Lies, racial coding, and dirty tricks, like voter suppression are nothing new to the American Political system. Like any other place on earth the United States is not exempt from crooked, unscrupulous people, as such as Republican Politicians run around throwing around the term American Exceptional-ism they may be reminded that their own party is as we speak mounting a concerted battle to keep certain categories of people from voting, how exceptional is that?One would have thought that with virtually all fact checkers panning Paul Ryan’s speech as littered with lies , exaggerations and coded racial language, Mitt Romney at the top of the Republican ticket would exert some degree of leadership, and if he cannot control Ryan, at least ensure that his utterances are unimpeachable.

Paul Ryan

During the 2008 cam­paign which saw Barack Obama elect­ed pres­i­dent of the United States, John McCain ran an hon­or­able cam­paign, one many believe to be the real char­ac­ter of the man him­self. John McCain is cer­tain­ly not per­fect we have seen how dis­as­trous his first exec­u­tive deci­sion was , in select­ing Sarah Palin to be his run­ning mate, but I’ll get back to that. Steve Schmidt is now a MSNBC con­trib­u­tor , Steve ran John McCain’s cam­paign, it is fair to say that mis­ter McCain is an hon­or­able man if we are able to infer any­thing from the way Steve Schmidt has con­duct­ed him­self. Contrarily we have seen the bel­li­cose rhetoric in Republicans as their par­ty lurch­es dan­ger­ous­ly to the right , so much so that many peo­ple from cer­tain seg­ments of the soci­ety con­clude they are unwel­come in that par­ty. Gays, Women, Blacks, Latinos, and the list con­tin­ues to grow as the repub­li­can par­ty purges itself of all except white men , and in some regards they don’t want cer­tain white men ‚unless they are rad­i­cal lunatics.

Where did this nastiness come from ?

Democrats were angry when the Supreme Courts stopped the count and hand­ed the elec­tions of 2000 to George Bush, despite sig­nif­i­cant evi­dence that Al Gore had won the elec­tions. Yet they got behind the new pres­i­dent who to this day they still believe assumed the pres­i­den­cy ille­git­i­mate­ly. such is the pow­er of fam­i­ly and influ­ence when your broth­er is the Governor of the State where the foul-up occurred, and the state which would decide the pres­i­den­cy that year. Bush went on to win a sec­ond term four years lat­er, after two wars launched by Bush, one a war of choice, an econ­o­my bleed­ing 4 mil­lion jobs the last year of his pres­i­den­cy and in tat­ters, the coun­try’s image abroad in ruins,the Constitution shred­ded with laws like the Patriot Act. Pariah sta­tus for the United States as a result of tor­ture, ren­der­ing pris­on­ers of war to vile rogue states so they are tor­tured. The out­ing of CIA Operative Valerie Plame, as polit­i­cal pay-back for her hus­band Joe Wilson’s prin­ci­pled stance against the Bush Administration’s lies on their march to an ille­gal war with Iran.Despite all of these acts some of them out­right crim­i­nal, Democrats went along with Bush out of fear of being called unpatriotic.

Remember “Either you are with us or you are against us”? What short mem­o­ries some of us have ! The events of September 11^th set off a chain of events that have changed the United States for­ev­er, and most of it is for the worse, many Democratic law-mak­ers went along with Bush Administration impeach­able actions out of fear of being labeled unpa­tri­ot­ic, as well as want­i­ng to share in Bush’s brava­do. Not only were Bush’s actions impeach­able , we all saw a Democratic President impeached for hav­ing oral sex with an intern but Democrats went along hook,line and sinker.

Paul Ryan the so-called Deficit Hawk and the Tea Party did not yet grow talons or beak, so the Tea Party and Ryan went along with every spend­ing excess of the Bush Administration. I under­stand that with­out Talons and Beaks the young upstart Paul Ryan could not have been much of a preda­tor under the Bush Administration. He damn sure acquired them rapid­ly after Obama took over the dis­as­ter, both he and the reac­tionary frauds called the Tea Party

Mitt Romney

The nas­ti­ness we see in the last cam­paign was intro­duced unwit­ting­ly or per­haps cal­lous­ly cyn­i­cal by John McCain in the form of Sarah Palin.

What Palin lacked in intel­lect, or com­mon sense she cer­tain­ly over-com­pen­sat­ed with vit­ri­olic, racial nas­ti­ness, this woman who could not name a sin­gle pub­li­ca­tion she had ever read to Kathie Couric , cer­tain­ly knew how to hate and fan racial hatred, to this day I see noth­ing endear­ing or redemp­tive in this woman except that she was cre­at­ed by the same God who cre­at­ed all of us.

