Day669 Thursday 06/28/12

ran 3.4 miles

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.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 3.7

Here is what happened one year ago on Day304.

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.

  

Day667 Tuesday 06/26/12

ran 3.1 miles

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.   

3.1 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day302.

Day666 Monday 06/25/12

ran 3.3 miles
"Fashionable right now for people to be cynical?"

What was it in 2008 when Barack Obama got elected? That was fashionable. That was a fad that sold a lot of t-shirts, books, hope, and change---none of which are problem solving commodities or actions.

Cynicism in America is not fashionable. It is a product of this man standing behind a podium speaking in the most vague possible generalities about how "There is no problem out there, no challenge we face that we do not have the capacity to solve. We are Americans and we are tougher than whatever tough times bring us." Sounds like the pep talk a coach gave his basketball team of eight-year-olds before they got on a court against a team of teenagers he knew his squad could not beat. His words are like those a leader would say to his people at a time when they were facing impossibility. The man has hope. I'll give him that. But his hope is just so empty and lacks such an unbelievable amount of substance.

This Thursday the House of Representatives will vote on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt. Also, the Supreme Court will rule on ObamaCare the same day. Both of these events are highly likely to be a thorn in the Obama administration's side.

The most notable legislation Barack Obama signed in the first half of his term stands to be overturned and deemed unconstitutional in a few days, unemployment remains fixed (yet he shrugs opportunities like the Keystone Pipeline), the "Fast and Furious" scandal is casting a dark shadow on his administration, SCOTUS upheld the primary piece of Arizona's immigration law enforcement today (allowing police officers to ask for proper immigration documentation if suspicion arises), which the federal government has been battling Arizona over in the courts, the housing market is stuck in a tar pit, the Muslim Brotherhood just won the election in Egypt, our president intervened with Libya (minus Congress' consent), but won't in Syria where the brutal killing of civilians is far more numerous, and someone in the White House is leaking vital, secret information, which makes America look suspect and untrustworthy to other nations who may have once invested more stock in our government's ability to keep secret information secret. 

And Barack Obama casually stands behind a podium and has the audacity to belittle the genuine problems we as a nation face by suggesting that it is "fashionable right now for people to be cynical".

6.2 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day301.

Day665 Sunday 06/24/12

ran 3.4 miles

Today ends week ninety-five of running against Obama. I ran 27.6 miles this week, averaging 3.94 miles per day.  

This has to be one of the worst, most poorly executed messages for a campaign ad, ever. Whoever is running against this Ryan Combe for a seat in the Utah House should make a sequel to this ad. They should call it "Reality". Have the parents immediately kick their son out of their house (they are, after all, depicted as heartless) and force him to make ends meet on his own while continuing to be so compassionate and intellectual. By the time thirty seconds is up the prodigal son can walk back into his parents house, apologize, and change the party on his voter registration card to "R". 

Here is the source for the video above. The article elaborates much further on everything that is wrong with this video. 

9.5 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day300.

Day664 Saturday 06/23/12

ran 4.1 miles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12.9 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day299. 

Day663 Friday 06/22/12

ran 4.0 miles

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

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

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

(More about the "Obama Event Registry") 

17.0 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day298.

Day662 Thursday 06/21/12

ran 4.1 miles  

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

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

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

21.0 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day297.

Day661 Wednesday 06/20/12

ran 3.7 miles 

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

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

Michael Steel, Mr. Boehner's spokesman 

25.1 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day296.

Day660 Tuesday 06/19/12

ran 4.2 miles  

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

28.8 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day295.

Day659 Monday 06/18/12

ran 4.1 miles

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

(Source)

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

(Source)

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

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

33.0 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day294.

Day658 Sunday 06/17/12

ran 3.2 miles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37.1 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day293.

 

Day657 Saturday 06/16/12

ran 3.4 miles

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

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

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

40.3 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day292.

Day656 Friday 06/15/12

ran 3.3 miles 

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

43.7 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day291.