Day664 Saturday 06/23/12

ran 4.1 miles

Just imagine. In only 137 days President Barack Hussein Obama could be voted out of office like a lemon being returned to a dishonest car dealership. Fed up and disappointed in their purchase, a collective America could march into his office and tell him that the moment they started the car he had sold them the wheels fell off, the muffler was rusted and detached after hitting a bump on the road, and the spark plugs were not sparking. We won't be able to get our money back but we can certainly make Barack Obama drive the sorry car he sold our nation right out of his office and into the history books as the worst president in modern American history.

In nineteen weeks and four days we can fire this man. He is our leader and we have been led astray from what America represents and what it demands to maintain. Now that Barack Obama's first term is nearing an end he is finally being vetted and I think we can all agree that if the media would have done its job in 2008 then he would never have even been elected or even stood a chance in the primaries.

In only four months and fourteen days this nation is going to make a decision that will impact America for generations. We can either shred our Constitution and tear every fiber of freedom, religion, opportunity, capitalism, and success that has defined America for over two hundred years, or we can give America a swift kick in its rear end to wake it up and remind its people of everything we stand for that has obviously been forgotten.

I've been following the news and posting on this blog every single day for nearly two years. I have ran over three miles every single day for 664 days just to avoid periodic combustion due to how inexplicable the actions of our president are. The simple fact that he was ever even elected to sit in the Oval Office is an outcome I will never understand.

Over the past two years I have received a lot of oppositional comments about my views and what I am doing from individuals who support Obama. Whether it is email, blog comments, or facebook posts, the large majority of these people send messages hoping that I get hit by a bus or that I don't stop running once I hit D.C. and continue straight into the Atlantic Ocean. They suggest I should not have children. They call me a racist for being dedicated enough to run everyday for an America I believe in. Running is now racism, in case you didn't know. They troll and troll and troll away at me with the most ignorant accusations and falsehoods they can create.

After doing this for nearly two years, I can tell you this. I think both Republican and Democratic politicians are egomaniacs who do not have our best interests in their hearts. I can tell you that Mitt Romney only scares me slightly less than Barack Obama, and for that reason he has my vote. And I can tell you that neither of the two candidates you vote for during any election cycle have anything to do with what you were put here on Earth to perform. The power is in the people and it has been that way since day one of America. Our federal government, our presidents, particularly Barack Obama, have been increasing the size of government and people's dependency on it for a long time. These actions equate to less freedom and less opportunity to perform the tasks we are driven to do on our own.

What value is it to set a goal to run 1,000 miles in a year if people who are determined to run more than 1,000 miles in a year have to redistribute some of their miles to others who are not driven to run even 10 miles in a year? Am I lucky because I can run 1,000 miles in a year? Barack Obama would say I am, but I am not. I am determined. I want the reward of succeeding in difficult tasks I set for myself. I don't want a hand-out or a mile voucher that gets me out of the obligation of running each day. It's hard. It's challenging. But the reward is worth it. That reward is unfiltered freedom to make my own decisions, to successfully follow through with them, and to not have to depend on anyone else or any government to get me through each day.

We were not put on Earth to sit back and vote for some guy who campaigns on redistributing self-worth and sustenance just so we can rest our bodies on government subsidized recliners and achieve absolutely nothing at the cost of those who actually deserve self-worth and sustenance. We were put on Earth to achieve and to pave our own ways to happiness, not to sit idly by and let governments choose our ways for us. 

12.9 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day299. 

Day663 Friday 06/22/12

ran 4.0 miles

President Barack Obama and his campaign team continue to sink even further into desperation and the reproachable depths of tactlessness. Just when our president hits a new level of absurdity that could not possibly be outdone, he completely surpasses our expectations...every few days, lately. 

Now, instead of receiving wedding gifts to hold onto for the rest of your life as mementos for the one special day of your life that you are eternally bonded with the one individual you love, our pompous president suggests you forgo these less important commodities and keepsakes and turn them into campaign contributions. 

