religious nonsense you learned in home school.
Mitt Romney is the only Man that has a chance to Beat Obama! Romney is far ahead of any of the others, furthermore he is a True American with Real Values that can turn America around and get us back in the right direction! Obama has done everything in his Power to Destroy America, He is far Most the Most Racist President to ever sit in the white house, and also stole the title of Worst President Ever from Jimmy Carter! He just Made a statement today how he had just paid off his student lones 8 years ago~~~~But he has never explained to the American People how he is a Born Citizen of America yet Filed for and Received Student Foreign Aid from us TaX Payers!!!! Mitt Romney can and will make America a Proud and Great Nation again, He will Win so long as Obama does not use his Illegal Origanations, Black Panthers, Acorn and dig up the Dead Voters in the Grave again! Or even worse, If Obama doesn't declare Marshal Law and STOP all VOTING, declaring himself the Dictator in Chief of a Socialist America! Romney stands with Israel and Obama flip flops on that issue, he is for Israel when an election is coming up, however after he is Prez, he is the most Anti Israel/Jewish Prez we have ever had in office, also he is the most Anti Holy Bible, Most Anti Christian~~~~However, He is Hands down the Most Loyal Loving Supporter of Islam and the Muslims! As he stated in one of his books, should the winds turn and blow against Islam, I will stand with Islam, No Christian could or would ever say such a remark. He along with the Socialist United Nations are working hard to make it a Crime to speak against Islam, yet U can say anything Bad against Christians or Jews! As if that is not enough of the Bad that Obama stands for, He is in Full support of the One World Government, the One World Leader and Now the One World Religion of Chrislam! Christians and Muslims Religion can Never be merged using the claim that we share the Same Jesus, We Do NOT!!!! The Quran (Koran) and the Muslim Leaders are looking for the return of a our Savior, however, the Jesus they are looking for is to return to Earth and say He Lied to all Christians and Jews and the World, That He Jesus did not die on that Cross, that he Faked his death! Also that when he returns he will say he has Converted to the Only True Religion, that of Islam, the Koran says that Jesus will denounce all Christians and Jews, He will Order us to convert to Islam or if we Refuse he will order us to be put to death, probably by Beheading! That Jesus in the Islam Book is not the Loving Caring Jesus and Savior of the Holy Bible or the Book of Morman, thus Chrislam as a world religion can not be accepted! We must say No to the UN, to Obama, to Oprah Winfrey, to Shirley McClain and others! Oprah has formed her on Religion with 20 million Followers, she teaches that we do not need Jesus or the Old Rugged Cross to get to Heaven, infact her belief is that each person is there own God, and that there are Many ways to Heaven, and of course Obama as well as the California Preacher Rick Warren marches to that same Tune! Warren is what the Bible refers to as a False Follower, the Bible and the Islam Koran can Not be put together nor taught as One Religion, the Jews and Christians share the One and same God, the Muslims Created there on God by stealing from the Jewish/Christian Bible! One last thing, in Islam, a follower can claim to be a Christian so long as that person is doing it in the name of Islam and to help Islam in the end, this alone about Obama says enough for me Never to Trust Him! Twenty years in a Hate Church of Jerimiah Wright, with his buddy Oprah Winfrey, yet neither claim to have ever heard all of Wrights Evil Hate Speach of Jews, and Whites! The Greatest Book ever written: The Holy Bible (especially the King James Version) states that All Nations (people) that stand with my Chosen people (Israel, the Jew) those Nations and people I will Bless, also All Nations (People) that turn there backs on Israel, go Against My Chosen People, those Nations shall be CURSED! America stood with Israel for Years, America was Blessed Many times over, however over the past more recent times, Americans have started turning there backs on Israel, on Our Heavenly Father and we as a Nation are seeing those Results, with another four years of Obama America will be Finished because God will Not stand for what this President has done and wants to do! In closing, I can not, nor would Never Back, support, or Vote for Ron Paul because while he also claims to stand with Israel, He also wants to cut off all Help to Other Nations including God's Chosen, Israel! Romney has my Full Support, May God Bless Mitt , the American people, Israel and America, WE MUST THROW OBAMA (this ILLEGAL PRESIDENT) OUT OF THE OVAL OFFICE or we are FINISHED!
Jeez - did any of you learn paragraghs in school or did you miss your English class
Only Jack Kerouac was able to get away with this "run on words" and he was a literary genius which many of you are not
Look above me would anyone in their right mind want to wade through that gibberish?
And Ray I did wade through your gibberish and it's all BS and I do have a right mind - and take your God's chosen bullhockey and roam the desert
Israel is no more blessed than the birds at my feeder and if you feel so strongly - move there and good riddance
You realize no one is going to want to read your massive rant when it begins with such nonsense. Good for your "friend" and the "blacks she works with" lol... You clearly have a politically educated group of companions that really weighed the issues at hand with the last election.
Wait i spelled that wrong... I meant to say your black friends voted a man into AMERICAN PRESIDENCY based on the color of his skin, and any further political opinions you have are quite invalid if that's the case.
Folks get used to it....Obama/Biden will be baaaaccckkkkk....!!!!
Yay..."who's in"? Free birth control pills all around...and free abortions if you dumb azz forgets to take them. Go team Obama!!! Saving you from yourselves.
No amount of celebrity endorsements will save Obama this time, he is an epic failure and only the mindless minions hoping for a handout will vote for him. One and done! He had to jump in and cram the healthcare bill through in a bid for greatness in his own mind, but it's a failure along with all of his other policies.
Crystal,Obama doesn't need any celebrity endorsements. He will onerwhelmingly have the endorsement of the American people. That leaves the Republicans out. Republican Party,is truly a" Party without Principle."
Crystal-569996: People can spew all of the dumb B.S all they want about President Obama but it is very clear that all the right wing wants is another dumb lying white guy in office who's only record he has is of destruction and being able to flip flop every three minutes. When you think of Romney just remember the Omen movie.
hawk, you are a bigot.
Romney 2012
If Republicans had the same morals, values, decency, and compassion of a Democrat then they would fully support abortion since at least 8 out of 10 abortions are ending the life of a future Democrat voter.
It really is funny, no Democrat can even comprehend the morals and values that only Republicans have. That is why there really is no such thing as a god fearing Democrat. If you feared that one day god would make you answer for your actions in this life then you couldn't be a Democrat or support the party of hate, lies, and division.
The 2nd amendment right is for all Americans, but Sanford Flordia showed millions of Americans what happens when a person who has a total disregard for human life (Democrat) carries a loaded gun. It is so sad that Treyvon Martin had to encounter a registered Democrat with a weapon, just as it is sad for all the decent people in the bluest parts of America who have to drive on the roads with Democrats who use their automobile as a weapon as well. DWD, so many lives lost for no other reason than narcissism and an elitist superiority complex than infects each and every 'crat.
Yep, Obama will be back.... in Chicago finishing his community organizing. Binden will be back a Chuckie Cheese.
WELL All of you folks are HILARIOUS . Thats for sure .
Everyone should vote for Willard.
