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?

http://​3chic​spoliti​co​.com/​p​r​e​s​i​d​e​n​t​-​o​b​a​m​a​s​-​a​c​c​o​m​p​l​i​s​h​m​e​n​ts/

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.

He’s losing the African American vote 94% — 0%, he is losing the Latino vote by more than 35 percentage points , it’s the weekend before his party gives him the nomination, he did not get a appreciable bump from picking neocon congressman Paul Ryan, actually the pick was negligible and rated even worse than the Palin pick, so what is a Mitt Romney to do with these numbers which just seem to be dormant , despite stagnant economic conditions? On the 15^th of August of this year I wrote a log called Romney now signals that he wants race to be the factor in these elections, if you haven’t read it you should, I challenge you to read it because it seem that a lot of the things I say come to pass even sooner than I anticipate sometimes.

Mitt Romney went to the State of Michigan today August 24^th and said this to the faith­ful in attendance.

http://http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-jokes-about-his-birth-certificate-obama-campaign-accuses-him-of-embracing-birtherism/2012/08/24/bda35810-ee14-11e1-b0eb-dac6b50187ad_story.html

Joe Biden said some time ago Romney wants minori­ties to show their papers in the state of Arizona, yet he won’t show his papers to the American peo­ple. Does this guy believe this is a win­ning strat­e­gy three days before the start of his convention?

I said Mitt Romney was the worst can­di­date for pres­i­dent I have ever seen, if that was an over-state­ment then, I would like to reaf­firm those sen­ti­ments whole-heart­ed­ly today.

Mitt Romney has now decid­ed that he can no longer hold back, decen­cy , or pre­tence of it be damned, so he’s now a “birther” I mean it’s not like Romney was ever shy about cozy­ing up to the most vile crea­tures, Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump,Sean Hannity and every whack job on the extreme right , I take that back that is the repub­li­can par­ty, there is no mod­er­ates in that par­ty any­more, the par­ty is now a vote sup­pres­sion racist hang-out for the most vile extrem­ists with the most con­vo­lut­ed and repug­nant beliefs.

As I said before Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were not shy about cozy­ing up to the muse of late night comics , the orange-haired clown Donald Trump, in fact Romney, said on his cam­paign plane , quote” I don’t agree with every­one who sup­ports me,and I am quite sure they don’t all agree with me but I need 50% plus one to win” .

What is behind Romney’s think­ing , that would cause him to go pub­licly birther on Friday? Is Romney look­ing at the num­bers and rec­og­niz­ing that he is get­ting O% of African-American votes, he’s like­ly to get less or just about the same per­cent­age of the Latino votes John McCain got, 31%, so he needs to dri­ve up the white vote even as his friends in gov­er­nor­ships in states across the nation, sup­press and intim­i­date minor­i­ty voters.

In states all across America Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, etal Republican Governors and leg­is­la­tors are putting in place tough vot­er sup­pres­sion laws to sup­press the vote and in some cas­es like Ohio intim­i­date vot­ers even in polling boots through scare tac­tics, groups like http://​www​.truethevote​.org/ and oth­ers are active­ly engaged in vot­er intim­i­da­tion, under the pre­text they are watch­ing to ensure that there are no vot­er fraud, the only prob­lem is that there are no vot­er fraud which would make them rel­e­vant or necessary.

They are posi­tion­ing them to steal this elec­tion and place Mitt Romney into the pres­i­den­cy to rep­re­sent the inter­est of the 1%.

There is a lot more for me to say on this sub­ject and I will at anoth­er time, there is a tragedy brew­ing for African-Americans, not just for those born here but for oth­ers who have made this coun­try their home, they have chil­dren here, built a life here , and many will retire and even die here, yet all we see are triv­ial incon­se­quen­tial noth­ings all over Facebook , pho­tographs depict­ing out­landish out­fits and oth­er mat­ters of lit­tle or no con­cern, yet mate­r­i­al infor­ma­tion post­ed bare­ly gets a read.

Those who would do us harm can count on us not read­ing , it is easy to account for an entire race if they refuse to read any­thing of substance.

African-Americans will con­tin­ue to have a tough road to hoe, even under a sec­ond Obama term, God help us if there is a Romney term, 12 % of 308 mil­lion is rough­ly over 36 mil­lion peo­ple yet 36 mil­lion peo­ple con­tin­ue to exist in their own coun­try as sec­ond class cit­i­zens because they refuse to matter.

God help us.

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Interesting developments in Jamaica regarding three highly placed individuals , one a prominent politician,the other a high ranking member of the business community and of course not to be outdone a high ranking member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force.

I do not know the busi­ness­man, I’m not sur­prised that a politi­cian or police offi­cer would be involved in some­thing like this, I’m just sur­prised and dis­ap­point­ed that James Forbes would get tan­gled up in this sor­did mess. First let me say I have no infor­ma­tion on this mat­ter oth­er that which is report­ed in the Jamaican media, at least not just yet. So I will have to base my analy­sis on what I have read in the report­ing of those enti­ties. Embroiled at the cen­ter of this triv­ial storm in a tea-cup are these three peo­ple who stu­pid­ly , through arro­gance, good-hard­heart­ed­ness, or loy­al­ty to friends, have been caught up in the trade winds of change, when they ought to have rec­og­nized that change nev­er comes with­out casu­al­ties and act­ed accord­ing­ly, or in this case not at all.

Featured here are Member of Parliament Darrel Vaz, Senior Superintendent James Forbes and Businessman Bruce Bicknell: (cour­tesy Jamaica dai­ly gleaner) 

The alle­ga­tions in this case are that Police Sergeant Jubert Llewellyn who is a traf­fic cop, stopped a white SUV which was speed­ing , the car dri­ven by busi­ness­man Bruce Bicknell was alleged­ly doing 80 km in a 50km zone. The alle­ga­tions are that in the process of giv­ing his doc­u­ments Bicknell gave two one thou­sand dol­lar bills to offi­cer Llewellyn with his doc­u­ments, the report went on to state that the offi­cer asked mis­ter Bicknell if he was attempt­ing to bribe him, upon which Bicknell offered the mon­ey to him, essen­tial­ly to make the tick­et go away.http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​g​l​e​a​n​e​r​/​2​0​1​2​0​8​2​2​/​l​e​a​d​/​l​e​a​d​1​.​h​tml

In sum­ma­tion Bicknell was arrest­ed, he calls his friend the Politician, who call his boy the senior police super­in­ten­dent, to apply some sub­tle pres­sure to make it go away, sur­prise of sur­pris­es, the offi­cer stood his ground, The alle­ga­tions gets more sor­did, it is alleged that Vaz vis­it­ed offi­cer Llewellyn at his job and invit­ed him to drop the case as a favor and that he would be tak­en care of, mean­ing more good­ies would be com­ing his way. The sergeant alleged­ly told Vaz he will need time to think about it, feel­ing the pres­sure he went to some­one he has con­fi­dence in , retired Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas. Thomas alleged­ly told Llewellyn to think about his fam­i­ly , what­ev­er that means, he also encour­aged medi­a­tion, again what the hell does that mean, this is a mat­ter for the courts , what medi­a­tion? There is no prece­dent for this advice in law , but I digress.

So of course a medi­a­tion was done in the office of James Forbes the Senior Superintendent, but that was not the end of the mat­ter . Sergeant Llewellyn was told by his boss at a lat­er date to sub­mit a state­ment involv­ing the whole affair to the office of Assistant Commissioner Felice head of the Anti-Corruption Branch, which he did, of course the Director of Public Prosecution has now ruled that all three men be charged with attempt­ing to per­vert the course of justice.

The entire sto­ry may be accessed at the link pro­vid­ed above.

This is clas­sic domi­no effect, for what­ev­er rea­son mis­ter Bicknell, feel­ing both­ered by the process of hav­ing to sub­mit to the author­i­ty of the Traffic Court, alleged­ly offered the offi­cer a bribe, inher­ent in his mind when he alleged­ly offered the bribe, was the cor­rup­tion with­in the (JCF ). He must have felt suf­fi­cient­ly con­fi­dent that it would have been accept­ed, that he did­n’t both­er con­tem­plat­ing the con­se­quences to him­self ‚in the event this offi­cer was not a cor­rupt Cop.

His gam­ble did not pay off, so now he had to revert to call­ing high­er author­i­ty, the politi­cian. Isn’t that the way it has worked in Jamaica for­ev­er> why would it not work this time? So the Politician gets involved. Vaz alleged that he sought the per­mis­sion of the Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington to speak to offi­cer Llewellyn, those were the words of Daryl Vaz.

If true why would the Commissioner of police grant per­mis­sion of a politi­cian to speak to an offi­cer in a mat­ter where there are crim­i­nal charges pend­ing ? Furthermore where does the Commissioner of Police gets that author­i­ty to grant or deny per­mis­sion of any­one to speak to anoth­er office?

So the medi­a­tion is set up, on the face of it, it seem abun­dant­ly clear that offi­cer Llewellyn received inju­ri­ous advise from Lucius Thomas, the medi­a­tion by itself is an abro­ga­tion of Jamaican Law. What was the pur­pose of the medi­a­tion? The medi­a­tion was con­struct­ed to make the charges go away !! this alleged­ly hap­pened in the Office of James Forbes (SSP) . Forbes a car­rear police offi­cer who is not by any­one’s stan­dard an idiot, dis­played a glar­ing lack of com­mon sense.

There are no alle­ga­tions that he ben­e­fit­ed finan­cial­ly or oth­er­wise from this, at least not yet, so we are left to assume that he was just doing a favor for a friend, or worse some­one who has him as a lap-dog, the politi­cian Daryl Vaz.

I have writ­ten about these prac­tices (ad nase­um) in these blogs the chick­ens have now come home to roost.

The tragedy of this whole under­tak­ing from the advice of Lucius Thomas (for­mer com­mis­sion­er of police) to the alle­ga­tions of Ellington giv­ing his bless­ings to speak to Sergeant Llewellyn, to the medi­a­tion alleged­ly which took place in the office of James Forbes, all of it was designed to do one thing , and one thing only, cir­cum­vent the law.

That is a fact, and all of the play­ers knew it going in, yet they were pre­pared to keep going, because they were con­fi­dent that at some stage of the pro­ceed­ings the cor­rupt­ing influ­ence of mon­ey and oth­er good­ies cou­pled with good old top down pres­sure would win the day. Of course why would it not work? this is the way it has always worked? What nei­ther of them con­tem­plat­ed, includ­ing Ellington if true, is the resolve of integrity.

