a few things that might have been under reported (politicillicious)

[musclehead]

let's see, Rahm Emanuel accuses romney of being the most secretive candidate since nixon.

I say since the current president, since his grades in college are still a state secret....


last week some media tried to say romney is an elitist for that pic of him riding on a jet ski...

I say really? now if he was on a yacht  a jet ski? the only way he'd get more redneck was if he was all in camo with a can of skoal in his back pocket and a cap saying 'git R dun'  sitting on his quad with his favorite deer rifle in the rack. 

and romney went and gave a speech in front of the NAACP in houston, all the media attention has been focused on the boos from the crowd. he was booed 3 times, he also received some applause and he got a standing ovation when he was done. (maybe it was because he was done?)

our prez has also gone on record again saying a significant cause of the deficits is because the rich aren't paying their fair share.

top 10% pays 70% of all taxes, bottom 20% pays 1/3 of 1%, the Internet strikes again

I've been working 12-13 hours a day +1 hour of commute. I don't have time for the Internet 

[Raverez]

I'm not an Obama fan, but can't see myself voting for a Sammy "May Day Malone" lookalike.
Just saying...

[PAVALKER]

I went to the bank today to make a deposit, and while I was there I was observing other customers and discovered how easy it was to differentiate the Obama supporters (aka Democrats) over Romney supporters (aka Republicans)....  it's very simple you see.  The Romney supporters sign their checks on the front, and Obama supporters sign theirs on the back.....     

[musclehead]

I'm not an Obama fan, but can't see myself voting for a Sammy "May Day Malone" lookalike.
Just saying...

if you want four more years of this, go for it 

[Serk]

I'm not an Obama fan, but can't see myself voting for a Sammy "May Day Malone" lookalike.
Just saying...

I plan on bringing an air sickness bag with me to the voting booth.

And I will NOT be voting FOR Romney, I'll be voting AGAINST Obama. It might look the same as voting for Romney on the ballot, but to me, there's a difference.

[RudyF6]

I plan on bringing an air sickness bag with me to the voting booth.

And I will NOT be voting FOR Romney, I'll be voting AGAINST Obama. It might look the same as voting for Romney on the ballot, but to me, there's a difference.

 

[Raverez]

Unfortunetly, neither one will get my vote. Is there a line for "None of the above"?

[BF]

It's your choice to vote or not, but if you're not an Obama fan, just know that NOT voting for Romney will have the same effect as voting FOR Obama. 

People die all over this planet every day for the right to vote.  It'd be a shame to squander that privilege. 

[Raverez]

Didn't  say I wasn't going to vote, just not for any of  those two.  There is usually a third party candidate who won't have a chance in he77 to get elected.  Just my .02.

[musclehead]

it always seems that a third party candidate siphons off votes from the republicans side.

I know many are clammering for a different choice, we had that option early on. we were told over and over ad naseum Romney is the only one that can beat Obama.

well now it's too late for Herman Cain, or Ron Paul, or Rick Santorem. the ones that actually might have been more likely to make REAL change are gone and we are left with one guy destroying America, or the other guy.

holding my nose to vote for the repub. I hope he's going to do half of what he's promising, if we get that much out of him we might turn things partially around.

[f6john]

   As far as I can tell Obama only has one accomplishment thus far. The health care act was what he spent his capitol on and he got it. But let's not forget, he got want he wanted with the backing of Congress and the truth be known that is where our problems are centered. But it is obvious that we as voters keep sending back the same people to represent us, maybe because they keep bringing home the bacon for our state? How else can anyone justify voting for Pelosi, Reid, and all the other Obama faithful or for that matter my own Mitch McConnell.

[musclehead]

   As far as I can tell Obama only has one accomplishment thus far. The health care act was what he spent his capitol on and he got it. But let's not forget, he got want he wanted with the backing of Congress and the truth be known that is where our problems are centered. But it is obvious that we as voters keep sending back the same people to represent us, maybe because they keep bringing home the bacon for our state? How else can anyone justify voting for Pelosi, Reid, and all the other Obama faithful or for that matter my own Mitch McConnell.

it wouldn't hurt to replace about 536 of the politicians in washington.

until they fear the people both sides will keep screwing us.

[john]

...Is it already too late?     

Obama's Second Term Transformation Plans   

The 2012 election has often been described as the most pivotal since 1860. This statement is not hyperbole. If Barack Obama is re-elected the United States will never be the same, nor will it be able to re-capture its once lofty status as the most dominant nation in the history of mankind.


The overwhelming majority of Americans do not understand that Obama's first term was dedicated to putting in place executive power to enable him and the administration to fulfill the campaign promise of "transforming America" in his second term regardless of which political party controls Congress. That is why his re-election team is virtually ignoring the plight of incumbent or prospective Democratic Party office holders.


The most significant accomplishment of Obama's first term is to make Congress irrelevant. Under the myopic and blindly loyal leadership of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats have succeeded in creating an imperial and, in a second term, a potential dictatorial presidency.


During the first two years of the Obama administration when the Democrats overwhelming controlled both Houses of Congress and the media was in an Obama worshipping stupor, a myriad of laws were passed and actions taken which transferred virtually unlimited power to the executive branch.


The birth of multi-thousand page laws was not an aberration. This tactic was adopted so the bureaucracy controlled by Obama appointees would have sole discretion in interpreting vaguely written laws and enforcing thousands of pages of regulations they and not Congress would subsequently write.


For example, in the 2,700 pages of ObamaCare there are more than 2,500 references to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. There are more than 700 instances when he or she is instructed that they "shall" do something and more than 200 times when they "may" take at their sole discretion some form of regulatory action. On 139 occasions, the law mentions that the "Secretary determines." In essence one person, appointed by and reporting to the president, will be in charge of the health care of 310 million Americans once ObamaCare is fully operational in 2014.


