Day765 Tuesday 10/02/12

2,400 miles!!!

ran 4.4 miles

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.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 320.9

Here is what happened one year ago on Day400.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day34.

Day734 Saturday 09/01/12

ran 3.4 miles

2,300 MILES!!!

Stats and polls from Rasmussen Reports:

• Romney 47%, Obama 44

• Barack Obama’s presidential index rating shows that 25% of American voters strongly approve of his performance while 41% strongly disapprove, giving Obama a presidential index rating of -16.

• Overall, 48% of voters at least somewhat approve of Obama’s performance while 52% at least somewhat disapprove.

• Only 28% say U.S. heading in right direction.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 222.0

Here is what happened one year ago on Day369.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day3.

Day732 Thursday 08/30/12

2 YEARS!!!

ran 3.7 miles

It was on August 30, 2010, that I ran my first mile against Barack Obama. Today marks two years of achieving something I never expected to be capable of doing. I've run 2,295 miles against this man, averaging 3.14 miles per day, and every single step has been a demonstration and a protest against what he and his administration have done to undermine what I believe to be the defining characteristics of America, as it was intended to be.

Here is a look back at Day1 and the first mile run against President Obama:

"I just made my first run in my hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana. As you read further you will begin to understand that this is the first of many important runs I will have coming my way until November 6, 2012. This day will be a Tuesday and more importantly it will be Election Day for the next president of the United States of America. It will either be Barack Obama or someone else. To get right to the point of what this blog is about I am determined to help someone else win by personally running against Barack Obama for the next two years. I am going to run every single day regardless of what state or city I am in or what street I am running on. Weather will not stop me and illness will not deter me in any way from accomplishing this goal that I have.

I am running against Barack Obama because I am not a politician. I am running against him because I have an average job and no money to campaign with. I am running against him because this is the only thing I can think of to do to try to strengthen the point that there are millions upon millions of other people in this country that feel the way I do and that our united voice is constantly ignored on extremely important issues that our government keeps locked away in a suggestion box our leaders and representatives refuse to open.

Running and blogging are the tools I am going to use for this campaign and my platform is to get Obama out. I will attend no caucuses and my pundits will be few. Mudslinging will be self-inflicted from the heels of my shoes. The only primary I will participate in will be running myself into exhaustion everyday for the next two years and blogging about it.

It is out of belief and admiration in this country and all of the brave history I have read about it since its conception that I feel drawn to do this. It is from two years of talking with family and friends, eavesdropping on others at coffee shops and malls, listening to their discontentment in American politics, and generally feeling that so many others simply must feel the way I do…that so many things just seem wrong. Yet, what can you do to really make a difference? It is a helpless and desolate feeling, especially at this point in time with so much at stake. That is why I am doing this. If only a handful of people ever trip over this blog then I will be happy. I am tired of saying the same things over and over, hearing other people complain about the same stuff over and over, and nothing being done. There is one simple fact that our government cares as little about as the masses of people in this country fail to consider. We have numbers. We have an astronomical amount of numbers compared to what any government can successfully deceive or manipulate. But, like ants in a kicked over anthill, we all seem to run outside and make a fuss only to scurry right back into our homes and forget. This trait is one of our weakest contemporary shortcomings. We have grown to accept that politics are politics and that things are what they are. That is not how this country was founded and it is certainly not why you are so happy to be a citizen of it. We are different here compared to the rest of the world and things are not what they are.

