Day172 Thursday 02/17/11

ran 4.3 miles

Some polls from Rasmussen Reports:

• Barack Obama’s presidential index rating shows that 28% of American voters strongly approve of his performance while 37% strongly disapprove, giving Obama a presidential approval index rating of –9.

• Overall, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of Barack Obama’s performance and 50% disapprove.

• Among American voters, 55% of voters say that Obama’s proposed budget does not cut spending enough.

• Only 31% of voters think America is generally heading in the right direction.

• Just 28% of voters believe the government today has the consent of those it governs.

• Among American voters, 57% at least somewhat favor repeal of the health care law while 38% are at least somewhat opposed. Those figures include 45% who strongly favor repeal and 31% who strongly oppose repeal.

On Day163, I posted about the “Health Care Compact”, a constitutional method for an unlimited number of states to band together and legally refuse to participate in the federal government’s mandated health care bill, which a significant majority of Americans want no part of. Check out Day163 for the details. The compact is a fairly simple and highly effective concept. The most exciting element of ratifying compacts is the fact that Barack Obama, or any elected president, does not have to sign it and he cannot veto it. It becomes law after the House and Senate. And once two states establish the compact, precedent is set and other states can join, gaining momentum state after state. Currently, more than half the states in America are eagerly pursuing the Compact at the state level.

In fact, today Arizona took a huge step toward the Compact. This is an article from www.azcentral.com.

Arizona Senate approves states’ rights measures

"Vowing to push back against Washington, the state Senate's majority Republicans want Arizona to join other states in a compact to challenge the federal health care overhaul and its mandates on individuals.

The Senate approved the health care compact bill Thursday as it also voted for a Republican bill to declare that federal government has no power to regulate commerce that doesn't cross state lines.

The intrastate bill would make it a low-grade felony for a federal official or a misdemeanor for an Arizona public employee to attempt to enforce federal regulations that violate the proposed state law.

Democrats voted against both bills, which now go to the Arizona House."

Check out www.healthcarecompact.org for more details.

1,611.3 miles to go.

Day171 Wednesday 02/16/11

image from Ex-Genius

ran 3.9 miles

Someone Else. We are hanging on to what this country was intended to be with one hand clinging to the edge of common sense and the other urgently grasping for something that simply isn’t there. On the precipice of damaging America for generations to come, an America bearing little resemblance to the nation we have known for so long, Barack Obama seems more determined to deconstruct the America we have had for so long and to turn it into some kind of unrealistic utopia, which by definition is “An ideal and perfect place or state, where everyone lives in harmony and everything is for the best”. That is something you tell your six-year-old if he or she happen to ask you why we all exist or who God is and why did he put us here.

Someone Else. Who are you? Where are you? The utopian state is a state of communism. It has failed in so many other places for so long and now our president wants to implement it here. Socialized health care, which more than half of the states in our country are vigorously trying to fight, is the first big step towards taking money from the large majority of people who work hard in this country and giving it to the much smaller number who do not, regardless of whether they are highly unmotivated or here illegally. Our government’s solution is to continue robbing so many people of their own goals and contributions to society by sending them a check each month and, regarding the millions of illegal aliens in America, our government seeks to grant them amnesty, as though we were not already paying for their medical needs and giving them tax returns that surpass my own when they don’t even pay into the system. Ultimately, Barack Obama’s agenda points to a leveling of opportunity for all. It sounds nice and fair, but it is not the American way. If our country continues to regress into what we fought so hard to separate ourselves from over two centuries ago, then what was it all for? In America, your rewards are designed to be proportional to the hard work you invest in your goals. If you invest a lot of time and work then you reap many rewards. If you put forth little or no effort then you receive little or no reward. It has been this way for a very long time and it is not that complicated of a template to follow. These principles are being compromised, though, and even apologized for as though they were shameful or wrong.

Someone Else. Will you put America first? Will you embrace the elitism we once possessed and wield it within our own borders? Will you not tolerate other countries that laugh at and mock America? Will you continue to give them so much of our taxpayers’ money when they despise our nation? Who is Someone Else in 2012? Who will save the middle class, which is so instrumental in continuing the nation America was intended to be? In 2012, Someone Else needs to reignite the American flame that made this nation so strong and resist the convenient excuses we’ve become so used to. There are no excuses. Barack Obama would have you believe that blaming others and making excuses are a vital part of being the president of the United States of America and that our nation’s success is contingent on tenets of communism, but it is poisonous Kool-Aid. Don’t drink it.

