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.

Day645 Monday 06/04/12

ran 3.2 miles

In my state, Louisiana, chaos ensued this past Saturday morning when it became evident that Ron Paul was going to win the majority of delegates at the Louisiana State Republican Convention.

In a PolicyMic article written by Hamdan Azhar, “The Louisiana State Republican Convention descended into chaos Saturday morning, with several delegates being arrested and the convention chairman being thrown to the ground by police. Sources report that state party officials panicked when it became clear that Ron Paul delegates commanded a decisive majority of the delegates on the floor – at least 111 of 180 (62%).

Establishment  Republicans  were  not  at  all  happy  with  this revelation. Here are a couple videos of the footage: 81.3 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day280.

Day644 Sunday 06/03/12

ran 3.6 miles

Today ends week ninety-two of running against Obama. I ran 21.7 miles this week, averaging 3.10 miles per day.  

Wow. That ad was frothing with substance. I've never heard of Anna Wintour, but this is yet another Obama campaign effort to slap us all in the face with a whopping open hand of hypocrisy. Barack Obama puts on his face of compassion and talks about everyone having their "fair share" and he advocates wealth redistribution because the split between those who have and those who have not is far too steep, but then he has these $35,000 per plate dinners with the elites and casually has this eccentric Wintour lady invite a couple of lowly sheep out of their pastures and into the gold-leafed interiors of her world. Her condescending tone is absolutely repulsive---and not one mention of anything substantive regarding this critical election. 

Erica Ritz of TheBlaze puts it best when she says, "That Wintour pitch, coming in the middle of tough economic times, seems to have the same feel as Marie Antoinette offering a couple of peasants a chance to hang out with King Louis XVI and the aristocrats just as the Bastille was being stormed." 

84.5 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day279.

Day643 Saturday 06/02/12

ran 3.5 miles

SCOTUS will hopefully be putting POTUS in his place at the end of this month with their decision on his Affordable Health Care Act (curious name for something that more than half of this country does not want for the precise reason that it will be monumentally expensive, adding even more unsustainable debt to our already capsizing national debt).

After President Obama initially claimed he was "confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress" (and by "passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress", he is referring to not one single Republican vote in the House and a win in the Senate by a margin of one vote---thanks, Arlen Specter---this bill could not have been more divided or contrived).

Now, all of a sudden, President Obama is conceding that his administration may be forced to revisit his health care law in his second term, because, you know, it might just be completely unconstitutional and may have been one of the biggest wastes of time and tax dollars in modern history. All of these dollars and hours spent on something that stands a very good chance of being deemed illegal. Thank you, President Obama for all of the waste. Should he eke out a second term we can all look forward to him wasting even more time and tax dollars on rewording the same unconstitutional dribble he spent his first term drafting. Perhaps better confusing and perplexing the American people with an additional 1,000 pages of lawyer-speak very few people can even understand would help. 2,500 pages was not enough, let's break this thing down and take out all the bad stuff with 4,000 pages. 

As ridiculous as that sounds, this is how these individuals think. It is the same dismissive, arrogant, condescending thought process that makes people like Nancy Pelosi say things like "Let's just pass this thing and then we'll see what's in it." That statement captures exactly how stupid and unfit to make our own decisions many of our politicians think we are.

88.1 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day278. 

Day642 Friday 06/01/12

ran 4.3 miles

Speaking at a fundraiser today in Minneapolis, President Obama described his Republican opposition as a stubborn "fever" that would break once he was reelected. He claimed once there was no chance of him being reelected a third time then Republicans, like a "fever", would break and he would be able to move forward with his agenda. 

In my opinion, what he is actually saying is he thinks this election is about contempt for him and that it has nothing to do with his decisions or policies. He actually believes that if his reelection is secured then Republicans will simply say "ahh, shucks" and roll over on their backs. He seems to suggest that it is not his leadership or decisions that so many people have problems with, but him personally. And if we could only accept that he is going to be our leader for a second term then we will just swallow our pride and let him have his way.  That's just not the case. This president wants to fundamentally change what America was intended to be and no one who believes in our Constitution will back down from him regardless of whether he gets a second term, a third term, or even becomes king.

"I believe that If we're successful in this election, when we're successful in this election, that the fever may break, because there's a tradition in the Republican Party of more common sense than that. My hope, my expectation, is that after the election, now that it turns out that the goal of beating Obama doesn't make much sense because I'm not running again, that we can start getting some cooperation again."

Our president lost "cooperation" in November of 2010 when America cleaned out the House, nearly cleaned out the Senate---and all to send a message to Barack Obama and Democrats that we have voted as many new leaders as we could to essentially stop cooperating with his agenda and to even reverse it. Little has changed since then and this 112th Congress being called the most "do-nothing" Congress in American history is something I view as a huge success under a president like Barack Obama. They achieved what they campaigned on...not allowing Barack Obama to continue the path he was blazing.

