Why would this election even be close? Let’s take a look at what transpired over the last 3 + years.

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 com­plies with the Geneva Convention standards
29. Better body armor is now being pro­vid­ed to our troops
30. The mis­sile defense pro­gram was 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 by Somali pirates; autho­rized the SEALS to do their job
36. US Navy increas­ing patrols off the 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 a 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; expand­ed nation­al 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 the 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 now real­izes 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 the AmeriCorps program
59. Sent envoys to the 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 cyber­se­cu­ri­ty 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 the 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 administrations
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 underinsured
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

Did I men­tion he passed health care reform?

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President Barack Hussein Obama

David and Charles Koch.

No one denies Republicans their right to run a cam­paign to put a Republican in the White House; they even have the right to their four-year obstruc­tion­ist agen­da, which, (America be damned) was designed to remove Barack Obama from office even before he took the oath of office.

For Republicans, love of coun­try is win­ning at all cost, even if it means that America suf­fers immense­ly in the process. In fact, it is not about the 300 + mil­lion peo­ple who occu­py these United States; it is about the 1% who are at the top of the finan­cial and eco­nom­ic pile.

Republican office­hold­ers and those seek­ing office, are com­plete­ly sold on the con­cept of trick­le-down eco­nom­ics; what they do not tell the vot­ers they seek to influ­ence, is that they have no desire to see any­thing trick­le down to them.

The fact is that, Republicans are whol­ly sold out to spe­cial inter­est; any­thing which falls from the tables of the 1% will nev­er get to the mass­es; it falls onto them the polit­i­cal hacks in the Senate, the House, and who­ev­er they put in the White House.

Business tycoons at the top of the pile like Charles and David Koch, Sheldon Adelson, and oth­ers, fig­ured out that it is cheap­er to con­trol the politi­cians than deal fair­ly with the mass­es. It is not strange to see South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley a (Native American) trum­pet­ing Boeing’s vic­to­ry over the Federal Government to not have Unionized work­ers in their fac­to­ry to cheers from the audi­ence at the Republican convention.

These are clas­sic cas­es of low infor­ma­tion peo­ple vot­ing and cheer­ing for clear­ly and unequiv­o­cal­ly against their short and long-term interests.

Unionized work­ers built a sol­id mid­dle class which pro­pelled this coun­try into being the great­est, most pow­er­ful nation on the face of this plan­et, ever. Decent wages, accept­able work­ing con­di­tions, ben­e­fits, and vaca­tion time are the cor­ner­stones of a moti­vat­ed work-force; these com­po­nents have lift­ed oth­er­wise poor peo­ple into finan­cial prosperity.

Republicans want to remove Unions from the work­place, rel­e­gat­ing and sub­ject­ing work­ers to the unfair prac­tices of what obtains in coun­tries like China, where work­ers are mere com­modi­ties to be dis­posed of and replaced with oth­ers. The tragedy is that many vot­ers are either too stu­pid or too racial­ly pre­dis­posed to real­ize that they are being led down into hell like rats to the pied piper in Hamlin’s tale.

This elec­tion is close because rich financiers like the Koch broth­ers, Sheldon Adelson, and oth­ers are hell-bent on defeat­ing Obama, Charles and David Koch has pledged to spend what­ev­er it takes to buy this elec­tion for Mitt Romney, they have report­ed­ly already com­mit­ted over half a bil­lion dol­lars of their UN-Godly for­tune to that end, with no end in sight.

Then, the pre-emi­nent ques­tion has got to be, “what the hell do these clowns want”?

No one gives away a mil­lion dol­lars just because.….….!!

No one gives away 500 mil­lion for noth­ing for damn sure!

The Koch Brothers are wealthy indus­tri­al­ists who inher­it­ed their for­tunes from their father; they have since increased those for­tunes and are using their enor­mous finan­cial clout to shape poli­cies, to make them­selves and oth­ers like them even more wealthy, to the utter detri­ment of the coun­try and our planet.

They own and oper­ate oil and gas com­pa­nies, lum­ber, and every­thing in between to include the paper tow­els and even the tis­sue we use in our homes. Let’s face it, these guys are filthy rich peo­ple who are going nowhere, they know it, and they under­stand the pow­er they have as a result of the immea­sur­able wealth they command.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS CHARLES AND DAVID KOCH SUPPORT AND ESPOUSE.

(1) Repealing the afford­able care Act: (Obama-care):

(2) Denying Climate Change:

(3) Fighting Wall Street Reform:

(4)Dismantling Collective Bargaining Rights:

(5) Fighting Reductions in Carbon Emissions:

(6) Keeping Corporate Money in Elections:

(7) Fighting Internet Neutrality:

These are some of the big plat­form issues they sup­port or oppose, as the case may be. They are the guys behind Romney/​Ryan; they and their mon­ey are fund­ing and enhanc­ing vot­er sup­pres­sion laws all over America, through the fund­ing of far-right Republican straw can­di­dates who are primed to do their bidding.

In this defin­ing elec­tion, the American peo­ple must deter­mine whether they will allow them­selves to be duped into believ­ing the con­tin­ued lies of the Republican par­ty, or they will stand with this African-American President who has done yeo­man’s heavy lift­ing on their behalf.

The choic­es could­n’t be clear­er; every elec­tion cycle, we hear the same cliché.” This is the most impor­tant elec­tion of our life­time” cliché or not; this time, it’s actu­al­ly true. Supreme Court deci­sion “Citizens United” opened up the flood gates of dirty cor­rupt­ing mon­ey, into the polit­i­cal dis­course. Many peo­ple like Senator’s McCain and Feingold had long warned about this and have actu­al­ly got­ten leg­is­la­tion passed which would min­i­mize this; of course, this was before the Supreme Court in one deci­sion changed the land­scape of American pol­i­tics in one fell-swoop, releas­ing an avalanche of mon­ey and influ­ence into the sys­tem under the guise of “Free Speech.”

The truth is this is and was a brain-dead deci­sion, which could eas­i­ly have been fore­seen, even by untrained legal minds. Unless, of course, the intent was to get this result. The American peo­ple will have to ask them­selves these ques­tions, and at the same time, deter­mine if these are deci­sions that were made in their interest.

Simply put, if mon­ey equals free speech, those with more mon­ey invari­ably have a greater say than those with lit­tle; those with­out mon­ey have no right to free speech.

If this deci­sion intend­ed to say that the courts can­not dic­tate how much is too much to give in a demo­c­ra­t­ic soci­ety, then we are forced by default to con­clude, that the court’s deci­sion was based on the notion that those with­out mon­ey are unde­serv­ing of their fun­da­men­tal God-giv­en right to free speech.

That means that they decid­ed to err on the side of the wealthy and pow­er­ful, giv­ing them the right to speak for the Un-monied masses.

That Coup went down, and no one is any the wiser.