Rep. Gohmert (R) TX endorsement: “whether you’re liberal, or whether you’re very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he’s been on your side at one time or another.” Go Gohmert
It's too late, now. You're are stuck with romney-it's official. He will make you miss John McCain. There are no medals for corporate raider and car elevators do not raise us all.
I'm voting for the guy that made this speech.........
Four years ago Barack Obama dazzled us in front of Greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. But after we came down to earth, after the celebration and parades, what do we have to show for three and a half years of President Obama?
Is it easier to make ends meet? Is it easier to sell your home or buy a new one? Have you saved what you needed for retirement? Are you making more in your job? Do you have a better chance to get a better job? Do you pay less at the pump?
If the answer were “yes” to those questions, then President Obama would be running for re-election based on his achievements…and rightly so. But because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions, distractions, and distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and in a different time. But not here and not now. It’s still about the economy …and we’re not stupid.
ROMNEY2012, the Marxist/Socialist Experiment has FAILED!
I'm sure Romney thought he would slide back to the center after he won the nomination, but he won't find that to be easy. Ask Senators Bennett, Hatch, Lugar and many conservative Republican lawmakers. They either have to embrace the radical right or face their wrath. No compromise is their mantra. If Romney drifts even slighty to the left he will confirm their suspicions that he's not one of them, and they'll stay home in November. Most of them would rather rail about Obama than put a RINO in the White House for 8 years. It's the old story about riding onthe back of the tiger. You either stay on, or you get eaten...
That is our mantra. NO COMPROMISE
When you compromise with liberals, you give up your liberty, one law at a time.
sonmanvb,when you compromise with consertives you give in to the home grown terrorists,the Rethuglican Party.
Rich, show some PROOF that the repubs a "terrorists" or shut your libtard mouth
Its our dear president Obama who launched his political career in the Ayers living room. Go team Obama....yay for home grown terror! They all teach at colleges now and pretend to be mainstream.
123 - get some new material.
^^TROLL^^
Kim, stop trying to brush Obama's terrorist affiliations under the rug.
There is no doubt that Obama will use his 2nd term to make his mentors William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright proud, he also made sure the Russians are aware that he just has to get through his "last election", then he can inflict his National Socialism on this country.
Anita Dunn made a mistake by saying what should only be said in the company of Democrats, she admited to her admiration of Mao, who killed over 30 million, which is an admiration of every Democrat master.
It is sad that there are very few Democrats who would not be fully supportive of seeing their conservative neighbors and their children rounded up for extermination. Just read what they type here, listen to Democrats like Anita Dunn who mess up and speak the true intentions and beliefs of their party to the wrong people, they are National Socialists who wish to repeat National Socialist history in this country on every American who is not a Democrat.
Don't forget that obamas EPA has put so many new rules and restrictions on the coal industry, that eventually our electricity will skyrocket. But of course, obama has stated before that he wants our energy costs to skyrocket.
This President is NOT looking out for the lower class and seniors!
thats an out right lie dudette . I have read your posts for awhile . WELCOME to IGGY . This is NOT fox news for ignorant people .
Have you heard the words out of Obama's energy secretary's mouth that he thinks we should pay the same for gas that they do in Europe. What will prices of over $7.00 per gallon do to the poor who cannot afford hybrids or electric cars? What will $7.00 per gallon do to economy?
carpenter7,
Again with outright lie and no evidence to back it up and then true to form revert to name calling.
No comprehension again.
Why Bruce, pray tell, I had not heard that rumor. However, down at the local five-n-dime (5-n-10 for the non-readers), there is a rumor runnin' rampant that President Obama wants lower gas prices. Now, I'm not saying it's true, but there sure is a lot of commotion 'cause apper-ently, he sez it in a news confrunce. Now do tell, with lower gas-leen prices, what will the 'po folk that can't afferd them dandy hi-brids and 'lectric cars do?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57391710-503544/obama-says-he-wants-lower-gas-prices/
Bruce-no problem-Romney will just have us put our extra Cadillacs on their car elevators and not use them. Think of the savings.
Realist - nice to see you acknowledge that there is a much better chance of people owning 2 Cadillacs if Romney is elected.
There you go, you can figure it out from there
No back bone for the GOP. Mitt likes to talk tough about illegals. Then say Hispanics should vote for him? Even if I was dumb enough to vote for a CORPORATE BUY OUT Presidential hopeful. I would never cast my vote for a "which ever the way the wind blows type guy". Stick to what you say and be HONEST. Romney is PAPER THIN. Feel sorry for you Republicans.
Are you implying that all hispanics are illegals?
123ang, I am saying he is a IDIOT. Read my name brainless...
LOL. An Obama staffer masquerading as a hispanic. Your nothing but a bigoted white boy who thinks that hispanic citizens are all for illegal immigration.
Humberto Leal was an illegal and he raped, tortured and murdered a hispanic 16 year old girl in San Antonio, TX. Last year Obama tried to stop the execution. Should hispanics vote for Obama? I guess Adria Sauceda didn't look like one of Obama's daughters, so she didn't matter to him.
That means LEGAL hispanics.
Exactly
The price of gasoline was $1.79 when Obama took office. It is now approaching $5 per gallon. With the amount of gasoline Americans use, that's an additional $240 Billion per year out of the family budgets ($2.4 Trillion over 10 years).
If you think families are struggling now under Obama, just wait until this starts to hit home in higher utility and food bills.
Congratulations on that "Change we can believe in" that you voted for. Question - "Can we afford four more years of Obama?".
No We Can't!
"It is approaching $5 gallon".....lmao
Why is it you teapublicans feel the need to "lie' to make a point?
"Justified" your statistics are typical Faux News type distortions. In September 2008, the glorious Bush years, gas was priced about the same as now, due to his recession and financial crises the economy tanked here, and also around the world, which drove down demand and prices. As Obama has managed to gradually pull us out of the abyss, with no help from the party of no, demand worldwide has increased accordingly. If you have a strong worldwide economy you will have higher gas prices, regardless of whom is president. Denying this just shows a basic lack of knowldege of supply and demand economics.
Bluecat 55 - It didn't take you long to mention Fox News, that is usually a sign that a dumb lib can't debate on their own merits.
I don't watch Fox news, but I know the reasons ignorant libs hate them is because they expose liberals for the liars and sorry sacks of poop they are.... Sorry if the truth hurts fool. ;)
Also bluecat, 25 million unemployed Americans are no longer driving to work, which means less gas being used. You ignorant libs try to spin the Facts by the Fact Is, gas was 1.79 a gallon when Obama took office.
It has nothing to do with ....ooo look what bush did.. blah blah blah...same lame BS blame Bush excuse.
If anyone has a "lack of knowledge" it's YOU!
123, was this poor young girl the child of Republican parents? If so then over 90% (yes I know its probably 100%) of Democrat voters are glad and find joy in her being raped. Just read the rape comments made about Sarah Palin and her daughters. Sandra Bernhard said she hopes that when Sarah Palin comes to New York that she gets raped, go ahead and try to find a Democrat who doesn't support that hateful comment and or wont defend it, they don't seem to exist.
Justified
I notice in your post #10.10 you chose not to reiterate your claim that gasoline prices are approaching $5 gallon...
Is this you admitting you blatantly "lied" to attempt to make a point but willl not confess to it?