Someone Else.

1,615.6 miles to go.

Day170 Tuesday 02/15/11

ran 5.2 miles

On Day156, I had made my first post honoring Black History Month. The man I had spotlighted was Alan Keyes. Tonight I am going to post about Allen West. He is a freshman Representative out of Florida and he has been speaking loud volumes for Conservative values. He delivered an impressive keynote speech at CPAC recently. These are a few of his quotes.

“Political correctness has no place in our national security strategy.”

“Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?”

“I say this to the President: The good things in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: closing the doughnut hole, making sure that we take care of people with the preexisting conditions, keeping our young kids on our insurance, I can probably fit that in five to ten pages. It’s the other two thousand four hundred ninety pages with eleven new taxes, a hundred fifty- nine new government agencies and beauracracies, and sixteen thousand new IRS agents, that the United States of America does not want!”

“We welcome the beliefs of others in America, but our coexistence must be based on a simple premise: when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it leads to cultural suicide. And American cultural values shall never be subjugated to any other as long as I have air in my lungs.”

After citing “Hostile attacks from the liberal left”, which characterize conservatives as racist, West commented, “Perhaps they should see who is standing up here as your keynote speaker.”

Allen West was born and raised in Atlanta, GA, in the same neighborhood Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr once preached. He retired highly decorated from the military as a Lieutenant Colonel after serving in Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and in Afghanistan. After retiring from the military he moved his family to South Florida and taught at a High school. And in November of 2010 he was elected to be a Representative in the United States Congress.

1,619.5 miles to go.

Day169 Monday 02/14/11

ran 4.2 miles

Happy Valentines Day. In case you didn’t know, on this day in history, approximately 278 A.D., Valentine, a priest in Rome during the rule of Claudius II, was executed. In an effort to maintain a strong army “Claudius the Cruel” observed that men were unwilling to join his military because of their strong ties to their wives and children. To reverse this problem, Claudius banned all engagements and marriages in Rome. Valentine deemed this decree to be unjust and defied Claudius by continuing to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. Upon discovering Valentine’s actions Claudius ordered his arrest and sentenced him to death. He was beheaded and eventually declared a saint for his great passion and service to holy matrimony. Over time, February 14 became a date for exchanging love messages and poems or simple gifts such as flowers. So that’s where Valentines Day came from.

Back to the present, Representative Steve King of Iowa is working toward an effective halt to Obamacare. Through a tactic used by democrats to put a halt to the Vietnam War decades ago, he plans to add an amendment to the continuing resolution, which will prohibit all federal funds from being spent to enforce the provisions of Obamacare.

In an article from The Washington Times, King explains that when Obamacare was drafted Democrats “Quietly included provisions that trigger automatic and mandatory funding in the law. An additional $105.5 billion is about to be spent to implement and enforce Obamacare unless action is taken in the continuing resolution to stop it.”

This continuing resolution, the same tactic that ended the Vietnam War and can end Obamacare now, would completely defund Obama’s unconstitutional health care law. The unfortunate alternative is that the first $105.5 billion gets pumped into Obamacare, like lighting a highly explosive ignition source that can’t be put out, and any measures taken after that to repeal Obamacare is weighed against the fact that so much money has already been invested in it. And with every argument made against it and every proof of its unconstitutionality revealed, money will still be pumping into it, lighting the fire more and more, until right and wrong no longer matter. The only argument that’s left is, “Well, we just invested hundreds of billions of dollars in this thing. Are you going to tell America that all of that money is lost?”…or something of that conniving and deceitful politic-speak nature.

This story should be in the news tomorrow and the House of Representatives has a useful majority of conservatives who are primed to fight for their constituents, so hopefully it works. The first step was taken today in a committee meeting and passed eight to four. But, like everything else in Washington this will likely drag on for a while. Something has got to give soon or the Obamacare train is going to roar out of control.

1,624.7 miles to go.

Day168 Sunday 02/13/11

ran 2.8 miles

Today ends week twenty-four of running against Obama. I ran 24.0 miles this week, averaging 3.43 miles per day.

Late last night I stumbled across some exciting news worth sharing. Ayn Rand’s classic 1957 novel “Atlas Shrugged” has been made into a movie and it will be in theaters on April 15, 2011. What was exciting to find last night was that the trailer had been released for viewing. It’s worth checking out at www.atlasshruggedpart1.com.

