Day70 Sunday 11/07/10

ran 2.6 miles
Today ends my tenth week of running against Barack Obama. I have run 185.6 miles, averaging 2.65 miles per day. Today also marks less than two years of counting down to the next presidential election. By the time November 7, 2012 arrives much will have occurred in America, and the rest of the world, and hopefully we will wake up to an alternative president after the November 6 election. It’s going to be an exciting two years to watch. Up until now, Liberals had an overwhelming source of power, possessing the Presidency, the Senate and the House. After November 2, they lost some important democrats in the Senate and completely lost their majority in the House, demoting Nancy Pelosi to a common representative like all of the others. What will make these two years so exciting is the fact that every single political figure will be studied under a microscope and equally scrutinized with every action they make. The past two years were easy for conservatives to simply say. “No, I disagree.” But now that they have some leverage in the house and new faces, which we voted into office as a reaction of intolerance for the liberal ideas that have passed through legislation, results are expected and America is impatiently waiting.

One important thing to watch, as soon as Barack and Michelle Obama get back from their over-extravagant trip to India, is if Obama is going to bend on any of the big issues (health care, Bush tax cuts expiring, possibility of more monopoly money stimulus packages, just to name a few) or if he is going to ardently continue to weaken America with his policies, which have been perceived by American voters as ineffective and detrimental to this country based on the results of the November 2 election.

Every once in a while, I like to reiterate on what the ultimate goal of this blog is and what it represents. This blog does not exist to blame all of the problems in America on Barack Obama. They have been building up like a clot in an artery for a very, very long time. I believe Barack Obama’s executive decisions over the past two years have thickened that clot to a diameter that has required a trip to the emergency room and that is what it took to wake America up and to urge Americans to get more involved in politics. Politicians, lobbyists, corporations, unions, banks, everyday people and numerous other entities have all contributed in letting America weaken and veer off of its intended path. But what is important now is that Barack Obama has managed to do everything wrong that he could to fully awaken American voters, who had been sleeping for a very long time. There is plenty of blame to pass around for the problems America is now facing, but for Barack Obama to introduce highly flawed systems like socialized health care and outrageous stimulus packages (based on Keynesian Economics, proven to fail in the past when implemented) at a time like this is hardly productive and extremely debilitating to an economy.

1,894.4 miles to go.

Day69 Saturday 11/06/10

ran 3.0 miles
Forbe’s “List of the World’s Most Powerful People” recently dethroned Barack Obama as the world’s most powerful and influential man and replaced him with China’s president, Hu Jintao. Forbe’s comprises this list with one single standard, regardless of whether the people on the list are leaders of nations, terrorists, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, media personalities, or religious figures. According to Forbe’s these are the individuals who, “In various ways, bend the world to their will.” Here is the top ten:

1. Hu Jintao, president of China
2. Barack Obama, president of the United States of America
3. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, king of Saudi Arabia.
4. Vladimir Putin, prime minister of Russia.
5. Pope Benedict the Sixteenth.
6. Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany.
7. David Cameron, prime minister of the U.K.
8. Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
9. Sonia Gandhi, president of the Indian National Congress political party.
10. Bill Gates, for his philanthropy (not Microsoft)

The rest of the list, 68 people, is here.

There’s really not much left to be said as that number one ranking speaks for itself. You have to appreciate Forbe’s honesty and their commitment to printing real facts, unlike so many of our media outlets. For instance, where have you read, heard, or watched, anywhere in America, how ridiculously expensive Obama’s ten day excursion to India is? $200 million a day! If you want any facts about the money he is spending on this trip, the immense entourage he is taking, or what real purpose he is serving in proportion to the taxpayer money he is spending, so conveniently close to a dismal midterm election, you have to look at papers from India, news from the BBC, European papers, or even Australian articles. The rest of the world prints facts and commentates truths about our president and country while our own country prints spin and puffery, or news that will not disrupt the delicate fabric of our ignorance to important issues that are so crucial to our nation.