Each day from this day forward I am going to run whatever formidable amount of mileage I can endure, regardless of weather or illness, until I reach or break my goal of 2,080 miles. I chose that number because it is the distance from my home in Lafayette, Louisiana to Washington, DC and back. Just to give you an idea of my daily quota for running, it will be a rough average of 2.62 miles a day everyday for over two years. And everyday that I run I am going to post on this blog. My reward is good health and a creative outlet in exchange for the frustrating and senseless governing our government has shut its people up with over the past two years. And as time will tell, it is not only Obama, or either of the two parties as a whole, that consume the political arena of senselessness. The emergence of tea parties across the American landscape was a huge message not only to our current president but also to the American Government in general. And this was a long inevitable process over the last few decades in American history, seeing what the American peoples’ breaking point was. Barack Obama just happens to be the proverbial straw that could possibly break America’s back. His ideas and motives are so radically life-changing in America for me as I interpret his direction, that another term would give him the opportunity to do what he really wants to do, without the consequence of having to earn another term by being only mildly as extreme as he is now.

It is our constitutional right to weigh our government on a scale and to write that weight down. And it is our government’s obligation to eat more, trim some fat or to continue its diet based on that number.

I ran 1.3 miles today. It was hot, humid and awesome to get this blog started. The idea of doing this occurred to me in July of 2010. Just as I was about to start stomping the pavement some unexpected travel came up with my job. Then my wife, Lindsey, and I took a small vacation when I got back. After a brief postponement of getting this thing started, the idea was ready to be taken out of the back of my mind and polished up. I discussed it with my wife and she agreed that someone else would indeed be the better candidate and that I should do this. After all, in order for someone else to win he or she will have to contradict most of the ideals that Obama believes in, so for the short term that has to be the indisputable option, at least for now."

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 215.0

Here is what happened one year ago on Day367.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day1.

Day706 Saturday 08/04/12

2,200 miles!!!

ran 3.7 miles

The RNC sent the Democratic National Committee a birthday cake for President Barack Hussein Obama today. The DNC must not have appreciated the gesture because they sent it back to the sender. 

“Since President Obama’s birthday is tomorrow, we actually wish him a happy 50.99726 years with this ‘you didn’t bake this’ cake.” (mocking the fact that yesterday the White House actually clarified that unemployment had not risen to 8.3%, but 8.254%, as though that is some sort of consolation prize worth mentioning)

RNC spokesman Tim Miller

Here are some birthday cards for President Obama the RNC took the liberty of designing:

On to more serious matters, Gallup has just released a state by state job approval poll for Barack Obama spanning the first half of 2012. In 37 states his job approval is below 50%. Here is how it breaks down:

• Top 10 states (Washington D.C., 83%):

Hawaii, 63%

Rhode Island, 58%

Vermont, 56%

New York, 55%

Massachusetts, 55%

Maryland, 55%

New Jersey, 53%

Connecticut, 53%

California, 52%

Washington, 51%

• States just above 50%:

Illinois, 51%

Delaware, 51%

Minnesota, 50%

• Ten states with lowest approval:

Utah, 26%

Wyoming, 28%

Alaska, 29%

West Virginia, 31%

Idaho, 31%

Montana, 34%

Oklahoma, 35%

Alabama, 36%

Tennessee, 37%

North Dakota, 37%

• States just below 50%:

Michigan, 49%

Wisconsin, 49%

Maine, 47%

Oregon, 47%

Iowa, 46%

Florida, 46%

Virginia, 46%

Pennsylvania, 46%

“Presidents with approval ratings below 50% have more uncertain re-election prospects. Historically, two presidents below 50% in their final approval rating before the election — George W. Bush and Harry Truman — won, and three, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush, lost.”

Gallup

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 123.6

Here is what happened one year ago on Day341.

Day701 Monday 07/30/12

23 months of running against Obama!!!

ran 3.4 miles

Standard & Poor's has awarded America with a AAA credit rating since 1941. Last August, our credit rating was lowered for the first time in American history. In that time, the United States of America has survived every other president, war, tragedy, epidemic, and economic season, but after two years of undeserving Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama as our president we were penalized with a credit rating downgrade to AA by S&P.