If you look back to Day18 of this blog, I focused on “Atlas Shrugged” and gave some comparisons of how parallel the novel is to what is going on in America today. One fact I listed that ought to intrigue anyone who does not know a lot about Ayn Rand is that the Library of Congress conducted a survey and concluded that “Atlas Shrugged” was number two next to the bible as the most influential book read in America. If you haven’t read the book then this movie will definitely open your eyes up to the direction America is heading under Barack Obama's leadership.

1,628.9 miles to go.

Day167 Saturday 02/12/11

ran 3.0 miles

The ongoing skepticism surrounding Barack Obama’s inability to prove his place of birth and the shadiness he cloaks his religious faith in have recently reached new levels. The last time Obama and his family visited Hawaii, the birth place in question, Hawaii’s governor, Neil Abercrombie, swore adamantly that he was going to end all doubt, with the proper documentation, that our president may not have been born in America. A couple weeks later Abercrombie had confessed that he could not find the proof he promised, effectively making things even worse for Barack Obama’s case. His friend did him no favors in rehashing the burden of proof Obama is responsible for and refuses to present as evidence for the millions upon millions of Americans who want to see it, and have every right to see it.

Today in The Washington Times, Brett M. Decker wrote an article “Obama’s fake Christianity?” in which he documented criticism of Obama’s faith even coming from liberals. The article went so far as to suggest that the president’s behavior is possibly comparable to that of an atheist.

Concerning Egypt, “One clear message came from all the president’s men: A new government in Cairo ‘has to include a whole host of important nonsecular actors,’ as stated by White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. The hitch is that in the Middle East, nonsecular means radical Islamist, like the Muslim Brotherhood.” Due to statements like this, Obama’s own religious foundations are being questioned from even the left.

Bill Maher, of all leftist critics of everything conservative, was quoted on his HBO show “Real Time” saying of Obama, “I think he’s a centrist the way he’s a Christian---not really…His mother was a secular humanist and I think he is.”

A guest on the show pointed out that Obama did indeed attend church preceding his candidacy for president. But that church belonged to the “Racist, anti-American, hate-spewing Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

It is stuff like this that fuels me to run everyday and to do whatever I can to help get Barack Obama out of office in November of 2012. Since the Midterm elections, Obama has done nothing but attempt to put himself closer to the aisle to appease just enough voters to allow him to get reelected. He would not have made many of the decisions he did were it not for his agenda getting so many of his democratic senators and representatives fired back in November of 2010. What is important to remember as vividly as possible is the first two years, especially the health care law. Surpassing every decision Obama has made, what is most important and disturbing is his bad-faith withholding of proving he was born in Hawaii, his devoted attendance to Jeremiah Wright’s church, and the constant contradictions of his faith.

From one human being to another, I could care less where another man was born, what church he chooses to attend or not to attend, or whether he is a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew or an atheist, but when a man cannot look you in the eye and answer simple questions like these with honesty or his actions, he does not deserve to be president of the greatest nation on Earth, and he certainly has no right to deconstruct it over the course of eight years.

1,631.7 miles to go.

Day166 Friday 02/11/11

ran 4.9 miles

• Maryland was the seventh state to join the union on April 28, 1788, one month before South Carolina and two months after Massachusetts.

• Population, as of 2010, is 5,773,552.

• Senators are Benjamin Cardin (D) and Barbara Mikulski (D).

• Representatives are Andy Harris (R), Dutch Ruppersberger (D), John Sarbanes (D), Donna Edwards (D), Steny Hoyer (D), Roscoe Bartlett (R), Elijah Cummings (D) and Christopher Hollen (D).

• Maryland has ten electoral votes. Historically, the state has voted primarily blue, having participated in all fifty-six elections. Maryland voted Republican only three times (Richard Nixon in 1972, Ronald Reagan in 1984, and George Bush in 1988). Barack Obama defeated John McCain 62% to 38% in 2008.

On a completely separate note, Donald Trump was quoted at CPAC saying that if he were president he would take in “Hundreds of billions from countries that are screwing us”. He also said the United States has become a “Laughing stock” and “Whipping post” for the rest of the world. Trump announced he was considering a run at the presidency in 2012 and that he would officially make his decision In June, when the latest season of “Apprentice” will come to an end.

