Day796 Friday 11/02/12

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Here is a list of 28 papers that obviously endorsed Barack Obama 4 years ago and, as a result of his monumental failures, are now actually endorsing Mitt Romney.

Source: TheBlaze 

 1. 

“ The economy is growing at an unacceptably anemic rate”
–The Des Moines Register

2. 

“It verges on magical thinking to expect Obama to get different results in the next four years.”
–The Orlando Sentinel 

3.

“More pointedly, we are disappointed in the tone of Obama’s relentless insinuations that wealthy Americans refuse to pay their fair share. That tone is divisive and damaging for the nation and for our economy. It creates villains and victims, and unfairly so.”

– The Daily Herald, Chicago

4. 

“ The president has shown little understanding of how his failures are affecting the nation, and he hasn’t offered any tangible proposals to change course.”
–Reno Gazette-Journal

5. 

“Obama’s signature achievement was confusing and ill-timed. The byzantine Affordable Care Act worsened uncertainty for business during a recession and will compound the costs of workplace benefits for four out of five working-age Americans.”
–Florida Today

6. 

“Nationally, the one thing that is needed above anything else is job creation. Yet, the president’s economic proposal is to raise taxes on the job-creating class. Why ever would you raise taxes on anyone when real unemployment is around 15 percent? That defies all economic theories.  Let’s face it: Romney is more of a businessman than a politician. You can resent his wealth all you want, but he has a proven record as a turnaround artist.”
–The Daily Tribune, Royal Oak, MI

7.  

“As Texans, it is a particular vexation that this president’s attitude toward the interests of our state has occasionally bordered on contempt, particularly in decisions relating to the NASA budget and the energy sector.”
–Houston Chronicle

8.  

“President Obama’s steps to get spending under control and reduce the debt are too tentative, and again hark back to his inability to possess the leadership to break the partisan gridlock in Congress.”

–The Tennessean

9. 

“Instead of taking charge in Washington, Obama has shown unwillingness to take even the most basic step in presidential leadership: picking up the Oval Office phone to bring his influence to bear on reluctant representatives and senators.”
–Los Angeles Daily News

10.  

“Romney is an agent of change whose primary campaign thrust has been the economy and his plans and qualifications to improve it.”
–Fort Worth Star-Telegram

11.  

“But today, rather than articulate a compelling vision for growth, the president falls back on the tired talking point of increasing taxes for the wealthy.”
– Sun Sentinel Fort Lauderdale, FL

12. 

“The president laments congressional gridlock that fomented under the inflammatory leadership of Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid. The president’s deference to their reckless rhetoric further deepened congressional divide.”
–Quad-City Times

13. 

“Four years ago, the editorial board’s willingness to change horses in the middle of a churning river led us to call for voters to break the Republican hold on the White House and try a Democrat with a fresh spark. Today, it leads the editorial board to urge voters to say “enough” to a Democratic administration whose sincere best has turned out disappointing, and install a seasoned leader with a record of fixing problems.”
–Long Beach Press-Telegram

14. 

“Four years ago, we recommended Barack Obama be elected. He offered himself as someone who could bridge the wide chasm between Democrats and Republicans. However, after four years, the situation has worsened.”
–Pensacola News Journal

15. 

“Mr. Obama may have great ideas, but if he can’t get them through Congress — and there’s no reason to think anything on that account will change after Nov. 6 — they are worthless.”
–The Reporter 

16.  

“Some of the warnings about Obama’s lack of legislative and leadership skills have come true over the past four years. It is not worth risking the state of our economy for the next four years to see whether his learning curve really is behind him.”

–Naples Daily News

17. 

“Class warfare might be a successful strategy for cobbling together 270 electoral votes. But it’s not the way to unite a divided nation. The president comes to town on a Monday, takes our money, shakes our hands and tells us how much he values the CEOs and innovators of New York. And then on Tuesday, he turns around and refers to business leaders as fat cat bankers whose success was created by the sweat of others. That’s not a friend. That’s not a leader. That’s a politician.”
–The New York Observer

18. 