Birthdays? Anniversaries? You can give your gifts to Barack Obama for these occasions, too. Forget about your special day...Barack Obama needs a second term. 

(More about the "Obama Event Registry") 

17.0 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day298.

Day662 Thursday 06/21/12

ran 4.1 miles  

President Barack Obama is not to be blamed for all of our nation's problems. Many presidents and many more politicians came before him who contributed to our present state and the disaster that has become our economy. But, he is to be blamed for not moving in a proper direction to move back at least a mere inch from the financial cliff we are sliding off of. In fact, he seems to be deliberately edging closer to the gravity just beyond the cliff. 

Each day seems to be getting worse and worse for our president and his reelection chances. He still blames Bush for everything under the sun (including "Fast and Furious" as of today), but he needs to answer for why his landmark legislative achievement (Affordable Health Care Act, which is exactly the opposite of what the name implies) is on the eve of more than likely being ruled unconstitutional, why his stimulus packages have resulted in nothing more than further national debt, why he won't take common sense opportunities like the Keystone Pipeline, and why unemployment won't budge, just to name a few. 

This president had two years to do anything he wanted with control of Congress and those two years have amounted to debt on unborn Americans and a health care law that, as I said earlier, is probably going to be ruled unconstitutional and illegal in a matter of days. The second half of his term has been uneventful because Americans were so at odds with him for what he did in the first half that they fired an enormous amount of Democratic Congressmen and women and replaced them with the exact opposite. Congressmen and women who vowed to not raise taxes and to stop our president from continuing his destructive path. Our current Congress has been named the most "do nothing" Congress in American history by many pundits. That name was intended to be an insult but I think it is a worthy accomplishment. The fewer laws, regulations, and tax increases they make the more free and prosperous we as individuals are. 

21.0 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day297.

Day661 Wednesday 06/20/12

ran 3.7 miles 

The House oversight committee voted today to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for his refusal to hand over critical documents regarding the "Fast and Furious" scandal. The vote was 23 to 17 (23 Republicans and 17 Democrats). Next week, despite President Obama's order of executive privilege to deny certain documents demanded by the investigatory panel, the House of Representatives will hold the contempt vote. 

“Until now, everyone believed that the decisions regarding Fast and Furious were confined to the Department of Justice. The White House decision to invoke executive privilege implies that White House officials were either involved in the Fast and Furious operation or the cover-up that followed. The administration has always insisted that wasn’t the case. Were they lying, or are they now bending the law to hide the truth?” 

Michael Steel, Mr. Boehner's spokesman 

25.1 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day296.

Day660 Tuesday 06/19/12

ran 4.2 miles  

If Eric Holder were a normal American citizen like you and me in a courtroom with these charges against him, supported by overwhelming evidence, the judge would laugh at the audacity he possesses to conceal evidence the way he is currently doing. Then the judge would immediately hold him in contempt and put him in a jail cell. Instead, because he is the United States Attorney General, he is somehow granted flexibility to waste time and postpone verdicts that would be delivered to people like you and me quite swiftly. 

28.8 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day295.

Day659 Monday 06/18/12

ran 4.1 miles

Socialist leader of France, President Francois Hollande, swiped a parliamentary election power grab yesterday by earning 314 Socialist representatives of the 577-member National Assembly. With this majority Hollande will be in a position to execute exactly what he campaigned on. His intention is to halt numerous tax exemptions, pass tax hikes for large corporations (particularly banks and energy firms), and, finally, here is the zowie---impose a 75% tax rate on those earning over 1 million euros. These are the maneuvers Hollande claims will  bring France's deficit to within the 3% European Union limit by next year. 

(Source)

Gross government debt in the twenty-seven nations belonging to the Euro in 2010 was 80% of GDP. American gross federal debt in 2010 was 94% of GDP. Separately, government debt is growing more slowly in the EU than in America because the majority of nations belonging to it are actually implementing austerity measures. The accumulated government deficit among the European Unions twenty-seven nations was 6.6% of GDP in 2010. America's federal deficit in 2010 was 9% of GDP.