On a personal note, today marks exactly two years until the November 6, 2012 presidential election. When I started this campaign, the goal I set for myself was extremely overwhelming and I’ve had weak moments over the past three months, but as each day goes by I feel stronger and stronger about the statement I am trying to make. Ultimately, I am in the early stages of peacefully protesting against Barack Obama’s presidency for what will amount to two years and a little over two months. Today is a milestone because tomorrow will be one day less than two years until this country makes a big decision to continue feeling sorry for its excellence or to begin redefining the excellence of the people that make America the amazing country it is.

1,897 miles to go.

Day68 Friday 11/05/10

ran 2.6 miles

• Connecticut was the fifth state to join the union on January 9, 1788, seven days after Georgia and one month before Massachusetts.

• Population, as of 2009, is 3,518,288.

• Senators are Joe Lieberman (D) and Richard Blumenthal (D).

• Representatives are John Larson (D), Joe Courtney (D), Rosa DeLauro (D), Jim Himes (D), and Christopher Murphy (D).

• Connecticut holds seven electoral votes. Historically, the state has voted democratic the last four elections, the prior five were won by republicans, with democrats taking the three before that, indicating that the state seems to have a delicate and malleable past and future, which is just intangible enough to not quite designate it as a “Swing state”.

On a separate note, if you divide $200,000,000 of taxpayer money spent everyday on the next ten days of Barack Obama’s excursion to India (and an elaborate tour of Asia) by the frustration America feels with its government it equals inexcusability.

I cannot believe the audacious heights of vanity, in the clouds, which this man’s head floats abroad from all reality. His disregard for what makes this country go around filters so much opportunity from its own pureness.

1,900 miles to go.

Day67 Thursday 11/04/10

ran 2.8 miles

• Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval poll shows that 27% of American voters strongly approve of Barack Obama’s performance and 43% strongly disapprove, giving Obama an Approval Index rating of –16, compared to –20 on this day last week.

• Overall, 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance and 54% at least somewhat disapprove.

• Rasmussen Reports telephone exit polling found that 59% of those who voted on Election Day favored repeal of the health care law, including 48% who strongly favored its repeal.

• An Election Night survey reported that those who went to the polls for the mid-term elections were largely angry and ready to repeal health care. Also, most voters favored the Tea party, tax cuts, and reduced government spending. And 55% of American voters believed that most Democrats in Congress have extreme views.

Barack and Michelle Obama, and an entourage of 3,000 people, will be off to India soon for a ten-day trip, which will cost American taxpayers $200 million a day for ten days. No kidding, amidst virtually double digit unemployment numbers, a weak economy, and a furious public with Obama’s entire agenda, which just wiped out a lot of democrats who risked their political careers for his beliefs and were unseated only two days ago for those beliefs, Obama is going to India, hitting some of the biggest spots in Asia, and all on our dime, achieving absolutely nothing equal to the scope of the money he is spending to do it and the audacity he has to hope so blindly that American’s are as uninformed as he would like to believe.

I like to humbly believe I am an open-minded human being who has the understanding and patience to not make preconceived notions or to pass unnecessary judgments on other people, who have as much right as I do to make decisions of any kind, but excess of this sort, when an entire nation is in your hands, is inexcusable. Regardless of what Barack Obama anticipated happening on the night of November 2, this trip took a lot of planning that started a long, long time ago, and whatever parties were involved with planning the trip, every single individual on that planning panel was fully aware of the proximity of the trip to the Mid-term elections.

My theory: Run! Create headlines that deter and weaken the reality of what just happened in the country you lead. I’d go so far as to say that our president made this trip so outrageously expensive to make it important enough to consume headlines so they would read in bold print anything but the stories about the election that just occurred. Maybe I am wrong, but it seems so obvious to me, planning a trip like this requires so much time and planning, and it just happens to be a few days after the Mid-term elections? They could have scheduled it two weeks from now. After the realization of Tuesday night, the difference in scrutiny between a few days of dealing with America’s wrath and abandoning the situation entirely for a week and a half is huge, and as strategic as it is transparent.

1,902.6 miles to go.