(Source)

91.6 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day277.

Day641 Thursday 05/31/12

ran 3.4 miles

Here is a rare story about a unique rock star we all know. In the world of celebrities it is not often that we hear a man or woman with this sort of elite notoriety, which they by all means have earned and have not had handed to them in any way, condemn the alternatives to something as natural and effective as simple free enterprise. So, thank you, Jack White, for simply acknowledging and praising the simple logic behind unrestrained capitalism, which happens to be counter-intuitive to so many ideas our own president and those who think like him hold as the bedrock of so many of their alternative economic beliefs.

It comes down to the argument of whether hard work and the revenue it generates should be rewarded to those who earned it are if it should be redistributed to those who did nothing to earn it. Jack White, of "White Stripes", owns a record label (Third Man Records), which specializes in "rare an interesting vinyl". In a market where individuals collect rare and interesting items, market prices are inevitably higher than one where individuals collect common and uninteresting items. What White discovered was that artificially pricing items of high worth at a low cost to make it available to all (leveling the playing field; giving everyone their fair shot---sound familiar?) only led to people buying his products in bulk and then reselling them at higher prices, at the cost it is actually worth in its appropriate market. Jack White found that he was working very hard to make a lot of money for record flippers who did nothing to earn what he had worked so hard for, other than to follow the simple tenets of cost and demand better than he had. White was attempting to be charitable and to allow anyone, regardless of circumstance, to enjoy and to be able to afford something rare and interesting that he was selling. The market simply would not allow it, though, and White was left in a position where his good intentions were being swooped up and resold by individuals who did understand the market and the unwavering concept of cost and demand.

White found that "if customers want rare and valuable albums they will be expensive, the market price will be reached no matter what they sell them for initially, and if someone is going to profit it might as well be the creators."

Now, White auctions his records and lets the market dictate their worth. Something he once sold for $20 he now can make $300 on. Previously, his product was bought up in bulk and resold at a much higher rate. He has cut out the middle men, who did nothing to earn what they were auctioning the records off for, and stayed true to the market earning exactly what he deserves.

(Source)

Thought that was interesting and here is a completely unrelated video put out by FOX News looking back at 4 years of "Hope and Change":

  95.9 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day276.

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.

Day639 Tuesday 05/29/12

ran 3.5 miles

I highly recommend clicking on the strip above to view it at the proper scale. Through charts and graphs it breaks down in simple terms some of the ways our president, and others I'm sure, can arrive at such astonishingly misrepresented sums regarding their spending histories from fiscal year to fiscal year. Here is the article with more information. Scroll down to view the graphs above.

99.4 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day274.

Day638 Monday 05/28/12

ran 3.3 miles

This is a training exercise held by Occupy Wall Street enthusiast and experienced agitator, Lisa Fithian. Up until viewing this video I had never heard of Lisa Fithian and after viewing this video I have no desire to learn any more about her. The only thing she made me realize is that I just lost two minutes and two seconds of my life that I will never get back, so proceed with caution.

I just couldn't say no to a second video. If you want more here is another six minutes and thirty-one seconds you will never get back.

102.9 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day273.

Day637 Sunday 05/27/12

ran 2.5 miles

Today ends week ninety-one of running against Obama. I ran 24.8 miles this week, averaging 3.54 miles per day.

This is a screenshot of me "reporting an attack" on myself to Barack Hussein Obama's "Truth Team". Just wanted him and his people to know I'm running against him. These sites are...eerie. That is the best term I can think of to describe the "Truth Team". "Attack Watch" is particularly odd and worth checking out. These sites exist for one ultimate purpose. For you to turn in your friends and neighbors if they say anything, regardless of how true or untrue it is, to Barack Obama and his campaign team. Then you get your name written down and who knows what else.

Here is what I had to say in the screenshot above to President Obama and his "Truth Team":

"I have been running against you, President Obama, for 637 days and I am not going to stop until Nov. 6, 2012. My "attack" is that you enable a sense  of self-entitlement that weakens this nation and that you appear to have absolutely no regard for our national debt. You and your senate have not even executed a budget since your inauguration, not even when you had the house, as well. Your first two years you signed controversial health care legislation into law that is currently pending a judgment by SCOTUS and you signed a stimulus package that has reached nowhere near the results that were forecasted. Your first two years have amounted to a health care law that more than half this country does not want, which the Supreme Court could quite possibly overturn, and you followed your Keynesian model, which is a proven failure, with your stimulus package that has done nothing more than skyrocket the debt unborn Americans will owe as soon as they are out the womb. All the while, your social issues like gay marriage and the contraception mandate, coincidentally distract millions of people from what is really important, our economy and our debt."

