Day792 Monday 10/29/12

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Obama's looking like a cat on a hot tin roof. And rightly so---he deserves every tight corner he gets backed into for what he's done, or failed to do, over the last four years. Eight more days until we get this guy out!

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Day 791 Sunday 10/28/12

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Today ends week 113 of running against Obama. I ran 0.0 miles this week, averaging 0.00 miles per day.

 

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Day790 Saturday 10/27/12

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This is one of the most strange Obama interviews I've ever seen. The local Colorado news anchor is a master of the passive-aggressive interview technique and he rips into Obama without even raising his voice once. Very entertaining. Barack Obama kept his cool but you can tell he was getting more and more pissed with every lie that was passing through his lips.

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Day789 Friday 10/26/12

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Day788 Thursday 10/25/12

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Day787 Wednesday 10/24/12

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This is a really cool site with an array of graphic depictions showing how wastefully our government spends the tax dollars we work so hard to earn. Check it out!

Less than two weeks to go. Barack Obama has had four years and his record speaks for itself. If it had been George Bush's record, or any Republican's for that matter, they would be out thanks to our ever-noble, responsible, fair and unbiased media---but not Barack Obama. Between "Fast and Furious" and the lies that are mounting regarding Benghazi, alone, George Bush or any other Republican would have been taken apart by now---but not Barack Obama.

The only justice left to wield on this man is in the hands of the voter and his proverbial sentence should be life in Chicago.

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Day786 Tuesday 10/23/12

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Day785 Monday 10/22/12

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Day784 Sunday 10/21/12

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Today ends week 112 of running against Obama. I ran 0.0 miles this week, averaging 0.00 miles per day.

Still on the injured list. I underestimated how long it would take for my toe to heal and it doesn't feel like it will be better any time soon. Hopefully I can squeeze one last run out, at least on the day of the election. That has been my vision to get me through the last 784 days of running and blogging every day for the last twenty-five months. That vision has been one final run to my voting precinct to cast my vote and to run back home and watch the evening unfold as Barack Obama receives the justice that only America's voters can pass.

In the news today, the UN has formally warned Americans of voting for Mitt Romney. Just when I thought I could not have been more convinced to vote for Mitt Romney, United Nations comes along and warns me not to. I'm more sold than ever. I have always made a resolute effort to refrain from vulgarity on this blog and to not use expletives but, here on Day784, I find it necessary ,more now than ever to say that the UN can kiss my ass. 

America has a Constitution, which is clearly written and intended to be obeyed. There is nothing about the UN or the idea that this entire planet should be ruled by one world order in the United States Constitution. 

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Day783 Saturday 10/20/12

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Day782 Friday 10/19/12

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Here's something you may not know...

A total of 538 electoral votes. Divide that by two and a presidential election will end in a tie. It's only happened once in American history (1824) but could this be the repeat year? Here's what you may not know.

In the event that two presidential candidates end an election in a tie of 269 votes each, rather than reaching the almighty 271 for the win, the House of Representatives (the incoming Congress of 2013), which will more than likely be heavily populated with Republicans after November 6, will be the sole deciding factor. That's right---I don't think it is the best contingency plan but if a tie does occur it's a good time to be a conservative. 

It gets even stranger. The Senate decides who the vice president will be. We could potentially have a Romney/Biden ticket or an Obama/Ryan ticket. 

Check out this link for more details on how controversial this outcome could be.

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Day781 Thursday 10/18/12

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Day780 Wednesday 10/17/12

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Here's your top 10 Obama lies from last night's debate. It is exhausting to watch that man speak. He is a shameless liar and he's not even good at it. He's been feeding us the exact same garbage about the auto bailout, success of his economic recovery, unemployment numbers, and wrongfully claiming credit for drilling for his entire term. It is so frustrating to watch his lips move as he blatantly lies to the entire country about so many things that can so easily be disproven by the simple numbers and statistics that define and demonstrate his numerous failures over the last four years.

From Breitbart.com, by Joel B. Pollak 

10. "I told you I would cut taxes for middle-class families, and I did. I told you I’d cut taxes for small businesses, and I have." President Barack Obama has made this claim repeatedly during the campaign, but it is not true, as even the liberal Huffington Post acknowledges. The few tax cuts that Obama did enact--such as the temporary payroll tax holiday--were short-term, or conditional. Furthermore, as the Romney campaign has often pointed out, Obama has raised many taxes on the middle class, including the infamous Obamacare "penalty," and his taxes on "millionaires and billionaires" would hit small businesess.