Day66 Wednesday 11/03/10

ran 3.8 miles
I had some residual excitement from last night’s election and ran a little further than usual tonight. When I went to bed last night the last thing I saw on Fox News was a digital map of the United States. Most of the states lacked any definitive contour to their shapes because someone in the news studio appeared to have thrown a bucket of red Photoshop paint on the entire computer image. Slivers of blue in the predictable eastern and western coastal areas accompanied a few random specks of blue more inland.

The election was a huge, unified statement proclaimed by the large majority of Americans. The few critical races that were a disappointment only sullied the larger picture of the night’s victories with a mere tinge of frustration. Barack Obama is in a delicate spot right now, due to last night’s outcome, with many eggshells under his feet, which it is in his best interest to not further crumble. Likewise, our newly elected politicians have a tight wire to cross if they are truly going to obtain the goals they campaigned with and got elected for. Today starts two years of hopefully clearing a concise path through a directionless terrain toward the next presidential election. Here are some quotes from yesterday’s election.

"This is not a time for celebration, not when one in 10 of our fellow citizens are out of work, not when we have buried our children under a mountain of debt, not when our Congress is held in such low esteem."

John Boehner

"Eleven percent of the people approve of what's going on in Congress. But tonight, there's a Tea Party tidal wave, and we're sending a message to them!"

Rand Paul

"No matter where I go, whatever title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles and will always be the heir of two generations of unfulfilled dreams."

Marco Rubio

“I have great confidence in the American system. We must believe in ourselves and not believe that somehow some benevolent leader in a distant capital will take care of us, will save us from ourselves. We must once again believe in ourselves.”

Rand Paul

1,905.4 miles to go.

Day65 Tuesday 11/02/10

ran 3.0 miles
On this day in history, November 2, 2010, from the moment the first vote was cast to the moment the last precinct submitted its ballots for counting, today will live on as a day that American’s spoke out, finally being heard, and were given the opportunity to reprimand and halt government actions we do not agree with. We earned this one single day, after two years of screaming into the deaf ears of Congress, to unseat some of the Senators, Representatives, and Governors who have supported Barack Obama’s radical agenda and helped to pass the legislation of his extreme liberal ideas.

Today will go down as a day in history that your children and your grandchildren can genuinely thank you for because America’s voice and vote has enriched and empowered their futures by putting up an instant barrier to Barack Obama’s idea of what America should be. The votes tonight speak for themselves insomuch as the House is being taken over by a Republican tsunami, the Senate is significantly weakened compared to their liberal numbers yesterday, and Governors have painted the American landscape red.

The outcomes of today’s elections are a direct repudiation of Barack Obama’s first two years. Tomorrow begins a whole new chapter in American politics and one of the first actions will be a televised speech delivered by Barack Obama addressing the nation on his reaction to the fact that the majority of voters in the country he leads disagree with most of his actions and ideas.

Today was an epic day in American history and if nothing else, doesn’t it just feel nice, every once in a while, to simply feel heard at such a large volume, that only a sweeping vote of this momentum can unite into audible words that speak directly to our politicians, who, otherwise, leave their suggestion boxes permanently locked?

1,909.2 miles to go.

Day64 Monday 11/01/10

ran 3.0 miles
Here’s something you may not know. Barack Obama, addressing primarily Latino voters last week, was quoted as saying, “…To rally to the aid of their political ‘Friends’ and to thwart their political ‘Enemies’.”

John Podesta, ex-president Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff, even commented that a different word besides “Enemy” was more than appropriate. “Opposition”, maybe, or even “Those who don’t see things the way I, or we, do”, perhaps?

Republican Minority Leader, John Boehner, had this to say, “You know, when President Bush, President Reagan, President Clinton and George W. Bush used the word enemies, they were referring to global terrorism or dictators around the world who hated freedom and hated America. For the president to use that word about people who oppose bigger government, people who are freedom loving and love our Constitution, I tell you I find that very appalling," he said.

"Mr. President, I've got a word for those people who oppose you're policies, those people who love our country and Constitution, who love freedom and the principles America was founded on. You know what I call them? Not enemies. They're patriots.”