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin is from the Tea Party, so is a lot of the Obstructionists in the United States Congress, and soon guys like Texas’ Ted Cruz will be sit­ting in the United States Senate, these are peo­ple who do not want Government even while they jock­ey for posi­tions with­in said Government.

Sarah Palin brought nas­ti­ness to the cam­paign that we had nev­er seen in our life­time, she came to nation­al atten­tion throw­ing around terms like “palling around with ter­ror­ists” Jeremiah Wright, Rezko, she also fur­ther threw around the non­sen­si­cal birther crap , it was then that intel­li­gent peo­ple came to the real­iza­tion that John McCain had made a ter­ri­ble mis­take in select­ing this woman to be his run­ning-mate. It became clear then, that the so-called mam­ma griz­zly, the Pitt-bull in lip­stick was noth­ing more than arguably a pret­ty face dressed up in cloth­ing paid for by Campaign funds a gor­geous pair of glass­es and not much else except an emp­ty head.

Palin’s approach would become the tem­plate for repub­li­cans from top to bot­tom, Republicans unleashed a nasty brand of pol­i­tics that was not even evi­dent dur­ing the tumul­tuous Clinton years. The Karl Rove play-book was out in full frontal mode for all to see. Despite cat­a­stroph­ic finan­cial signs which caused both Obama and McCain to leave their cam­paign and head to Washington DC to address the cri­sis, Republicans like Newt Gingrich Mitch McConnell , and Paul Ryan the can­di­date for vice pres­i­dent this cycle had ded­i­cat­ed them­selves to stand­ing in the way of any­thing the new pres­i­dent would do to res­cue the coun­try from the failed eco­nom­ic poli­cies of repub­li­can George W Bush.

That makes Paul Ryan the oppo­site of what he would like you to believe he is, Ryan is no deficit hawk, he vot­ed for every big gov­ern­ment pro­gram of the Bush Administration. He begged for stim­u­lus mon­ey even while he lied,and argued that the stim­u­lus did not work. When con­front­ed with the facts he feigned mem­o­ry lapse, he lat­er agreed that he did ask using some flim­sy dis­claimer that is so sil­ly I won’t even list it here.

Ryan lies so much that it is no won­der Romney the senior liar chose him to be his run­ning-mate, Romney has decid­ed­ly used lies as part of his cam­paign, it’s easy to see how he would choose Ryan who lies that the pres­i­dent closed a plant even before he became pres­i­dent, when con­front­ed with the facts the argued that it was part of a larg­er strat­e­gy to show Obama’s failures.

The truth is, it end­ed up show­ing the larg­er truth that the Romney/​Ryan cam­paign is an integri­ty-free zone.

The speech giv­en by Paul Ryan was panned by Democrats and Republicans alike as full of holes and down­right filled with lies, yet paul Ryan and Mitt Romney con­tin­ues with the bla­tant lies about Medicare, Welfare, and Obama’s record.

Ryan mean­while, lack­ing the ener­gy of Sarah Palin and crowd appeal, but for what comes out of his mouth, has turned out to be noth­ing more than Palin in drag.

Romney ‚my dad gave my mom a rose every day of his life and when she ran for the Senate he was there for her every step of the way, a direct pan­der to women.

He spoke about his tenure as Governor , harken­ing to his putting women in his cab­i­net, he spoke about the Republican women Martinez, Ayatt, Haley, Secretary Rice, again pan­der­ing to women.further.

Romney talks about his wife rais­ing their boys again mak­ing a pitch for women vot­ers, Quote : “As you all have seen Anne could have suc­ceed­ed at any­thing she want­ed to do”.

He touched on faith, nev­er men­tion­ing that he was Mormon, he touched on his father being in Mexico an attempt to pan­der to Latinos.

He touched on cre­at­ing Bain Capital, argu­ing that Bain is now a suc­cess story.

Romney argued that Obama can­not rea­son­ably tell Americans that they are bet­ter off than when he was elected.

He cyn­i­cal­ly argued that pres­i­dents Carter and Obama are the only two pres­i­dents who can­not say that. Obviously the push going for­ward will be an attempt to link those two pres­i­dents together.

Jobs , jobs, jobs he utterd that word over and over and over again, the truth is American pres­i­dents do not cre­at jobs. It is a mis­nomer, a down­right lie, pres­i­den­t’s poli­cies may allow jobs to be cre­at­ed , par­tic­u­lar­ly if they are will­ing to hand over our del­i­cate eco-sys­tem to rich indus­tri­al­ists like the Koch broth­ers to do with it what­ev­er they please.

President Obama promised to slow the rise of the Oceans, he has promised to heal the plan­et, Romney said , “I promise I will help you and your fam­i­lies”. TO RACOUS APLAUSE.

