Finished goal of running the distance of 2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C and back!!!...plus 339.1 miles
0.0 miles run this week. Daily running average for the week is 0.00 miles per day. Total amount run in the past 800 days is 2,419.1 miles. Daily running average overall is 3.02 miles per day.
Brilliant. This video has earned a special place as the perfect argument against Barack Obama and his liberal counterparts. As much as we feebly attempt to make sense of national affairs and our economy, and argue about what paths and what futures we should lead America toward---along comes this guy and he distills all of the chaos into a perfect perspective through the lens of children.
We were once those little kids in the video above. That candy was the currency we now know as money. And, as fun as Halloween is, it is still work through a child's eyes. It is hard work for a reward they feel they earned. They are hustling to get to as many houses as they can to fill their bags up as much as they can, just as we adults hustle to seize as many opportunities as we can to fill our savings as much as possible. It is no different.
The world through those children's eyes and the candy they earn tonight is no different than the realities before us and the hours you worked today. If you really want to prepare your child for the mature world he is only years from embarking upon, take 30 percent of his candy each Halloween and give it to other kids who have less. If your kid gets 10 Christmas gifts or 20 Easter eggs, take 3 gifts and 6 eggs and explain to him or her that they automatically have to give them to someone else.
To really put things into perspective, from one adult to another, on average, you do not begin earning money for the work you perform until mid-April of every year. Every day you work for the first 3 1/2 months of every year is for federal, state, and local government. We give them more than the first three months of every penny we earn and here they are asking for more after the federal government has plummeted into $16 trillion of debt.
Those kids have every right to be pissed and so do you.
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Obama's looking like a cat on a hot tin roof. And rightly so---he deserves every tight corner he gets backed into for what he's done, or failed to do, over the last four years. Eight more days until we get this guy out!
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This is one of the most strange Obama interviews I've ever seen. The local Colorado news anchor is a master of the passive-aggressive interview technique and he rips into Obama without even raising his voice once. Very entertaining. Barack Obama kept his cool but you can tell he was getting more and more pissed with every lie that was passing through his lips.
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This is a really cool site with an array of graphic depictions showing how wastefully our government spends the tax dollars we work so hard to earn. Check it out!
Less than two weeks to go. Barack Obama has had four years and his record speaks for itself. If it had been George Bush's record, or any Republican's for that matter, they would be out thanks to our ever-noble, responsible, fair and unbiased media---but not Barack Obama. Between "Fast and Furious" and the lies that are mounting regarding Benghazi, alone, George Bush or any other Republican would have been taken apart by now---but not Barack Obama.
The only justice left to wield on this man is in the hands of the voter and his proverbial sentence should be life in Chicago.
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Today ends week 112 of running against Obama. I ran 0.0 miles this week, averaging 0.00 miles per day.
Still on the injured list. I underestimated how long it would take for my toe to heal and it doesn't feel like it will be better any time soon. Hopefully I can squeeze one last run out, at least on the day of the election. That has been my vision to get me through the last 784 days of running and blogging every day for the last twenty-five months. That vision has been one final run to my voting precinct to cast my vote and to run back home and watch the evening unfold as Barack Obama receives the justice that only America's voters can pass.
In the news today, the UN has formally warned Americans of voting for Mitt Romney. Just when I thought I could not have been more convinced to vote for Mitt Romney, United Nations comes along and warns me not to. I'm more sold than ever. I have always made a resolute effort to refrain from vulgarity on this blog and to not use expletives but, here on Day784, I find it necessary ,more now than ever to say that the UN can kiss my ass.
America has a Constitution, which is clearly written and intended to be obeyed. There is nothing about the UN or the idea that this entire planet should be ruled by one world order in the United States Constitution.
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A total of 538 electoral votes. Divide that by two and a presidential election will end in a tie. It's only happened once in American history (1824) but could this be the repeat year? Here's what you may not know.