106.2 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day272.

Day636 Saturday 05/26/12

ran 2.9 miles 

No politics today. I stumbled across this video and it reminded me, as life tends to do every once in a while, what is really important. This is the gluey resin that stars and earth and human beings are all put together with. It is the God-given itch, the compulsion, the instinct, the driven desire to simply make the one you love as happy as possible, to make family members and friends feel as special as they deserve to feel, and to just appreciate this gift of life. We are all nothing more than billions of scratches on a tiny blue marble floating in space, but we often forget how remarkable that is and we tend to lose sight of how special it is that we are right here, right now. 

I turned thirty-four yesterday, my first child will be born in the next few days, and I have no problem admitting the video above made me cry a little. Every once in a while, we get these moments of clarity. We see everything just as it is, and, being able to step back for a moment, to take inventory of existence and to process in a mere matter of moments, everything, for lack of a better term---it is humbling. 

But then the moment is over. We are sucked right back into the constant distractions that distort a reality we would all prefer but rarely ever find a way to grasp in any other form than few and far between moments. 

108.7 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day271.

Day635 Friday 05/25/12

ran 4.0 miles

Funny how news moves like tides. I remember early on, when I started this blog, often I would grasp for something really worth posting about. I remember struggling just to find a story with real substance. And, if I did, it would require research, paraphrasing, consolidating, concision, and an amount of effort that many times I simply did not have enough hours in the day to make it worthwhile to mention. Nearly two years ago when I started this blog, it was still necessary to convince people that Barack Obama just might be a bad idea. But, now that we're nearing the two-minute warning, the game has been played, the score is tied, and come November one of two candidates are going to have the ball within ten yards of the end zone and it is going to come down to whether one team scores or the other's defense prevails. As we move closer to this monumental election, which will blaze a path in one of two very distinct and opposite directions, the tide is flowing in higher and higher with no sign of an ebb anytime soon. Breaking news is more abundant than ever and the tide was high today.

  

This campaign video is being reported as the best, most effective ad...ever. I usually change the channel when political ads come on so I'm not qualified to judge, but this guy did come up with something catchy and clever. 

Twice in two days President Barack Obama has referred to his daughters during speeches as "his sons", even with a teleprompter. That's eerie. 

Obama hosting Bushes at White House?

   

How does this president even poll with 50% of Americans supporting him?! The weakest link in the chain of our electoral process is ignorance. It is uninformed Americans stepping through the curtain to vote when they don't even know who the Speaker of the House is, when they don't even know how to contrast communism to free enterprise, when they don't appreciate everything this country has done to preserve the intentions of its founding fathers and they would rather whimsically compromise those roots with uneducated, unexplainable, frequently occurring lapses in judgment. 

And here is a story worth checking out. There is a new book chronicling Barack Obama's high school days in Hawaii. The author, David Maraniss, claims that marijuana was a much larger picture of our president's teenage years than Obama suggests. I'm not passing judgment but it's just one more thing that this man, who we know so little about, had covered up by the media in 2008. Stories that should have been exposed but were irresponsibly not are abounding exponentially as the election grows closer. Being able to say "I told you so" is only a minor form of gratification compared to the disappointment that those individuals who back this guy simply don't care about his shady and flawed past even though it has more and more light cast upon it daily.

 

111.6 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day270.

Day634 Thursday 05/24/12

ran 3.4 miles 

115.6 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day269.

Day633 Wednesday 05/23/12

ran 3.5 miles

This guy rarely ever fails to deliver ultimate befuddlement and incoherent mumblings to answer simple questions about Barack Obama's actions. I admire Jay Carney. His job description, compressed down to a fine diamond of expectation, is to move his lips and open his mouth up and down while forming his tongue into certain shapes at different times to form meaningless words to explain and defend why Barack Obama makes the decisions he makes. It is a tough job and one that very few people I know would want. And what makes it so amusing to watch is how often he grasps for any single thread of explanation, but instead finds himself mumbling and stumbling himself into a completely unrelated response of jibberish. 

On a completely unrelated note, here is a picture of our president dressed in American Revolutionary garb marching with what appears to be the Tea Party in 1997, who, through his actions since he was elected in 2008, empowered the Tea party with enough disgust and intolerability for the defiance of our Constitution to grab the Republican party by its tusks and claim the House of Representatives and nearly claim the Senate in 2010. Our president's agenda has not shifted since then and it is likely that another "shellacking", as Obama described the results of the 2010 midterm elections, will happen again. 

119.0 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day268.