Day773 Wednesday 10/10/12

ran 0.0 miles

In case you missed yesterday, I have an injury keeping me from running, temporarily. I think I'll be back on the road in a few days. 

The way Obama and his campaign team are running with this "Big Bird" theme is pathetic. I see two immediate epic failures in their desperate decision to make such a big story out of Sesame Street while our economy is imploding and American flags are being burnt all over the world under Barack Obama's apologetic watch. One, there are obviously much more serious issues to discuss rather than the fate of PBS and, second, I think it is reflective of a particularly large voting block he is appealing to---one that identifies more easily with cartoons and puppets than budgets and foreign affairs.

Ridiculous. Hurry up, November 6. But first, tomorrow night we get to watch Uncle Joe garble his rampant thoughts into words across the stage from Paul Ryan. It should be entertaining if nothing else. And, soon after, we will see if Barack Hussein Obama has any ability to redeem himself in the second presidential debate. He's going to need a lot more than "Big Bird" to help him.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 337.4 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day408.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day42.

Day772 Tuesday 10/09/12

ran 0.0 miles

I'm back on the injury report. Life has a way of taking the outcomes you expect and flipping them upside down. I think it is a constant test to see how resilient an individual's sense of humor is. Wet flip-flops and a concrete flight of stairs do not go together well. 

I was so close. It was the final step before the landing when I slipped and drove my entire body's weight onto my right big toe. It is now black and blue and I have acquired a limp. Nothing is broken (I don't think) and I'm actually surprised I didn't twist my ankle. As temporarily pulverized as my toe is I think it could have been much worse.

The silver lining is that I have always anticipated something like this happening. Some unforeseeable events are out of our control and it is best to prepare for them even though they rarely ever surface. Fortunately, I've racked up a surplus of miles to anticipate this sort of thing. I'm not sure how long it will be until I can run again, I am hoping no more than a week, but I budgeted this potential loss into my balance before it even happened. Many people do this with money regarding their household incomes---some nations even do this with money for the good of their economy. America's government is not one of them.

So, I'm going to continue posting each day and eventually start running again. We're getting close to our one chance to fire Barack Obama. RasmussenReports currently has Romney leading considerably in the eleven swing states Obama won in 2008.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 337.4

Here is what happened one year ago on Day407.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day41.

Day771 Monday 10/08/12

ran 3.4 miles

I'm not sure if SNL is trying to spread around their political parodies more evenly among the political spectrum or if Barack Obama and his media sweethearts are just too hard to pass up when it comes to mockery, but Saturday Night Live has been giving Barack Obama a lot of skit time this season. Back in 2008 Sarah Palin was in nearly every skit. You're winning me back, SNL.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 337.4

Here is what happened one year ago on Day406. 

Here is what happened two years ago on Day40.

Day770 Sunday 10/07/12

ran 3.1 miles
Today ends week 110 of running against Obama. I ran 22.2 miles this week, averaging 3.17 miles per day.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 334.0

Here is what happened one year ago on Day405. 

Here is what happened two years ago on Day39. 

Day769 Saturday 10/06/12

ran 0.4 miles

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 330.9

Here is what happened one year ago on Day404. 

Here is what happened two years ago on Day38.

Day768 Friday 10/05/12

ran 2.9 miles



2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 330.5

Here is what happened one year ago on Day403. 

Here is what happened two years ago on Day37.

Day767 Thursday 10/04/12

ran 3.3 miles

Last night's debate was a thorough castration of any testicular fortitude Barack Hussein Obama may have thought he had as he walked out on the stage. Mitt Romney executed a nearly flawless assault on and defense of every word that came out of our current president's mouth. Obama stood behind his podium with his face down like the tail between a dog's legs. For a few seconds I thought about thinking about feeling bad for him, but the moment passed sooner than it had arrived because he deserved every ounce of defeat he he had sown.

Here we are one day later and our president is back to campaigning with meaningless words that no one is there to argue. The passion he speaks with in front of crowds should have been employed last night, but it could not be because there was a man across the stage able to refute every accusation or accomplishment he wrongly made or indignantly claimed.

Slithering David Axelrod had this to say of Romney's performance: "artful dodger”; “devoid of honesty”; “rooted in deception”;“untethered to the truth”; “well delivered but fraudulent”.