Obviously the Republicans in the room does not under­stand that a pres­i­dent may slow the rise of the Ocean and heal the plan­et, sim­ply by pro­tect­ing our wet-lands, slow­ing the melt­ing of the polar ice-caps which when melt­ed releas­es humungous amounts of fresh water into our oceans dis­rupt­ing the del­i­cate eco-system.

It forces peo­ple fur­ther inland, destroy­ing fresh water sup­plies, food sup­plies, and scarce liv­ing spaces, and is a self per­pet­u­at­ing cat­a­stro­phe which if not arrest­ed by pres­i­den­tial inter­ven­tion will have catro­sph­ic con­se­quences for our planet.

Yes Mitt Romney and Republican flat earth believ­ers with­in that room, a pres­i­dent can do big things , Obama has done big things despite repub­li­can obstruc­tion­ism, a pres­i­dent can do much more than pro­vide a job for people.

Actually pres­i­dents real­ly do not cre­at jobs.

On this speech you failed big time.

I hope you are all now following what is happening in the political arena, particularly those of you who spend countless hours on social media like Face-Book and twitter, engaging in mindless inane chatter that does nothing to educate inspire or improve life. Ok, I was a little bit hard on you but, here’ the deal, irrespective of where you are domiciled the election of 2012 will affect your life one way or another, and that includes those of you who access these blogs who live in other countries. You may wonder how so? If Mitt Romney is elected we will be returning to the days of wars and more wars all over the Globe courtesy of the neo-con hawk puppeteer behind a president Romney.

Romney’s wife was unable to do what the des­per­ate­ly hope she would be able to do, human­ize the robot­ic emp­ty suit which is her hus­band, that task is an impos­si­ble task because her hus­band is a wound up wood­en crea­ture, inca­pable of under­stand­ing the emo­tions of aver­age peo­ple, as a result he has dis­played zero char­ac­ter in stand­ing up to the racist xeno­phobes that camp out in that par­ty. As such Mitt Romney has cast his lot with the most vile despi­ca­ble ele­ments who are hell-bent on the destruc­tion of Barack Obama. Of course a pres­i­den­tial can­di­date needs 50% plus one right? So gear up for the dirt­i­est elec­tion cam­paign most of you will prob­a­bly see in your life time, they have to throw this (nig­ger)sic: out of the White House, they won’t come out and say it the way I have said it here, but they speak to oth­ers in code.

John Boehner said if the coun­try was a bar Obama would be thrown out . Code :

Romney, Gingrich, Ryan , McDonald from Virginia, and the moron­ic Santorum speak­ing about Welfare? code:

When Reince Priebus the head of the RNC talk about wel­fare and tak­ing back our coun­try and return­ing it to its glo­ry days < code:

They are using racial code to attack pres­i­dent Obama and decent Americans should not stand for it, decent Americans must push back against these attacks against our President,a decent and good man.

Chris Matthews host of MSNBC’S (Hardball)took it to the RNC’S Reince Priebus on the (morn­ing joe tele­vi­sion show) Matthews told the RNC’s hack that what they were doing was racist dog whis­tle pol­i­tics , it was despi­ca­ble and it was wrong,Priebus like the typ­i­cal school yard bul­ly when con­front­ed, wilt­ed and with­ered , retreat­ing with mon­grel like whim­per, only to be saved by fel­low repub­li­can Joe Scarborough.http://http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/mika-brzezinski-chris-matthews-reince-priebus_n_1836973.html?utm_hp_ref=media.

Repugnant campaign of lies misinformation and racial codes.

So they trot out John McCain to talk about Foreign Policy, John McCain was a pris­on­er of war, we get that, as such many includ­ing many in the Democratic Party fall all over them­selves to defer to John McCain. The truth is, John McCain is a polit­i­cal oper­a­tive, if he was a Democrat no one would be hold­ing up John McCain as some­one to defer to.

John McCain’s for­eign pol­i­cy is to bomb every­one, “bomb, bomb, bomb Iran”, all of a sud­den McCain is the spokesper­son for the Iranian peo­ple who were seek­ing to be res­cued from their, tyran­ni­cal lead­ers, all of a sud­den McCain is the per­son lament­ing the fact that the American President Barack Obama did not com­mit American Troops to anoth­er ill-advised war to res­cue the Iranian peo­ple from themselves !!!

That is the pol­i­cy Republicans want to attack Iran under the guise that they are res­cu­ing them from tyran­ni­cal rulers, how well did that work out in Iraq, and Afghanistan?