In the event that two presidential candidates end an election in a tie of 269 votes each, rather than reaching the almighty 271 for the win, the House of Representatives (the incoming Congress of 2013), which will more than likely be heavily populated with Republicans after November 6, will be the sole deciding factor. That's right---I don't think it is the best contingency plan but if a tie does occur it's a good time to be a conservative.
It gets even stranger. The Senate decides who the vice president will be. We could potentially have a Romney/Biden ticket or an Obama/Ryan ticket.
Check out this link for more details on how controversial this outcome could be.
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Here's your top 10 Obama lies from last night's debate. It is exhausting to watch that man speak. He is a shameless liar and he's not even good at it. He's been feeding us the exact same garbage about the auto bailout, success of his economic recovery, unemployment numbers, and wrongfully claiming credit for drilling for his entire term. It is so frustrating to watch his lips move as he blatantly lies to the entire country about so many things that can so easily be disproven by the simple numbers and statistics that define and demonstrate his numerous failures over the last four years.
10. "I told you I would cut taxes for middle-class families, and I did. I told you I’d cut taxes for small businesses, and I have." President Barack Obama has made this claim repeatedly during the campaign, but it is not true, as even the liberal Huffington Postacknowledges. The few tax cuts that Obama did enact--such as the temporary payroll tax holiday--were short-term, or conditional. Furthermore, as the Romney campaign has often pointed out, Obama has raised many taxes on the middle class, including the infamous Obamacare "penalty," and his taxes on "millionaires and billionaires" would hit small businesess.
9. "...[H]e was asked, is it fair for somebody like you, making $20 million a year, to pay a lower tax rate than a nurse or a bus driver....And he said, yes, I think that’s fair." Obama was referring to Romney's recent 60 Minutes interview. But the transcript reveals Obama was not telling the truth. Romney was not saying it was fair that higher income should be taxed at a lower rate. He was referring specifically to the principle that capital gains should be taxed lower than other income because it has been taxed once already--a principle, incidentally, that Obama agrees with in his own tax policy.
8. "He called the Arizona law a model for the nation." Obama tried to knock Romney's immigration policy while at the same time accusing him of flip-flopping on the issue. But as Romney pointed out, he was referring specifically to the e-Verify part of the law--the requirement of instant verification of workers' legal status. That provision is even favored by unions. Obama made it seem Romney praised the law as a whole--which he had not. He went on to say that he himself objected to the provision that allowed police to check suspected illegal immigrants' documentation--but that provision survived a challenge at the Supreme Court.
7. "I want to make sure our timekeepers are working here." For the third debate in a row, the Democratic candidate complained that he was not receiving as much time to speak as the Republican. And for the third debate in a row, the Obama/Biden ticket actually spoke for longer--much longer--than the Romney/Ryan ticket, a testament to the ability of the incumbents to pressure the moderators, and the susceptibility of the left-leaning moderators to such pressure. Obama received a full three minutes more time in last night's debate--and the percentage difference was even higher at one point in the proceedings.
6. "They rely on it for mammograms." Obama attacked Romney's proposal to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood by claiming that the organization provides mammograms to women to help prevent breast cancer. It's been a repeated claim made by the left for months. The problem is that it's just untrue--and even left-leaning mainstream media fact-checkers have acknowledged that. What is perhaps worse than Obama's misleading claim about mammograms is the unsupported implication that Romney wants to deny life-saving health care to women--a cheap shot to which Romney was given no chance to respond.
5. "You can ship jobs overseas and get tax breaks for it." We have heard the same lie for eight years from Obama. In 2004, he ran for U.S. Senate from Illinois on a promise to end such tax breaks. He did it again when he ran for President of the United States in 2008. And yet he has never done anything about it--because there are no such tax breaks. There is merely a deduction that companies can take for moving, even within the U.S.--and which helps offset the double taxation of U.S. businesses abroad, which would make American companies less competitive. Repealing it would ship jobs overseas, actually.