There will likely be a handful of unexpected presidential candidates throwing their names into the race as the election gets closer. George Clooney’s name keeps surfacing in the news, too. It seems odd, pompous and nearly impossible to consider, but Ronald Reagan was a well-known Hollywood celebrity before he entered the political arena so anything is possible. Donald Trump would be loud and obnoxious, but his blunt ability to say what he thinks with no qualms about softening hard truths is a quality our next president definitely needs. And, if any one man were to make America, once again, the unchallenged world leader in economics and superiority, and not be ashamed of elitism, it would be Donald Trump.

1,634.7 miles to go.

Day165 Thursday 02/10/11

ran 4.0 miles

• Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Index rating shows that 27% of American voters strongly approve of Obama’s performance as president while 36% strongly disapprove, giving Barack Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -9.

• Overall, 50% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of Obama’s performance and 50% disapprove.

• According to Rasmussen Reports, only 51% of homeowners believe their home is worth more than their mortgage. This is the lowest since May of 2009.

• Just 45% of voters recognize that America has the world’s biggest economy.

• Only 30% of Americans believe our country is generally heading in the right direction.

• Rasmussen Reports polls 58% of Americans favor the repeal of the health care law.

If you missed yesterday’s post it is worth a glance. Obama plans on making a three-book graphic novel, or comic book, to explain to Americans what is in his health care law, implying that we are all idiots with the intellectual prowess of sixth graders.

Along the same lines of senselessness, all day today chief members of Obama’s staff claimed that the protests in Egypt had been quelled and that Hosni Mubarak would be relinquishing his power today. Contradicting our national media outlets, Mubarak actually got in front of a camera and informed his protesting people that he would not step down, but he would delegate some of his power to his newly sworn in vice president. He expressed that he would not be pushed around by other nations.

Based on the polls and stats listed above, it is fascinating to me how divided this nation is. I don’t claim my political beliefs to be entirely right and I certainly consider the fact that I may be wrong, but when Barack Obama’s approval numbers stay around 50% as they often do, it is troubling to look into the future of America. I am committed to what I believe when it comes to how this nation’s government should be run, but it is so strange to acknowledge that 50% of the people in this country completely disagree with my and so many others’ views. And they think I am just as crazy as I think they are. What is the disconnection? How is it that so many people can be so equally divided? When November 6, 2012 arrives and we elect someone else or reelect Barack Obama for a second term, 50% of Americans are going to be unhappy. With a ratio like that we ought to save the millions of dollars that would be spent on campaigning and just flip a coin. I am being facetious, of course, and would never flip a coin over such an epic matter, but the truth is 1 out of every 2 people in America, statistically, are quite possibly going to be extremely disappointed after the next presidential election. The fact that America is equally divided and has arrived at such a seemingly unbridgeable gap is the greatest setback in this nation since the Civil War.

1,639.6 miles to go.

Day164 Wednesday 02/09/11

Top image: Slublog (via Ace of Spades), featured on Michelle Malkin blog
Bottom image: Boston Herald

ran 3.1 miles

If there is perchance any residue of hope left in you concerning Barack Obama and what he has done over the last two years, that dingy and stubborn particle of resolve is about to be scrubbed away with a highly abrasive pad of reality.

Barack Obama and the health economist behind ObamaCare, Jonathan Gruber, have chosen to write and illustrate a comic book, which will be published in three parts, to help Americans better understand what is contained in the bill. This is real, and this is how stupid Barack Obama and Washington think we are. I cannot possibly think of a worse, more condescending, more insulting executive decision the leader of our nation could make than this.

The comic book is actually a “Graphic novel”, if that helps any. I could rant about how absurd and ridiculous the decision to do this was and how overwhelmingly counterproductive the direction Barack Obama is sending America is, but that would be redundant.

Why now? Nancy Pelosi had the audacity to tell America, “Let’s just pass the bill and then we’ll see what’s in it.” This bill was in the neighborhood of 2,800 pages long and the people we call leaders of our nation did not even read it. Here we are a year later, and Barack Obama wants to explain the bill in a comic book format?

Why now? It would have been equally preposterous, but why not do this before the bill was passed so it could have been passed on its merits? It is because it has no merit or common sense.

Why now? Why would Barack Obama wager such a risky and idiotic campaign now, after the fact that the bill has been passed for such a long time? It is because his health care bill stands a serious threat to be repealed by the American people.