I see NO Blacks, Hispanics, Asians or other minorities in that Romney crowd
Nothing but old and stale white bread
Mitt Romney DEFEATED on Nov 2012
umm hmm
Perhaps you should take a look at Obama's team...all white.
Well, that is a rather priceless statement coming from the GOP/TP party that insists victims of rape that conceive a child must undergo further rape (trans-vaginal probe) to obtain an abortion, if they are even allowed that 'choice'. Democrats do not support rape. It is the GOP/TP that want their hands and laws in the vaginae of women.
What a fake thread. Republicans concerned about Hispanics or any minority? You can't even fake it. They are so far removed from understanding minorities that their fake posts are even from the white view and they can't see it.
I know that Mitt tips well at the club-that's pretty liberal. You know you have to make "those people" work for their money or they will join all their friends and family on the dole.
Justina,
Voting based on race or gender is about as ignorant as you can get.
Juan Lopez, 123ang, Justified Defiance, you're each suspended for a day for violating #1 of the Code of Honor.
Tyler,
I saw the highlighted text and for a second I thought you were suspending them for using "your" instead of "you're". Then I realized that if you did that you would probably have to suspend half the users on the Vine. :)
look jc 1439099 is the spelling police on patrol I was suspended for writing "Brainless" ???
Obama can fix everything. Look what he has done so far.
Nothing.
Things President Obama has done:
1. Ordered all federal agencies to undertake a study and make recommendations for ways to cut spending
2. Ordered a review of all federal operations to identify and cut wasteful spending and practices
3. Instituted enforcement for equal pay for women
4. Beginning the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
5. Families of fallen soldiers have expenses covered to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB
6 Ended media blackout on war casualties; reporting full information
7. Ended media blackout on covering the return of fallen soldiers to Dover AFB; the media is now permitted to do so pending adherence to respectful rules and approval of fallen soldier’s family
8. The White House and federal government are respecting the Freedom of Information Act
9. Instructed all federal agencies to promote openness and transparency as much as possible
10. Limits on lobbyist’s access to the White House
11. Limits on White House aides working for lobbyists after their tenure in the administration
12. Ended the previous stop-loss policy that kept soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan longer than their enlistment date
13. Phasing out the expensive F-22 war plane and other outdated weapons systems, which weren’t even used or needed in Iraq/Afghanistan
14. Removed restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research
15. Federal support for stem-cell and new biomedical research
16. New federal funding for science and research labs
17. States are permitted to enact federal fuel efficiency standards above federal standards
18. Increased infrastructure spending (roads, bridges, power plants) after years of neglect
19. Funds for high-speed, broadband Internet access to K-12 schools
20. New funds for school construction
21 The prison at Guantanamo Bay is being phased out
22. US Auto industry rescue plan
23. Housing rescue plan
24. $789 billion economic stimulus plan
25. The public can meet with federal housing insurers to refinance (the new plan can be completed in one day) a mortgage if they are having trouble paying
26. US financial and banking rescue plan
27. The secret detention facilities in Eastern Europe and elsewhere are being closed
28. Ended the previous policy; the US now has a no torture policy and is in compliance with theGeneva Convention standards
29. Better body armor is now being provided to our troops
30. The missile defense program is being cut by $1.4 billion in 2010
31. Restarted the nuclear nonproliferation talks and building back up the nuclear inspection infrastructure/protocols
32. Reengaged in the treaties/agreements to protect the Antarctic
33. Reengaged in the agreements/talks on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions
34. Visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any president in his first six months in office
35. Successful release of US captain held bySomali pirates; authorized the SEALS to do their job
36. US Navy increasing patrols off Somali coast
37. Attractive tax write-offs for those who buy hybrid automobiles
38. Cash for clunkers program offers vouchers to trade in fuel inefficient, polluting old cars for new cars; stimulated auto sales
39. Announced plans to purchase fuel efficient American-made fleet for the federal government
40. Expanded the SCHIP program to cover health care for 4 million more children
41. Signed national service legislation; expandednational youth service program
42. Instituted a new policy on Cuba, allowing Cuban families to return home to visit loved ones
43. Ended the previous policy of not regulating and labeling carbon dioxide emissions
44. Expanding vaccination programs
45. Immediate and efficient response to the floods in North Dakota and other natural disasters
46. Closed offshore tax safe havens
47. Negotiated deal with Swiss banks to permit US government to gain access to records of tax evaders and criminals
48. Ended the previous policy of offering tax benefits to corporations who outsource American jobs; the new policy is to promote in-sourcing to bring jobs back
49.. Ended the previous practice of protecting credit card companies; in place of it are new consumer protections from credit card industry’s predatory practices
50. Energy producing plants must begin preparing to produce 15% of their energy from renewable sources
51. Lower drug costs for seniors
52. Ended the previous practice of forbidding Medicare from negotiating with drug manufacturers for cheaper drugs; the federal government is now realizing hundreds of millions in savings
53. Increasing pay and benefits for military personnel
54. Improved housing for military personnel
55. Initiating a new policy to promote federal hiring of military spouses
56. Improved conditions at Walter Reed Military Hospital and other military hospitals
57 Increasing student loans
58. Increasing opportunities in AmeriCorps program
59. Sent envoys to Middle East and other parts of the world that had been neglected for years; reengaging in multilateral and bilateral talks and diplomacy
60. Established a new cyber security office
61. Beginning the process of reforming and restructuring the military 20 years after the Cold War to a more modern fighting force; this includes new procurement policies, increasing size of military, new technology and cyber units and operations, etc.
62. Ended previous policy of awarding no-bid defense contracts
63. Ordered a review of hurricane and natural disaster preparedness
64. Established a National Performance Officer charged with saving the federal government money and making federal operations more efficient
65. Students struggling to make college loan payments can have their loans refinanced
66. Improving benefits for veterans
67. Many more press conferences and town halls and much more media access than previous administration
68. Instituted a new focus on mortgage fraud
69. The FDA is now regulating tobacco
70. Ended previous policy of cutting the FDA and circumventing FDA rules
71. Ended previous practice of having White House aides rewrite scientific and environmental rules, regulations, and reports
72. Authorized discussions with North Korea and private mission by Pres. Bill Clinton to secure the release of two Americans held in prisons
73. Authorized discussions with Myanmar and mission by Sen. Jim Web to secure the release of an American held captive
74. Making more loans available to small businesses
75. Established independent commission to make recommendations on slowing the costs of Medicare
76. Appointment of first Latina to the Supreme Court
77. Authorized construction/opening of additional health centers to care for veterans
78. Limited salaries of senior White House aides; cut to $100,000
79. Renewed loan guarantees for Israel
80. Changed the failing/status quo military command in Afghanistan
81. Deployed additional troops to Afghanistan
82. New Afghan War policy that limits aerial bombing and prioritizes aid, development of infrastructure, diplomacy, and good government practices by Afghans
83. Announced the long-term development of a national energy grid with renewable sources and cleaner, efficient energy production
84. Returned money authorized for refurbishment of White House offices and private living quarters
85. Paid for redecoration of White House living quarters out of his own pocket
86. Held first Seder in White House
87. Attempting to reform the nation’s healthcare system which is the most expensive in the world yet leaves almost 50 million without health insurance and millions more under insured
88. Has put the ball in play for comprehensive immigration reform
89. Has announced his intention to push for energy reform
90. Has announced his intention to push for education reform
More things the President Obama did:
Ordered the Pentagon to cover expenses of families of fallen soldiers if they wish to be on site when the body arrives back in the US (2009)
• Ended the Bush-era “blackout” imposed on media coverage of the return of fallen US soldiers (2009) * Note: The media is now permitted to cover the story pending adherence to respectful rules and with the approval of the fallen soldier’s family
• Ended the Bush-era “black out” policy on media coverage of war casualties (2009) * Note: Full information is now released for the first time in the War on Terror
• Ordered better body armor to be procured for US troops (2009)
• Funding new Mine Resistant Ambush Vehicles (2009) * Note: The old Hummers were very vulnerable to roadside explosives and an alarming percentage of our soldiers lost in Iraq were on account of IEDs
• Working to increase pay and benefits for military personnel (2009)
• Improving housing for military personnel (2009)
• Initiating a new policy to promote federal hiring of military spouses (2009)
• Ordered that conditions at Walter Reed Military Hospital and other neglected military hospitals be improved (2009)
• Beginning the process of reforming and restructuring the military to a post-Cold War, modern fighting force (2009) * Note: Bush announced in 2001 his intention to do this but backed off the reforms after 9/11, which include: new procurement policies; increasing the size of Special Ops units; deploying new technologies; creating new cyber security units; etc.