Just thought I would remind you of one of his many accomplishments you might have forgotten about. And, another reminder, remember November, 2010...when Obama was "shellacked" (the word he chose to describe the outcome of the midterm elections)? Voters took as many Democrats out of office as they could as a result of everything Barack Obama did in his first two years. What has changed? What has gotten better? I would expect no less of an outcome for this election cycle, yet Obama and Romney are neck and neck---and Congressional ballots are polling closely across the country. I don't know what has changed to allow Democrats the redemption that is reflected in the polls, but that is the thing about politics---they thrive on our short-term memories and promises for the future that candidates make but feel little necessity to uphold.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 107.6 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day336. 

Day700 Sunday 07/29/12

100 weeks of running against Obama!!!

ran 3.0 miles
Today ends 700 days and week 100 of running against Obama. I ran 22.5 miles this week, averaging 3.21 miles per day.

100 days left until the election. As we take inventory of the last four years under President Obama it is clear that America is not better off. Anything that might appear to be "better off" only seems that way because it was financed through loans from other countries or it was paid for by printing Monopoly dollars off the funny-money presses, which serve no long-term purpose other than to put America's youth and unborn children into debt they did nothing to incur.

The latest argument in Washington concerns the undecided fate of the Bush era tax cuts. They are set to expire on January 1, 2013, and both Republicans and Democrats are staring one another down waiting for the other to blink.

It appears to me that Republicans generally feel there is not a revenue problem in collecting enough tax dollars, but a spending problem in how those tax dollars are used. Conversely, I get the impression that Democrats will never be satisfied with any number of tax hikes and that they will continue to wastefully spend whatever sum of money it is they have on programs that put jobs and our economy behind less important issues.

Everyone seems to agree that if the Bush tax cuts expire it will make the figurative expression "jumping off the fiscal cliff" a reality. Our president wants to extend the tax cuts to all households making less than $250,000 per year, but he wants the cuts to expire on all earning above that figure. Republicans, obviously, want the tax cuts extended for all Americans.

Just as a note, if you refer to Day678, Rick Santelli explains that even if our president were to take one million dollars from each of the top 1% earners in America, it would barely be enough money to pay for one day of our federal government to simply function. As much money as that is, it is not even enough to scratch the tip of our national debt. All of this debate about raising taxes and extending tax cuts pales in comparison to the fact that our government has a full-blown spending problem and addiction and it needs an intervention followed by at least four years of rehabilitation.

Obama has often said in the past that this is no time to raise taxes. If it was "no time" then it certainly isn't time to raise taxes now. Our president's desire to raise taxes on top earners follows the narrative of his speech in Virginia, the infamous "you didn't build that" speech. It is class warfare he is waging and he is successfully dividing America in two. 

Two Americas cannot coexist in the same time and space and on November 6, 2012, one of the two emerging Americas is going to disappear for a very long time. 

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 104.2

Here is what happened one year ago on Day335.

Day674 Tuesday 07/03/12

2,100 miles!!!

ran 3.4 miles  

Should America ever find itself with an overwhelming majority of people who think the way this arrogant, condescending, pompous bag of hot air does, then we will all know that this nation has officially had its identity stolen and that it will never be returned. This guy needs to sell his unicorn farm and buy an American History text book with his profits. Fifth grade level will do. Anything more advanced might be a bit too shocking to his complete disapproval and spite for everything the Constitution of the United States of America stands for. 

On the other hand...
 

...this man, Allen West, represents an entirely different message. Should America ever find itself with an overwhelming majority of people who think the way this common sense, constitutionally derived, beacon of truly American intentions does, then we will know that Barack Obama has certainly been voted out of a second term and that America is ready to be restored.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 20.4

Here is what happened one year ago on Day309.

Day671 Saturday 06/30/12

22 Months Of Running Against Obama!!!

ran 3.3 miles

If you see smoke billowing out of a building then there is probably a fire inside. It does not require much common sense to connect those dots and to respond accordingly. So, why is it that our federal government, from both sides of the aisle, is straining our liberties through an unconstitutional sieve of frightening proportions and we for the most part do so little about it or completely ignore it?