The same is true in the 2,319 pages of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act which confers nearly unlimited power on various agencies to control by fiat the nation's financial, banking and investment sectors. The bill also creates new agencies, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, not subject to any oversight by Congress. This overall process was repeated numerous times with other legislation all with the intent of granting unfettered power to the executive branch controlled by Barack Obama and his radical associates.


Additionally, the Obama administration has, through its unilaterally determined rule making and regulatory powers, created laws out of whole cloth. The Environmental Protection Agency on a near daily basis issues new regulations clearly out of their purview in order to modify and change environmental laws previously passed and to impose a radical green agenda never approved by Congress. The same is true of the Energy and Interior Departments among many others.


None of these extra-constitutional actions have been challenged by Congress. The left in America knows this usurpation of power is nearly impossible to reverse unless stopped in its early stages.


It is clearly the mindset of this administration and its appointees that Congress is merely a nuisance and can be ignored after they were able to take full advantage of the useful idiots in the Democrat controlled House and Senate in 2009-2010 and the Democrat Senate in the current Congress.


Additionally, Barack Obama knows after his re-election a Republican controlled House and Senate will not be able to enact any legislation to roll back the power previously granted to the Executive Branch or usurped by them. His veto will not be overridden as there will always be at least 145 Democratic members of the House or 34 in the Senate in agreement with or intimidated by an administration more than willing to use Chicago style political tactics.


The stalemate between the Executive and Legislative Branches will inure to the benefit of Barack Obama and his fellow leftists.


The most significant power Congress has is the control of the purse-strings as all spending must be approved by them. However, once re-elected, Barack Obama, as confirmed by his willingness to do or say anything and his unscrupulous re-election tactics, would not only threaten government shutdowns but would deliberately withhold payments to those dependent on government support as a means of intimidating and forcing a Republican controlled Congress to surrender to his demands, thus neutering their ability to control the administration through spending constraints.


Further, this administration has shown contempt for the courts by ignoring various court orders, e.g. the Gulf of Mexico oil drilling moratorium, as well as stonewalling subpoenas and requests issued by Congress. The Eric Holder Justice Department has become the epitome of corruption as part of the most dishonest and deceitful administration in American history. In a second term the arrogance of Barack Obama and his minions will become more blatant as he will not have to be concerned with re-election.


Who will be there to enforce the rule of law, a Supreme Court ruling or the Constitution? No one. Barack Obama and his fellow-travelers will be unchallenged as they run roughshod over the American people.


Many Republicans and conservatives dissatisfied with the prospect of Mitt Romney as the nominee for president are instead focused on re-taking the House and Senate. That goal, while worthy and necessary, is meaningless unless Barack Obama is defeated. The nation is not dealing with a person of character and integrity but someone of single-minded purpose and overwhelming narcissism. Judging by his actions, words and deeds during his first term, he does not intend to work with Congress either Republican or Democrat in his second term but rather to force his radical agenda on the American people through the power he has usurped or been granted.


The governmental structure of the United States was set up by the founders in the hope that over the years only those people of high moral character and integrity would assume the reins of power. However, knowing that was not always possible, they dispersed power over three distinct and independent branches as a check on each other.


What they could not imagine is the surrender and abdication of its constitutional duty by the preeminent governmental branch, the Congress, to a chief executive devoid of any character or integrity coupled with a judiciary essentially powerless to enforce the law when the chief executive ignores them.


Conservatives, Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney must come to grips with this moment in time and their historical role in denying Barack Obama and his minions their ultimate goal. All resources must be directed at that end-game and not merely controlling Congress and the various committee chairmanships.


Steve McCann

May 12, 2012


I would add but 6 words to those above mentioned, Conservatives, Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney, to say "and we the American people also", must come to grips with this moment in time and our role in denying Barack Obama his life long goal of "transforming" us into his slaves working on his government plantation.

 
 

[J.Mencalice]

Watch "Frontline" if you want to feel the pulse of this country.  Best program on television.

[MrStankie]

AMEN!!!  Very well said John.

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

AMEN!!!  Very well said John.

I'd bet the river bottom farm that John did some copy/paste on that one...I think both Romney and Obama are waterheads and we are F'ed I can't see me voting for either .How the Republican party threw away Ron Paul for Romney makes me want to puke...God bless America we are going to need it.

[98valk]

AMEN!!!  Very well said John.

I'd bet the river bottom farm that John did some copy/paste on that one...I think both Romney and Obama are waterheads and we are F'ed I can't see me voting for either .How the Republican party threw away Ron Paul for Romney makes me want to puke...God bless America we are going to need it.

u not voting for rommey (as many others in this country have said with a no vote) will surely help put obummer back in office and this country will go away.
Ron Paul although correct on many issues is extemely radical when it comes to foreign policy. things he wanted to do would also have destroyed this country. his foriegn policy speeches actually state that this country is the problem in world politics, he sounded like obummer.
this country is going away anyway, it has been the globalists plan for over 120 yrs. The next big thing to happen will be a three world currency system sometime btwn now and 2015. This has been called for by the G20 nations in the news for the last 5-7 yrs. I read it was going to happen back in 1990. These are the end times we are living in, seeing actual biblical prophecy happen. http://www.prophecyinthenews.com/

[PAVALKER]

Didn't  say I wasn't going to vote, just not for any of  those two.  There is usually a third party candidate who won't have a chance in he77 to get elected.  Just my .02.

But isn't that worse that not voting???  Having a vote to make a difference and not using it to vote is one thing, but intentionally throwing it away???  Maybe they are the same.... no good.