• Ended the Bush-era practice of awarding “no-bid” defense contracts (2009)
• Improving benefits for veterans as well as VA staffing, information systems, etc. (2009)
• Authorized construction of additional health centers to care for veterans (2009)
• Suspended the Bush-era decision to purchase a fleet of Marine One helicopters from suppliers in favor of American made helicopters (2009)
• Ordered a review of the existing “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military (2010)
• New GI Bill for returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan (2009)
• Signed bill providing assistance for caregivers of veterans wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan (2010) * Note: The omnibus bill does the following: Training, funding, and counseling for caregivers; promoting pilot childcare programs for women vets under treatment at the VA; independent oversight to prevent abuse; readjustment counseling for National Guard and reservist units; etc.
• Eliminated co-payments for veterans who are catastrophically disabled (2010)
• Fulfilled campaign promise to have combat troops (90,000) out of Iraq by August 31, 2010 (2010)
• Established a new interagency task force to assist veterans owning small businesses (2010) * Note: The efforts include promoting federal contract opportunities, improve access to loans and capital, mentor assistance programs, etc.
• Signed The Families of Fallen Heroes Act, which covers the moving costs of immediate family members of those lost in service (military, intelligence, and security personnel)
(2010)Initiated the elimination of Osama Bin Laden (2011)
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• Instituted enforcements for equal pay for women (Lilly Ledbetter Bill) (2009)
• Appointed Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina, to the Supreme Court (2009)
• Held the first Seder in White House (2009)
• Appointed a diverse Cabinet and diverse White House staff (2009)
• Spoke at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights organization (2009)
• Signed the first major piece of federal gay rights legislation that includes acts of violence against gays under the list of federal hate crimes (2009)
• Reversed the Bush-era practice of politicizing Justice Department investigations and prosecutions against political opponents (2009)
• Pushing for some of the 9/11 perpetrators to be tried in federal court (2009) * Note: The process has moved at a snail’s pace and, in the face of opposition, Obama has remained quiet
• Signed an extension of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Bill to provide federal research and support for treating the disease (2009)
• Allowed the State Department of offer same-sex benefits for employees (2009)
• Proposed that the Pentagon repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy; placed a “freeze” on current efforts to remove alleged homosexuals from the military (2009)
• After eight years of neglect, the Justice Department and EEOC are again enforcing employment discrimination laws (2009)
• Convened the White House Tribal Nations Conference, inviting representatives from 564 federally-recognized Indian tribes (2009)
• Provided increased school projects for Indian lands and increased funds for the Indian Health Service (2009)
• Signed an Executive Order mandating that his Cabinet develop plans to work with and consult Indian tribes on issues impacting Indian lands (2009)
• Commissioned a study to develop alternatives to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (2010)
• Called for federal agencies to look into recognizing gay partnerships in terms of benefits (2010)
• Signed an Executive Order for the President’s Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (2010)
• Increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (2010)
• Signed Executive Order to promote the federal government as a “model employer” when it comes to hiring the disabled (2010) * Note: This includes new efforts to increase the recruitment, hiring, and training for the disabled
• Programs to assist Spanish speakers with the US Census (2010)
• Elena Kagen appointed to Supreme Court (2010)
• Tasked all federal agencies to develop new strategies to address HIV/AIDS (2010)
• After organizing studies on the topic in 2009, tasked the Pentagon to eliminate “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (2010)
• Signed Fair Sentencing Act (2010) * Note: The Administration continues to deescalate marijuana interdiction and raids; increased dramatically the amount of cocaine one must possess to be sentenced to jail; eliminated mandatory sentencing for first-time drug abusers and simple possession
EDUCATION
• Authorized construction funds for high-speed, broadband Internet access in K-12 public schools (2009)
• Increased funding for school construction (2009)
• Increased funding available for student loans (2009)
• Expanded the national youth service program (2009)
• Streamlined the federal student loan process to save $87 billion over the next 10 years (2009)
• Changed the rule to allow students struggling to make college loan payments to refinance their loans (2009)
• Beginning discussions with Congress for education reform (2009) * Note: Much of Obama’s education reform has been sidelined by opposition in Congress
• Initiated a “Race to the Top” competitive federal grant program for states who develop innovative policies (2009)
• Instituted a “judgment review” allowing families with student loans to petition to have their current financial status determine the loan rather than the previous year’s finances (2009)
• Launched “Educate to Innovate,” a public/private partnership making $236 million available for science, mathematics, and technology education programs (2009)
• Proposed capping the maximum amount students must pay on student loans (as percentage of their income) (2010)
• Proposed reducing student loan obligations for individuals going to work in community and public service jobs (2010)
• The federal government will offer direct student loans, cutting out the cost of private banks (“middle man”) who increase the costs in order to make a profit (2010)
• Increased investment in technologies for schools/education (2010)
DISASTER RESPONSE
• Ordered a review of hurricane and natural disaster preparedness (2009)
• FEMA once again reports directly to the president (2009) * Note: Bush removed FEMA (prior to the Hurricane Katrina disaster) from this status
• Demonstrated an immediate and efficient response to the floods in North Dakota and other natural disasters (2009)
• Ordered that funds be released and red tape be streamlined for the ongoing Hurricane Katrina recovery effort in the Gulf Coast (2009)
• Timely and massive relief effort in response to the January 2010 earthquake and ensuing humanitarian crisis (2010)
Components of the response:
- The FBI’s National Center for Disaster Fraud was tasked to look into possible fraud with organizations soliciting funds for relief
- Announced the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund
- Established an emergency Haiti Task Force in the State Department
- Established a website with information, resources, and a posting of a “person finder” online to help families and friends to locate loved ones
- Joint aid and relief planning with the U.K.