Good job Jubert Llewellyn, we’ll be watch­ing this one , we are still watch­ing, wait­ing and won­der­ing, what it will take for the Kern Spencer tri­al to be resolved?

I am so fed up with what pass­es for Media that I real­ly do not inten­tion­al­ly watch Television any­more. You are prob­a­bly won­der­ing what I mean by “inten­tion­al­ly”. Well I real­ly don’t both­er to sit around and watch, I hear some of what they are say­ing as I go about my busi­ness, I just don’t want to be told how to process infor­ma­tion by a pan­el of peo­ple who should be told how to process information.

If you are won­der­ing what I am rant­i­ng about these days ? I ask,“have you seen NBC’s cov­er­age of the recent London Olympics? Do you ever turn your Television to FOX mis­in­for­ma­tion? Do you care about the fluff they present on CNN? and most of all have you seen the way the so-called media has han­dled the ongo­ing elec­tion campaign?

If you answered in the affir­ma­tive on any of these ques­tions then you under­stand my dis­gust. The duty of an inde­pen­dent Media is to present infor­ma­tion to the pub­lic, to report on events as they hap­pen and hold the feet of lead­ers to the fire of account­abil­i­ty. Does any­one believe the Media is doing any of these things? Instead we watch as Candidates and their sur­ro­gates sit on tele­vi­sion and repeat cam­paign talk­ing points with­out being chal­lenged by the ques­tion­er. In most instances the talk­ing points are lit­tle more than dis­tor­tions, seg­ments of a con­ver­sa­tion tak­en out of con­text or out­right lies.

Yet there are sel­dom any instances where Journalists ever say that is an out­right lie and I will not allow you to come on here and spew that kind of mis­in­for­ma­tion to the pub­lic ! guar­an­teed if the media start­ed doing this peo­ple would have some respect their pro­fes­sion, and the liars would come pre­pared to answer ques­tions truth­ful­ly or don’t come at all, a good first step in clean­ing up the polit­i­cal system.

So Joe Biden makes a state­ment about chains in a speech he gave in Virginia, the Romney cam­paign des­per­ate­ly look­ing for some­thing from which to gain trac­tion, made a big deal of what real­ly was noth­ing. What did the lame stream media do ? they ran with it.Context be damned, Does any­one believe Romney or Ryan or any­one with­in the Republican par­ty or the Romney cam­paign care about slur­ring black peo­ple. Romney did it the very next day , feign­ing anger at the pres­i­dent, in a speech before his sup­port­ers Romney said quote:“take your cam­paign of divi­sion and anger and hate, back to Chicago let us get about rebuild­ing and reunit­ing America”.http://​www​.cbsnews​.com/​8​301 – 18563_162-57494114/what-sub­stance-cam­paign-attacks-get-nas­ti­er-than-ever/

A thin­ly veiled attepmpt, designed to paint the pres­i­dent as the angry black man. The only prob­lem is, Romney end­ed up look­ing like a des­per­ate pathet­ic fool try­ing to paint Obam as an angry black man

The hypocrisy of Mitt Romney and the right on this issue is blind­ing­ly stun­ning ‚where has the lame-stream media and Romney been in the shame­ful 4 year assault on President Obama by the incred­i­bly low-class morons on the right who ques­tion every­thing and demean every­thing about the pres­i­dent, his fam­i­ly and his rel­a­tives? Mitt Romney is all too will­ing to join in, feed­ing at the slop trough of igno­rant racist ignominy.…As this elec­tion cycle unfolds we have begun to see the effects of what over­whelm­ing­ly huge chunks of dirty mon­ey can buy. All the ver­min now begin crawl­ing out the wood-work. Billionaire Koch broth­ers are no longer pre­tend­ing that the Tea Party is a grass Organization of the peo­ple, they are run­ning ADs attack­ing the pres­i­dent under the ban­ner Americans for pros­per­i­ty. What they haven’t said is, pros­per­i­ty for whom.

Here’s the most recent dis­play from Charles and David Koch, two bil­lion­aires intent on pay­ing for the pres­i­den­cy, as they seek to install Mitt Romney there as a pup­pet to do their bid­ding ‚which will include not just tax breaks for the likes of the Kochs and Romney but utter destruc­tion of our eco sys­tem, through frack­ing , destroy­ing ground water, drilling for oil, destroy­ing wet-lands, nature pre­serves, and frag­ile coral reefs, but also the destruc­tion of forests for lum­ber and the shav­ing of moun­tain tops to mine coal. When they are done they will have gazil­lions in the bank but there will bo no plan­et left for the rest of the world’s over 7 bil­lion inhab­i­tants, and you know what Charles and David Koch will be just fine with that.http://​blogs​.wsj​.com/​w​a​s​h​w​i​r​e​/​2​0​1​2​/​0​8​/​1​4​/​i​n​-​a​d​-​v​o​t​e​r​s​-​b​r​e​a​k​-​u​p​-​w​i​t​h​-​o​b​a​m​a​/​?​m​o​d​=​g​o​o​g​l​e​_​n​e​w​s​_​b​log

The pres­i­den­t’s cam­paign is not sit­ting idly by, they are fight­ing back with counter Ads seen below, show­ing what the pres­i­dent has been doing, despite repub­li­can obstruc­tion­ist tac­ticshttp://​the​cau​cus​.blogs​.nytimes​.com/​2​0​1​2​/​0​1​/​1​8​/​o​b​a​m​a​-​f​i​g​h​t​s​-​b​a​c​k​-​a​g​a​i​n​s​t​-​k​o​c​h​-​b​r​o​t​h​e​r​s​-​i​n​-​n​e​w​-​ad/

This will be the worse elec­tion cam­paign in the his­to­ry of this coun­try, it is the most des­per­ate Republican can­di­dates all over the coun­try has ever been, and the pres­i­den­tial can­di­date is the worse I have ever seen in my life-time, already they have rolled out swift boat vet­er­ans lying that the pres­i­dent is reveal­ing sen­si­tive Military secrets and endan­ger­ing the lives of ser­vice-mem­bers. These are the same tac­tics Carl Rove and oth­ers ‚in con­cert with Bush 43^rd employed against Military vet­er­an and pur­ple heart recip­i­ent John Kerry. Imagine Republican putting vet­er­ans up to telling the pres­i­dent he did not kill Osama Bin Laden, America did, These bas­tards are will­ing to rewrite his­to­ry to dele­git­imize this president.

This Republican par­ty has shown that it is will­ing to do any­thing for pow­er, they stole the elec­tions in 2000, with­out con­se­quences when the Republican stacked Supreme Court stopped the vote count in the state of Florida and gave the win to George Bush, I have nev­er quite rec­on­ciled that in my mind, with the nar­ra­tive of the world’s great­est democracy.

Voter sup­pres­sion laws in most states, designed to give Romney the win in swing states like Pennsylvania as allud­ed to by that states repub­li­can leader in the leg­is­la­ture.http://http://youtu.be/EuOT1bRYdK8.

God help America,the win at all cost strat­e­gy employed by the likes of Carl Rove, the nas­ti­ness of Sarah Palin, the igno­rant racist dog­ma of Limbaugh, Hannity, Malkin and oth­ers will have seri­ous neg­a­tive res­o­nance beyond our will­ing­ness to accept,or con­front for gen­er­a­tions to come.

Republican candidate for president Mitt Romney built his presidential run betting against the American economy. In essence Romney betted against the country he claim to love, and want to represent as its highest elected leader.Republican candidate Mitt Romney

We already knew Romney was a bet­ting man, this was on dis­play dur­ing the com­i­cal yet woe­ful­ly pathet­ic Republican pri­ma­ry cam­paign, Romney offered the equal­ly pathet­ic Texas Governor Rick Perry a ten thou­sand dol­lar bet, in defense of his Massachusetts health-care plan, Romney-care.

Romney extend­ed the wager to the Texas Governor, deny­ing Perry’s claim that he had sug­gest­ed his Massachusetts health­care plan should be a mod­el for the coun­try, an asser­tion Perry repeated.Romney then vehe­ment­ly denied that claim, yet there were numer­ous instances where he extolled the virtues of his plan and argued stri­dent­ly it should be a mod­el for the country

I was tak­en a lit­tle aback. Driving out to the sta­tion this morn­ing, I’m pret­ty sure I didn’t dri­ve by a house that any­one in Iowa would even think about that a $10,000 bet was even pos­si­ble, so a lit­tle out of touch with the nor­mal Iowa cit­i­zen,” Perry said dur­ing an inter­view on Fox News Sunday.http://http//abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/rick-perry-mitt-romneys-10000-bet-was-out-of-touch/

Rick Perry’s asser­tion was right dur­ing the repub­li­can pri­maries, it is right today, that impul­sive bet on that stage demon­strat­ed some­thing deep­er about Mitt Romney that his fel­low repub­li­can allud­ed to then, Romney is an out of touch rich guy, but it does­n’t just stop there, he is an out of touch rich guy who feel enti­tled. We have heard the dis­re­spect­ful and pre­sump­tu­ous com­ments from his wife, “President Obama should start pack­ing to leave the white House”, It’s Mitt’s time now, it’s our time”,” we will not release any more tax returns to you peo­ple” . Of course those are only from her, Romney him­self has cre­at­ed a scrap-book of gaffes and unforced errors , enough for sev­er­al elec­tion cycles, yet the lame stream media has just brushed them aside with­out chal­leng­ing them on what they know are lies and cam­paign talk­ing points.

Romney staked his claim on a sin­gle issue, the American Economy will be so bad he will be elect­ed pres­i­dent by default, he essen­tial­ly made him­self a one trick pony, that’s a hell of a bet to take against your own coun­try, and it’s a hell of a bet to make on a pres­i­den­tial run con­sid­er­ing the finan­cial and oth­er costs asso­ci­at­ed with pres­i­den­tial runs.

As President Obama has cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly stat­ed, the eco­nom­ic data com­ing out the week imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing each month, should not be looked at with­in the nar­row prism of those month­ly num­bers, but should be viewed in a broad­er con­text, they should be seen as a con­tin­ued march in the right direc­tion on the road toward an econ­o­my built to last. The American peo­ple, despite being ner­vous about their own finan­cial sit­u­a­tions, seem to buy into the pres­i­den­t’s argu­ments, poll after poll has shown that vot­ers under­stood the sever­i­ty of the eco­nom­ic sit­u­a­tion Obama inherited.