4. "And the production is up....What you’re saying is just not true." Obama contested a claim by Romney that production of oil and gas is down on federal lands. He even accused Romney of not telling the truth. But Romney was right--exactly right, down to the percentage decline. Furthermore, Obama's claim that he has been increasing oil and gas production on federal lands flies in the face of recent policy decisions, such as closing off a large part of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to further development. Obama has tried to take credit for expansion on private lands, while opposing expansion wherever possible.
3. "In what new ways do you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?" The false premise from a member of the audience was especially egregious because her question had been selected in advance by the moderator. The supposed wage gap between men and women for the same work is largely a myth. As Diana Furchtgott-Roth pointed out: "Women make about 95 percent of what their male counterparts earn, if the male counterparts are in the same job with the same experience."
2. "He wanted to take them into bankruptcy without providing them any way to stay open." After Obama accused Romney of wanting American auto manufacturers to go bankrupt, Romney pointed out that Obama had, in fact, taken the auto companies through bankruptcy. Obama's retort was to accuse Romney of wanting to take the companies bankrupt in order to put them out of business--a blatant lie. Romney actually suggested in his famous 2008 op-ed: "In a managed bankruptcy, the federal government would propel newly competitive and viable automakers, rather than seal their fate with a bailout check."
1. "He did call it an act of terror." The worst untruth told by a moderator in presidential history. Candy Crowley's intervention in favor of Obama caused the president's cheering section to burst into applause, in violation of the rules, and there was little that Romney could say in response. But she was wrong--Obama's reference to "acts of terror" in his Sep. 12 statement was in a general, abstract sense, and came long after he had described the 9/11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions as demonstrations against an anti-Islamic video. Even Crowley seemed to realize what she had done: it wasn't long before she walked back her own comment.
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(1) Political change happens, but suspension of the laws of gravity
does not. Over a lifetime advising candidates in this country and
abroad, some things have never changed:
-The oldest, most significant question in history of U.S. public
opinion polling: Asked of voters “Is the country on the right or wrong
track?” No incumbent underwater on this question–including very
impressive candidates for dog catcher–gets re-elected. For more than two
years, across the board, voter response to this central question has
consistently been greater than 2 to 1 wrong track.
-”Independents.” Pretend what you wish, independents weren’t born
politically a-sexual. The vast majority of them are, and will vote,
Republican.
-Much like “right/wrong track,” one of the profound metrics or
indicators in a presidential campaign is a president who cannot hit 50
percent approval among voters. Obama has consistently failed to reach 50
percent in over two years. Uh Oh.
-The single-most important signifier in the history of American
campaigns is “Economy/Jobs.” Under Obama, the nation’s performance in
this area sucks. People know it. I can’t promise you Obama can’t get
elected with these numbers, but I can promise you nobody ever has.
(2) Everything we think we “know” about this election is based
exclusively on polls, which despite enjoying the undue respect of the
public are utter sh**. There are maybe five pollsters in America who
could not successfully be sued for malpractice. There is nothing so
common and useless in American media/”politics” than inept polls. Worse,
it is easy and cheap to produce a “poll,” which hustlers and newspapers
(forgive the redundancy), know is obviously inaccurate. Good polls, by
good pollsters, are very difficult to produce ad very expensive.
The New York Times doesn’t want am accurate poll; they want the
cheapest poll they can report by day-after-tomorrow. They do this by
ignoring virtually all the tenets of a good poll in favor of
quick/cheap/bad polls – which have an added advantage for the MSM: they
polls guaranteed to yield liberal results.
Why are these polls inaccurate? Of 100 Americans eligible to vote,
only circa 1/3 of us turn out. So when you talk to non-voters (2/3 of
the sample), you get non-results. But bad pollsters don’t care about
that minor detail! They want a headline.
Most of the bad polls we see today are based on voter turn out models of
2008. Why? There has been a national election since then: 2010.
Difference is Obama voters turned out/won 2008 – Tea Party/Patriots
turned out in 2010.
Bottom line, the majority of polls we see are garbage. Average results of 10 bad polls, know what that yields? One bad average.