(Source)

America is worse off financially than the EU-27 and it seems our nation's leaders and our media are doing everything they can to not spell that out in the simple and understandable terms we deserve to hear. 

A 75% tax rate. This is insanity. I predict a lot of France's wealth will be packing their bags and selling their homes very soon. We are worse off than Europe and doing less to fix our deficit. If Hollande can take three quarters of what highly successful, hardworking French citizens make than Obama, or future American presidents, can do the same thing in the very near future. There is your proof. It can happen and is happening right across the pond.

33.0 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day294.

Day658 Sunday 06/17/12

ran 3.2 miles

Today ends week ninety-four of running against Obama. I ran 23.6 miles this week, averaging 3.37 miles per day.

In an article by Emily Miller from the Washington Times, "The next time President Obama hits the links, it will be his 100th round of golf since coming to the White House."

In three and one-half years this president has golfed enough to equal four entire months worth of work time.

2009: President Obama promised his stimulus bill would save or create 3.5 million jobs. Unemployment was 8.3% and our national debt was $10.8 trillion. First golf outing was April 26, 2009. Twenty-seven rounds were played in his first year.

2010: Unemployment at 9.7%. President Obama proposed a second stimulus and a health care overhaul. The Democratic Congress passed these bills. Thirty-one rounds of golf were played in his second year.

2011: Unemployment at 9.1%. During the midterm elections President Obama was "shellacked" and lost control of his House. The Senate took losses but narrowly remained Democratic. American voters had sent a message of how little they approved of Barack Obama's leadership and the decisions he had made. National debt was $14 trillion. Thirty-three rounds of golf were played.

2012: By the time President Obama had delivered his State of the Union Address, he was up to ninety-three rounds of golf. Unemployment was at 8.3%, national debt was $15.2 trillion, and America's credit rating was downgraded.

37.1 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day293.

 

Day657 Saturday 06/16/12

ran 3.4 miles

This is President Obama at a 2011 Univision Town Hall describing the limitations he has as president to successfully suspend deportations for anyone because of existing laws that he would break by issuing an executive order on the matter. He describes in concise detail how taking such an action would be a rank violation of the separation of powers. Well put, Mr. President.

This is President Obama contradicting the video above by announcing he is going to stop deporting illegal immigrants who break the law and come into our country at an early age (approximately between the ages of 15-30). With no congressional consent, our president is going to open the floodgates allowing a projected 800,000 illegal immigrants to remain in the country without the fear of deportation and they will even be put in jobs programs...oh, and they will probably be able to and encouraged to vote in the presidential election in November.

The reporter who appears to be heckling Obama in the video was simply asking him why he felt it was more important to give foreigners jobs than Americans. This immigration announcement comes at a time when low-skilled workers, Hispanic, and African-American unemployment is setting records. Unemployment rose in all of these categories in May and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, less than 50% of younger African Americans have full-time jobs. Perfect time to add more workers to the pool.

40.3 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day292.

Day656 Friday 06/15/12

ran 3.3 miles 

Gerald R. Molen, producer of "Schindler's List", has a new movie hitting theaters this July. "2016: Obama's America" is a film based on the New York Time's bestseller by Dinesh D'Souza. The film examines a potential America at the end of a possible second Obama term. D'Souza has written a lot of books and has earned many accolades for his work. He is not an outlandish, conspiracy theory mongering, brute who holds personal resentment to our current president. He is just really good at examining and exposing all of the mystery behind Barack Hussein Obama and his past that our main stream media failed to do in 2008. Here is the website for "2016: Obama's America" and below is an extended trailer of the movie:  

43.7 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day291.

Day655 Thursday 06/14/12

ran 3.6 miles

President Obama gave a 54 minute speech in Ohio today outlining the same themes and ideas he's been talking about in more brief and concise speeches of the past. This particular one differed only in that it was brutally lengthy and redundant. The main message of his speech was declaring the reality before us in this election that a choice between "two fundamentally different views of which direction America should take" will have to be decided. I could not agree more.