They also rec­og­nize that the Tea Party House of Representatives, and obstruc­tion­ist Senate Republicans have done every­thing to ensure that noth­ing gets done on this pres­i­den­t’s watch. Despite the less than desir­able eco­nom­ic data, the Romney cam­paign real­izes that the pres­i­dent is still ahead, Romney decid­ed he had to change the nar­ra­tive, make it about some­thing else, so he picked Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan to be his run­ning mate. Romney knew he would have to defend Ryan’s bud­get, which lit­er­al­ly dec­i­mates the poor and indi­gent, yet he gam­bled pick­ing Ryan will gen­er­ate enough right wing votes to put him over the top. Romney gam­bled that there is enough ani­mus and hatred on the right for the pres­i­dent all he has to do is add Ryan and the right will be out in droves. The jury will be out on that strat­e­gy for awhile, even though some are already argu­ing that plan may have already back­fired as for many Ryan rep­re­sents whats wrong with a dys­func­tion­al Congress. Romney may have mis­cal­cu­lat­ed how tox­ic the addi­tion of Ryan may be to seniors because of medicare, as well as his nean­derthal posi­tions on the rights of a woman to chose or make deci­sions with her own body.

Of course true to form Romney is try­ing to frame that part of the con­ver­sa­tion as Obama’s attack on Religion, it may be a tough sell to Catholics who believe that the Ryan bud­get is an immoral assault on the poor.

Romney cal­cu­lat­ed that he will go after the Obama record with the lie that he raid­ed the Medicare Trust Fund to the tune of 700 bil­lion dol­lars, then link it with the oth­er social pro­gram the right hates, Obama-Care and he will have a win­ner. So they came out guns blaz­ing ‚as they always do, all of them, from top to bot­tom recit­ing the same talk­ing points, “Obama raid­ed Medicare and put the mon­ey into anoth­er big gov­ern­ment bureau­cra­cy Obama-Care”.

We talked about Paul Ryan and what he stands for in pre­vi­ous blogs , here’ a guy who has a rep­u­ta­tion as a deficit hawk that is com­plete­ly unearned or deserved. Ryan vot­ed for all big Government spend­ing dur­ing Bush’s pres­i­den­cy includ­ing the wars waged on a cred­it card, this guy Ryan is a fig­ment of the lame stream medi­a’s imag­i­na­tion, he sud­den­ly turned deficit hawk because there is a Democrat in the White House.

While the lame stream media gets all nos­tal­gic about Ryan the way they did about the brain-dead Sarah Palin , there are even more sin­is­ter rea­sons to be very fear­ful of this guy Paul Ryan. Set aside the fact that his bud­get would dou­ble down on the Bush-era poli­cies which gave huge tax breaks to the very rich, Ryan wants to add insult to injury by hav­ing you, me and every­one else at the bot­tom pay for it. Simply put, trick­le down eco­nom­ics on steroids, as it has been characterized.

How stu­pid does Romney think we are?

Romney real­ized that despite his despi­ca­ble cam­paign of lies he is loos­ing, the pres­i­den­t’s num­bers have remained con­stant despite lies , obstruction,and decep­tion, despite the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson and oth­er Billionaires tens of mil­lions of dol­lars of dirty mon­ey being spent to buy the elec­tions, Romney can­not close the deal with vot­ers. So Mitt Romney made the cal­cu­lat­ed deci­sion if I can­not get up to the lev­el of Barack Obama I will drag Obama down to my level.

Romney, for the dura­tion of his 5 year cam­paign„ has lied and dis­re­spect­ed Obama, he used racial dog whis­tles to appeal to the far right of the par­ty he rep­re­sents, at every cam­paign stops he makes state­ments that the pres­i­dent does­n’t under­stand America, the pres­i­dent does­n’t under­stand American excep­tion­al-ism the President does not get Americans. That feeds into the nas­ti­ness pre­vi­ous­ly unseen before the intro­duc­tion of Sarah Palin into the cam­paign of 2008.

Romney has not once stood up to those who spew the ran­cid bile which comes out of that sew­er which hous­es that ele­ment. Romney not only does not have the balls or the guts to stand up to those ele­ments, he real­ly does not want to stand up to them, he wants to be pres­i­dent and that’s all that mat­ters he said he will sup­port any­one who will help him get 50% plus 1.

The lame stream media was more than will­ing to acqui­esce to the Romney, Koch ‚Adelson machine, when Vice President Biden speak­ing about repub­li­can desire to let Wall Street write their own rules , In Virginia said Quote:””[Mitt Romney] said in the first hun­dred days, he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules — unchain Wall Street,” Biden told his audi­ence at The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville, Va.

“They’re going to put y’all back in chains,” he said.Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/joe-biden-outrages-romney-campaign-gop-put-americans-back-chains-article‑1.1136217#ixzz23e6s7Laq

Well , con­text does­n’t mat­ter for Romney , any­thing to change the sub­ject of his pathet­ic pick for a run­ning mate,anything to change the fact that his lies about Obama aren’t work­ing so he delved head first into his new strat­e­gy telling the lame peo­ple on CBS that the Vice President’s com­ments were one more exam­ple of a des­per­ate cam­paign, no one both­ered to ask him how come the pres­i­den­t’s cam­paign is des­per­ate when they are beat­ing him in most cat­e­gories that mat­ter and with­in the states that are up for grabs.

They sim­ply let him and his sur­ro­gates run with the lies and innu­en­dos unchallenged.

The Obama cam­paign shot back that Romney had become unhinged ..unhinged ineed,if ever the cam­paign or the can­di­date was ever hinged.

Surely that is the best char­ac­ter­i­za­tion for a froth­ing mouth patho­log­i­cal liar.

Biden does­n’t need to change the term ” put ya all back in chains” to “shack­les” what’s the dif­fer­ence? What makes the right feel that chains refer to black peo­ple ? What makes Ryan and the oth­er nut cas­es use of the word “unshack­le ” right and Biden’s wrong? When did the right care about black peo­ple any­way? Romney is the most oppor­tunis­tic politi­cian and lit­er­al­ly the worst can­di­date for pres­i­dent I have ever seen. He is just a patho­log­i­cal liar the kind of which I have nev­er ever seen.

The American vot­ers will have a sim­ple deci­sion to make come November do they want to be for­ev­er rel­e­gat­ed to serfs in their own coun­try where they will sim­ply be pawns of the filthy rich, the coun­try is already sold out to the rich­est 1%of the population.

Voters will have to ask them­selves why is it wealthy peo­ple like Charles and his broth­er David Koch and oth­ers like Sheldon Adelson are will­ing to spend hun­dreds of mil­lions to unseat pres­i­dent Obama ?

Charles Koch.….…..David Koch Sheldon Adelson

Why do these filthy rich peo­ple want to get Republicans elect­ed? These men are not patri­ots they are self­ish rot­ten rich ego­ma­ni­acs, the Koch broth­ers man­u­fac­ture myr­i­ad prod­ucts which we rou­tine­ly use in our homes and places of busi­ness each day with­out giv­ing them any thought. These include petro­le­um-based prod­ucts , oil to heat our homes, gas for our cars, paper and lum­ber prod­ucts and a litany of oth­er prod­ucts. They do not want alter­na­tive sources of ener­gy, Romney’s trek to the Dakotas to talk to coal min­ers was not an acci­dent , it was to send a mes­sage to the wealthy financiers above that he will allow them to dec­i­mate the Eco-sys­tem so they can make more mon­ey from dan­ger­ous fos­sil fuels which are lit­er­al­ly killing off mankind.

Romney once said that cli­mate change must be addressed, he now says cli­mate change can­not be proved and we can ill afford to spend mon­ey fix­ing some­thing that is unproven. this is the rea­son Obama accus­es these peo­ple of being from the flat earth soci­ety. This Summer is the hottest on record, the Polar Ice caps are melt­ing and drift­ing south, Farmers all across the coun­try are loos­ing their crops from the worst drought in 70 years, yet there are repub­li­can talk­ing heads say­ing there is no smok­ing gun to prove cli­mate change and indict man as a con­trib­u­tor to its emer­gence. I would encour­age these delu­sion­al talk­ing heads to take a look at the mean­ing of cir­cum­stan­tial evidence.

PS: A sad day for American Democracy today, a Pennsylvania Judge ruled that Republican vot­er sup­pres­sion laws devised by repub­li­cans in that state’s leg­is­la­ture and signed into law by the Republican Governor , may go forward.

It is indeed a very sober­ing time in America that this great nation seem hell-bent on self-destruc­tion, Forty sev­en years after the vot­ing Rights was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 5, 1965, over 30 States in these United states led by Republican leg­is­la­tors and Governors have turned back the clock with dra­con­ian vot­er sup­pres­sion laws designed to steal the elec­tions and hand the coun­try to a cor­po­rate hack called Mitt Romney and his pup­peteer, the Koch Brothers.

Where is the out­rage, where is the much vaunt­ed moral author­i­ty of America, ? Where is the much vaunt­ed American excep­tion­al­ism? Is this what Romney means when he talks about lead­er­ship, is this the American excep­tion­al­ism repub­li­cans like Romney and oth­ers talk about on the trail?

Mitt Romney should be ashamed to be run­ning a cam­paign of this nature, but he has no shame , he is a man on a mis­sion to nowhere, he has no char­ac­ter, sim­ply an emp­ty suit who will do any­thing and say any­thing to be pres­i­dent, so he may ful­fil the agen­da of his cor­po­rate mas­ters, a dan­ger­ous man.

May God help America if this guy is elected.

The debate over pri­or­i­ties USA Ad rages on, the Ad fea­tures steel-work­er Joe Soptic lament­ing the loss of his wife to can­cer. Mister Soptic lost his job at a steel-plant ‚when the Romney led Bain Capital closed the plant where he had worked for years.

First off that pri­or­i­ties Ad, does not run on tele­vi­sion any­where, the Ad, was made, the lame-stream media picked up on it and it went viral, so in essence pri­or­i­ties gets their mes­sage out with­out hav­ing to spend mil­lions doing so, brilliant.

That aside, some of the loud­est voic­es, as per usu­al, are com­ing from lame democ­rats.

Former Indiana US Senator Evan Bayh who left the Senate bemoan­ing the lack of bi-par­ti­san­ship in Washington DC, was on Fox Sunday morn­ing August 12^th acqui­esc­ing to John Roberts’ prompt­ing that win­ning dirty leaves the vic­tor no man­date to govern.