- Sponsored a resolution in the UN Security Council for additional security and police forces in Haiti
- Dispatched the US Navy floating hospital (USNS Comfort) and, within 5 days, 9 naval and relief ships, 5 Coast Guard cutters, 8 Coast Guard aircraft, and 12,000 US military personnel
- Initial dispatch of several ships and cargo planes full of humanitarian aid and supplies, 6 search/rescue teams (500 personnel), and 265 Department of Health & Human Services personnel for emergency medical and aid support
- Established a mobile US air traffic control center at the destroyed airport in Port-au-Prince
• After the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a freeze was placed on new deep water projects (2010)
• Executive Order to establish new security measures to minimize accidental release of bio and chemical agents; new strategies for public health and bioterrorism response (2010)
• Established a national commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon spill to examine facts and report a plan of action; new efforts to prevent offshore spills (2010)
• After a slow start in responding to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the White House is promoting a long-term plan to reconstruct the damaged Gulf and negotiated with BP the establishment of a multi-billion dollar trust fund for victims of the spill (2010)
• Extended national flood insurance program for those in need during current economic crisis (2010)
OTHER INITIATIVES
• New federal funding for science and research labs (2009)
• Signed national service legislation; expanded national youth service program (2009)
• Increasing opportunities in AmeriCorps program (2009)
• Instituted a new focus on mortgage fraud (2009)
• Ordered the DEA to stop raids on medical marijuana usage (2009)
• Ordered a review of existing “mandatory minimum” prison sentencing (2009)
• Signed an order to limit airport tarmac delays and the time passengers had to sit in the plane/on the tarmac during delays (2009)
• Restored the EPA to “Cabinet level” status (2009) * Note: Bush removed the EPA from this status
• Beginning discussions with Congress for comprehensive immigration reform (2010)
* Note: Much of Obama’s immigration reform had been stalled by opposition in Congress
• Commissioned expert panels and reports from NASA; announced a new direction for human space flight that involves funding a new heavy lift-launcher and jettisoning the Ares 1 program; boosting NASA’s budget by $1 billion in 2011 (2010)
• Ordered a ban on text-messaging for all commercial truck and bus drivers (2010)
• Signed bill – FAA Air Transportaiton Modernizatin and Safety Improvement Act (2010)
@ crazy...at least you live up to your name...
Just about EVERY single item you have listed is a reason NOT to vote for this socialist OR written in a way to convey a socialist idea with sugar and a cherry on it.
For example....
• New federal funding for science and research labs (2009)
///translation///
Funding for gay studies and global warming.
Want another?
• After eight years of neglect, the Justice Department and EEOC are again enforcing employment discrimination laws (2009)
///translation///
Federal government to enforce laws forcing businesses to hire individuals with perverted lifestyles and offensive practices.
Your list is just one huge mask for perverted policies rewritten in a way to conceal a socialist humanistic agenda even you are too embarrassed to write plainly in a blatant style.
(and who would blame you?)
WOW! I wasn't aware that performing a certain sexual practice automatically made someone more valuable than me in the eyes of the law.
Thanks for reminding us....
Crazy- How is it good that Obama is phasing out the F-22 fighter jet? It's not outdated, do you think we should just stick with F15's for the next 30 years?
Crazy, if you can't provide links and sources, stop spreading more lies!
The GYPSY!
So, according to you, Obama forcing the Pentagon to pay for the care of our fallen soldiers is NOT a reason to vote for Obama?
Well, we know what side of the fence you are in on supporting our troops. You are on the side of STALIN!
Thank you for show all of the world what a communist you are.
Crazy,
I looked up just a couple of your examples.
He actually cut NASA funding by eliminating the Ares program. Your spin is deceptive.
EPA restored to cabinet level status? This means expanding government posts in Washington (read bigger government).
Expansion of government agencies during a recession is wasteful and plain irresponsible spending.
Bill, can you say copyright infringement? I don't watch Fox but your logo is about as clever as PMSNBC.
Ask Osama Bin Laden. Obama doesn't just say "mission accomplished" he does it.
I guess that would be the GSA.......
Here you go, this might explain what to do in November:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDhfYxT4bs&feature=related
Romeney should exit the race.He left the human race a long time ago. Where are his tax forms?. Let's see HIS birth certificate. And enough with his "perfect" little suzie homemaker wife and his dog.
who cares about Romney. I'm voting for the guy who will extend my unemployment benefits forever. Go team Obama. I'm in.
so you are a republican sympathizer (libertarian in sheeps clothing)
the only ones who can get u/e benefits are those who have worked..
since repubs say no dems have ever worked as they sit on the porch drawing entitelment checks...
no dems can be drawing u/e....they all have to be lazy azzed repubs taking advantage of the system!
good job repubs and libertarians sucking the system dry!
Lament Of The Obama Zombies
To your distress, for the rest of your life you will have to bear the fact that Barack Obama will go down in history as the worst president ever. He and His wife will be laughed at throughout the world. Where ever they go they will never be able to escape the legacy they left America.
Put into office by manipulating people, people voting multiple times, groups that have been found guilty of voter fraud (Acorn) and intimidation (Black Panthers) trying to appeal to the gullible by saying anything to get elected.
He will be known as the man who tried his best to destroy this economy and will undoubtedly go down in history as the most hated man ever....and it won't be because of skin color.
Acorn is no longer, because of lies and distortion, pimps and brightbart!
The new black panthers are a small group of racist's, that have no one's respect but their own hatred, kind like the remains of the KKK, and other white supremacy groups. But go ahead be scared!
This vine is about Mittens, and so many people have to go on the attack on our President, if you hate him, whatever floats your boat.
But to vote for the liberal um moderate um servilely conservative um job crematory mittens, is funny!
Obama/Biden 2012
iggy for the biggest liar here. that would be you JD . I dont mind the other side of the story dudette , but you just make it up as you go along .
Romney shifting back to center maybe hard for others to take. For Romney, its as easy as showing up with Rubio in Pennsylvannia. The guy would sell his soul to become president and then sell America to the elite while blaming the poor. The president may make mistakes or make decissions you don't like, but this guy would be an uneqivocal disaster for this country. As far as unemployment 123, why don't you get after those teaparty members that were elected to create jobs and Not elected to dictate morality to us.
Really? Romney thinks it's his turn. It must be just one big game to him.
Really... seriously???? You have no clue who Romney is then. Have all of you forgotten that he's mormon? Not only would he NOT sell his soul for anything, but all the nasty things you say about him.. lying, etc... is simply not true. Every person has a perspective on what they see and hear, but the reality may be far from it. of either of the 2 possible presidents, Romeny is certainly the one who has higher standards, ethics, commitment, loyalties to this country, if nothing else, BECAUSE of his belief and how he views the importance of this country in all aspects of life. It was once said by a prophet that this great country would be hanging by a thread in the last days.. well.. I'd say we're there. So the question you have to ask yourself.. do we allow that thread to break by keeping Obama in office? Or do we set aside our differences and vote in the ONLY other candidate that MAY have a chance to rectify the last terms problems? It won't be easy for anyone to do this...not for RP, Santorum, definately not Gingrich.. or any other person as we are soooo far gone in this country it will take an act of God to set it right again.. but given our choices... I would rather give Romney the opportunity than continue down the path Obama has set and watch the rest of the string break completely.