Here are some responses to his Ohio speech from the political press corps who heard it:

"In terms of politics, this speech could have ended about 20 minutes ago. Drive your message, take your ball, go home."

Mike O’Brien, Politico

"Just cheerleading BO doesn't help him. He needs a sharper, more cogent message with some memorable lines. I ain't walking my criticism back...one of the worst speeches I’ve ever heard Barack Obama make."

Jonathan Alter, MSNBC

"This Obama speech is so long-winded it might be the first attempt to filibuster an election."

John Hayward, Human Events

"In America we don't quit till we've spoken for 54 minutes."

Jennifer Epstein, Politico

"There is nothing new in this speech."

Zeke Miller, Buzzfeed

(Source)

47.0 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day290.

Day654 Wednesday 06/13/12

ran 3.3 miles

Here are a few videos of the day. Some rich material down below. First, we have a British politician, Nigel Farage,  shamelessly decrying how absurd the European Union, its debt crisis, and the leaders making the big decisions are. Second, David Axelrod, in a clip from 1994, almost as though he was prophesying his own future and the detestable fate awaiting him and the president he represents in alarming irony, describes the exact flawed tactics Barack Obama is employing here in 2012 to illegitimately strengthen his case for reelection. And the last video, Barack Obama, in what appears to be a standup comedy act, reiterates once again how all others who came before him are responsible for all our economic woes and how he has clearly not done one single thing wrong and does not hold a single fiber of fault.

   50.6 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day289.

Day653 Tuesday 06/12/12

ran 3.3 miles 

"Bring parties together?" 

"Manage through tough fiscal decisions?" 

"Everyone is doing their fair share?" 

Come on, Mr. President. You have a nation divided, a Democratic Senate that hasn't passed a budget since you've been elected, and the last budget you ran through Congress did not earn one single vote in the House or Senate. Bipartisanship? I don't see any. Coming together? It's not happening.

Our national debt is soaring, unemployment is not budging, the private sector, according to you, is doing just fine, and your best idea is to expand government more and more, which will only work to over-regulate and suffocate the success of the private sector just to create more dependence on and power for the federal government, an outcome that this country never intended. 

53.9 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day288.

Day652 Monday 06/11/12

ran 3.5 miles

Just as the House Oversight Committee prepares to schedule a vote on whether Attorney General Eric Holder should be held in contempt for not releasing subpoenaed documents relevant to the "Fast and Furious" case, Eric Holder is in the process of launching an investigation into the recent White House leaks, which many argue was a deliberate release of classified information regarding our national security intended to bolster President Obama's campaign.

That ought to turn out well. An allegation that coincidentally bodes well for Barack Obama's campaign is being investigated by a man who is on the verge of quite possibly losing all credibility as our nation's Attorney General.

This will be only the fourth time in thirty years that Congress takes a contempt action against an executive branch member. The way Eric Holder dances around every question he is asked and refuses to comply and participate with this investigation, his actions demand a vote to hold him in contempt.

57.2 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day287.

Day651 Sunday 06/10/12

ran 3.8 miles

Today ends week ninety-three of running against Obama. I ran 23.8 miles this week, averaging 3.40 miles per day.

I had posted about this commencement speech a couple days ago. Here it is in its entirety. Pretty powerful message delivered by David McCullough, Jr. imploring a class of high school graduates to seize every moment they can, to understand they are not special or entitled to anything they do not work hard to earn, and that they have an obligation to themselves to create their own happiness and success and to not approach the rest of their lives with the assumption that they deserve anything for nothing. It's a well-articulated commencement speech worth checking out and it happens to defy much of what Barack Obama's big government nanny state liberal agenda stands for. The America and the future McCullough describes are abrasively truthful and full of difficult challenges we all face in different forms. But isn't that the point, to rise to challenges on our own and as a united people? Or is it something more like what Barack Obama envisions where everything is fair and equal for all, a nation where hard work is punished and mediocrity is rewarded, idleness doubly rewarded?

60.7 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day286.