This is an exciting time and Americans have not been this active or united to put the federal government in its rightful place in a very long time.

Alongside the news of Barack Obama’s upcoming comic book release, yesterday’s post thoroughly covers the solution that is at work right now to stop ObamaCare, the Interstate Health Care Compact. The state of Virginia is on the verge of beginning the compact and only one more state is all it will take to allow any other state that does not want socialized health care to design their own unique health care systems.

1,643.6 miles to go.

Day163 Tuesday 02/08/11

ran 2.6 miles
Tonight was the second Acadiana Patriots meeting of the year. I cannot overstate how informative these meetings are and how organized the Lafayette, Louisiana branch of the Tea Party Patriots is. Louisiana state senator Elbert Guillory (District 24) attended and spoke about a project called “The Health Care Compact”. It is a tangible solution to avoiding the destructive health care reform act Barack Obama passed through Congress and then signed into law. “Compacts” have been around for a long time, even longer than our United States Constitution. The Mayflower Compact, for example, obviously distantly preceded any talk of a nation like the United States of America ever even existing. As America had successfully fought and defeated the tyranny of Britain and earned their independence as a nation, free to lead itself, compacts were included in the U.S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 10), as yet another safeguard our forefathers had the foresight to protect citizens with from future forms of tyranny.

A compact is simply a contract between two or more states. The Health Care Compact, as it stands presently, is a potential agreement of more than twenty states, already, which do not believe in Obama’s or Congress’ approach, implementation, or vision of health care for our future. As I type these words, the state of Virginia is already on the verge of being the first state to begin the compact with states like Louisiana, Texas, and others not far behind.

The way this works is, on the state level, if state representatives and senators want to be reelected than they need to see with their own eyes, through letters, emails and phone calls from their constituents exactly how undesirable ObamaCare is to the districts they represent. Through the power of the people, this compact, in each state, makes its way to Congress, and it gets voted on. The best detail of this process, under the United States Constitution, is that it does not have to be signed or approved by Barack Obama. If you ever wanted a realistic chance to put Barack Obama in his place and to show him just how much you disapprove of his legislation, this is the best opportunity you have ever had.

If this compact legally binds it creates a precedent, which will allow any other state to easily become a part of it. There is a lot of momentum nationally and Louisiana wants to be the next state after Virginia to make this compact happen.

The compact is very simple. It allows each participating state to uniquely handle health care the way they want to, under no orders from the federal government. The money spent by the federal government in each state is still given to each individual state but it is spent under the authority of Virginia, or Louisiana, or Texas, or whichever state is a member of the compact.

This is the way America is supposed to be. The federal government was designed with the sole purpose of aiding individual states only when they required need. In what rational mind does it make sense to put a blanket policy of socialized health care, which the government mandates against monetary penalty, over an entire nation the size of America with fifty diverse states? If California, Hawaii, or New York want ObamaCare then they should be able to have it, but not on my Louisiana dime. And if Louisiana has a better solution to its unique position on health care that costs taxpayers across the nation less, then we should be able to do it.

This compact will open a door of precedent into many other issues, too. Imagine something like this applied to immigration, where states can have their own unique laws for their own unique circumstances, such as Arizona currently desires. This compact represents the first time since 1776 that the people could claim their independence and put the federal government back where it belongs. It is nothing less than a revolution and I encourage you to be a part of it.

Acadiana Patriots has useful and concise information and details about all of this on their website.

1,646.7 miles to go.

Day162 Monday 02/07/11

ran 3.6 miles

O’Reilly’s interview with Obama

One of the things that stood out the most to me during last night’s interview, which preceded the Super Bowl, was when O’Reilly asked Obama, “OK. Worst part of this job? What’s the worst, absolute worst part of being president of the United States?”

Obama’s response was, “Worst part of the job is, first of all, I’ve got a jacket on on Super Bowl Sunday…If I wasn’t president, that would not be happening. The biggest problem for me is being in the bubble. It’s very hard to escape. You know, you can’t go to the corner…”

I think his response reflected a selfish weakness and frustration with his tendency to only see short-term goals, which only seem to set America even further back in the long run. And, short-term goals that wreak havoc in the long-term are parallel with every idea set forth by Communism. A “Too good to be true” utopian idea is always followed by a worse circumstance than that which brought it on to begin with. This is not ideology; it is proven history. And in a case, such as health care reform, it looks radiant on the surface, but there is so much more to it that is not being acknowledged.