I would say David Axelrod and Barack Obama are flustered and desperate if meaningless name-calling is the best they can do.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 327.6

Here is what happened one year ago on Day402. 

Here is what happened two years ago on Day36.

Day766 Wednesday 10/03/12

ran 3.4 miles

If you missed yesterday's post, check it out. Regarding the newly released 2007 Obama video, Breitbart.com (John Nolte) made the list below of what is important to note. The news we see and hear is going to do everything in their power to smooth out everything that is wrong with this video, but it is important to fully examine the words that were coming out of our president's mouth before news organization begin twisting it all up, or choose to not report on it at all. This video, among many other things, failed to be reported leading up to the 2008 presidential election and it is a shame that they are only now surfacing. By the time November 6 arrives I have a feeling there may be an electoral consensus that Barack Obama never should have made it to the Democratic primaries to begin with.

1. The video released by the Daily Caller last night does include footage the media never broadcast or reported on.

Furthermore, we're supposed to believe it's just a coincidence that the footage the media ignored just happens to be the most controversial part, where Barack Obama (who at the time was running to be the Democratic nominee for president) goes off-script and tells a majority black audience that the federal government doesn't care about Hurricane Katrina victims because they're black.

Even Politico's mainstream media water-carrier Dylan Byers had to admit this is the case:

But the full footage of the speech included previously unreported remarks in which Sen. Obama suggested that the federal government helped victims of 9/11 and Hurricane Andrew (in Florida), but did not help the victims of Hurricane Katrina because it didn't care about them as much.

By any measure, new video of a sitting president sewing seeds of racial division is not only news, but big news.

If this were Allen West giving the exact same speech, you better believe it would be everywhere. And he's only a congressman.

2. Now we know the media and the Obama campaign "selectively edited" the video in 2007 in order to cover up Obama's divisive racial rhetoric.

That's most certainly news.

3. Past is prologue. Always.

Obama's attacks on the suburbs and the "us vs. them" rhetoric that toxifies the entire speech helps make sense of his divisive presidency and campaign. Moreover, the speech that made Obama a national star was his 2004 address at the Democratic Convention where he was famously unifying and post-racial. That was his "no red states, no blue states" speech.

Now we know the 2004 speech was bull shit.

That's news.

4. Obama grew up in Hawaii and Chicago, so where in the world does that hilariously fake southern accent come from?

Like a lot of politicians, depending on the audience he's with, this president can be a huge phony.

I'm a news and political junkie and never once have I heard him speak with this pronounced a southern accent. So…

That's news to me, and probably to a lot of people.

5. In order to stoke racial division and resentment, Obama lied to his audience.

The then-U.S. Senator tells the audience that the federal government waived the Stafford Act for New York after 9/11 and for Florida after Hurricane Andrew, but not for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

That was a lie:

[T]he federal government did at times waive the Stafford Act during its reconstruction efforts. On May 25, 2007, just weeks before the speech, the Bush administration sent an additional $6.9 billion to Katrina-affected areas with no strings attached.

As a sitting United States Senator, Obama must have been aware of this. And yet he spent 36 minutes at the pulpit telling a mostly black audience that the U.S. government doesn’t like them because they’re black.

Which leads me to…

6. Obama is prone to believing and spreading dishonest and wildly false conspiracy theories.

You know, like Kanye West.

That's news.

7. At the 19:20 mark we learn that the Christian Obama doesn't know the Lord's Prayer.

That's news.

8. Obama's "us vs. them" rhetoric and beliefs extends to his governance.

 At the 28:50 mark, Obama talks extensively about the importance of minority-owned businesses and supporting your own. He then proposes using the Small Business Administration specifically to aid minorities.

That's news.

9. At the 20:10 mark, Obama laments the social injustice that created 37 million Americans living in poverty and pledges to fight that injustice as president.

After four years of Obamanomics, we now have 10 million more Americans living in poverty.

That's news.

10.  When Obama gave this speech, the Reverend Wright scandal had yet to break.

This means that the scant, incomplete, and "selectively edited" coverage the speech received at the time wouldn't have thought much of the full minute Obama spends gushing over his mentor and pastor in his opening remarks.

Knowing what we know now makes this, yes, news.