“Voters may well wonder if Obama even knows what it means to get spending under control.”
– Billings Gazette

19.

“Instead of following through on his hope-and-change message, Obama keeps telling us the limits of hope and change.”

–Pasadena Star-News

20. 

“In 2008, an unproven Obama promised things would turn out differently with him in charge. “Change we can believe in” is how he put it. Four years later we realize it was all made up.”
–Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise 

21. 

“It was the vision of hope and change that convinced us four years ago to support then-Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain.  Today, there is little hope in how another four years of an Obama administration would swiftly and effectively lift our country out of its economic doldrums, and there is little change in how Washington operates.”
–Cape Cod Times

22. 

“Good intentions, repeated promises and lofty rhetoric are no substitute for sound economics and a foreign policy grounded in realism and strength.”
“Obama spent a year to win razor-thin passage of a divisive law that has spawned fights over expensive mandates, new taxes and infringement of religious liberties.”

–Worcester Telegram & Gazette

23.

 “It is true that in 2008 we endorsed the change promised by Obama, but the reality today is – four years later – we have little confidence Obama will be more successful managing the economy and the budget going forward. Indeed, we feel change is needed again. And we believe Romney fills that ticket.”

–The Shreveport Times

24. 

“Sure, funding for public broadcasting is an insignificant part of the budget, but if Obama isn’t even willing to cut one one-hundreth of 1 percent of federal spending for something that is non-vital to America, then the president is not serious about reducing spending at all.
If Obama is not serious about that, he is the wrong person for the job.”

–The Joplin Globe

25.  

“But here’s the rub: Obama has had four years. What improvements he’s overseen are largely incremental. Instead, lectures become excuses. And the excuses wear thin.  Eventually, Obama’s words, meant for Romney, blow back: Where’s the plan? Where does this White House administration see America in four years? In all of that campaigning, that plan didn’t emerge.”
– Journal And Courier, Lafayette,IN

26.  

“This administration from day one has waged a deplorable crusade to kill coal mining jobs, and to close coal-fired power plants, through a politically motivated Environmental Protection Agency.”

–Bluefield Daily Telegraph

27. 

“Obama’s Term In The White House Has Been Quite Possibly The Most Disappointing Presidency In The History Of The United States.”

–Casper Star-Tribune

28.  

“President Obama has strong support among women and ethnic minorities, but his avowed goal of bringing together all Americans remains only a faint dream. After four years, he has run out of time.”

–The Vancouver Columbian

Day780 Wednesday 10/17/12

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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.

From Breitbart.com, by Joel B. Pollak 

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 Post acknowledges. 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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Day765 Tuesday 10/02/12

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Here's an "October Surprise" for you. Andrew Breitbart would have been proud. The following video is a story that broke today from the DailyCaller involving footage of Obama speaking to a predominately black crowd in 2007. Jeremiah Wright was in the crowd, as well. This video was from nearly two months before Obama wrote Reverend Wright off and through him under the bus because he was on the edge of derailing the presidential campaign. You would not think Barack Obama would have done what he did to Jeremiah Wright after hearing the praise he offers him in the video below.

This video is seething with the real Barack Obama we all know so little about. The phony dialect and accent, the racism, the Katrina story, which is easy to argue, his negative view of the federal government at large. This is the video we've been waiting for and I have a feeling there will be more coming. And, I can't help but think it was more than coincidental that this story broke one day before the first presidential debate.

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Here is what happened one year ago on Day400.

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Day751 Tuesday 09/18/12

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It's ironic that a facet of the liberal media just handed over the best, most ambitious speech Mitt Romney has ever delivered. They are so desperate for material and blinded by the frustration of their own shortcomings that, at a complete loss for a record of their own to run on, they have successfully bolstered the Republican message while further undermining their own. 

Thank you.