Tomorrow is the day. I haven’t been this excited since the Saints went to the Super Bowl last year. Get out and vote and let’s get closure on where America’s voice stands. Polls will be put to the test tomorrow and voter turnout will be potentially record-breaking. To not have a voice in this epoch moment in American politics is a disappointment every registered voter should avoid.

1,912.2 miles to go.

Day63 Sunday 10/31/10

ran 0.8 miles
Today ends nine weeks of running against Barack Obama. I have run 164.8 miles, averaging 2.62 miles per day. I ran a 5k yesterday, Maddie’s Footprints Forever, and scored a good time. “Maddie’s Footprints” is a great cause worth checking out.

Jumping right ahead to the larger picture, if this election on Tuesday grants opposition the chance to halt Barack Obama’s agenda, what will be interesting is what these new senators and representatives are going to do. Don’t be fooled by spin that the current uprising of American citizens protesting their government is entirely attributed to liberal ideas. Right now, any candidate who claims to defy liberal ideas is the right candidate.

So what now? These people have a huge expectation to fulfill. And if they don’t do it, despite media bias and the articles they will print, Barack Obama will only gain strength scrutinizing conservative legislation regardless of whether they are good or bad.

This upheaval of the people is not a product of Barack Obama. I would never give his thirsty ego that satisfaction and it’s just not the case. I would say that he just happens to be president right now and he attempted to call America’s bluff. He is the proverbial straw that is breaking our American backs. And now that we are calling him out, his only excuse is to blame.

“The Democrats are about to feel the full force of a tidal wave, tsunami, or a 7.0 earthquake.”

Democratic pollster Peter Hart

Historically, this kind of thing happens all the time. Whichever party has their president in office trends toward voting out members of that party during the mid-term elections of any given president’s first two years. Frustration among American voters has been boiling for decades and Barack Obama is just radical enough to turn the heat up even more while our country already boils over with steam and frustration.

American politics desperately need some good, fresh minds. Things are corrupt and shady on both sides of the aisle. Right now, I believe it would be a huge justice to this country to make Barack Obama a one-term president. With that being said, there are many more items to address in the future. But right now, our president has the power and ability to pivot this country in a direction that may take generations to reconcile.

1,915.2 miles to go.

Day62 Saturday 10/30/10

ran 2.6 miles
The final days of blitz-campaigning have come to an end for Obama in Cleveland, Ohio. As Tuesday approaches, Democrats stand to endure a volatile rejection of two more years on Capitol Hill.

“Obviously, the other side is enthusiastic,” Barack Obama said while in Ohio.

“We’ve got to make sure our side is, too,” Obama said to the enthusiastic crowd in Cleveland.

Republicans feel sure they will dominate the House with conservative votes. It would be a stretch for the GOP to overcome the Senate, but there is hope and it is possible. Depending on swing states, to contend all facets of government, which loudly defy Barack Obama and everything he has done over the past two years, nothing is impossible. It seems that American voters are electing a new enterprise of change and a different source of hope from what Obama has been peddling over the past two years. There is little left necessary to undo the path he has paved, except to understand that a path can be paved, repaved, and repaved again, regardless of how tumultuously wrong its stones are set.

Vote on Tuesday!

1,916.0 miles to go.

Day61 Friday 10/29/10

ran 0.9 miles

• Colorado was the thirty-eighth state to join the union on August 1, 1876, nine years after Nebraska and thirteen years after North Dakota.

• Population, as of 2009, is 5,024,748.

• Senators are Michael F. Bennet (D) and Mark Udall (D).

• Representatives are Diana DeGette (D), Jared Polis (D), John Salazar (D), Betsy Markey (D), Doug Lamborn (R), Mike Coffman (R), and Ed Perlmutter (D).

• Colorado holds nine electoral votes. Historically, the state has voted red in all but four elections since World War II.

• According to Rasmussen Reports, Republican candidate Dan Maes has only single-digit support in the gubernatorial race, but Democrat John Hickenlooper is nearly tied with Independent candidate Tom Tancredo.

• Incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck stand with even numbers. They will hold a nationally televised debate on Sunday as they race toward Tuesday’s finish line.

