Day201 Friday 03/18/11

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ran 1.9 miles

• Missouri was the twenty-fourth state to join the union on August 10, 1821, fifteen years before Arkansas and one year after Maine.

• Population, as of 2010, is 5,988,927.

• Senators are Roy Blunt (R) and Claire McCaskill (D).

• Representatives are William Clay (D), Todd Akin (R), Russ Carnahan (D), Vicky Hartzler (R), Emanuel Cleaver (D), Samuel Graves (R), Billy Long (R), Jo Ann Emerson (R), and Blaine Luetkemeyer (R).

• Missouri has ten electoral votes after losing one during the 2010 Census. Missouri is a definitive swing state with incomparable historical accuracy at voting for the ultimate winner. Since 1904, the state only got it wrong twice (Adlai Stevenson over Dwight Eisenhower in 1956 and John McCain over Barack Obama in 2008). John McCain defeated Barack Obama 49.4% to 49.3%, a margin of around 3,900 votes.

Barack Obama is taking another globe trot, this time to South America with multiple destinations, at what appears to many as an incredibly inconvenient time. This is what presidents do and it is important to maintain and increase good foreign relations, but the timing of this is yet another straw on the back of a camel with buckled knees that are begging for mercy.

The budget debate has been further extended as Obama has proved to be as useful here as he will be in Brazil. And it’s not just the budget…now that Libya has nearly successfully crushed its rebels, Obama now backs a no-fly zone. And Japan…Obama obviously can’t snap his fingers and undo the natural disasters in Japan, but to have his press secretary say “It is a crisis in Japan. It is not a crisis in the United States,” when asked whether a looming nuclear disaster warranted a postponing of Obama’s trip to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador is simply cold and completely detached.

I can’t argue that President Obama has not accomplished much in his two years. What he accomplished is up for interpretation and importance of where he devotes most of his energy is arguable, but right here and right now, our country is teetering on an economic disaster and he is doing little to lead an agreement on the government’s budget.

“Why are we doing all this when the most powerful person in these negotiations – the President – has failed to lead this debate or offer a serious proposal for spending and cuts that he would be willing to fight for?”

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin (D)

1,507.2 miles to go.

Day200 Thursday 03/17/11

ran 3.9 miles
Today marks 200 days and 570.9 miles of running against Obama. Throughout this campaign of running for the sake of making Barack Obama a one-term president, my key arguments have dealt with his socialistic health care law, spending money that does not even exist on bailouts and stimulus packages, an idle stance on tightening immigration laws and addressing the paper-thin walls on our southern border, and his general disinterest in slashing our deficit combined with his inability to stop spending more “monopoly” money. How do you drain a deficit by pumping more debt into a budget?

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Enjoy the video above and just imagine how much more debt we still have time to build up over Obama’s remaining two years. Want him for another four years after that?

Here are some stats and polls from Rasmussen Reports:

• Barack Obama’s presidential index rating shows that 21% of American voters strongly approve of his performance while 41% strongly disapprove, giving Obama a presidential index rating of –20.

• Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of Barack Obama’s performance and 55% disapprove.

• Only 22% believe America is heading in the right direction. That is down 5 points from a week ago and the lowest total since Obama took office.

• Reaching its highest level since May of last year, 62% favor repeal of the health care law, including 51% who strongly favor repeal. Only 33% oppose repeal, with 24% who are strongly opposed.

1,509.1 miles to go.