The Real polling in this – and every campaign – is being done in
strictest confidence by top pollsters, at a cost of $1Million+ Per
Month! Know what NBC Pays per month for its polling? Same as your
electric bill.
Think that affects quality of results?!
Most polls/pollsters showing Obama ahead are Wrong. Demonstrably
Wrong. Intentional Obama Propaganda. The media won’t report it, because
the media is the culprit. If you want good polls check out Doug Schoen,
Scott Rasmussen, or Pat Caddell.
(3) Watch for the “Silent Majority.” Per Ann Coulter’s latest
blockbuster, “Mugged”, racial politics permeate our politics. Pity. The
major effect it will have on this election is that many people, in my
professional opinion, are intimidated at work, among friends and in
public to express a pro-Romney viewpoint – inasmuch as that equals an
“anti-Obama” viewpoint. Which of course equals a “racist” opinion.
Ask yourself: how many men and women just clam up at work or parties, rather than be labeled ‘racist?’
That is a theory. Until my dear friend Ann Coulter appeared on my
BlazeRadioShow last week and told the story of a man who brought home a
Romney lawn sign, in reaction to which his wife recoiled in horror,
saying “You’re not going to put THAT on our lawn! Everyone will think
we’re Racists!”
No, we’re against Obama, socialism, and for Romney. While we may eschew lawn signs, we do – and will – vote robustly.
(4) “Undecideds.”
-About 10 percent of the electorate who will in the end vote, remain “Undecided.”
-In no national election in recorded US history has an incumbent won
the majority of Undecideds in the final days. If you have an incumbent
president that has already served four years, and now in the heat of an
election you still can’t bring yourself to support him, you are going to
do what late Undecided voters have always done: vote heavily for the
challenger. Mitt will capture 70% of Undecided vote in closing days,
easy.
(5) A greater percent of Romney supporters are going to turn out than
Obama voters. In 2008, there was a gap between Republican and Democrat
voter turn out. In a 4 percent race, that made the difference. In 2012,
there again will be a big turn out gap. This time, it’s ours.
Mister Mentum, first name “Mo,” will amplify this result. MO has,
undeniably, parachuted in again, unannounced but subtle as a mule kick
for one candidate: Romney. In my professional estimation, this was
inevitable – but is tangibly derivative of The ROMNEY-obama debate.
Unaccustomed to being challenged (or correct), President Obama was
absolutely overwhelmed by Romney’s superior knowledge, style and, yes,
truth.
Ask yourself: Do you honestly expect Obama to beat Romney – in two
debates? Me neither. (In fact, if Obama doesn’t absolutely dazzle next
Tuesday night, most voters who watch Debates won’t bother to watch 3rd
contest.)
As of several days ago, unless Obama changes the fundamental dynamic
of this campaign, “On Any Given Tuesday” – he loses this election. Look
at the size/enthusiasm of the candidate crowds over the past 10 days.
This is a reaction to the profound difference between a wasted, libelous
$100Million Obama TV Ad brutalization of Romney as a Monster.
Guess what? Voters suddenly saw and intuitively embraced the real
Mitt Romney – the difference between Obama Night and Romney Daylight.
Remember the old electric Obama pre-election magic?
“Under new management.”
As will be the United States of America, in roughly two weeks.
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Today ends week 111 of running against Obama. I ran 3.4 miles this week, averaging 0.49 miles per day.
It's been six days since my last run against Obama. This is the longest I've gone without running in the last 777 days and I think I'll be ready to ease back into it starting tomorrow. I think my toe may have been fractured but I am convinced it is not broken. It's black and blue and hurts but I want to end this 800 day goal strongly.
Here's the latest green energy company burning and crashing. Vestas, a Danish wind turbine company that received over $50 million in stimulus tax dollars announced Friday it has laid off more than 800 workers in North America and Canada and may be forced to lay off another 800 soon.
I found this from July 24, 2012, a list of stimulus-funded green energy companies that have gone bankrupt:
Abound Solar (Loveland, Colorado), manufacturer of thin film photovoltaic modules.