By this time next week, potentially, some of these House and Senate seat-holders will have been voted out. I ardently hope the list I have comprised of Senators and Representatives of various states over the past couple months requires much revising after Tuesday.

If current polls prove themselves even half worthy of validation, Barack Obama should be facing some nearly impenetrable obstacles for the next two years. If this conservative victory prevails, the actions of Obama’s first two years as president will be condemned and stand to be rectified. That is what disgruntled voters expect and hopefully Republicans will be able to deliver steadfast resolution. While victory could be sweet right now, if Republicans do not fulfill the new sense of “Hope” and “Change” that the majority of American’s may or may not want, depending on Tuesday’s results, it will only strengthen Barack Obama’s campaign in 2012.

Republicans need to assert themselves over the next two years with a determination that is equal to or greater than their desire was to be elected in the first place.

1,918.6 miles to go.

Day60 Thursday 10/28/10

ran 2.6 miles

• Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval poll reflects that 25% of American voters strongly approve of Barack Obama’s performance and 45% strongly disapprove, giving Obama an Approval Index rating of –20, compared to –14 on this day last week.

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

• Today’s “Election 2010 Balance of Power” summary predicts the Democrats to end up with 48 Senate seats and for Republicans to finish with 45 Senate seats. California, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virginia are all toss-ups. Republicans would need six of these seven toss-up states to win the majority in the Senate.

• Today’s “Gubernatorial Scorecard” shows the Republicans with 28 states, Democrats with 13, and 8 toss-ups (Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, and Vermont).

• Larry Sabato, a professor at the University of Virginia who has made a reliable name for himself in election polling, has posted his final predictions in his article “The Crystal Ball’s Final Calls”. He predicts 55 Republican seats gained in the House and 8 Republican seats gained in the Senate.

Five days left until the election. Tuesday could be an incredible day in history and a huge statement that we American citizens can still have a voice among all the indecipherable chatter of politicians. The puffery and misleading antics that consume the American election process are deceiving and overwhelming to everyone when they start asking themselves the important questions. With that being said, I find great comfort in reading over some of the words of America’s founders. It helps to reconnect with the true intentions of America’s conception and why it is still such an amazing nation thriving in its third century of unrivaled freedom.

This is a quote I memorized the first time I read it. And I hold it on a pedestal to the current events that mock its message.

“Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered, be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.”

Thomas Jefferson

1,919.5 miles to go.

Day59 Wednesday 10/27/10

ran 2.6 miles
Senator Mitch McConnell, who will become the majority leader if Republicans gain control in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, made a bold statement recently that has the president and his democratic counterparts enraged at his partisan intentions.

“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

My interpretation of the liberal notion that republicans are blocking Barack Obama’s agenda for the mere, spiteful sake of blocking liberal ideals is that it simply is what it is. Obama does not seem to understand the rules of the political game. He seems to think that he somehow deserves to get what he wants. Our whole system of government is a brilliant design of checks and balances. Republicans are not supposed to bow down to democrats and I would hope that democrats never bow down to republicans, disheveling the governmental design our forefathers formed for us and future generations. It is not the Senate or the House who are obligated to appease any given president’s ideas. It falls upon the president to find a method and a middle ground to achieve what he desires with the consent of his Senators, his Representatives and his citizens.

Barack Obama’s most popular excuse for not being able to deliver the “Hope” and “Change” he adamantly promised is that Republicans are blocking his motives. I think he should not have promised over 300 million Americans something he could not deliver---actions he cannot deliver because of our rational system of checks and balances in this country. It is as though Barack Obama was actually naïve enough to believe he could be elected president and that every intention he had would somehow magically come true, because everyone has to listen to the president. He could not have been more wrong. He is not in touch with this country and what the majority of its people want. He is, however, a monumental blamer. Barack Obama blames every promise he fails to seal, like a child, on everyone but himself because he appears to think he is a king, or a despot, in more modern terms, which I think is what he is working towards, especially if he is given a second term.