Evan Bayh

John Roberts for­mer­ly of CNN is now one of the talk­ing heads on Fox news, he fur­thers FOX ’ right-wing agen­da, pret­ty much like every­one else who works on that organ of mis­in­for­ma­tion and lies. Democratic guests on his Sunday morn­ing show with will find them­selves argu­ing their case against Roberts and the oth­er Republicans.

Anyway back to Evan Bayh, what does Bayh mean agree­ing with a right-wing hack, that in the event President Obama wins dirty he will get no help from Republicans in Governing? Is this guy for real ? Evan Bayh was a Hillary Clinton sup­port­er, Barack Obama won Indiana not because of Evan Bayh, but despite him. Evan Bayh rep­re­sents the group, repub­li­can or demo­c­rat ‚which is most resis­tant to Obama’s pres­i­den­cy, white male.

This is the most non­sen­si­cal state­ment that could come from any per­son claim­ing to be a demo­c­rat, where was the help com­ing from repub­li­cans, day one of Obama’s pres­i­den­cy? was it in the state­ment of Bayh’s for­mer col­league from Kentucky Mitch Mc Connel whose stat­ed goal is to make Barack Obama a one term pres­i­dent? was it in the his­toric num­ber of Republican fil­i­busters in the Senate which makes pass­ing the pres­i­den­t’s agen­da impos­si­ble? Or was it in the una­nim­i­ty with which his repub­li­can friends have ensured that they jammed the pres­i­den­t’s poli­cies, poli­cies which by the way would pro­vide jobs and improve the lives of American’s.

Or was it in the way so-called blue-dog democ­rats have wran­gled and argued, when they had the house and sen­ate and did not pass the pres­i­den­t’s agen­da? Does Bayh sup­port the pres­i­dent, is he pre­tend­ing to sup­port Barack Obama or is he a pres­i­den­tial-can­di­date in waiting?

Democrats, cow­ards that they are, one and all, includ­ing those in the Administration with the excep­tion of DNC chair Debbie Wassermann Schultz are all run­ning for the exits from an Ad which is not run­ning on paid Television, but which cuts to the heart of the truth. 

If peo­ple lose their jobs because a com­pa­ny acquire the com­pa­ny which employs them , load up that com­pa­ny with debt, then clos­es down the com­pa­ny leav­ing them out in the cold with­out mon­ey or health insur­ance, guess what they die. Joe Soptic’s wife died from can­cer, whether or not it had any­thing to do with Romney and Bain is imma­te­r­i­al. Romney wants to repeal the afford­able care Act which pre­cludes insur­ance com­pa­nies from deny­ing cov­er­age to peo­ple with what they char­ac­ter­ize as pre-exist­ing conditions. 

If sick peo­ple can­not get health care they die. It’s that sim­ple, no won­der the coun­try is in this mess in so many areas, with peo­ple like Evan Bayh who are seen as lead­ers. It’s lit­tle won­der the demo­c­ra­t­ic par­ty gets shoved around by repub­li­cans, bye-bye Evan Bayh you are cer­tain­ly not missed.

Say what you want about the Tea Party, but they have car­ried out an ide­o­log­i­cal purge of the Republican par­ty , leav­ing only peo­ple who sup­port their agen­da and are will­ing to stand and be count­ed as loy­al foot-sol­diers for their cause. Their nar­ra­tive may be lying and decep­tion but their dis­ci­pline is impeccable.

DNC Chair, Florida Congress-woman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is far more effec­tive a sur­ro­gate for the pres­i­dent than even David Axlerod who seem to have some­thing stuck in his throat when­ev­er he is on tele­vi­sion to artic­u­late the pres­i­den­t’s poli­cies, Wasserman-Shultz apt­ly laid it out for John Roberts Sunday, indict­ing the pro­pa­gan­da FOX news as hyp­o­crit­i­cal for lament­ing pri­or­i­ty’s Ad, when they nev­er opened their mouths to con­demn the assault against the pres­i­den­t’s nation­al­i­ty, human­i­ty, cred­i­bil­i­ty, sin­cer­i­ty or otherwise.

TROJAN HORSE

Paul Ryan

Republican pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Mitt Romney has demon­strat­ed yet again that he has absolute­ly no con­vic­tion, or char­ac­ter. As was being spec­u­lat­ed in the lame-stream media Romney caved in to the demands of the far right-wing of his par­ty by select­ing forty-three year-old Wisconsin con­gress­man Paul Ryan to be his run­ning-mate,. Many in the media wants you to believe that this lit­tle Trojan-horse will use his witt, charm and intel­li­gence to add vig­or and vital­i­ty to the Romney cam­paign, I humbly beg to dif­fer, in as much as Sarah Palin’s intro­duc­tion of hate , vit­ri­ol , and dem­a­goguery did not help John McCain I sub­mit this guy Ryan will bring strong appeal to the most intran­si­gent fringe of the par­ty but will chase away seniors in droves.

Paul Ryan wants to make Medicare a vouch­er pro­gram, he wants to dis­man­tle Medicaid as we know it, he wants to repeal Roe Vs Wade, and remove a wom­an’s right to choose an abor­tion even if she is raped. Ryan wants to give tril­lions in added tax breaks to the wealth­i­est Americans and pass on the bill to the middle-class.

The Ryan bud­get is more of the trick­le-down-eco­nom­ics that has con­tin­ued to wreak hav­oc on the American econ­o­my and will have fur­ther dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences if allowed to be enact­ed into law.

That doc­u­ment in Ryan’s hand is a destruc­tive pre­scrip­tion for the mid­dle and work­ing class, more give-aways to the very rich. How stu­pid do they think the elec­torate is? Did the trick­le-down eco­nom­ics of the Bush years make any­one but the 1%‘s life better?

The optics above are not acci­den­tal, these events are not staged out of igno­rance, these are care­ful­ly staged events with the optics send­ing pow­er­ful mes­sages to whom they are intend­ed. Look for more wars, most prob­a­ble with Iran, look for ter­ri­ble upheaval in the Middle-East if there is a Romney pres­i­den­cy, if you thought the Bush years were hor­ri­ble a Romney pres­i­den­cy will be horrific.

Here’s what Romney/​Ryan have in store for those who refuse to read, or those who refuse to be objec­tive, whether out of racial-ani­mus, apa­thy or oth­er­wise. More ille­git­i­mate wars ‚more mon­ey for wealthy cor­po­ra­tions ‚like Cheney/​Bush did. 

This guy is a straw can­di­date, he has no rea­son for want­i­ng to be pres­i­dent oth­er than ambi­tion. His wife Anne Romney said quote“It’s Mitt’s time, it’s our time now”. That state­ment pre­sent­ed a brief syn­op­sis of the Romney can­di­da­cy in a nut-shell.

That optic above is a sig­nal to Netanyahu the Israeli right-winger, we will crush Iran and do what­ev­er you want us to do.

Voters who are mad about 3 Trillion dol­lars added to the debt under Obama,( mon­ey spent to sta­bi­lize the econ­o­my by the way), will have a lot more that to be wor­ried about. If they are mad about 8.3 per­cent unem­ploy­ment they should vote Mitt Romney. If they are angry about slow job growth, health care they nev­er had, and an end to America’s unfund­ed wars, they should vote Romney ‚they will have a lot to cheer for in short order. Romney/​Ryan is Bush/​Chaney 2.0.

Voters had bet­ter acquaint them­selves with the issues and know what time it is , these pic­tured above cer­tain­ly do. 

I wrote recent­ly in these blogs that Republicans sin­cere­ly believe that social pro­grams being pro­posed by Democrats are repa­ra­tions for the enslave­ment of blacks in America.

Well my friends it took only a few days for you to see that I was indeed right in mak­ing the claims I did in that blog-post, Mitt Romney’s des­per­ate pres­i­den­tial cam­paign has dredged up the oft-used bogey man of Welfare to scare white peo­ple into vot­ing for them.

What’s laugh­able is that when­ev­er they go for the wel­fare scare, you know they are des­per­ate. Ronald Reagan the holy grail of per­fec­tion for right-wing nut cas­es used the scare of wel­fare queens to make his argu­ment that rich peo­ple were being asked to sub­sidise the life style of the lazy, shift­less negroes.

Obama Romney

He was not the first to play the race card to get votes and he cer­tain­ly will not be the last. As I argued in my blog-post on this sub­ject ‚Newt Gingrich in push­ing for wel­fare reform dur­ing the Clinton Presidency, had a very rude awak­en­ing when he dis­cov­ered that the vast major­i­ty of wel­fare recip­i­ents were not black peo­ple but mid­dle-aged white women. That dis­cov­ery qui­et­ed the wel­fare scare for a cou­ple of elec­tion cycles. That did not stop the old hate mon­ger Gingrich, from scrap­ing the bot­tom of the race-bait­ing well in this very pri­ma­ry past, call­ing the pres­i­dent the wel­fare president.

So what does Mitt Romney hope to gain from attack­ing President Obama on the sub­ject of wel­fare ? Does Romney believe with 8.3 per­cent unem­ploy­ment (arguably caused by repub­li­can intran­si­gence), the edu­ca­tion of the pub­lic by groups like occu­py wall street about the inequity of our finan­cial sys­tem, and the Obama’s cam­paign pum­mel­ing of Romney on Bain, that some­how vot­ers are going to say “I want to side with the rich guy”?

I’ll tell you straight up it’s not gonna hap­pen, all the polls are point­ing to Obama pulling away from Romney in this race, even the FOX polls have Obama up by 9 points nationally.

Romney does­n’t want to talk about his time at Bain Capital, he does­n’t want to talk about his tenure as Governor of a lib­er­al New England State, he does­n’t want to talk about his sig­na­ture health care accom­plish­ment (Romney care), he does­n’t want to talk about his tax returns, he does­n’t want to talk about his Mormon Faith.

What the hell can we talk about ?

Mitt Romney wants to be elect­ed President of the United States as a stealth can­di­date, with the vot­ing pub­lic hav­ing no idea who he is​.IN effect he wants to be pres­i­dent by default.

Mitt Romney is feel­ing the heat of hav­ing to rep­re­sent a par­ty that has lurched alarm­ing­ly off track , (if it ever was on track to begin with). The Republican par­ty of Chuck Hagel, Colin Powell, and William Cohen is a dis­tant mem­o­ry. The Republican par­ty has been hijacked by a moron­ic mob of rag­ing lunatic pitch-fork bear­ing witch-hunters.