Beacon Power (Tyngsborough, Massachusetts), designed and developed
advanced products and services to support stable, reliable and efficient
electricity grid operation.
Ener1 (Indianapolis, Indiana), built compact lithium-ion-powered battery solutions for hybrid and electric cars.
Energy Conversion Devices (Rochester Hills, Michigan/Auburn Hills,
Michigan), manufacturer of flexible thin film photovoltaic (PV)
technology and a producer of batteries and other renewable
energy-related products.
Evergreen Solar, Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts), manufactured and installed solar panels.
Mountain Plaza, Inc. (Dandridge, Tennessee), designed and implemented “truck-stop electrification” technology.
Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsens Mills Acquisition Co. (Berlin, Wisconsin), a private company producing ethanol.
Range Fuels (Soperton, Georgia), tried to develop a technology that converted biomass into ethanol without the use of enzymes.
Raser Technologies (Provo, Utah), geothermal power plants and technology licensing.
Solyndra (Fremont, California), manufacturer of cylindrical panels of thin-film solar cells.
Spectrawatt (Hopewell, New York), solar cell manufacturer.
Thompson River Power LLC (Wayzata, Minnesota), designed and
developed advanced products and services to support stable, reliable and
efficient electricity grid operation.
Still sitting on the sideline with an injury. The timing of this really sucks as we are reaching the culminating point of these past four unfortunate years. I feel like running faster and further with only four weeks to go until the election but fate, human stupidity, or maybe both, have detoured the path I thought I was on. I accept the temporary defeat and hope to be back on the road by Monday.
In world news, the Nobel Peace Prize was recently awarded to...the European Union. You can't make this sort of stuff up. I wonder how they divvied up the million dollar award among this economically torn collective. The euro is in utter jeopardy, Greece has been rioting for over two years, Spain has recently been in the news for similar riots---I don't follow too much news about Europe because we have plenty to worry about here in America, but even I know the union is fraying at every border and the currency is melting in every pocket.
This announcement from Oslo is possibly, it is very close, but possibly, as ridiculous as Barack Hussein Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Between the two of these recipients, one a single man and the other a conglomeration of nations on a continent, I think it is safe to say that the Nobel Peace Prize has officially lost every fiber of what it once represented.
Barack Obama is arguably the worst president in modern American history, maybe ever, and Europe is currently suffering the worst recession its had in eighty years. It's as though the judges of this award seek out failures and reward their good intentions.
Here is a list of all the winners. As I scanned over it I immediately saw that Al Gore won it in 2007 and Jimmy Carter won it in 2002. A lot of questionable individuals and entities have claimed this prize, but the further you go back the more noble the Nobel Peace Prize winners are.
As an afterthought, these guys gave this thing to Obama just for his "Hope and Change" rhetoric. He had done nothing to deserve it. They rewarded his words and his intentions, not his actions. Four years later, he's strutting around spiking the Bin Laden football and he has the Middle East burning more American flags and effigies than the second Bush did.
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Here is a pre-debate look back at some of Uncle Joe's finest moments from the recent past:
“This is a big fu***ng deal!” –Joe Biden, caught on an open mic congratulating President Barack Obama during the health care signing ceremony, Washington, D.C., March 23, 2010
“An hour late, oh give me a f**king break.” –Joe Biden, caught on a live mic speaking to a former Senate colleague after arriving on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C., March 13, 2009
"Look at what they [Republicans] value, and look at their budget. And look what they’re proposing. [Romney] said in the first 100 days, he’s going to let the big banks write their own rules — unchain Wall Street. They‘re going to put y’all back in chains.” –Joe Biden, speaking to a largely African-American audience in Danville, Va., Aug. 14, 2012
“Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.” –Joe Biden, Aug. 22, 2012
"His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And- although, she’s- wait- your mom’s still- your mom’s still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.” –Joe Biden, on the mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who is very much alive, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2010
“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent…. I’m not joking.” –Joe Biden, in a private remark to an Indian-American man caught on C-SPAN, June, 2006
“Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.” –Joe Biden, Athens, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2008
“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.” –Joe Biden, speaking to members of the House Democratic caucus who were gathered in Williamsburg, Va., for their annual retreat, Feb. 6, 200
”Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.” –Joe Biden, speaking at a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, Sept. 10, 2008
In case you missed yesterday, I have an injury keeping me from running, temporarily. I think I'll be back on the road in a few days.