All the signs are there. Smoke is billowing. Fire is blazing. And we all sit back and watch it assuming someone else will take care of the catastrophe. This is America. Someone will take care of this, right?

It is a feeling of helplessness. What can you actually do that would make a real difference? I don't have an answer for that. But, that is why I run all these miles. I was tired of feeling helpless and this was the only thing I could think of to do. I feel free again and the shackles of helplessness have broken away from my wrists.

Here is a glance at some controversial legislation, or billowing smoke,  that has been passed by our federal government and actions they have approved of in the last decade. As you read through them, ask yourself what is really going on here? The smoke is rising and they continue to tell us it's not there.

• The Patriot Act---passed in 2001 and extended in 2011 with additional controls, expands law enforcement powers and removes civil liberties and constitutionally guaranteed rights.

• The National Defense Authorization Act---passed on 31st December, 2011, allows the indefinite imprisonment by the military of any “suspects” (including American citizens on American soil) without allowing due process of law.

• The MAP-21 Bill--- allows the Internal Revenue Service to suspend the passport rights of Americans, based on the premise that their tax obligations may be unfulfilled.

• The National Defense Resources Preparedness Order---created in March, 2012, allows the President to take over control of all food, water, labor and industry in the US, “to promote national defense.”

• 30,000 Drones to fly over the U.S.---allowed by executive order, February, 2012, providing the government with an Orwellian surveillance ability and a killing capacity ranging from selected individuals to entire communities.

• FEMA Interment (Detention) Camps---to be constructed in every state, with 3 – 15 in each state, for an undisclosed purpose.

• Compounds to store "disposable coffins"---each with hundreds of thousands of 4-5 person coffins stored near city centers around the country.

• 450 million hollow-point bullets ordered by the Department of Homeland Security---to be used domestically. (The DHS is not responsible for addressing national invasions or overseas wars; it exists solely for the control of internal disorder. Hollow point bullets are not intended for sharpshooting – they are designed specifically to maximize tissue damage.)

(SOURCE)

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 10.6 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day306.

Day668 Wednesday 06/27/12

2,080 MILES!!!

ran 3.4 miles

Goal accomplished! Today I ran mile 2,080, the distance from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back. I ran these miles to protest President Barack Obama's policies and to campaign against him leading into the 2012 presidential election. I may not have even caused the slightest ripple in the vast, murky ocean of politics but I created a tidal wave within my own conscience and made use of my freedom of speech, while it is still around, out of love for this country and every fiber of my being that firmly believes Barack Obama is the biggest, most orchestrated hoax in the young, impressionable history of twenty-first century America. 

That being said, my original campaign goal was to run an average of 2.60 miles per day, every single day. I am currently averaging 3.11 miles per day. I am 343 miles and 133 days ahead of schedule. I am going to continue to run until Day801, the presidential election on November 6. Our federal government is not familiar with this term but that is what you call a surplus.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 0.3

Here is what happened one year ago on Day303.

  

Day646 Tuesday 06/05/12

2,000 miles!!!

ran 3.8 miles 

Today is a big milestone for this campaign of running against Obama. Thanks for following or occasionally checking in with this blog over the last 21 months. 

Tomorrow we will be exactly 5 months from the 2012 presidential election and Americans will make an important decision at the crossroads of America's future. The president serving this next term will either further pursue the failed, big government, socialistic ideas that have led to so many of Europe's problems or he will unleash the private sector, cut our stifling regulatory agencies, and get the federal government out of the way so Americans can do what they do best---succeed without the giant obstacle Barack Obama has made of the federal government. 