What is left is a bunch of degen­er­ates led by the likes of Rusk Limbaugh, Dick Chaney, Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin and oth­ers. Straw men who front in the par­ty are just fig­ure heads for the lunatic fringe.Mitt Romney was once the Governor of the state of Massachuset, Mitt Romney was once a rea­son­able busi­ness­man who want­ed to do good in pol­i­tics, and he tried , no one believes Mitt Romney is an evil man.

What we believe is that Romney has allowed the quest for pow­er to cause him to sell his soul to the dev­il, his father must be dis­ap­point­ed in what his son turned out to be. The true test of a man is nev­er about how much mon­ey he makes, a man is judged by the con­tent of his char­ac­ter (Dr, Martin Luther King Jnr.)

Romney has shown no char­ac­ter, no balls in stand­ing up to the hate mon­gers on the right, he has stead­fast­ly refused to talk about poli­cies that he intends to enact if he was to be elect­ed pres­i­dent. He has sought instead to dem­a­gogue the pres­i­dent for doing a bad job , even though pres­i­dent Obama has done a decent job , giv­en the hand he was dealt.

I am not argu­ing that Romney should go about the coun­try extolling the virtues of Obama, what I do believe is that a man of char­ac­ter would tell the slime-balls, “NO” when­ev­er they lift their despi­ca­ble heads to say igno­rant moron­ic nean­derthal things about the president.

Romney how­ev­er can­not do that , his cam­paign is built on lies, he has no hon­esty , no char­ac­ter, no soul. He wants to be pres­i­dent , not because he cares about peo­ple, not because it’s a call­ing as per George Bush, he wants to be pres­i­dent because he and his wife believes “it’s their turn”.

How iron­ic, Mit Romney is now whin­ing that the President and his sur­ro­gates are telling lies on him, this in ref­er­ence to an Ad by Bill Burton’s Priorities USA http://​www​.pri​or​i​tiesusaac​tion​.org/ which fea­tures a steel-work­er ‚Joe Soptic talk­ing about his wife dying from can­cer after the steel plant where he worked was closed by Romney and Bain Capital. Bain Capital is the com­pa­ny Romney owned and oper­at­ed which took over busi­ness­es loaded them up with debt then filed for bank­rupt­cy. This prac­tise saw work­ers thrown out of their jobs, loos­ing their homes, and health insur­ance, usu­al­ly result­ing in dire hard­ship for for­mer employ­ees, while Bain Capital, Romney and their share-hold­ers reaped huge cash wind-falls.

As is usu­al when lib­er­als fight back the moral­i­ty police comes out of the wood-work gnash­ing their teeth that the Ad has gone too far. The brain-dead Morning Joe pro­gram on MSNBC spent an entire seg­ment moan­ing about the Ad, with the dim-wit­ted Mika Bresinski putting on a full dis­play of why she is an intel­lec­tu­al light-weight, with very lit­tle to asso­ciate her with her estab­lished father. Scarborough and the oth­er talk­ing-heads were more than hap­py to spend that entire seg­ment lament­ing the Priorities Ad , but are total­ly inca­pable of get­ting either Romney or any of his cam­paign sur­ro­gates on their show to defend his two-year long cam­paign of lies and dis­tor­tions against pres­i­dent Obama.

Mitt Romney is a patho­log­i­cal liar, ask Newt Gingrich who now con­ve­nient­ly sup­ports him .http://http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/03/news/la-pn-gingrich-romney-liar-iowa-caucus-20120103

Romney Care

Mitt Romney’s entire cam­paign is built on lies. The very notion that his sig­na­ture health care law, Romney care in Massachusetts, is some­how dif­fer­ent from the Affordable Care Act, Obama-care is a farce and a ter­rif­ic stretch of the truth, and Romney knows it. Romney was once proud of this piece of leg­is­la­tion and he has trum­pet­ed its suc­cess before this elec­tion cycle. Interestingly Romney is now unable to talk about this pos­i­tive piece of leg­is­la­tion he craft­ed because of the fear he has for the far-right nut jobs that have now tak­en over the repub­li­can party.

Mitt Romney

The argu­ment that his plan was craft­ed for his state, and not for the whole coun­try is the biggest piece of baloney this side of the Mississippi, there is no cred­i­bil­i­ty to that incred­u­lous asser­tion , at least none that makes sense to any­one except the fools on the right. The infer­ence inher­ent in that idio­cy is , the fact that his plan works and is loved by the peo­ple of Massachusetts is a suc­cess makes it a non-starter for the entire country.

Apologising for America

Mitt Romney nev­er miss­es a oppur­tu­ni­ty to paint the pres­i­dent as an apol­o­gis­er-in-chief , he stri­dent­ly asserts that President Obama has apol­o­gised to for­eign lead­ers for America’s transgressions.

Despite the fact that this lie has been debunked over and over again by inde­pen­dent fact-check­ers, who them­selves assert that this pres­i­dent has nev­er apol­o­gised for America , Romney refus­es to allow facts to get in the way of his appease­ment-lies, designed to assuage the lunatic hate mon­gers on the right.

I cringe at play­ing the dev­ils advo­cate for even a sec­ond but let’s just assume that President Obama had apol­o­gised to , let’s say the Iraqi peo­ple for the inva­sion of their coun­try which killed arguably hun­dreds of thou­sands of their coun­try-men, how would that be a bad thing?

What if pres­i­dent Obama had apol­o­gised to the nations which had their Nationals water-board­ed as per the orders of Bush/​Chaney ‚con­trary to the Geneva Conventions which out­lawed tor­ture, how would that be a bad thing?

What if the pres­i­dent had apol­o­gised to Cuba for over fifty years of block­ade, how would that be bad? I could go on and on but I stop here.

Mitt Romney is a mem­ber of the Mormon Faith, the Church of Latter Day Saints, I am not con­ver­sant with their teach­ings , yet I would wager that they preach for­give­ness, I would also wager that they teach that redemp­tion comes through con­fes­sions and ask­ing for for­give­ness. Maybe Mitt Romney has not been attend­ing church, maybe Romney believes that send­ing a large check will get him into Heaven.

It behoves Mitt Romney to acquaint him­self with the prin­ci­ples of hon­est, fideli­ty to the truth, con­fes­sions of the heart and ask­ing for forgiveness.

Maybe Romney should acquaint him­self to the prin­ci­ple of doing onto oth­ers as he would have them do onto him.

The truth is Mitt Romney more than like­ly had zero to do with that poor lady’s death , yet he is sim­ply get­ting a taste of the snake-oil he has been ped­dling for the last five years he has been run­ning for president.

You spit in the sky it falls in your face, kar­ma is a… you know what I mean? Why not run a decent cam­paign? Why not out­line a pol­i­cy ‑strat­e­gy that you hon­est­ly feel will be bet­ter than the one being pur­sued by the present Administration? How about truth and hon­esty mis­ter Romney ?

You see what­ev­er you do tend to have a boomerang effect, you lie , lies comes back to haunt you, is pow­er worth your cred­i­bil­i­ty and hon­or? You have mon­ey and lots of it , how about stand­ing for some­thing big­ger than your­self? How about telling the racists on FOX and all over hate radio that you want to be dif­fer­ent, that you do not hate pres­i­dent Obama, you sim­ply don’t agree with his policies?

Naaah that would be way beyond what could be asked of you, after all it does not mat­ter how you win , it’s just that you win, right?

Take a look in the mir­ror and ask your­self what would my father George Romney do? I’ll tell you he sure would stand for some­thing, can you?

George Romney

Gaff prone Republican presumptive nominee for president Mitt Romney has so far ran a campaign of loathsome lies against Barack Obama,which is unprecedented in our lifetime.

Yet despite the lies ‚mis­in­for­ma­tion and bla­tant distortions,Romney can­not seem to close the deal with his own par­ty, much less so-called independents.

Forgive me for the slight Independents, I just don’t buy the baloney you guys sell, I think you all know who you are going to vote for despite claim­ing that you are inde­pen­dents, I just believe you are a group of peo­ple who will change your votes based on who offers you what you want to hear.

I may be out on a limb here, but help me out Independents, do explain to me how you could pos­si­bly vote repub­li­can if you are a per­son who believes that every per­son should have a shot at life, that the tax­es com­man­deered from us, is bet­ter spent on health-care, edu­ca­tion, help­ing the old and indi­gent, than on wag­ing wars on coun­tries far less able than us to defend themselves?

Conversely my Independent friends, how can you vote demo­c­ra­t­ic if you believe in tiny gov­ern­ment that allows the poor to fend for them­selves or die from hunger, if you believe that women should car­ry a baby to full-term, even if she was vio­lent­ly raped,if you believe that health care should be made into a vouch­er pro­gram which cov­ers some ill­ness­es and when it runs out , well tough the patient is out of luck, if you believe that the super rich should be giv­en even more mon­ey even though they do not need it, how could you vote democratic?

You see my so-called Independent friends, you are real­ly not inde­pen­dent you are just cow­ard­ly unprin­ci­pled peo­ple who are will­ing to sell your votes to the high­est bidder.

Glad I got that off my chest.

Ok so we know that most Republicans are liars.

We know they will do any­thing to gain pow­er, we saw that in Bush V Gore that prin­ci­ples be damned, win at all cost even if it means stop­ping the vote count to get the result they wanted.

We know that there are racists every­where, most racists now have sanc­tu­ary in the Republican party.

There a lot of oth­er things we know and have seen in this par­ty which has lurched dras­ti­cal­ly to the right after the elec­tion of Barack Obama, so much so that it is now perched pre­car­i­ous­ly on the precipice of irrelevance.

What is it that fright­ened them you ask? “are you kidding”?Many whites ran to that par­ty from as far back as the 60’s after the sign­ing of the Civil Rights Act into Law by President Linden Johnson. Many peo­ple now find it ridicu­lous that some peo­ple could argue that the rights they have and take for grant­ed were some­how unique to them and their kind and off-lim­its to others.

Whether one agrees with same-sex union or not, it behoves all of us to look at their cause in par­al­lel prism, as we see our racial problems.

As I have argued pre­vi­ous­ly in oth­er blogs, some whites who have nev­er been exposed to oth­er cul­tures have very parochial views regard­ing oth­ers, whether on the issue of race , reli­gion, sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion or any oth­er defin­ing char­ac­ter­is­tic, their views are lim­it­ed to their State, or in some cas­es their county.