Here are a few things Barack Obama could have said as the leader of our nation that would have been a little less insensitive than his pouting about having to wear a suit jacket on Sundays:

The worst thing about this job is the responsibility of writing letters of condolence to the parents, brothers, and sisters of fallen men and women who fought so bravely for our country.

The worst thing about this job is enduring that fifty percent of America disapproves of me and that if I had not been so radical and one-sided that perhaps I could have easily won a second term in 2012, by appeasing at least just another ten percent of the public.

The worst thing about this job is having to spend so much taxpayer money, which does not yet even exist, to come through with my farfetched promises I had campaigned on---and to see those dollars go nowhere in proportion to the exuberant amounts that were spent…that is the hardest thing about being president of the United States of America.

How about saying that our unwavering unemployment rate, which he has fought with money from our pockets, and our children’s pockets, to no avail, sets his heart beside itself with the reality that maybe there are some better answers and approaches?

Instead, Barack Obama’s response began with, “I’ve got a jacket on on Super Bowl Sunday,” and it ended with, “It’s very hard to escape.”

1,649.3 miles to go.

Day161 Sunday 02/06/11

ran 2.6 miles
I went from a 10k in Baton Rouge, the Amedisys Mardi Gras Mambo, yesterday, straight to New Orleans. I was able to run this morning in a beautiful neighborhood surrounded by houses with unique architecture you can only find so concentrated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It’s a perfect day to be in New Orleans and to watch a Super Bowl.

Today ends week twenty-three of running against Obama. I ran 22.0 miles this week, averaging 3.14 miles per day.

Don’t forget that preceding the Super Bowl tonight, Bill O’Reilly will be interviewing Barack Obama. That ought to be interesting and worth viewing, however, I have a feeling that the only circumstances Obama would agree to such an interview would be under the guise of prewritten and easy questions.

Speaking of Obama, Sarah Palin has submitted her first comments on Barack Obama’s handling of Egypt. Referring to the crisis as Obama’s “3 a.m. phone call”, she said, “It seems the call went right to the answering machine.”

“We need to know what it is America stands for so we know who it is that America will stand with. And we do not have all that information (from the administration) yet.”

Whoever takes over leadership of Egypt will be pivotal in the fate of Israel. Egypt and Israel are our two greatest allies in the Middle East and if the new Egyptian leader is backed by a group such as the Muslim Brotherhood, there is a good chance that America’s relationship with Egypt will be forfeited and Israel will be geographically surrounded by nations who have little interest in their future. In the event that Israel were attacked by one or more of its bordering Muslim nations, America would be obligated to get involved with little chance of successfully intervening. And, any attempt made by America to get involved would effectively make us even more of an enemy to Israel’s surrounding Muslim nation, if that is even possible.

Barack Obama has the option to support a peaceful democracy following Mubarak’s exit, but that democracy does not mean it will represent anything like what we have in America. As I said, if a member of the Muslim Brotherhood were elected president, it could potentially change the world and our relationship to the Middle East for a very long time.

1,652.9 miles to go.

Day160 Saturday 02/05/11

ran 6.2 miles
I ran a 10k today in Baton Rouge and put up a good time. The weather was bitter and cold but it was an awesome run. I ran with some friends and we all beat the times of our last runs. I can’t speak for my friends but I can certainly attribute my own drive and passion for running purely to the pursuit of making Barack Obama a one-term president.

I am absolutely exhausted and it has been a long day. As a final note, I received a lot of comments on my “Running Against Obama” t-shirt and found some new people who are interested in this blog and the future of their nation.

Sorry for the lull, I’ll be back to informing soon. Go Steelers!

1,655.5 miles to go.

Day159 Friday 02/04/11

ran 0.1 miles
I have a good reason for only running 0.1 miles today, which was the act of running a few houses down from mine as I let my dog out after work, and that reason is I am running a 10k tomorrow in Baton Rouge. I’m pretty excited. Although I have run that distance before on my own, I have never run an organized 10k.

I have to go to bed early and wake up early so tonight’s post is short and to the point. Tomorrow morning I am going to run as hard as I can with one single inspiration: the hope of getting America back in November of 2012.

1,661.7 miles to go.