People.. Santorum is gone; RP will not have a chance, regardless of how awesome many think his economic understanding is he is not strong enough; Gingrich is just... well... Gingrich and needs to go away and there is no one else. We need to rally behind Romney whether you have 100% vested in what he says or not... a vote for Obama is a vote to continue this once great country down hill. Take the time to find out what is truth and what is propoganda about Romney... I think you'll find the lies and distortion are proprogated by those against him. Seek truth people.. then rally behind it.
In all my years I have never been sooo disgusted by what a president has done in just one term. By the way.. for those who don't like the President being called Mr... and find it disrespectful.. respect is earned and just because you hold the office doesn't mean you've earned it. The NYT recently did an article on Obama and not once called him president.. but always Mr... that's the NYT. I agree.
W/O the blue collar support, blacks, hispanics, majority of women, and young voters
I see nothing but doom for Anti-Christian Willard on Nov 2012
Bye Bye Romney on 2012
Well said!
Wrong.
Blue collar is 50% divided. The only support obama gets is (the obvious) blacks, muslims, pot head college kids that live with their parents and fat white women.
Not quite the majority and doesn't look well for the Muslim-in -Chief considering he is already getting beat in polls.
YuvGot2BKidding; Your name certainly fits what your posting. Romney has done nothing but twist the facts, attack other candidates, and you right, I know nothing about Romney. That's cause he is just one big empty suit who hasn't taken a firm stand on anything except not taking a firm stand on anything.
Thankfully my vote will at least cancel out someone like you whom seems to thing this vulture capitalist will fix anything, but make the rich richer. Standards and ethics? Sure tell that to all the people he likes to fire while putting his wealth into offshore banks. Tell that to all the people that don't have 10,000 USD to lay out on a bet, your dellusional if you think he is more honest or has more integrity than the president we already have. Keep telling yourself that, cause if he does become president your going to see someone whom will make Bush Jr. look like he was an intelligent and supportive president of the people.
Gypsy I am a straight white male blue collar working tax payer who will be voting for Obama again this Nov. If that didn't make your head explode you could always give Ted Nugents rifle a bj.
I don't give BJs so you will have to hit on a different male...
But it must be nice to be a Union member that gets $97 dollars an hour just to sit and drink beer. Enjoy those days! Because they are coming to an end quickly!
OH! And next time you post please don't forget to tell people how much you're "suffering" and how those evil white male rich people are actually forcing you to work a full 8 hour day for a change.....
No Mass.... liberals on the Republican ticket, Please.
Do something truly meaningful. Write in Herman Cain and be proud.
You may be right (no pun intended) about Ron Paul. What does it say about the GOP if there is not honest counting? Can you you still vote GOP if Romney is the nominee with all the dishonest counting?
Pat- Most Ron Paul supporters won't, personally I'll either write Dr. Paul in, or if I can't do that I'll vote for Gary Johnson. I found this gem today
The system may want Mitt Romney, the people want Ron Paul.
1SGFitzsWife4ID
Hey Girl, Good to see you again fighting the good fight!
Excellent Message! I hope they are paying attention because it is looking like Mitts is going to have a problem come convention time. (not enough votes to win on the first ballot, 75% of Santorum voters are unifying with us!)
I copied and pasted this around to a few places I visit, I hope you don't mind.
I am Egilman, and I approve this message!
Oh this is very bad for the USA, there will be evil or evil, which do you want? Just think folks it is the weakminded that voted in the thing we have now, and then in Nov we have no good picks, where are all the good, smart, backboned, won't kneel down to illegals, muslims, or whoever candidates that this great country needs?
Have you hood and robes come back from the cleaners yet?
They don't have the money to be able to run.. Unfortunately, it's about having enough money to get the word out. No money... no travel.. no banners.. no help... no television, radio, etc. spots.
Have your black paramilitary jackets with panther patches come back from the cleaners yet?
Gypsy-your rants for Romney will help the undecided decide and the independents commit. With mitt as a candidate you will miss McCain and with supporters like Gypsy you will drive all non-crazy voters to Obama. Thanks Gypsy. Craziness is often flavored with paranoia.
Nice try!
Actually Romney's increase over your Muslim-in-Chief is only increasing. Obama has a monopoly on (the obvious) blacks, Muslims, pot head college kids that live with their parents and fat white women.
And those voting blocks are already maxed out!
So here ya go!!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/jennycraig?ob=0&feature=results_main
It's going to be fun watching Etchie the Sketchie attempt to move to the center with all the video out there showing him making extreme right wing pledges and using red meat rhetoric. Grab the popcorn.
To: American Girl-724855
I understand that facts are not your thing, but here are a couple for you. In the four years that Romney was Governor of Massachusetts, unemployment there dropped from 5.8% to 4.8%. Unemployment was 6.8% nationally when Obama was elected and has been over 8% since shortly after he went into office. If you want to talk about a Jobs Cremator, I afraid you are talking about the wrong party.
Because people left the state looking for jobs elsewhere. The population of Mass dropped those years, Do a Google search on Mass population for his term
Bill, when Obama was sworn in as President the national unemployment rate was 7.6%. The Bush legacy was ongoing well into 2009 and beyond. Any fair minded person with even a little bit of economics background knows that fiscal macro economic policies take time. Bush owns the continued macro economic statistics for 2009 with increasing movement from there forward to Obama.
If you talk to those that left, most left because of RomneyCare. They did not want it at the state level and sure hate it at the feds level.
This shows that most people will vote with thier feet. The 10th amendment gave us, the people, that power. If you don't like what your state is doing you can go to another state. If you don't like what the feds are doing, you have no where to go.
Bill-291038
Are you saying that Obama was responsible for the increase in the unemployment rate from 6.8% when he was elected to the 7.8% rate when he actually took office? Or are you deliberately selecting facts to try to bolster your highly dubious claims?
Damn...opened oil reserves to bring down gas prices (and help his declining popularity numbers)......didn't work...now we have 30 million bbls. less in case of a REAL emergency.
Dammmn... TRILLION dollars of tax payer money to keep unemployment from going above 8%,....didn't work....nothing has been "stimulated" & those "shovel ready jobs" was all propaganda.
Now he wants $750 Billion more??? Ha!
Dammmmn... force fed Obamacare down Americans throat to stem high medical costs.....didn't work...73% of the nation was against this.
Dammmmnnn....involved the USA in two MORE wars, Libya & Yemen...opps Libya is not a war, it's a "humanitarian aid" effort that's costing over $990 million....Syria and/or Iran is next...opps forgot Somaila...btw, Obama walked all over the War Powers ACT...NO APPROVAL from Congress
The excuse of blaming Bush for Obama's failures is getting old, because Bush left office over THREE years ago when Obama began running..... I mean ruining America.
The excuse is getting so old that they may have to start blaming Nixon for Obama's failures.
Obama is definitely on a roll..... STOP helping already! If you really care about America resign now, because you are destroying OUR country!