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Day713 Saturday 08/11/12

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Romney and Ryan it is. I was taken aback at first but this is the decision that was made and that reality makes it easier to rationalize all the different things this means. I knew Ryan was on the Veep short-list but he struck me as a man who would energize the Conservative base. The thing is the Conservative base doesn't need any energizing. I think most Conservatives would vote for a plank of wood running against Barack Obama. So why Ryan?

It is common knowledge that approximately 45%-47% of Americans on each side of the aisle know exactly who they are going to vote for and they cannot be dissuaded. I am one of them. That leaves 6%-10% who are undecided and they are the individuals who are going to decide this election. So, again, why Ryan?

As a side note, this small fraction of individuals who comprise the undecided votes of America are a mystery to me. How someone can be on the fence about two such extreme directions in government and the future of America is incomprehensible to me. It's like arriving at the most important fork in the road of your nation's modern history and long-term future and genuinely being baffled as to whether you should turn left or right. Indecision like this is usually left to children who can't decide whether they want blue shoe laces or red shoe laces. 

Why Ryan? The first thing that comes to mind is Florida and Rubio. Florida is a critical state to win and Rubio would have energized Florida the same way Ryan will energize Wisconsin. Perhaps Romney is confident in Florida---and Wisconsin is the controversial state Scott Walker governs and has recently succeeded in overcoming a recall election fueled by the heavy union presence in the state. Wisconsin is about as divided as a state can be, but Florida still seems more critical to win.

These next three months will unravel and what will be will be. I'm a big fan of Paul Ryan, always have been, but my only concern is that he simply makes way too much sense and employs far too much rational logic to the problems America faces to appeal to the short-term memory and low attention span of the average voter, which is a really big slice of the demographic pie. His ideas are just too realistic for our federal government.

That being said, as it sinks in I am getting excited about this guy. As I stated above, I assumed Romney would have picked someone who would persuade some of the undecided fence hoppers to join his side. Instead, he chose one of the most fundamentally fiscal conservatives in Congress. It was a bold decision and I like the idea of not settling for a running mate strictly based on his or her ability to finagle a few extra blocks of voting support from people who are too indecisive to pick what pair of socks they want to put on their feet each day. America's bigger picture is much larger than these decision-challenged individuals who keep leaving every presidential poll within its margin of error with their 6%-10% of uncertainty.

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Here is what happened one year ago on Day348.

Day691 Friday 07/20/12

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First comes the shock, then the anger, and then the blame. It is a tragedy what happened today. The events that unfolded today in Colorado's first hour in that movie theater are beyond imagination. But, at the risk of sounding insensitive to the immediate loss of life suffered today, stolen away by this demented individual, this event is going to lead to a lot of second amendment discussions in the coming weeks. Should Americans have the right to bear arms or should they not?

This is a very divided issue and the government gears are grinding ever closer to abolishing our second amendment rights in America. I support the right to own a gun and I thoroughly encourage as many Americans as possible to utilize this Constitutional right. 

As much as our parents, our upbringings, our American way of life, and our government want to assure us that we are absolutely safe and that life is an experience with no perils or dangers, it is naive to assume that things like this cannot happen to you. The only solution is to be prepared and to be capable of defending yourself when psychos like this cross your path. As Americans, we have insurance policies on just about everything in our lives that could possibly go wrong. Having the ability to defend yourself in unexpected, chaotic situations like what happened in Colorado is an insurance policy that a vast majority of Americans completely disregard.

There are many gun owners who often emerge as heroes for being armed in a situation that they did not anticipate but felt the need to defend themselves from and to protect others from should it emerge, but those stories are not often reported because they are not filled with tragedy like the story we are all reading and hearing about today.

There is nothing proper or correct to say after a day like this. Makes you realize just how precious life is and how quickly and meaninglessly it can be snatched away.

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Here is what happened one year ago on Day326.