The way Obama and his campaign team are running with this "Big Bird" theme is pathetic. I see two immediate epic failures in their desperate decision to make such a big story out of Sesame Street while our economy is imploding and American flags are being burnt all over the world under Barack Obama's apologetic watch. One, there are obviously much more serious issues to discuss rather than the fate of PBS and, second, I think it is reflective of a particularly large voting block he is appealing to---one that identifies more easily with cartoons and puppets than budgets and foreign affairs.
Ridiculous. Hurry up, November 6. But first, tomorrow night we get to watch Uncle Joe garble his rampant thoughts into words across the stage from Paul Ryan. It should be entertaining if nothing else. And, soon after, we will see if Barack Hussein Obama has any ability to redeem himself in the second presidential debate. He's going to need a lot more than "Big Bird" to help him.
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I'm back on the injury report. Life has a way of taking the outcomes you expect and flipping them upside down. I think it is a constant test to see how resilient an individual's sense of humor is. Wet flip-flops and a concrete flight of stairs do not go together well.
I was so close. It was the final step before the landing when I slipped and drove my entire body's weight onto my right big toe. It is now black and blue and I have acquired a limp. Nothing is broken (I don't think) and I'm actually surprised I didn't twist my ankle. As temporarily pulverized as my toe is I think it could have been much worse.
The silver lining is that I have always anticipated something like this happening. Some unforeseeable events are out of our control and it is best to prepare for them even though they rarely ever surface. Fortunately, I've racked up a surplus of miles to anticipate this sort of thing. I'm not sure how long it will be until I can run again, I am hoping no more than a week, but I budgeted this potential loss into my balance before it even happened. Many people do this with money regarding their household incomes---some nations even do this with money for the good of their economy. America's government is not one of them.
So, I'm going to continue posting each day and eventually start running again. We're getting close to our one chance to fire Barack Obama. RasmussenReports currently has Romney leading considerably in the eleven swing states Obama won in 2008.
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I'm not sure if SNL is trying to spread around their political parodies more evenly among the political spectrum or if Barack Obama and his media sweethearts are just too hard to pass up when it comes to mockery, but Saturday Night Live has been giving Barack Obama a lot of skit time this season. Back in 2008 Sarah Palin was in nearly every skit. You're winning me back, SNL.
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Last night's debate was a thorough castration of any testicular fortitude Barack Hussein Obama may have thought he had as he walked out on the stage. Mitt Romney executed a nearly flawless assault on and defense of every word that came out of our current president's mouth. Obama stood behind his podium with his face down like the tail between a dog's legs. For a few seconds I thought about thinking about feeling bad for him, but the moment passed sooner than it had arrived because he deserved every ounce of defeat he he had sown.
Here we are one day later and our president is back to campaigning with meaningless words that no one is there to argue. The passion he speaks with in front of crowds should have been employed last night, but it could not be because there was a man across the stage able to refute every accusation or accomplishment he wrongly made or indignantly claimed.
Slithering David Axelrod had this to say of Romney's performance: "artful dodger”; “devoid of honesty”; “rooted
in deception”;“untethered to the truth”; “well delivered but
fraudulent”.
I would say David Axelrod and Barack Obama are flustered and desperate if meaningless name-calling is the best they can do.
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If you missed yesterday's post, check it out. Regarding the newly released 2007 Obama video, Breitbart.com (John Nolte) made the list below of what is important to note. The news we see and hear is going to do everything in their power to smooth out everything that is wrong with this video, but it is important to fully examine the words that were coming out of our president's mouth before news organization begin twisting it all up, or choose to not report on it at all. This video, among many other things, failed to be reported leading up to the 2008 presidential election and it is a shame that they are only now surfacing. By the time November 6 arrives I have a feeling there may be an electoral consensus that Barack Obama never should have made it to the Democratic primaries to begin with.