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The corrupt media knows this newly released footage is news. They just don't want voters to see Obama for what he is: a phony, divisive, racial demagogue and grievance-monger ready to spread lies, conspiracy theories, and animosity in order to get what he wants.

Oh, I almost forgot…

11. We know it's news because the corrupt media is telling us there's nothing to see here, even as they kill themselves to blow it back on Romney and ensure as few people as possible see it. 

First debate tonight. Let's get it on!

(Watching the debate as I type---"trickle-down government"---brilliant!)

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 324.3

Here is what happened one year ago on Day401.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day35.

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.

Day764 Monday 10/01/12

ran 4.7 miles

Nancy Pelosi is the embodiment of everything I believe to be wrong with Washington, excluding only the current president of the United States of America, but this video is a bit overboard. I would love to see Mr. Dennis get elected and to see Pelosi fired by her district, but this low budget Halloween themed zombie commercial is ridiculous.

It is equally disappointing that we have reached a time in American politics that advertisements like this are acceptable and politicians like Nancy Pelosi, among many others others, are even capable of being elected into office.

Dare I say it? The problem isn't Washington. It's the Americans who elect the people in Washington. That's a big, broad statement but I, too, am one of the idiots who keep electing these people so I have every right to blame the electorate, being part of it. Our culture is in moral decline and our principles have been compromised for the larger part of what America was never intended to be. Daily, we are becoming more and more stupid and less and less informed. And look at what party is in power right now capitalizing on these circumstances. Barack Obama never could have risen to power the way that he had were our moral fibers more tightly wound and less frayed.

He is a warning. That will be his legacy to me. After four years of leading this nation, Barack Obama will resonate for the rest of my life as a blinking red alarm of everything America was not intended to be.

And, one other thing, I am getting these words out and using my freedom of speech while I still can because I firmly believe that, by the end of four more years under Barack Obama, none of us will have the freedom any longer to express ourselves. You will either be quiet or you will be quieted.

Barack Obama is nothing more than one single, meager little fish in an entire ocean. There are 314 million other fish just like him swimming around. What is pathetic is that so many of the other fish invest so much of themselves in him and not in the abilities of their own gills and fins.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 316.5

Here is what happened one year ago on Day399. 

Here is what happened two years ago on Day33.

Day763 Sunday 09/30/12

ran 1.7 miles
Today ends week 109 of running against Obama. I ran 22.0 miles this week, averaging 3.14 miles per day.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 311.8

Here is what happened one year ago on Day398. 

Here is what happened two years ago on Day32.

Day762 Saturday 09/29/12

ran 3.4 miles

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 310.1

Here is what happened one year ago on Day397. 

Here is what happened two years ago on Day31.

Day761 Friday 09/28/12

ran 3.7 miles


(Subtle "Did you build that?" joke in the twelfth second)

“It’s as if President Obama climbed into a tank, put on his helmet, talked about how his foray into Cambodia was seared in his memory, looked at his watch, misspelled ‘potato’ and pardoned Richard Nixon all in the same day. It’s fun to imagine the hand-wringing that must be going on within the White House as staffers try to figure out how to undo the damage their boss has done with his anti-entrepenurial riff. Defining moments in politics are strange beasts. Sometimes they’re only recognized in hindsight, while sometimes they throw the train off the tracks before a sentence has been completed. Sometimes their effect can be contained and minimized, while sometimes their effect on the political narrative mestastasizes. This one is very bad for the White House.”

Pat Sajak

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 306.7

Here is what happened one year ago on Day396. 

Here is what happened two years ago on Day30.

Day760 Thursday 09/27/12

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ran 3.2 miles

Wow. When common sense and diplomacy fail in the largest arena of international politics, pull out a giant poster of Clipart and a Sharpie. It was as though he was addressing a third grade class in an elementary school rather than a gathering of the entire world's finest leaders. And it was especially insulting to our president, rightfully so, to actually pull out an illustration of a cartoon bomb (fuse and all) to demonstrate the severity of his moment at the podium. I think he had every right to do it, though. He had to stoop to that level to get his message across. Nothing else has worked.

Our president is too busy finagling his way into a second term to properly run this country. He is pandering to what has nearly become a majority of Americans who require such simple tools as Clipart and Sharpies to be convinced of anything.

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president."

-anonymous 

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 303.0

Here is what happened one year ago on Day395. 

Here is what happened two years ago on Day29.