Checks and balances. Checks and balances. Checks and balances. One more time, checks and balances. America’s system of checks and balances has been established since its conception and for Barack Obama to promise the “Hope” and “Change” he has, having faced so many obstacles with republicans and intuitive logic, his reasoning can only be attributed to a complete fantasy, in which American citizens are ignorant herds of sheep, or a total misconception of the reality that a president needs to lead by example before he blames everyone else for not being bipartisan.

1,922.1 miles to go.

Day58 Tuesday 10/26/10

ran 3.2 miles
On this day in 2001, President George Bush signed into law the Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism response to the attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The USA PATRIOT Act, an acronym for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism”, was intended to empower law enforcement and intelligence agencies, heightening their abilities to deter future terrorist attacks on America.

As an aside, what is the connection between our government and its obsession with acronyms? That is the longest, most ridiculous acronym I have ever come across. It makes you wonder what the order of priorities are when you see an acronym like that. Before all the important details of the USA PATRIOT Act were knitted out, I think it’s safe to say the acronym had all ten words applied to each letter, as a selling point of what their intentions were. It’s actually insulting, as if to say, “America, you are not really going to understand what exactly we are planning to do here, but we went ahead and made this fancy acronym so you can fully understand the Act we want to sign into law. Just follow these ten words. They’re pretty clever and if you take the first letter of each of the ten words it spells ‘USA PATRIOT.’”

As a future reference, anything our government tries enacting with ten or more characters that form an acronym is probably an edgy and risky idea, which your government believes is a strategy, though infantile, to winning your approval.

Regardless of our government’s condescension of its people’s intelligence, the USA PATRIOT Act was bound to have some cracks in it, but it had to be done. The majority of congress, on both sides of the aisle voted for it, but as time dwindled on, the Act lost popularity among civil right’s activists and organizations like the ACLU. It was not long before politicians who had voted the Act into law began to recant their decision, believing too much unchecked power was being wielded by the government to snoop into the lives of Americans. The Patriot Act was compared to the 1960s and 1970s when the FBI bugged and infiltrated anti-war and civil rights groups.

When those towers came crashing down, we all know something had to be done. The USA PATRIOT Act, barring the ridiculous acronym it stands for, was necessary but, as time tends to do, the severity and sense of urgency faded away until the Patriot Act turned into something else; a snooping, pestering and overbearing government.

If nothing else, September 11 has illustrated how circumstantial different times can be. This country was absolutely united and filled with compassion after that tragedy. Since then, the things that resonate most as being important during a crisis have once again faded away for a while. I would like to believe that tragedy is not necessary to highlight the important issues of any given day, but it is unfortunate when that is so often the case.

Speaking of acronyms and the childish antics politicians utilize to earn votes and approval from American people, whom they seem to believe are at twelve-year-old reading levels, stories are already making headlines about voter booth tampering, ACORN conspiracies, and the whole spectrum of corrupting the mid-term election. Things like this are one of the reasons why I never voted one single time until Barack Obama ran for president. I voted against him. A couple years have gone by and I have kept up with politics only to grow more fed up. I am going to vote against Barack Obama in 2012, as well, if he continues in the direction he is going and does not make an effort to undo what he has done or to repeal the damage he has already set in motion. I have come to a point now, as I’m sure many others have, too, that I don’t believe simply voting is even enough. That is why I am running. I feel like a member of a thoroughly united voice that goes unheard. I don’t know what else to do except to continue running and writing. These are the only tools I have to protest the corruption of politics and the intentions of our president.

1,924.7 miles to go.

Day57 Monday 10/25/10

ran 3.2 miles
This is a really cool quiz worth checking out! If you have ever questioned where exactly you stand politically and feel unsure about it, this quiz can help you understand what political party your beliefs and ideas coincide with most. The result of your quiz, which only takes two minutes, exceeds the status limitations of mere democratic, republican or independent . Your result is also plotted on a graph to give you a proximal value of how far away or near your ideas and beliefs are to other parties.

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Tomorrow marks the final week before the Mid-term election. Brace yourself for a lot of last minute meaningless babble and mud-slinging. All we can do is vote against the actions of the past two years, which cannot be twisted by rhetoric or denied by excuses.

1,927.9 miles to go.