1. The video released by the Daily Caller last night does include footage the media never broadcast or reported on.
Furthermore, we're supposed to believe
it's just a coincidence that the footage the media ignored just happens
to be the most controversial part, where Barack Obama (who at the time
was running to be the Democratic nominee for president) goes off-script
and tells a majority black audience that the federal government doesn't
care about Hurricane Katrina victims because they're black.
Even Politico's mainstream media water-carrier Dylan Byers had to admit this is the case:
But the full footage of the
speech included previously unreported remarks in which Sen. Obama
suggested that the federal government helped victims of 9/11 and
Hurricane Andrew (in Florida), but did not help the victims of Hurricane
Katrina because it didn't care about them as much.
By any measure, new video of a sitting president sewing seeds of racial division is not only news, but big news.
If this were Allen West giving the exact same speech, you better believe it would be everywhere. And he's only a congressman.
2. Now we know the media and
the Obama campaign "selectively edited" the video in 2007 in order to
cover up Obama's divisive racial rhetoric.
That's most certainly news.
3. Past is prologue. Always.
Obama's attacks on the suburbs and the
"us vs. them" rhetoric that toxifies the entire speech helps make sense
of his divisive presidency and campaign. Moreover, the speech that made
Obama a national star was his 2004 address at the Democratic Convention
where he was famously unifying and post-racial. That was his "no red
states, no blue states" speech.
Now we know the 2004 speech was bull shit.
That's news.
4.Obama grew up in Hawaii and Chicago, so where in the world does that hilariously fake southern accent come from?
Like a lot of politicians, depending on the audience he's with, this president can be a huge phony.
I'm a news and political junkie and never once have I heard him speak with this pronounced a southern accent. So…
That's news to me, and probably to a lot of people.
5. In order to stoke racial division and resentment, Obama lied to his audience.
The then-U.S. Senator tells the
audience that the federal government waived the Stafford Act for New
York after 9/11 and for Florida after Hurricane Andrew, but not for New
Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
[T]he federal government did at
times waive the Stafford Act during its reconstruction efforts. On May
25, 2007, just weeks before the speech, the Bush administration sent an
additional $6.9 billion to Katrina-affected areas with no strings
attached.
As a sitting United States
Senator, Obama must have been aware of this. And yet he spent 36 minutes
at the pulpit telling a mostly black audience that the U.S. government
doesn’t like them because they’re black.
Which leads me to…
6. Obama is prone to believing and spreading dishonest and wildly false conspiracy theories.
7.At the 19:20 mark we learn that the Christian Obama doesn't know the Lord's Prayer.
That's news.
8.Obama's "us vs. them" rhetoric and beliefs extends to his governance.
At the 28:50 mark, Obama talks
extensively about the importance of minority-owned businesses and
supporting your own. He then proposes using the Small Business
Administration specifically to aid minorities.
That's news.
9.At the
20:10 mark, Obama laments the social injustice that created 37 million
Americans living in poverty and pledges to fight that injustice as
president.
10.When Obama gave this speech, the Reverend Wright scandal had yet to break.
This means that the scant, incomplete,
and "selectively edited" coverage the speech received at the time
wouldn't have thought much of the full minute Obama spends gushing over
his mentor and pastor in his opening remarks.
Knowing what we know now makes this, yes, news.
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The corrupt media knows this newly
released footage is news. They just don't want voters to see Obama for
what he is: a phony, divisive, racial demagogue and grievance-monger
ready to spread lies, conspiracy theories, and animosity in order to get
what he wants.
Oh, I almost forgot…
11.We know
it's news because the corrupt media is telling us there's nothing to see
here, even as they kill themselves to blow it back on Romney and ensure
as few people as possible see it.
First debate tonight. Let's get it on!
(Watching the debate as I type---"trickle-down government"---brilliant!)
2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 324.3