9. "...[H]e was asked, is it fair for somebody like you, making $20 million a year, to pay a lower tax rate than a nurse or a bus driver....And he said, yes, I think that’s fair." Obama was referring to Romney's recent 60 Minutes interview. But the transcript reveals Obama was not telling the truth. Romney was not saying it was fair that higher income should be taxed at a lower rate. He was referring specifically to the principle that capital gains should be taxed lower than other income because it has been taxed once already--a principle, incidentally, that Obama agrees with in his own tax policy.

8. "He called the Arizona law a model for the nation." Obama tried to knock Romney's immigration policy while at the same time accusing him of flip-flopping on the issue. But as Romney pointed out, he was referring specifically to the e-Verify part of the law--the requirement of instant verification of workers' legal status. That provision is even favored by unions. Obama made it seem Romney praised the law as a whole--which he had not. He went on to say that he himself objected to the provision that allowed police to check suspected illegal immigrants' documentation--but that provision survived a challenge at the Supreme Court.

7. "I want to make sure our timekeepers are working here." For the third debate in a row, the Democratic candidate complained that he was not receiving as much time to speak as the Republican. And for the third debate in a row, the Obama/Biden ticket actually spoke for longer--much longer--than the Romney/Ryan ticket, a testament to the ability of the incumbents to pressure the moderators, and the susceptibility of the left-leaning moderators to such pressure. Obama received a full three minutes more time in last night's debate--and the percentage difference was even higher at one point in the proceedings.

6. "They rely on it for mammograms." Obama attacked Romney's proposal to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood by claiming that the organization provides mammograms to women to help prevent breast cancer. It's been a repeated claim made by the left for months. The problem is that it's just untrue--and even left-leaning mainstream media fact-checkers have acknowledged that. What is perhaps worse than Obama's misleading claim about mammograms is the unsupported implication that Romney wants to deny life-saving health care to women--a cheap shot to which Romney was given no chance to respond.

5. "You can ship jobs overseas and get tax breaks for it." We have heard the same lie for eight years from Obama. In 2004, he ran for U.S. Senate from Illinois on a promise to end such tax breaks. He did it again when he ran for President of the United States in 2008. And yet he has never done anything about it--because there are no such tax breaks. There is merely a deduction that companies can take for moving, even within the U.S.--and which helps offset the double taxation of U.S. businesses abroad, which would make American companies less competitive. Repealing it would ship jobs overseas, actually.

4. "And the production is up....What you’re saying is just not true." Obama contested a claim by Romney that production of oil and gas is down on federal lands. He even accused Romney of not telling the truth. But Romney was right--exactly right, down to the percentage decline. Furthermore, Obama's claim that he has been increasing oil and gas production on federal lands flies in the face of recent policy decisions, such as closing off a large part of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to further development. Obama has tried to take credit for expansion on private lands, while opposing expansion wherever possible.

3. "In what new ways do you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?" The false premise from a member of the audience was especially egregious because her question had been selected in advance by the moderator. The supposed wage gap between men and women for the same work is largely a myth. As Diana Furchtgott-Roth pointed out: "Women make about 95 percent of what their male counterparts earn, if the male counterparts are in the same job with the same experience."

2. "He wanted to take them into bankruptcy without providing them any way to stay open." After Obama accused Romney of wanting American auto manufacturers to go bankrupt, Romney pointed out that Obama had, in fact, taken the auto companies through bankruptcy. Obama's retort was to accuse Romney of wanting to take the companies bankrupt in order to put them out of business--a blatant lie. Romney actually suggested in his famous 2008 op-ed: "In a managed bankruptcy, the federal government would propel newly competitive and viable automakers, rather than seal their fate with a bailout check."

1. "He did call it an act of terror." The worst untruth told by a moderator in presidential history. Candy Crowley's intervention in favor of Obama caused the president's cheering section to burst into applause, in violation of the rules, and there was little that Romney could say in response. But she was wrong--Obama's reference to "acts of terror" in his Sep. 12 statement was in a general, abstract sense, and came long after he had described the 9/11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions as demonstrations against an anti-Islamic video. Even Crowley seemed to realize what she had done: it wasn't long before she walked back her own comment.

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Day779 Tuesday 10/16/12

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