 

Day669 Thursday 06/28/12

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I was certainly blind-sided today by the Supreme Court's response to ObamaCare. That's an understatement, actually. It was more like getting hit by a train pulling one hundred box cars of chaos and confusion. First, I was in shock trying to piece together the events leading up to this day (Barack Obama clearly stated in the recent past that the mandate is not a tax, yet SCOTUS upholds the health care law in its entirety through the lens of the mandate not being a mandate, because that would be unconstitutional, but the mandate being a tax, which our federal government has the power to levy upon its people through the proper channels of Congress, but Obama did not recognize the mandate as a tax, but the Supreme Court did recognize the mandate as within the constitutional boundaries of taxation)---three days of oral arguments in which right-leaning justices absolutely humiliated the lawyers representing ObamaCare, often leaving them in a mumbling stupor unable to grasp one single fiber of argument to support this law. It was like watching a Jimmy Kimmel roasting where you can't help but laugh at the stutters, "if"s, "but"s, and "um...um...um"s these guys had loaded in their pea shooters of reason. And now they actually passed it? 

I'm not sure who said it first but this is a good line to live by, "I don't believe anything I hear and I only believe half of what I see".

After the initial shock of this verdict, I began looking for a logical approach to why ObamaCare was upheld in its entirety. This is the best I could come up with. It is mere speculation, but I am actually beginning to like this outcome. I am not endorsing the idea that perhaps the conservative seats on the bench did not want to make this decision and preferred to put it in the laps of the American people at large during the 2012 presidential election. But, that is the outcome we are left with and I prefer a collective American decision over the collective decision of only nine individuals. If you vote for Obama in November then you are voting for a full-blown, American-revolutionizing, point of no return, socialistic health care program, not much unlike exactly what is going on in a flailing Europe. If you vote for Romney then you are voting for a man who has made it his priority to remove Obamacare from existence. It is a gamble but if ObamaCare is something you would like to do without then Romney is a far better bet.

I believe if SCOTUS had struck down even only the mandate then that would have actually been a better predicament for Obama. This guys in a pickle and if he does get reelected it is going to be by the skin of his teeth. He has nothing to run on and throwing fuel on fire is his best campaign tool. The only thing he does have to run on is hope, which he has proven to be far overrated, and this health care law that the Supreme Court just handed him. But here's the thing. In recent months, Rasmussen Reports (the proven most reliable and accurate polling organization) has Americans at a consistent high fifties and low sixties disapproval rating regarding ObamaCare. His health care legislation is working against him more than it is for him and SCOTUS may have possibly returned a verdict that called Obama's bluff. I have every confidence that Barack Obama wanted his health care law to be deemed unconstitutional because that would have given him ammunition, and firing blame in all direction is the bedrock of this president's reelection platform. 

Whether it was intentional or inadvertent, I think the conservative Supreme Court justices may have just served Obama a worst case scenario for his upcoming election. The 55%-60% of Americans who oppose ObamaCare were already mad, but I think they are furious now. They are the one's who are left with political ammunition and it is Barack Obama and his Democratic counterparts who are left having to defend and campaign on something that America, as a majority, does not want.

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Here is what happened one year ago on Day304.

Day667 Tuesday 06/26/12

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This president is an incorrigible violator of our Constitution and he is not leading, but ruling like a king. There is no place for a king, or a dictator, in America. Shamelessly and self-righteously he treats Congress like an insignificant branch of government with an opinion that only carries merit if it is in his favor. And, as of lately, he has proven that he has no respect for our Supreme Court or the decisions they make unless they, too, align with his interests. He is like a spoiled child who has zero tolerance for obeying rules. The president, Congress and the Supreme Court were intended to serve as watchdogs over one another. Since Barack Obama has been president, he has usurped every dimension of government to fit his own ends. When his health care legislation passed by one single vote he praised and esteemed Congress and the process by which American citizens elect Senators and Representatives to steward their interests. Now that the Supreme Court is likely going to strike down his legislation and now that it is common knowledge that a significant majority of Americans do not even want ObamaCare, he persists and blatantly states that the American people want "this" and that the American people want "that". Who is he talking about? And Arizona...the Supreme Court rules in their favor to tighten the screws on their illegal immigration problem and within three hours the Obama administration denies the state of Arizona the federal assistance that is necessary for them to see their law through. And this on the heels of legalizing approximately 800,000 illegal aliens by executive order and with no consent of Congress.