Thought I'd post this video of Bill Clinton sabotaging one of Barack Obama's biggest criticisms of Mitt Romney, regardless of how untrue and farfetched that criticism is. It is an interesting triangle Bill, Hillary, and Barack have to coexist in. Hillary Clinton is Barack Obama's Secretary of State, so Bill Clinton is sort of obligated to help in any way he can to bolster Barack Obama and his administration, yet it is obvious that Bill Clinton has a poor opinion of the president and, after statements like the one he made in this video, he clearly does not want this president to have a second term. 77.5 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day281.

Day640 Wednesday 05/30/12

ran 0.1 miles 

21 months of Running Against Obama!!!

99.3 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day275.

Day616 Sunday 05/06/12

1,900 miles!!!

ran 2.3 miles

Today ends week eighty-eight of running against Obama. I ran 24.1 miles this week, averaging 3.44 miles per day.

Our president's new campaign slogan is "Forward". Simple, to the point, no room for confusion...and filled with Communist history. The symbolism surrounding the political term "forward" is not hard to connect the dots on. Using the term "forward", not realizing the implications of the term, is not something Barack Obama or his campaign team would have overlooked. He is being quite blatant and setting an undeniable theme for America's future.

"Forward to Communism!"

"Forward to the Victory of Communism!"

"Mao's Great Leap Forward"

"Under Lenin's Banner, Forward to Victory!"

    "Forward For Our Brothers!"

(Source)

179.2 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day251.

Day610 Monday 04/30/12

20 Months Of Running Against Obama!!! 

ran 3.9 miles

Our president is on the campaign trail "spiking the football" once again for reaching Osama Bin Laden's end zone around this time last year.  He is claiming that Mitt Romney would not have "pulled the trigger" on Osama.  I really didn't feel like wasting the energy to examine what exactly it was that he had said or in what context he had put it in because the fact that this is the direction he is going with his campaign at this point reflects how desperate and incapable of utilizing his record is for reelection.  Of all the legislation that has passed and out of all the events that have transpired over his presidential term, which is getting closer and closer to four entire years, the best idea Barack Obama has at this point is to remind us all that Osama Bin Laden was killed during his presidency and to merely speculate that, hypothetically, Mitt Romney would not have given the order.  I don't see the objective but I do see the desperation.

Coincidentally, here is a list of nine more things Herman Cain itemized yesterday that Barack Obama did, which Mitt Romney would also not have done:

• Mitt Romney would never have thrown $862 billion down a rat hole, claiming it to be “economic stimulus” that would keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent. Then, three years later when unemployment was still struggling to get back down below 8 percent, he would never be so brazen as to claim such a move had actually been successful.

• Mitt Romney would never have signed Obamacare into law. I know some think otherwise because the plan he implemented as governor of Massachusetts had some similar elements. But Obamacare was sold to the public with blatantly dishonest numbers and hidden taxes, and rammed through Congress via a series of political giveaways that would embarrass the most shameless of con artists. Whatever your disagreements with the structure of Masscare, Romney would never have done any of that. And if an Obamacare repeal reaches Romney’s desk, he will sign it.

• Mitt Romney would never have exploded the deficit to more than $1 trillion a year, then allowed his Treasury secretary to tell the chairman of the House Budget Committee, regarding plans to fix the problem, “We don’t have a definitive solution, but we know we don’t like yours.”

• Mitt Romney would not be running around claiming that businesses need to pay more in taxes. He would not try to tell CEOs what to do with their cash reserves (although he could do so much more competently than Obama, since unlike the president he actually knows a lot about business), because he knows that is not the president’s job. He understands that businesses are the ones who create jobs, and the last thing we need when the economy is struggling to create jobs is to increase the tax burden on businesses.

• Mitt Romney would not attack people for being successful. He would not encourage the middle class to resent successful people, but instead would encourage them to learn from those who have been successful and to seek opportunities from them.

• Mitt Romney would never have promised the Russians he would give them what they want on missile defense as soon as he didn’t have to worry about those pesky voters anymore.