Many peo­ple in parts of this great mass of land have nev­er left the coun­ty in which they were born and nei­ther have they allowed their minds to wan­der to oth­er parts of America ‚much less anoth­er coun­try. It in not incon­ceiv­able then to under­stand how some with evil intent would prey on these peo­ple allud­ing to and stok­ing their fears born from the par­ents of igno­rance, fear and parochialism.

The Republican Party is now the engine of fear, igno­rance, racial intol­er­ance, and hatred, lies, and dem­a­goguery. The Republican Party is des­tined to become a region­al par­ty of white peo­ple if they con­tin­ue on this course they are on. It is impos­si­ble to see how their direc­tion can be sus­tained in light of the fact that they have alien­at­ed Blacks, Hispanics, with the excep­tion of the Cubans in Miami, Gays and Lesbians,most Jews, Asians, Muslims, women, and the list goes on. With minori­ties now mak­ing up the major­i­ty in America, and the Hispanic pop­u­la­tion grow­ing at a rapid rate it bog­gles the mind to under­stand their strategy.

Is the strat­e­gy to purge vot­ers lists as we have seen in Florida Pennsylvania, and oth­er states? Does the strat­e­gy include mass-depor­ta­tion of black and brown peo­ple, includ­ing chil­dren born in America to un-doc­u­ment­ed res­i­dents? Does the strat­e­gy include oth­er leg­is­la­tion which will fur­ther dis­en­fran­chise some peo­ple from vot­ing as we have seen with the tak­ing away of rights of peo­ple who had some prob­lems with the law even though they have paid their debt to society?

Just recent­ly Governor Duval Patrick of Massachuset sent back a bill to the Legislature that would arbi­trar­i­ly remove any dis­cre­tion from a tri­al Judge if an offend­er has three strikes, irre­spec­tive of the offence com­mit­ted by said offend­er. This leg­is­la­tion is of course as you guessed it the brain child of Republicans in the Massachuset Legislature. Patrick sent the bill back demand­ing changes which will give Judges dis­cre­tion to make deci­sions of mit­i­ga­tion depend­ing on the case. Some have stri­dent­ly argued that remov­ing the arbi­trary 3 strikes clause from the Bill has defeat­ed the pur­pose, and don’t be sur­prised to learn that those com­ments have come from at least one Democrat in the Massachuset Legislature.

Despite mount­ing evi­dence that 3 strikes laws do more harm than good, in states like California and New York, Republicans in the state of Massachuset are pre­pared to go ahead and insti­tute dra­con­ian laws that are sure to have seri­ous neg­a­tive con­se­quences on the lives of poor peo­ple who are unable to afford high-priced com­pe­tent legal representation.

Legislators may change the Bill, or they may send it back to him for his sig­na­ture, in which case he may sign or veto it, upon which the leg­is­la­ture will seek to over-ride his veto.

These it seem are the strate­gies Republicans have decid­ed to employ going for­ward, let see how long they will get away with it.

As Republicans employ strategies designed to steal the upcoming general elections, their standard bearer took a trip overseas to burnish his non-existent foreign policy credentials.

Mitt Romney went to England and insult­ed the Brits even as they staged the 30^th Olympiad in the so-called mod­ern era. But before we get to his British débâ­cle, one of his cam­paign oper­a­tives crowed that “Romney will have a good trip ‚as both he and the Brits share an Anglo-Saxon heritage” .

You can­not make these things up, Romney’s cam­paign in the year 2012 believes that an under­stand­ing is guar­an­teed because peo­ple have a shared blood-line, this is the belief of the Romney cam­paign, dumb , racist igno­rant but we will come back to the dumb racist ignoramuses.

So Romney goes to England and did not take ques­tions from the American Press corps,but was still able to make a jack-ass of him­self, (no dis­re­spect to Jack-asses)

Being the pompous ego-mani­ac he is, he could­n’t con­tain him­self when asked by NBC’s Brian Williams how he felt about the prepa­ra­tions so far regard­ing the Olympics, eager to show his busi­ness bona fides Romney jumped head first telling Williams that there were a few things that were dis­con­cert­ing to him, detail­ing immi­gra­tion offi­cers on strike , insuf­fi­cient secu­ri­ty Guards and oth­er issues, he went into a litany of what he thought was wrong.

Romney was­n’t answer­ing the ques­tion as a poten­tial pres­i­dent of the United States , he is for­ev­er stuck as the head hon­cho of Bain Capital, and the guy who ran the Salt Lake City Olympics,and he would be damned if he was­n’t going to show how supe­ri­or his skills were. The only prob­lem is, he for­got he was in anoth­er country.

So he end­ed up get­ting impaled in Britain by London’s Mayor,who ref­ered to him as “This guy Romney”, British Prime Minister David Cameron a Conservative with whom Romney should have had a love fest, stat­ed pub­licly that England was putting on the Olympics in a major world Metropolis, which is dif­fer­ent from stag­ing the event in  “nev­er-where” , an appar­ent slight, in ref­er­ence to Salt Lake City. The British Media was not going to let this guy off the hook either, one pub­li­ca­tion blared the head­line, MITT the TWITT , anoth­er asked “who invit­ed Romney the par­ty pooper”?

So like every­thing he had done before by the next day Romney was in dam­age con­trol, walk­ing back his com­ments, explain­ing that every­thing would be fine, the more he kissed up the ugli­er the sit­u­a­tion became. I can­not stand the guy, but I had pity for him , he showed him­self to be an absolute fool. Conservative icon Charles Krauthammer stat­ed emphat­i­cal­ly that he had run out of adjec­tives, he was mys­ti­fied, it was incom­pre­hen­si­ble he lament­ed “all this guy had to do is say nothing”.

Romney was­n’t done embar­rass­ing him­self , which is cool with me, but the poten­tial harm he has done to the United States on this trip is seri­ous and no laugh­ing mat­ter. After meet­ing with the Palestinian pres­i­dent he tried to kiss up to Jews in Israel includ­ing Casino mag­nate Sheldon Alderson who is hell-bent on buy­ing the elec­tions for republicans.

“You notice a stark dif­fer­ence in eco­nom­ic vital­i­ty” between Israel and the Palestinians, Romney said, pro­ceed­ing to bad­ly flub the eco­nom­ic out­put num­bers on both sides. “And as I come here and I look out over this city and con­sid­er the accom­plish­ments of the peo­ple of this nation, I rec­og­nize the pow­er of at least cul­ture and a few oth­er things,” he said, cit­ing an inno­v­a­tive busi­ness cli­mate and the Jewish his­to­ry of thriv­ing in dif­fi­cult cir­cum­stances).(The Seattle Times.com)

Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian offi­cial, said Romney’s com­ments are hurt­ing U.S. efforts to restore Washington’s stand­ing in the Muslim and Arab world.

“There are 57 Muslim and Arab coun­tries here, and while U.S. diplo­mats are exert­ing every pos­si­ble effort to explain their posi­tion, here comes Romney, with no knowl­edge of the region, its his­to­ry and cul­ture, and gives such state­ments, which will only serve as ammu­ni­tion in the hands of extrem­ists in this region,” Erekat said.The Seattle Times​.com)

Can you imag­ine the lev­el of vit­ri­olic bile laden attacks which would have been thrown at Barack Obama had he done a tenth of the dam­age Romney has done when he took a sim­i­lar trip in 2008? What makes Romneys flubs even more dis­gust­ing and infu­ri­at­ing are the con­tin­u­ous lies he tells about Obama apol­o­gis­ing for America, as if apol­o­gis­ing is a bad thing, had the pres­i­dent done so.

He lies that the pres­i­dent does not under­stand American excep­tion­al­ism, code word for (supe­ri­or­i­ty over oth­ers). It is that racist, igno­rant, arro­gance which caused him to make the state­ments he did in Israel.

He works him­self into a lath­er , froth­ing at the mouth as he lies about Obama’s record, yet he refus­es to release his tax records, he refus­es to tell vot­ers that he indeed has mon­ey in tax shel­ters in the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Switzerland nad God knows where else , yet he has the nerve to ques­tion the pres­i­den­t’s com­mit­ment to America.

This is a guy who find no per­son objec­tion­able as long as they give him mon­e­tary or oth­er sup­port, Donald Trump among the many, no com­ment is deemed to be offen­sive by this guy, he has no scru­ples, no soul , he has no moral char­ac­ter, many argue that he is a good fam­i­ly man, I would humbly ask what makes a man good if he is only good to his own fam­i­ly? Where is the benev­o­lence of Romney oth­er than to the Mormon Church? This guy is like water, no shape , no char­ac­ter, he say and does any­thing to get what he wants . He takes the shape of what­ev­er cir­cum­stance he is in.

These are the char­ac­ter­is­tics of a poten­tial­ly dan­ger­ous per­son who can eas­i­ly be manip­u­lat­ed.

This kind of per­son is eas­i­ly manip­u­lat­ed, eas­i­ly used, hence we see the neo-cons have start­ed draw­ing clos­er to his cam­paign, Don Señor, Dick Chaney and oth­ers who led this coun­try into two wars and almost finan­cial ruina­tion are back around the Romney campaign.

Can Mitt Romney be trust­ed with the Nuclear codes ????????????

Mitt Romney went to Reno Nevada today and spoke to vet­er­ans of Foreign Wars, the group was addressed by the pres­i­dent on July 23^rd. Romney addressed the group as he pre­pared to leave for England, Poland and Israel.

I could­n’t help but chuck­le as I watched him strut­ting around the stage like a wound-up toy, with his sig­na­ture short, rapid, stiff steps, then lis­ten­ing to his bel­li­cose Foreign Policy speech that was giv­en to him by the neo-cons in his par­ty who are still on the same destruc­tive path they have been on for decades. Their Foreign premised on America’s Military strength and Hegemony. They believe America should go around the around the world top­pling gov­ern­ments and installing the inter­est of the 1%.

Obama obvi­ous­ly thinks what worked for him last time is going to work this time, the mis­ter nice guy demeanor works when you are first seek­ing the pres­i­den­cy, I’m not sure this will play very well with the elec­torate this time around. Obama spoke yes­ter­day in Reno with­out address­ing Romney by name, his address before this tra­di­tion­al group was rather tame and lack-lus­ter, not so with Romney.