Two more days. SCOTUS is going to deem ObamaCare and the House of Representatives is going to vote on whether to hold Eric Holder in contempt. I cannot wait to see what unbelievable words come out of our president's mouth and what undermining actions he will take to get his way with these two matters.   

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Here is what happened one year ago on Day302.

Day661 Wednesday 06/20/12

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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 

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Here is what happened one year ago on Day296.

Day656 Friday 06/15/12

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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:  

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Here is what happened one year ago on Day291.

Day647 Wednesday 06/06/12

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Congratulations Governor Scott Walker and the state of Wisconsin for standing up to the unions and showing them that fiscal responsibility for a state is more important than unrealistic pensions and zealous collective bargaining. 

Why it is that these unions somehow feel they deserve such a break at the expense of taxpayers is something I cannot understand. I pay into my 401k and sacrifice a big chunk of money each paycheck for my health care and I have no collective bargaining rights. I don't want any collective bargaining rights and I certainly don't want to be dead weight for what could be a thriving state economy.

I don't know what percentage of Wisconsin workers are unionized but last night's vote proved once and for all that those who are not members of unions have no interest in paying for the needs of union member's as well as those of their own. Was that really even a question?

What did these unions expect? Wisconsin's budget is in the red, like most other states, tax dollars are being drained by pensions that should never have even been promised, and these unions attempt to recall their governor actually assuming that private sector workers who put into their own 401ks and do not receive pensions will actually vote to continue wasting their state's money on the union's interests and edge ever closer to falling off their statewide financial cliff. 

The unions just got put in their place last night and this message has the potential to reverberate across America all the way into the 2012 presidential election.

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Here is what happened one year ago on Day282.

Day627 Thursday 05/17/12

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The picture above is no evidence or victory for birthers, but it is a real piece of our president's history and definitely worth checking out here. Just one more layer to this president, Barack Obama, who very few Americans seem too know much about.

I was glad to see Breitbart News release this and as we move closer to the election hopefully the videos Andrew Breitbart was raving about before his untimely death will be released, as well. Nothing has been shown yet to fulfill the conviction in that man's eyes, passion, or words in the days leading up to his death. Perhaps this is a start.

And here is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, just released today, discussing many controversial sides to Barack Obama that our unreliable media sources completely failed to report in 2008. Now, the big question is whether Romney should use this information as ammunition in his campaign or if he should shrug the blatant evidence that Barack Obama might possibly be the shadiest president in American history and simply stick to the issues we face. I'm torn on the matter myself, but I'll tell you this. If the news sources we watch, hear, and read had any genuine interest in you or me, or at least did their jobs with integrity, keeping an informed public as their priority, and had not relied on ratings, controversy, and tragedy so much, the man in the picture above would never have been elected president of the Unites States of America.

I cannot recall who said it, but someone claimed "Journalism died in 2008". I believe it. We live in a time where your gut, your instincts, and a highly calibrated b.s. radar to read between the lines of what is reported and what is not are vital to survive. 

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Here is what happened one year ago on Day262.

Day619 Wednesday 05/09/12

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Meet Federal Inmate No. 11593-051, Keith Judd. He is currently serving close to an eighteen year sentence for extortion in the state of Texas. For reasons unknown this man threw his name in the hat for the West Virginia primary yesterday and actually walked away with...I mean paced around his jail cell with 41% of the vote as a close second to President Barack Obama. 

Judd managed to win ten counties and 41% of the statewide vote. He even earned himself a delegate at the Democratic National Convention.

With a $2,500.00 filing fee and a notarized "certificate of announcement" to appear on the ballot, Keith Judd won a huge victory yesterday and handed Barack Obama what has to be one of the most humiliating insults in presidential history. 

An incarcerated criminal or Barack Obama? Forty-one percent of West Virginians teemed to their local precincts to make the simple statement that they would rather vote for a convicted criminal who is behind bars to be their president than Barack Obama and the record of his past four years.