They trot out Condoleezza Rice to talk about Foreign Policy, nei­ther Rice nor McCain uttered the words Osama Bin Laden. Rice in her ram­bling dia­tribe at the first African-American President for­got to men­tion that as National Security Adviser to President George Bush and lat­er Secretary of State, she played a sig­nif­i­cant part and was an inte­gral part of the web of deceit and lies which launched a fraud­u­lent war which result­ed in the death of count­less Iraqis, and the destruc­tion of their coun­try, and the death and maim­ing of thou­sands of American troops.

The pathet­ic irony which is the Romney Ryan Campaign is the obvi­ous tact they have tak­en to dis­qual­i­fy President Obama based on.

FEAR:

RACIAL ANIMUS:

DEMAGOGUERY:

OTHERING:

AND DISTORTIONS:

They can­not talk about Foreign Policy,.

The Iraq war is over, and Osama Bin Laden is dead.

They can­not talk about accomplishments.

Four mil­lion jobs cre­at­ed, General Motors is alive.

So it will be a no holes barred assault on Obama, he will be teased , chid­ed, lied on,he will be made out to be an alien , not just from anoth­er coun­try , but from anoth­er galaxy.

He will be accused of clos­ing a GM plant on Wisconsin that was closed before he became pres­i­dent, just ask Paul Ryan about that plant clos­ing, ask him how Obama did it before he was sworn into Office as President of the United States.

Ask Condoleezza Rice how Obama pre­vent­ed her from sit­ting at lunch coun­ters in the Racist Southern State of Alabama , yet she per­se­vered to become Secretary of State, just ask her how Obama did that despite her being old­er than Obama.

Just ask all of them about “you did­n’t build that” The line pla­gia­rized , lit­er­al­ly lift­ed from a state­ment made with­in a con­text that meant noth­ing close to what the one phrase sounds like.

The racial “dog whis­tle” deliv­ered by Rick Santorum, as no one else could deliv­er that lev­el of racial bull-shit, yes the same Rick Santorum who addressed this very same sub­ject of wel­fare to a lily-white audi­ence.quote:t “I don’t want to make black peo­ple’s lives bet­ter by giv­ing them some­body else’s money”
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Of course the very same Santorum with­ered and shriv­eled up under the pres­sure of hav­ing to face up to his racist lies. quote: I looked at the video and I don’t — in fact, I’m pret­ty con­fi­dent I did­n’t say black. What I think I start­ed to say a word and sort of, bluh – sort of mum­bled it and changed my thought, but I don’t — I don’t recall say­ing black. No one in that audi­ence, no one lis­ten­ing, no reporter there, heard me say that. I think it was – and from every­thing I see and I’ve looked at it sev­er­al times, I was start­ing to say one word and I sort of came up with a dif­fer­ent word and moved on and it – and it sound­ed like black.

I have a cou­ple of dif­fer­ent word for you Rick Santorum you prob­a­bly nev­er heard of these “PATHOLOGICALLY MENDACIOUS” add these two to your vocab­u­lary, like all oth­er typ­i­cal lying racist you lied and when con­front­ed with your own words, you added insult to injury by lying even more.

These are the hyp­o­crit­i­cal Pharisees, Santorum the Catholic. Ryan the Catholic, Romney the Mormon, Huckabee the Evangelical,I could go on and on.These peo­ple hate gay peo­ple, they hate abortion,they hate oth­er races, they hate oth­er religions,they hate help­ing the poor, but they damn sure are in love with lying.

They run around the coun­try telling white Americans they are the real Americans, every­one else has a hyphen­at­ed pre­cur­sor to their name, none so more than African-Americas. Trying to stir up racial ani­mus with the wel­fare lie ‚” Obama is tak­ing mon­ey from your Social Security and just send­ing it to his black friends with­out demand­ing that they work for it.

Ask your­selves how come peo­ple in oth­er coun­tries would kill to have their gov­ern­ment enact leg­is­la­tion which pro­tects those most vul­ner­a­ble ‚the old , indi­gent, the very young, the sick, or just peo­ple down on their luck, yet American white peo­ple hate those pro­grams? Republicans from Richard Nixon to Romney have suc­cess­ful­ly attached Welfare to Black peo­ple, it’s then easy to see why they hate it, yet they are the largest groups of wel­fare recip­i­ents, both at the bot­tom and at the top of cor­po­rate welfare.

This was start­ed by Gingrich, Santorum and of course Romney picked the next Generation of dem­a­gogues Paul Ryan to run with that mes­sage. Never mind that it is a damn lie.

Obviously Republicans feel that they may have their own brand of Christianity, (even if it’s a cult) that suits their nar­ra­tive, they argue lies and makes them facts, in their twist­ed Orwellian par­al­lel Universe, they argue that Israel has right to defend itself, but Iran does not have the right to defend itself if attacked by Israel. Yet no one in the lame-stream Media both­ers to demand the ratio­nale for that theory.

I will stop here for now.

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.