• Mitt Romney would never have stonewalled efforts to make crucial energy supplies available to Americans, as Obama has done on everything from the Keystone XL pipeline to the opening of domestic oil supplies in offshore locations and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

• Mitt Romney would never have let Congress get away with not passing a budget at all for three years, while running up the nation’s credit card at unprecedented levels through a series of continuing resolutions that escape the light of public scrutiny.

• Mitt Romney would never have blamed someone else for the continued impact of problems he was elected to fix – as Obama does endlessly.

199.4 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day245.

 

Day600 Friday 04/20/12

600 DAYS!!!

ran 3.7 miles

Today is a big milestone and I'd like to take this opportunity to restate exactly why I have run an average of 3.09 miles per day for the last 600 days.  I run these miles because they represent something I earn by working hard and because they are a product of my hard work that cannot be taken away from me.  These miles are a sort of nontaxable currency that purchase a unique sense of freedom and liberty that our government is incapable of administrating.  This sense of freedom and liberty I am describing stands on the pillars of individual accountability and a government that governs least as possible.

No president can divide the miles I run or the desire I have to achieve my goals by various others’ desire to accept mediocrity or even failure as an American way of life; open mouths reliant on the government's teat---our current president relies on the determination of many to pay for the shortcomings of many others.  This he calls “paying one’s fair share".  Our president is determined to convince the people he leads that they are somehow entitled to the rewards others have earned. 

I run because it is the one thing I thought of to do that Congress could not regulate or limit.  They cannot tell me how, when, or where to run my miles.  No federal government can tax or redistribute my miles.  No IRS can audit or seize my miles.  No government regulatory agency can minimize or maximize the amount of miles I want to run or the amount of days I choose to run them.

I think this is what freedom and liberty were intended to feel like and no one can give you these two items but yourself.  No government can legislate freedom and liberty.  They can take it away, but they cannot convene on how to distribute it.  Freedom and liberty must be earned individual by individual, on their own merits. 

Thank you for following this blog over the last 600 days!

227.2 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day235.

Day584 Wednesday 04/04/12

1,800 Miles!!!

ran 4.6 miles

This map speaks for itself. 

The only thing I am going to say is that Americans in every single state have to show their driver’s license for a multitude of different reasons that serve logical purposes but, when it comes to voting, twenty states require no identification to vote.  This policy reeks of liberalism and accordingly makes absolutely no sense.  I’d venture to say that if every state did require a driver’s license, which is not that farfetched of an idea, or some sort of identification then liberalism would be forced to completely redefine its platform of ideas in order to avoid ceasing to exist.  The Democratic Party would have to employ ideas like personal responsibility, common sense, and the message that if you are an American and you are proud of it then you should be able to proudly present a form of identification in order to vote in an election in the greatest country on Earth. 

This is how Republicans think, though, and while conservatism is far more logical and enduring for the principles and the longevity of this nation, Barack Obama advocates the idea that being asked to show identification to vote for the President of the United States of America is a form of intimidation or racism.  It is a shallow puddle this man gathers his ideas from and the map above is proof of how soft this country has gotten when it has been convinced that not providing identification to vote in twenty states is acceptable.

279.8 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day219.

Day554 Monday 03/05/12

1,700 miles!!!



ran 3.8 miles

379.8 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day189.

Day549 Wednesday 02/29/12

18 months of running against Obama!!!

ran 3.0 miles
Barack Obama’s Secretary of Energy, Stephen Chu, put his foot in his mouth today claiming to a House committee that the Obama administration has no interest in lowering gas prices.

Our president, making the best of a good crisis, seems to look at $5.00/gallon gas as a plus, $8.00 and $9.00/gallon gas even better, which he believes creates incentive to utilize alternative energies, an obvious agenda of his. When asked about the inflation of gas prices recently our president responded by recommending that we incorporate pond scum, or algae, into the American energy plan.

The denial of the Keystone pipeline was a monumental mistake that forfeited tens of thousands of jobs, tax revenues, and a broad step further toward energy independence.