Mitt Romney was all lath­ered up, froth spew­ing from the sides of his mouth, as he strug­gled to deliv­er the lie-laden right-wing spiel, his deci­bel lev­el increased marked­ly as the veins in his neck bulged out , every line an attack on Obama, with noth­ing beyond if I’m your pres­i­dent I will or I will not depend­ing on the line.

Obama for his part goes around talk­ing as if he is still a law pro­fes­sor, speak­ing in vague terms that repub­li­cans pick apart and use against him. As I have said before if Obama feels he will win this elec­tion com­ing up in November by being nice he is wrong, if the pres­i­dent is tired or feel he has noth­ing to prove and as such he is will­ing to throw this elec­tion, he should step aside and allow a Democratic can­di­date like Hillary Clinton to step up and defend the par­ty and the ideals intel­li­gent peo­ple in this coun­try believe in .

Romney’s plan to win the pres­i­den­cy is sim­ple it seem, tell as many lies on Obama as is pos­si­ble, berate him at cam­paign stops on those lies, then say I am not Obama, vote for me. Of course Mitt Romney’s only rea­son for want­i­ng to be pres­i­dent is that he wants to be president.

So far it seem it is work­ing nation­al polls have shown him run­ning neck and neck with Obama, and of course there are more than enough low infor­ma­tion and illit­er­ates who will be vot­ing who frankly may real­ize Romney’s raw ambi­tion for him. They may just make his strat­e­gy a viable one.

Republicans have long used for­eign pol­i­cy to bash Democrats over the head, type-cast­ing them as timid appeasers who are afraid to use mil­i­tary pow­er to defend America’s inter­ests, and by exten­sion unfit to gov­ern America.

As such, Republicans have arguably used mil­i­tary mus­cle to demon­strate tough­ness even when some of their most rabid war-hawks have nev­er served a day in any branch of the military.

The failed attempt at res­cu­ing American hostages held in Iran dur­ing the Carter Presidency only exac­er­bat­ed that mis­con­cep­tion. Even though that mishap was not the fault of President Carter, he was blamed for that fail­ure, which lit­er­al­ly pro­pelled the Country into 8 years of Reagan rule.

Had the attempt in Pakistan to get Osama Bin Laden gone the way of that débâ­cle in the Iranian desert, the icing would have been on the cake, not just for the Obama Presidency, but for the chances of Democrats for years to come.

With that said it is fas­ci­nat­ing to see a pres­i­den­tial cam­paign being waged with repub­li­cans unable to men­tion for­eign pol­i­cy with democ­rats run­ning for the exits. As a mat­ter of fact repub­li­cans have thus far made sure not to open up the pan­do­ra-box called for­eign pol­i­cy this elec­tion cycle,with the excep­tion of Mitt Romney lying in cer­tain parts of the coun­try that pres­i­dent Obama goes around the world apol­o­gis­ing for America. Of course Romney only does this in cer­tain red states where he knows this kind of luna­cy plays to the hatred some nut-cas­es have for the pres­i­dent. That lie has been fact checked and there is no evi­dence pres­i­dent Obama has ever apol­o­gised for America.

While we are on the sub­ject , If America has done wrong to some­one or a coun­try isn’t an apol­o­gy in order? Since when apolo­gies are bad things? What does it say about those who see gen­uine apol­o­gy as a negative?

The Obama cam­paign has been hit­ting Mitt Romney on his asser­tion that he is qual­i­fied to be pres­i­dent because of his time in busi­ness, as Paul Begala stat­ed Mitt Romney is a one trick pony who has staked his entire pres­i­den­tial run on the prospect of the econ­o­my tanking.

Of course the pres­i­den­t’s re-elec­tion cam­paign will not to sit idly by and let Romney lie that his tenure as head of Bain Capital gave him a right to the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. Irrespective of Anne Romney’s asser­tion that quote (“it’s our time now , it’s Mitt’s time now”) infer­ring that the pres­i­den­cy was a monar­chy to be passed on to the most entitled.

As Newt Gingrich and oth­ers had shown ‚Bain Capital may have made Mitt Romney a very wealth man, kudos to him, but it also presents prob­lems for him as far as the claims he made about being a job cre­ator, and his con­tin­ued attacks on China and out­sourc­ing. Romney it turns out is a pio­neer in the art of out­sourc­ing American jobs as head of Bain Capital.

The Obama cam­paign have kept up a sus­tained attack on Romney’s record at Bain, par­tic­u­lar­ly in swing states, over the objec­tions of weak knee Democrats like Corey Booker Newark Mayor, Ed Rendell for­mer Governor of Pennsylvania, and for­mer con­gress­man Harold Ford.

Team Obama not car­ing about the crit­i­cisms from those pon­tif­i­cat­ing democ­rats have kept up the drum-beat on Bain and it has paid off big time, by itself the incon­sis­ten­cies about the time Romney left Bain may not be a smok­ing gun, but when viewed with­in the prism of his refusal to release more than one year’s tax returns, and what many refer to as his colos­sal lack of trans­paren­cy, the Obama cam­paign is con­fi­dent they are onto some­thing which dis­qual­i­fies Mitt Romney from being a viable alter­na­tive to their can­di­date, Barack Obama.

Romney and his cam­paign has con­sis­tent­ly cho­sen to obfus­cate, using the tired old line that the Obama attack and asser­tions are a dis­trac­tion , argu­ing that Obama can­not run on his record, and as a result he is run­ning on distractions.

Whenever they use this line of talk­ing points Democrats do not push back against it, whether it be jour­nal­ists or sur­ro­gates of Obama they let those talk­ing points go unchallenged.

I though killing Bin Laden , restor­ing over 3 mil­lion jobs to the mid­dle class, pass­ing the afford­able care act, repeal­ing don’t ask don’t tell, sign­ing the Lilly Ledbetter Act into law, end­ing the Iraq War, esca­lat­ing and then draw­ing down on the Afghanistan war would be a pret­ty impres­sive resume on which to run, but I digress, lily liv­er­ied Democrats do not think that record war­rants a sound defense and a push back against Republican lies.

Romney push­es the nar­ra­tive that any attempt to vet him for the high­est office in the coun­try is a dis­trac­tion, by that rea­son­ing he wants to be held to a less­er stan­dard than that which Senate Republicans have for President Obama’s nom­i­nees to the fed­er­al bench. Romney wants to be allowed into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as a stealth can­di­date, a Manchurian can­di­date of sorts.

So he goes around the coun­try froth­ing at the mouth as he lies about Obama’s record in a rabid deranged lath­er, yet he offers noth­ing to the faith­ful intel­lec­tu­al­ly chal­lenged, who gath­er to hear his litany of lies .

He has so far released only one year’s tax returns, a strat­e­gy that has befud­dled even staunch Conservatives like william Kristol of the Weekly Standard and George Will Conservative Icon. Ironically Romney’s father George Romney set the stan­dard for trans­paren­cy when he released a report­ed 12 years of tax returns in his failed run for the pres­i­den­cy, the elder­ly Romney argued that one year’s returns could not pos­si­bly be a true rep­re­sen­ta­tive sam­ple, in essence it could be a fluke.

Obviously Willard Mitt Romney does not sub­scribe to that part of his father’s doc­trine, even though he is always quick to be on his late father’s band-wag­gon on oth­er issues when it suits him. The truth behind this tax headache for Romney can be found in Romney’s own state­ments, dur­ing the pri­maries when a debate ques­tion­er asked him why not just release his tax returns, Romney stat­ed blunt­ly, he wants to beat President Obama and he would not release his tax returns to give the Obama cam­paign weapons to blud­geon him with. He has made that point time and again. In short what that means is that there is dam­ag­ing and damn­ing mate­r­i­al in those tax returns which pre­cludes Romney from releas­ing them , as such, despite pres­sure from even those in his own par­ty he is unable to release them for fear of the effects it will have on his chances to take the White House.

Romney and his peo­ple knows what’s in those returns and they are deter­mined to ride out this tide, they hope that this will die down soon enough and they will get away with it. Between Swiss bank accounts, invest­ments in Bermuda , and the Cayman Islands the Obama cam­paign should have a feed­ing fren­zy at this for the next four months.

Right-wink nut cas­es will lash out with ghast­ly putrid and ran­cid racist bile, they will lie they will name-call, and they will spew ven­omous hatred at Obama, it will not change the facts , what I wor­ry about are the so-called Democrats who side with repub­li­cans ‚which the President can well do without.

When the President’s deputy cam­paign man­ag­er Stephanie Cutter stat­ed that either Romney lied to the FEC on the forms he signed that he was in charge at Bain Capital after 1999, (which is a felony), or he lied to the American peo­ple when he said he left the firm in 1999 which would be (a seri­ous ques­tion of char­ac­ter), she was exact­ly cor­rect. Of corse Ed Rendell was the first to crit­i­cize Cutter. With friends like Rendell Obama needs no ene­mies. Rendell is a Clinton loy­al­ist who may still be har­bour­ing grudges that his can­di­date Hillary Clinton lost the pri­maries to Barack Obama. It is no sur­prise that peo­ple like Rendell are not a part of Obama’s inner circle.

Republicans do not mince words and they all repeat the same sto­ry-line, no mat­ter how much of a lie it is. They are despi­ca­ble liars, yet the Bookers, Rendell, and Harold Fords are the first appeasers to crit­i­cize fel­low democ­rats for doing what they are too scared to do, speak in a clear unequiv­o­cal and con­cise lan­guage, as Stephanie Cutter did, which need­ed no walk-back or apol­o­gy. What Stephanie said is what all democ­rats should line up to learn from miss Cutter how to deliv­er a mes­sage with­out ambiguity.

Barack Obama has tak­en the for­eign pol­i­cy big stick from repub­li­cans, they are seething mad that they can­not beat this pres­i­dent on for­eign pol­i­cy, so they are run­ning on one thing and one thing only, their bet on a bad economy.

It’s no won­der that class-less ide­o­logues like Dick Cheney went to Washington to help Republicans fight against Military cuts that repub­li­cans and democ­rats came to agree­ment on. As he did as vice pres­i­dent Cheney used lies and dis­tor­tions to take this coun­try into an ille­gal and unjust war against the Iraqi people.

First they argued that Saddam Hussein had some­thing to do with ⁹⁄₁₁ , when that lie was debunked by the intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty the lying Chaney all but demand­ed that they dis­tort their own intel­li­gence to suit their nar­ra­tive and drum-beat for war. In a tru­ly demo­c­ra­t­ic coun­try Dick Cheney would be serv­ing a life sen­tence for war crimes.