I congratulate Mr. Judd for his impressive campaign, but I think Barack Obama deserves even more of a spotlight for a presidential term that could drive so many individuals in an entire state to despise him so much that they would vote for Federal Inmate No. 11593-051 over him.

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Here is what happened one year ago on Day254.

Day576 Tuesday 03/27/12

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Today’s discussion of the ObamaCare mandate will go down in American history as one of the most important and pivotal dialogues of our nation’s twenty-first century.  There are four liberal justices and five conservative justices, however, two of the conservative justices, Roberts and Kennedy, are viewed by Obamacare supporters as swing votes.  Justice Anthony Kennedy was deemed to be the most likely to uphold the mandate with the four liberal justices, but he seemed to be the most doubtful of all the justices to rule it constitutional.

If today was any sign of what direction the Supreme Court is leaning then things are looking really bad for Barack Obama.

"Could you define the market? Everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so you define the market as food, therefore, everybody is in the market; therefore, you can make people buy broccoli."

Justice Antonin Scalia

"So can the government require you to buy a cell phone because that would facilitate responding when you need emergency services?"

Chief Justice John Roberts

"All right, suppose that you and I walked around downtown Washington at lunch hour and we found a couple of healthy young people and we stopped them and we said, 'You know what you're doing? You are financing your burial services right now because eventually you're going to die, and somebody is going to have to pay for it, and if you don't have burial insurance and you haven't saved money for it, you're going to shift the cost to somebody else'. Isn't that a very artificial way of talking about what somebody is doing?"

Justice Samuel Alito

"The reason this is concerning, is because it requires the individual to do an affirmative act. In the law of torts our tradition, our law, has been that you don't have the duty to rescue someone if that person is in danger.”

Justice Anthony Kennedy

"Can you create commerce in order to regulate it?" and "So the Federal government says everybody has to join an exercise club?"

Justice Anthony Kennedy

One last thing, here is, possibly, the biggest flip-flop in Obama history, which is of the same substance our justices are arguing against the mandate with.  Speaking against Hillary Clinton’s plan for health care during the 2008 Primaries, Barack Obama argued against an individual mandate stating, "A mandate means that in some fashion, everybody will be forced to buy health insurance. ... But I believe the problem is not that folks are trying to avoid getting health care. The problem is they can't afford it. And that's why my plan emphasizes lowering costs."

At that time Barack Obama felt that solving the issue of the uninsured with an individual mandate was as logical as ending homelessness by ordering people to purchase a home.  And he was right.  It is likely his own argument from 2008 will be instrumental in the demise of his own landmark legislation.

In July of 2009, "During the campaign I was opposed to this idea because my general attitude was the reason people don't have health insurance is not because they don't want it, it's because they can't afford it. And if you make it affordable, then they'll come. I am now in favor of some sort of individual mandate as long as there's a hardship exemption."

If Barack Obama loses this mandate then ObamaCare falls apart.  If ObamaCare falls apart it would be devastating to his already mere 50/50 shot at re-election.  Essentially, these justices, these nine individuals are going to set this presidential election on a course that will be difficult to reroute.  

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307.4 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day211.

Day551 Friday 03/02/12

ran 3.2 miles

The shocking news of Andrew Breitbart's death at the young age of forty-three on the day (March 1) that he was planning to release controversial videos of Obama's Harvard days, which he claimed would redefine the entire perception of the election we face in November, is like something right out of a best-selling novel filled with tragedy, a lot of questions, and much suspense.

To look at these series of events only on the surface, they appear far too connected to not acknowledge some sort of conspiracy or foul play. But, on the other hand, we get nowhere by assuming facts we do not know. This thing is going to play out over the next couple of weeks. As Michael Savage hinted at, after all of this build-up, if these videos are never shown and the whole thing blows over, then we all have that much more reason to lock our doors at night and be that much more careful about how far we are willing to go to take on Barack Obama and what is happening in America. If the videos are released and they prove to be as damaging as Breitbart claimed, then the dynamics of this presidential election may severely change.