43rd in the country in job creation when Romney was Governor of Massaschusetts. Great job there mittens
Most economists consider 5% unemployment to be full employment. This is because people move in and out of jobs. Massachusetts was under 5% most of Mitt's last year as governor. There were not a lot of jobs added because of basically being at the full empliyment equalibrium. I would take 4.7% (Mass' UE rate on 01/07) over 8.2% the US UE rate on 03/12 anytime.
It is obvious that Obama's policies are not creating jobs, let us give Mitt a chance.
All right Justified Defiance you have thoroughly proven that you are a complete liar, with an
incomplete grasp of reality or facts.
So you seem to have much more information than the global markets do for
gasoline interesting.... How with a straight face can you state that you know anything
about gas pricing? You cannot.... It is supply and demand, the demand impact is
not US based, all that growth in China while Clinton and Bush were in office,
welcome to the impact.... Oil is a good that is traded and bought and sold across the
earth, China wants more that means that prices go up... Take a producing country off line
(Iraq) for an extended period of time the price goes up. Show me where in the
US gas was 1.78 per gallon in 2008? It was 2.30 in 2001 and has climbed steadily
since then. Check your facts we are not going to be a net importer of oil for much longer at all then where will your arguemen go?
You are a liar, plain and simple either check your facts and speak the truth or
stop trying to call others out with your lies.
If you are inflamed so be it perhaps that will ignite your willingness to watch
your manners, and not defame others with untruths.
Name call all you want but put on your big boy britiches if you want to lie beacuse you will get a trip to the woodshed...
Gotta love the conservatives cherry picking their stats .. like comparing unemployment figures from Romney as governor between 2003-07 to Obama's unemployment stats from 2008 to 2011. How are they related? Hint: They aren't!!
Romney was 47 out of 50 on job creation as Gov of massachusetts. That does not change his Bain Capital history of destroying American Companies and laying off American Workers so some day he could have a car elevator for extra Cadillacs. You are stuck with Romney who will make McCain look good. Too late, now.
A little different that going to the polls in Chi. or STL ... no black panthers with night sticks.
woodsyhowl - You aren't worried about the Black Panthers, are you? What happened, did you fall asleep in the 60's and just wake up? When the Black Panthers number more than the Jackson 5 you can start freaking out.
The New Black Panther party has 45 chapters.
Acid trip flashbacks - happens often. Maybe we should ask him how many Watergates occurred during the 70's. They probably number in the thousands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide
Come on Newt!!! There is no way Im voting for a member of Joseph Smiths cult. Christian Voters, do your homework. Do you really want a President that believes in the insane, blasphemous teachings of Joseph Smith?
Best do a google search on this "religion"
I prefer black liberation theology preachers who scream "God Damn America". All of the cool Democrats are into it. I'm in.
Yes, let's go after evil mormon Harry Reid with pitchforks!
Wall Street Dan...
Wow.. Comments like that but nothing substantial to base anything. So what you're saying is Romney's religion is insane. Hmm... Christ as the cornerstone, A prophet, 12 apostles, baptism by emersion for the remission of sin, Aaronic and Melchezidic Priesthoods, Revelation both prophetic and personal, 14.5 million members, Temples with eternal ceiling ordances such as marriage (not 'til death do you part), organized in the same manner Moses was commanded to organize the children of Israel. The only religion of it's size that is completely debt free and passes its Internal Revenue audits hands down.. Wow.. insane... did you tell that to Christ considering that's how He had His people organized on earth while He was here? To say the Mormon religion is insane would be saying Christ's OT organization is insane. What other religion do you know that has the world's largest organization....run by women? What other religion do you know that not only looks out for it's members but for all people in need? What about the service work, humanitarian needs, the fact that we follow strictly the teachings of God?
When Moses was declared a Prophet, many of the children of Israel didn't believe it because he was slow of speech... he had commited previous offences against God. Noah was turned away by all save 8 souls and was cast out, spit upon. The prophets of Jerusalem before it was destroyed and the tribes carried away into captivity were stoned, sliced, murdered in horrible manners. Do you really believe that God just suddenly stopped sending prophets to warn His children of what was coming? The Bible says otherwise.. maybe you ought to read it...The Mormon church is not a new church by any means. It's as old as time... just re-established for the very last time in this day and age. To say that true prophets don't exist is to say the Bible is just a story. I don't believe that. Want me to go on?
If you REALLY want to find out what the mormon's believe.. don't ask someone who isn't an active mormon. Go to LDS.org and start reading, watching, listening and figuring it out on your own... not from people like Wall STreet Dan. We DON'T believe nor practice plural marriage eith.. lol get over that one world.
what about the angel moroni? What planet is your spiritual home? What is your position on Gay Americans?
I'll field those questions:
1. What about the angel Moroni? You're going to have to be a little more specific in what you're looking for if you want a good answer, because even a general overview would be incredibly long for anyone to write here.
2. Earth is my spiritual home. Probably yours, too (no offense intended if you're a Scientologist or something that believes otherwise).
3. Gay people, American or otherwise, should be treated like human beings. They have the freedom to choose how they live, even if you or I don't agree with it and wouldn't live that way ourselves. I have gay friends and co-workers, and I respect and treat them exactly like I want them to treat and respect me; they don't throw their sexuality in my face and I don't stuff my religion up their nose. I voted "No" on Prop 8, because legislating morality can go both ways -- having no law governing such is better than even a well-intended one (which I believe Prop 8 was NOT anyway) and setting such "precedents" can backfire on you in a hurry if you're not careful.
i'm voting for ron paul. and people who think "a vote for the libertarian or a third party candidate is a vote for Obama" are idiots. those of us who won't vote for romney are not helping obama. we are voting for who we want and believe in. the only people who are voting for and helping obama be re-elected are the ones voting for him. and romney is the same as obama anyway.
This must be your first presidential election, huh? When you grow up and have a family, you will realize that the Libertarian candidate will never win an election in your lifetime. Then, you'll register as a Republican like the rest of us Libertarians.
Erich John....you are 100% correct. Teaching your family to do the right thing is far better than teaching them to do the expedient thing.
If one day we no longer have a USA, you can be proud that you didn't settle. If Obama wins, I'm sure he'll appreciate you.
If people keep believing in this two party farce electoral system, then we won't have a US of A. As for you 123ang, why do you think voting for one of the major parties is going to actually do anything positive? I am only 42, but I have been around long enough to see every possible pres/congress combo to know that it is all a con game at best, and an outright lie at worst. Mitt won't do anything to disturb the statist plan, which is to basically destroy the state, but not before enslaving mankind in the process. Democracy is the biggest lie of all time and even Plato knew that it would end up in a tyranny of major proportions. When all politicians have to do is to promise a bunch of buffoons a lot of freebies and an illusion of security in exchange for their freedom, then they have you enslaved. Today, people no longer are actual serfs, but virtual serfs, in that they are in heavy indebtedness, and serve mammon. It is said that Europeans work to live, while American live to work, but the truth is American have no choice. Our immersion in mass consumerism, has helped create a situation in which, we are indeed debt slaves, as will our kids, our grandkids, etc.