Our president has no interest in lowering gas prices. For him, the higher the cost the better to push his agenda. Yet, the importance he gave to the payroll tax cut extension, which gives an average of forty extra dollars to American households per month, was treated with severity.

How much money would you save per month if gas was $2.50/gallon again? I can tell you I would save about…$53.00/month, and my trip to work each day is less than ten miles. If you’re a commuter than this payroll tax extension is even further insignificant to the larger priority of lower gas prices.

Hurry up, November!

396.9 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day184.

Day523 Friday 02/03/12

1,600 miles!!!

ran 3.7 miles
Today was a big mile marker and just a few days ago I finished the seventeenth month of running against Obama. It’s still hard many evenings, running and getting caught up in all of this news on a daily basis, but I feel it is important. There is a questionable sense of navigation steering our American ship and it is often difficult not to question the validity of our nation’s compass.

Now that Barack Obama’s presidential term is culminating we can only review what has happened in what will soon be the past four years and attempt to filter his actions into a more concentrated conclusion.

In 2008, we were already $9-plus trillion in debt, Barack Obama was running for president, blaming George Bush for every problem we had, and even claiming that it was unpatriotic for Bush to raise the debt ceiling, further increasing our national debt---an action Obama would go on to outperform. America was in an official recession and our president decided to sign sweeping legislation to reform health care, which would cost hundreds of billions of nonexistent tax dollars. He signed a stimulus package teetering on one trillion dollars that went on to reveal its greatest accomplishments in the form of bonuses for bankers and bankrupted alternative energy corporations. Then the mid-term elections arrived. Americans spoke up by firing many of the Democrats who voted for Obama’s ideas. The House of Representatives acquired an eclipsing majority and nearly claimed the Senate. From that point forward, Barack Obama increased his executive orders, deflected all blame onto his Congress, and, coincidentally, Occupy Wall Street emerged. As an aside, here is why I think OWS was a completely orchestrated, well-organized plot to stir class warfare in America. If nothing else, America is original. We are pioneers of social and political movements. OWS showed up to the international protest party way too late. But, on the other hand, the Tea Party was responsibly and effectively creating real change before the Arab Spring or the unoriginal, uninspiring Occupy Wall Street group showed up. Our president currently blames Congress for all of our problems and his reason is because they refuse to cooperate with his vision. But the members of Congress he is referring to were put into office by Americans from numerous different states that wanted to put the brakes on his motives. They are simply performing their job description as assigned by the people of America who voted for them.

So here we are. It’s a full-blown battle of money and mudslinging to win the votes of hundreds of millions of Americans. Our electoral process is unscrupulous and seems to deviate from everything that would normally define logic, but it is what it is.

When November arrives this year and you cast your vote, remember that everything Barack Obama has achieved, whether he has made your life better or worse, has been on the backs of unborn Americans in the form of national debt that shows no signs of decreasing any time soon.

479.8 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day158.

Day519 Monday 01/30/12

17 Months!!!

ran 3.9 miles
There were a lot of good news stories today but this is the one I chose to cover tonight for the simple reason that it is just ridiculous enough to fully represent the overboard thought processes of extreme liberal groups.

From a HuffingtonPost article, written by Michael McAuliff, “A liberal super PAC is set Monday to launch what it is billing as a multimillion dollar campaign to ‘Take Down the Tea Party Ten.’”

This campaign is being run by the progressive group CREDO (a group that can receive unlimited donations) and their objective is to defeat ten members of Congress viewed by the left as the “worst of the worst”.

Before even reading deeper into this story it is my opinion that the Republican names on this liberal list ought to be flattered for being singled out and the bland, childish accusations the progressive group is assaulting them with only serve as further evidence of how out of touch some of those on the left are with all reality.