Of course Cheney would not allow the fact that there were no con­nec­tions between Saddam Hussein and ⁹⁄₁₁, no weapons of mass destruc­tion in Iraq, noth­ing was going to stop the drum­beat for war to sat­is­fy Cheney and the oth­er neo-cons in the Bush Administration hell-bent on hege­mo­ny and fill­ing the pock­ets of com­pa­nies like Halliburton, Black Water and oth­ers asso­ci­at­ed with , you guessed it Dick Cheney.

Of course Cheney is in Washington DC to ral­ly repub­li­cans to oppose cuts to the bloat­ed waste­ful bureau­cra­cy called the Pentagon, yet Romney and his repub­li­can friends are will­ing to gut pro­grams which help the most des­per­ate and vul­ner­a­ble Americans. PS. Republicans and democ­rats agreed to those cuts.

Paul Ryan’s bud­get which Romney calls fab­u­lous would gut 3.3 Trillion dol­lars from pro­grams which aids the poor, like food stamps, meals on wheels and oth­er crit­i­cal pro­grams that many peo­ple depend on for life itself. Republicans do not believe that the poor should live, they have no use for peo­ple who are not rich 1 %ers.

One would think that after Cheney jumped the line and received a heart from some­one who made a con­scious deci­sion to be an organ donor, or their fam­i­ly mem­bers had the courage to donate that deceased heart, Cheney would have been a dif­fer­ent human being, maybe have some class, less vile and despi­ca­ble, this is not the case he is still the same hate­ful dis­gust­ing vile crea­ture he has always been.

Of course Mitt (enti­tled to the pres­i­den­cy) Romney just wants to be pres­i­dent, no one should ask about his tax returns, no one should delve into his tenure as the head of Bain Capital, even though his entire argu­ment why he wants to be pres­i­dent is that he is mis­ter fix-it based on his tenure at the afore­men­tioned Bain Capital.

The ven­omous hatred we have grown accus­tomed to com­ing from the idiot right has spread far and away from the reg­u­lar morons, and intel­lec­tu­aly con­sti­pat­ed reg­u­lars like the over-weight igno­ra­mus blow-hard Rush the drug­gie Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, the three stooges that make up the so-called FOX and Friends and the oth­ers too many to mention.

The black­ness of Barack Obama, and his audac­i­ty to want to occu­py the White House has unleashed an avalanche of hatred that many have nev­er seen in their life time, yet they bury their heads in their hands and pre­tend that what we see hap­pen­ing are things oth­er than what it they are, vile putrid, ran­cid, racial pol­i­tics at it’s worst.

Not to be out­done Mitt Romney has found him­self a place on the band-wag­gon mak­ing the pres­i­dent of the United States some­how not an American.

Imagine John Sununu, Romney sur­ro­gate, and Bush 41 chief of staff say­ing he wish­es this pres­i­dent would learn how to be an American.The nerve of this guy who was born in Cuba.

Sununu was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of Victoria (née Dada) and John Saleh Sununu, an inter­na­tion­al film dis­trib­u­tor.^[1] He is of Palestinian and Greek descent [2]. His father grew up in Jerusalem, Palestine and his moth­er was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, as part of the mass exo­dus of Palestinians abroad to seek a bet­ter life.{wikipedia}This is the rabid attack Dog that Romney has unleashed against pres­i­dent Obama, an inter­lop­er like myself, who was born out­side this coun­try , but have the nerve to attack the sit­ting pres­i­dent, hav­ing the nerve temer­i­ty and gall to label the pres­i­dent of the United States of America as an outsider!!

Mitt Romney , Michele wild eye Bachman, Palin and all of the despot­ic igno­ra­mus­es on the lunatic fringe seem not to have got­ten the memo that the civ­il war is over and they lost.

One more thing to all you racist vile crea­tures who feel tha Barack Obama does not belong here, I have news for you, when Christopher Columbus dis­cov­ered America where peo­ple were already liv­ing their lives, African-Americans were already here, so chew on that Chaney, Bachman, Limbaugh, Beck ‚Hannity, and all you racist pon­tif­i­caters. The rea­son you have so much talk is because of the pas­siv­i­ty of the black race.

I will fol­low-up on this subject.

Recent dis­play of boor­ish behav­ior and what amounts to a trag­ic race to the bot­tom by Parliamentarians, once again expos­es the need for our coun­try to get on the road to being a coun­try of laws.

It is not unusu­al to see rude coarse dis­plays on tele­vi­sion by some who ought to behave at the high­est lev­els and ought to set the best exam­ple because of their perch. This bad behav­ior is not con­fined to Jamaica’s house of representatives,but unfor­tu­nate­ly has become a sta­ple of oth­er coun­tries the world over.

As we pull our hair out in exas­per­a­tion and dis­gust, we wor­ry and are remind­ed that this new norm rep­re­sents a depar­ture from a kinder gen­tler time when peo­ple of all stripes respect­ed each oth­er. It is impos­si­ble to say whether we will ever return to civil­i­ty or ever desist as Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller demands, or we must now accli­ma­tize our­selves to these new normals.

South West Saint Catherine Member of Parliament Everald Warmington and North West St. Elizabeth Member of Parliament J.C. Hutchinson are the two offend­ers named in last week’s blow-up in the House of Representatives. Hutchinson seem like a kid who fol­lows oth­ers and gets into trou­ble ‚with strong cor­rec­tive mea­sures he can be saved from him­self, Warmington on the oth­er hand seem to believe that he is some kin­da thug, it seem this guy gen­uine­ly believe that he is some­thing spe­cial who should have no respect for any­one or any­thing big­ger than himself.

As such Warmington has become the face of what’s wrong with Jamaica’s par­lia­men­tary sys­tem, and the break-down of deco­rum which has ensued with­in that body.

As I have argued before, pass­ing laws and putting rules in place do not solve every prob­lem. God knows, as a Christian I rec­og­nize that the good Lord sent his son to die for our sins, the Bible stat­ed the Father knew we could not live by laws, it stat­ed if we broke one we were guilty of all, as such we are now liv­ing by God’s grace because he sent his son to die in our place. It does not mean spir­i­tu­al­ly that we are not respon­si­ble for our trans­gres­sions, what it means is that we have sal­va­tion through Jesus Christ.

Even though we are not bound by ancient Biblical laws we are still required to obey cer­tain rules and guide­lines in the way we live our lives. It also fol­lows that even though laws and rules does not solve all our prob­lems we can­not oper­ate with­out them.

With all of that said I must ask why is it in the year 2012 there are no real puni­tive reme­dies in place for those who breach the stand­ing orders or rules which gov­ern the peo­ple’s house?

The Prime Minister , well-inten­tioned though she may be, would be well advised that hug­ging and kiss­ing may assuage hurt feel­ings, it may soothe ruf­fled feath­ers but it does noth­ing to restore dis­ci­pline to the soci­ety and cer­tain­ly not in the high­est Legislative body in the nation.

The chil­dren are watch­ing, the world is watch­ing , as our coun­try gears up for the rev­el­ry that is sure to ensue, all in the name of 50 years of Independence from Britain, many are still sug­gest­ing that after all that time Jamaica is now worse off than it was before Britain cut the apron-strings.

The behav­ior dis­played by the two hood­lums in the house of Representatives toward the House Marshall Kevin Williams is symp­to­matic of what law-enforce­ment offi­cials have faced dai­ly for decades. The Marshall was report­ed­ly sent by the act­ing speak­er of the House to remove J.C.Hutchinson after his con­duct with­in the cham­ber was con­strued to be intol­er­a­ble, as per the reports, that is when the House Marshall was ver­bal­ly abused by the two scalawags.

Hutchinson and Warmington are from the Opposition Jamaica labor Party, Lloyd B Smith who gave the order to remove Hutchinson from the cham­ber, may have been seen to be abus­ing that posi­tion with the issuance of that order, the solu­tion how­ev­er can nev­er be to abuse the per­son act­ing legal­ly to remove him. Hutchinson should have left and then seek rem­e­dy if there is any , if none is avail­able as a leg­is­la­tor he should seek to devel­op leg­is­la­tion to fix that prob­lem, that is what leg­is­la­tors do.

It must also be clear that those two mem­bers by them­selves could not rea­son­ably be con­clud­ed to be in con­tra­ven­tion of House Rules or deco­rum, yet there was no men­tion of any Government mem­bers rep­ri­mand­ed in the process, as such Opposition mem­bers fol­lowed with a walk-out. Lloyd B Smith him­self con­ced­ed he had erred in incor­rect­ly apply­ing the stand­ing orders which led to the oppo­si­tion walk-out.

I had an exten­sive con­ver­sa­tion with a friend who hap­pens to be a senior mem­ber of the pub­lic sec­tor recent­ly, I told him that the pri­ma­ry func­tion of gov­ern­ment is to pro­vide a secure envi­ron­ment for its peo­ple. My friend a man who vot­ed for and believe in the allure of the present Government and the par­ty from which it was formed, delved into the com­plic­i­ty of what Government is respon­si­ble for. In the process he suc­ced­ed in tying him­self into an intractable knot from which he could not untan­gle or extri­cate himself.

His expla­na­tions seemed to mir­ror what I always thought about our coun­try’s lead­ers, they see their posi­tions and their task so com­plex that the aver­age per­son can­not rea­son­ably under­stand what they do , as such they are duty bound to do every­thing in their pow­er to stay in pow­er. The fact is, a secure envi­ron­ment does not mean only pro­vid­ing secu­ri­ty, say with effec­tive polic­ing, but rather a gov­ern­ment which is equipped to pro­vide answers to crime , out-break of dis­eases, and any oth­er prob­lem that may face the pop­u­la­tion. That is gov­er­nance, the pri­vate sec­tor is capa­ble of doing it’s part in the process.

If there is no secu­ri­ty for farm­ers from pre­di­al lar­ce­ny, farm­ers give up on farm­ing, so too if there are out­breaks of crop-desease with­out rem­e­dy. If ener­gy prices are too high it pre­vents the start-up of new busi­ness­es and makes it dif­fi­cult for exist­ing busi­ness­es to sur­vive. If there is no secu­ri­ty chil­dren can­not go to school out of fear for their lives. We saw that when the Security Forces went into Tivoli Gardens.

Simply put now, as I put it to my friend then, secu­ri­ty trumps every­thing else, no one in lead­er­ship seem to under­stand this and nei­ther does my friend.