The stone-age voting system is broken. Why is it that when there are many candidates for one office, we only get to express an opinion about one candidate? "Approval Voting" is a system that lets everyone vote for (approve of) as many candidates as they want. The one candidate getting the most approval votes wins.
This erases the "wasted vote syndrome" that plagues 3rd parties and ensures the 2-party duopoly endures.
Ron Paul: 2012. Ron Paul's ideals: Forever.
Actually, the quote is Germans live to work, Italians work to live.
What are you suggesting Robert of Bruce? Communism, Capitalism(which has never exited), feudalism, or Capitalistic Socialism? If it is the latter I would rather take sensibilities of Obama than the sensibilities of an Oligarchy of Bankers and CEO's who defile human dignity and ruin God's greatest gift to humanity, nature, for the greedy pursuit of the almighty dollar.
Robert .. music to my ears. This struggle we are going through should be a determination of what we want to become, mindless consumers, or advocates of life. Obama was 'Hope and Change', and to be honest, he drove us 1 mile out of 100 to get there. To Obama's credit, that first mile was a massive challenge. It is now our challenge to carry us to mile two - and Romney isn't campaigning on that 2nd mile, rather, he wants to start back in the ditch. If we are indeed a civilization to succeed, we need Obama vision, Romney determination, Huntsman negotiation, and H. Clinton fortitude to carry it forth. The players are correct, but the change required to drive the nation cannot rest on any one of those individuals.
Voting for Obama is voting to destroy what we have left of this country. Bill CLinton wasn't that great a president. And I'm sorry but I didn't thing G W Bush was bad either. A big p[roblem currently is the figment of imagination the liberal media is using to tell people that the Republican's are at war with women. Are you kidding me?!?!?! If there even is a war it most certainly was created by the liberals. There is no end to the destruction that Obama created. But voting for him again will certainly allow him to destroy this once great country.
Good presidents in the last 75 years? Not very many, believe it or not Carter, JFK, and Eisenhower were the only decent ones.
Ready for another one?
Vote Paul 2012
CARTER!? JFK, and Eisenhower - legitimate. CARTER!? A joke!
Ron Paul 2012 (but not because he'll be like Jimmy Carter)
I guess your still impressed with Obama - but I'm not.
After almost 4 years, we still have about 2 million fewer people working than when he took office, our economic growth is virtually nil. Almost 3 years after the 'great recession' ended (mid-2009), and Obama is pretty much ignored when it comes to making decisions by world leaders - the recent Americas summit is a prime example.
I refuse....absolutely Refuse to vote for a greedy blue-blood Mormon who is entirely Disconnected from average and blue collar Americans
I Will play it safe and vote for the compassionate Christian again
BTW .....
POTUS 2012 is already in the White House
Hmmmmmmm...Last I checked Obama was a Muslim. His actions prove that. Especially his agenda against Israel.
Huh !
"Hmmmmmmm...Last you checked [your brain in your mama's ass, and left it there!]
Obama's Christian; not Muslim. Apparently you're one of the idiots who long ago jumped aboard the bandwagon-of-dummies led by the South, when some fool raised a nationwide alarm pointing out that "OMBAMAAAAAAA" sounds ohhh-so-very similar to "USAMAAAAAAAA" (Bin Laden) and therefore that "proves" that Obama is a terrorist hell-bent on destroying the country!
*rolling my eyes @ idiots like you* ...You probably also "think" that children shouldn't watch "Barney The Dinosaur" on tv because his purple color proves that he's gay and he wants to "turn" children gay!
Get offline and go to school (for the first time in your life), you fool.
snowman-are you kidding? The Republican War on Women is getting worse.
Rush Limbaugh's slander/slut/prositute comments.
Failed gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin signing the law that denies women equal pay.
Virginia's vaginal probe law.
Arizona's law limiting reproduction rights for women.
Stay tuned for more Red state proof that women don't matter.
Critic Of Society From Both Ends
Ummm first of all your sentence structuring shows of that "great" education America is famous for. Had you study grammar instead of gay sex and global warming you would have known that.
Secondly, I am not in the south but a foreign country. In fact I'm in one of those countries that high tech countries in America come to for qualified personnel since American students are too busy learning gay sex and global warming instead of physics, computers and electrical engineering.
*presses inflammatory flag at your post to have you removed*
LOL!!!
thanks to all you wanna be conservatives, we now have choice of obama or obama lite
so it you are heading off a cliff, does it really matter how fast you are going?
Yes it does. By replacing Obama with Romney, we will slow us down and that will give us another 4 to 8 years to get some one like Rubio ready.
All of those men are self serving politicians.
A vote for freedom
Is a vote for Ron Paul.
Why are you waiting on Rubio???? He is just another Rommney with a different name!!!
Obama's four years:
* Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act - Equal pay for women
* Extended the payroll tax cuts for middle class and working poor
* Health Care - The Affordable Care Act
** More than 20 million More Americans Covered
** No more pre-existing conditions
** Students remains on parent's p[olicy until 26 years old
** Closed the doughnut holes in the seniors drug plans
** Protected and free women health coverage -- same as men
** Insurance Companies can no longer exclude, limit or deny health coverage
* Kept GM and Chrysler auto manufacturing plants open--saving the auto industry and jobs--now creating more jobs in that sector
* Got the auto makers to agree to doubling the fuel efficiency of new cars and light trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Will save Americans nearly $8,000 per vehicle
* Decreased the country's dependence on foreign oil to a 16 year low--domestic natural gas production at an all time high--domestic gas production at the highest level in eight years--gas rigs operating in the U.S. increased nearly 30 percent.
* Stop the shedding of jobs--750,000 per month when he took office-- added 5.56 million jobs in the last 25 months--manufacturing jobs experienced 31 consecutive months of growth
* Worked tirelessly to make the tax code fair and ensure that everyone pay their fair share-- just signed The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job creation Act of 2012--add about $1000 to working family's pockets this year
This is for starters; can give more upon request!!!
Well Folks its no Surprise!!! Romney is the only thing that's well even a little Politically correct for Republicans to vote!!! I would bet that (Ronald Reagan would get more votes than Romney and hes Dead if he was on ticket,You Think ? He seems ok but really but Have any Republicans done lets say anything good except for themselves and friends/oil companys since Ronald Reagan are we forgetting the Trillion dollar stimulus that Bush passed when leaving office Humm What Trillion lol again,yeah that's what America said ? facts 1-The economy is improving,2-president Obama caught and killed Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, Bush could not even with numerous Omg (Orange Alerts ) WMD"s and Torture of Human beings.3 He is a Christian hello people! Not A Mormon which I could care less but Americans like Christian Presidents. Since When Do We Fire A President for Doing A Good Job ? We survived what Bush and Bush and Reagan's trickle Down theory did. I am saying hey give This President respect please! Look he can even speak correct English.Even if you dont like You Minister dont you respect him ?
Thank You.
Sorry T from Sac, but Saddam Hussein was executed(2006) during the Baby Bush reign of terror. The other stuff is correct though..
We don't. But then, the Democrats were asking the same thing when President Carter was up for re-election. It didn't seem to occur to them then or now that rising prices, high unemployment, etc. are not considered by the vast majority of Americans to be "doing a good job".
27 pages of dumb a@s republican.