“We’re talking about some of the most odious members of Congress. Even for Republicans these guys are low...We're going to empower local activists to organize their friends and neighbors to lay out the truth about their representatives in the most basic terms. They are anti-woman. They are anti-science. They are hypocritical, bigoted, and have said and done things that are downright crazy. They've done more to embarrass their constituents than they have to govern or work toward solutions. They are unfit for Congress, and we're going to help their constituents hold them accountable."

Campaign Manager Matthew “Mudcat” Arnold

Only six Representatives have been selected as targets so far. They are Representatives Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), Steve King (R-Iowa), Allen West (R-Fla.), Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), Frank Guinta (R-N.H.), and Chip Cravaack (R-Minn.)

The CREDO super PAC will be opening offices in each of the targeted members’ districts to network with individuals in the areas who already oppose these members of Congress.

Anti-woman? Anti-science? Hypocritical and bigoted? Downright crazy?

These accusations are more meaninglessly general and unfounded than the grade-school level message our president’s State of the Union Address achieved on Tuesday night.

Good luck, CREDO, and here is a recent quote from “downright crazy”Allen West:

“We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain’t on the table. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America.”

494.6 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day154.

Day500 Wednesday 01/11/12

ran 3.6 miles

Today ends 500 days of running against Obama. After 500 days of campaigning against him, this is what I have come to realize.

I have never taken on an endeavor of this size in my entire life. I have set out far less time and energy-consuming goals, which I came nowhere close to following through on, but this man and his ideas compel me to make a stand with a determination I have never before experienced.

This president had two years to do anything he wanted with Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. Ever since his “shellacking” on November 2, 2010, his fire of the first two years was put out and since then he has been blowing on the embers to get it started again. Frustrated by Republicans throwing sand on every flame he painstakingly sparked, he has been backed into a corner, due to his own actions and America’s disapproval of them, and there is little left for him to do but simply get out of the way or blame Congress for all of our woes. He has chosen the latter.

America was on the cliff’s edge of a recession, possibly another Great Depression, in 2009, and Barack Obama came along and signed sweeping health care legislation in tandem with a colossal stimulus package that amounted to nothing. Almost immediately he executed these actions with no regard for the dire circumstances our nation was in.

For decades Washington D.C. has been kicking the can down the road and prolonging the inevitable moment for this wasteful bubble to pop, just like the housing bubble and the banks, waiting and waiting, packing as much air into that balloon until it would explode. Well, it popped Mr. President. And your solution was to enact some of the most immediately costly health care legislation in America’s domestic history and to stimulate the economy with monopoly money, giving China and other nations even more ownership of America, which was spent to no avail. What we needed in 2008 was a hero with a different sort of hope and change. We needed a boot to kick this country in its rear-end and to step on the greedy fingers of what we have come to know as the typical politician. Barack Obama was the exact opposite of that.

Two nights ago I had posted about Barack Obama’s newly appointed chief of staff, Jack Lew, who will take the place of Bill Daley. This guy was the chief operating officer of Citibank’s alternative investment division in 2009. He received a bonus exceeding $900,000 that year after billions of American tax dollars bailed Citibank out for the housing crisis they played a part in. His outrageous bonus was paid for by taxpayers.

Digging even deeper in the rabbit hole, Bill Daley, the current chief of staff who is stepping down, is the brother of the former mayor of Chicago. Bill Daley’s father was the mayor of Chicago before his brother. And Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s first chief of staff, is currently the mayor of Chicago, who took the place of Bill Daley’s brother.

Maybe you don’t feel it but this gets under my skin. It makes me feel helpless as I grasp for logical reasons why America has gotten to the point it is at. 2012 welcomed in a national debt that actually exceeds GDP. Our president is weeks away from requesting a trillion-plus dollar debt-ceiling hike. None of this makes any sense and I have no answer for why our federal government continues in the direction it does. It is a helpless and chaotic feeling to be a part of something you cannot understand.

This is why I run.

557.6 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day135.