Either one of these two outcomes will be epic, and it has to be one or the other. I'm not sure why this number of seven to ten days is necessary to release the videos when Breitbart was ready to do it yesterday, but I certainly hope they become public. Because if they don't, then we all ought to be very, very frightened by what lengths and measures are clearly being used in the arena of this dangerous political game.

389.9 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day186.

Day522 Thursday 02/02/12

ran 3.5 miles
WWJD? Remember that? What would Jesus do?

Apparently Jesus would like Barack Obama to raise some serious taxes and to redistribute wealth. Today, Barack Obama successfully achieved channeling not only Jesus, but also Muhammad, Moses, Plato, any one of the numerous Hindu deities, and a few other Gods, saviors, and prophets and they all seem to concur that they want our president to raise taxes and to redistribute wealth at a scope never before conceived in American history.

WWBOD?

How does this man push legislation encouraging abortion and gay marriage and in the same breath cite the Bible and refer to the Koran. Choose one or the other because you cannot have both, Mr. President. The American bible-thumpers see right through you and we all know how Muslims feel about homosexuality. As a side note, I am not conveying a position with either abortion or homosexuality. I am just pointing out how oblivious our president is to the contradictions that are coming out of his mouth and how desperate he must feel to make reference to as many religious and philosophical figures he could think of in one breath---all agreeing that his idea is the most illuminated one out there. His idea has been tried many times and has failed an equal number of times.

483.5 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day157.

Day509 Friday 01/20/12

ran 3.7 miles
Well, we can all sleep a little easier now. Chuck Norris, best known for feats like counting to infinity twice and knowing the whereabouts of Carmen Sandiego, has officially made his presidential candidate endorsement. Newt Gingrich is the candidate he endorses and Chuck Norris gets what Chuck Norris wants.

“We need a veteran of political war who has already fought Goliath.”

In 2008, Chuck Norris endorsed Mike Huckabee and the former Arkansas governor had his best fund raising day of his campaign. I know that sounds like another Chuck Norris joke but it is actually true.

“I’m tired of watching our country being torn to shreds by those who think the answer is more government debt and control. I’m tired of being in bondage to a tax system that robs U.S. citizens like the King of England did before the Revolution. I’m tired of watching our sovereignty being sold by foreign loans and loose borders. And I will not sit back and merely watch this decay and degradation of the U.S. and then hand it over to my children and grandchildren to deal with.”

The South Carolina primary is tomorrow so we’ll see how powerful Chuck Norris’ roundhouse endorsement is.

526.1 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day144.

Day461 Saturday 12/03/11

ran 2.3 miles
“As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign. Because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I’m not a fighter.”

Herman Cain quoted by NYTimes

We will probably never know if this was all mud or truth being slung in Herman Cain’s direction, but it is disappointing news. I’ve been raving about Cain for a long time before the Republican race heated up and the before debates began, so it is doubly disheartening to see him step down under these circumstances.

Two thoughts: The first, how blind are you to honestly believe you can run for the President of the United States of America without a crisis like this eventually revealing itself? If the allegations are true, then this man must obviously believe he can get away with anything. This is a nonplussing complete lack of virtue and morality that no man or woman should campaign for office with hanging next to their suits in their closet. Second, if Cain is innocent and this was nothing more than an orchestrated plot to remove him from the campaign then American politics have yet again been exposed for the unsavory and malevolent source of abuse we have all come to get comfortable with.
Both scenarios seem too farfetched to accept, yet one of the two are a reality. John Edwards comes to mind. This guy was having an affair with a woman from Argentina, had a child with this woman, and he ran for president. You can’t make stuff like that up because it is just too ridiculous.

So Cain is stepping down. It is what it is. Looking forward, the man had a substantial following of supporters, so his endorsement for one of the remaining Republican candidates will be quite a bounty of transferred support. I am predicting he endorses Newt Gingrich. I don’t think that is a bold prediction as much as an obvious one, and I’m all for it.

684.9 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day96.