Day622 Saturday 05/12/12

ran 3.2 miles

How many people are in that picture? How many more people surround that small rectangular fragment of people? And who is that man in the suit standing above the masses?

That is a snapshot of more than 200,000 people thronged in Berlin to hear Barack Obama speak in 2008. 

Our president has become tarnished over the last few years and it is obvious that he now lacks the luster to draw such crowds now that his campaign message has translated into a presidential reality and disappointment.

At this point, I no longer even gain much satisfaction from criticizing Barack Hussein Obama are poignantly detailing how little he deserves to be the President of the United States of America. It's too easy. The only frustration lies in how little it is reported. The man was officially elected president by a majority of Americans and that's fine. I don't like it but I accept it. I am doing everything in my humble power to prevent it from happening again in 2012 but if it does, it does. I am still going to live my life with the integrity and discipline that can only be attained by the least possible amount of governmental influence. 

Regarding the picture above and so many others we see just like it, here is what I don't get. Why are so many people fooled into believing that electing one single man, who bleeds just like they do and sits on a toilet and craps each morning just like they do, can somehow change the world or end their woes? Why do they not understand that it is they who wield the power and it is their goals, ambitions, and beliefs in themselves that garner success.  It is not one man. To even appear at a rally of this caliber in size is basically forfeiting any belief you have in yourself and selling those beliefs to one single man who you are foolish enough to believe can somehow save you.

My ideal leader is one that has America so bustling and busy that I don't even know what his name is or what his face looks like. The picture above is no solution. It serves no purpose other than to further inflate the ego of yet another politician. And, that's all that Barack Hussein Obama is; one more of many others who all seek a podium, a teleprompter, and an agenda completely unrelated to the words that are coming out of their mouths.

157.1 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day257.

Day621 Friday 05/11/12

ran 3.5 miles 

Regardless of how you may feel about Ron Paul, I think we can all agree that the mainstream media, Washington, and whatever other powers that be are blatantly doing everything they are capable of to blot out his ideas and campaign successes from the ears and eyes of the average American. It is actually a courageous achievement Ron Paul has managed, being honest and actually doing what he says he is going to do, abiding by the Constitution the way it was intended to be, and all of this in a political arena mostly filled with useless drama and worthless pomp. 

Ron Paul is a living, breathing, walking United States Constitution. And considering how much extreme disapproval is cast on Congress as a whole and how evenly divided Barack Obama has America divided it is no wonder the above mentioned entities of power are so afraid of him and the ideas he represents. Put simply, Ron Paul would take all their toys away. But the bratty children we keep electing are going to do everything in their power to prevent that.

160.3 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day256.

Day620 Thursday 05/10/12

ran 3.3 miles

The honorable Maxine Waters of California losing her composure for a brief moment and utterly flustered with the rare truth that is spewing out of her mouth. It's an old video from 2008 but it lacks no luster in proving what elected leaders like Waters are really thinking. 

Here is a glance at Rasmussen Reports polls today on Obama and Romney: 

• Romney: 49%, Obama: 45%, Third party candidate: 3%, Undecided: 2% 

• 26% of the nation's voters strongly approve of Obama's performance as president and 42% strongly disapprove, giving him a Presidential Approval Index of -16 

163.8 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day255.

Day619 Wednesday 05/09/12

ran 4.3 miles

Meet Federal Inmate No. 11593-051, Keith Judd. He is currently serving close to an eighteen year sentence for extortion in the state of Texas. For reasons unknown this man threw his name in the hat for the West Virginia primary yesterday and actually walked away with...I mean paced around his jail cell with 41% of the vote as a close second to President Barack Obama. 

Judd managed to win ten counties and 41% of the statewide vote. He even earned himself a delegate at the Democratic National Convention.

With a $2,500.00 filing fee and a notarized "certificate of announcement" to appear on the ballot, Keith Judd won a huge victory yesterday and handed Barack Obama what has to be one of the most humiliating insults in presidential history. 

An incarcerated criminal or Barack Obama? Forty-one percent of West Virginians teemed to their local precincts to make the simple statement that they would rather vote for a convicted criminal who is behind bars to be their president than Barack Obama and the record of his past four years.

I congratulate Mr. Judd for his impressive campaign, but I think Barack Obama deserves even more of a spotlight for a presidential term that could drive so many individuals in an entire state to despise him so much that they would vote for Federal Inmate No. 11593-051 over him.

167.1 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day254.

Day618 Tuesday 05/08/12

ran 4.0 miles

A lot of big news today. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, an eighty-year-old Senate veteran, lost his Senate seat of thirty-six years in the Indiana primary today. He was defeated by Indiana state Treasure Richard Mourdock, who is backed by conservative organizations and individuals from the NRA, to the Tea Party, to the Washington-based fiscal conservative group the Club for Growth. That is a big statement.

In Barack Obama's ongoing attempt to campaign on everything but his actual record, he is now fundraising with a promotion to give your very own mother a "shout out" on Mother's Day via Twitter. I get this guys emails everyday from his campaign team. They are worded in a manner that any seven-year-old can fully absorb and they serve no purpose but to raise campaign dollars through completely irrelevant, superficial means, $3.00 at a time. That appears to be his bottom line.

Here is Rick Santelli with yet another epic bombshell of reality:

And here is something about Andrew Breitbart. Remember him? He was the man who promised America videos of Barack Obama chatting with "silver ponytails" like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn in his younger days. He died mere minutes into the day that he intended to release the videos. Shortly after 12 a.m. on March 1, 2012, he suffered what has been deemed a heart attack. His death is oozing with conspiracy theory and here are a couple more blunt, irregular objects to place under your logic leveler. First, the videos Breitbart was referring to have never even been aired. He vividly described videos with Bill Ayers in Barack Obama's college days and once his death came to pass, the videos never even surfaced. Hannity aired a redundant piece on Fox about a radical relationship Obama had in his Harvard days with a professor named Bell and that was it. Where are the videos Andrew Breitbart was so passionately describing leading up to his death? Just as Breitbart died the day he intended to release these tapes, which would "change the entire election landscape", on April 20, the same day Breitbart's autopsy was to be released, one of the L.A. County forensic technicians involved in Breitbart's autopsy, Michael Cormier, 61, died of what is suspected to be arsenic poisoning. In both cases, the deceased were "seemingly healthy, yet suddenly stricken with severe sickness". And, 26-year-old Christopher Lasseter, the only eye witness to see Andrew Breitbart drop to his untimely death, has vanished. Lasseter claimed to have seen Breitbart drop dead "like a sack of potatoes". Lasseter claimed Breitbart's skin was an unusual bright red color when he collapsed, which is a symptom not related to heart attacks.

“I asked Lassiter specifically about Breitbart’s skin color and he said it was “bright red.” That bothered me because as an Army medical corpsman I knew that most heart attack victims turned blue,” wrote Paul Huebl, adding that Breitbart had drunk little alcohol and, “Poisons like cyanide, or carbon monoxide are known for turning skin red…The reality is they cannot be detected by normal toxicology testing.” 

(Source)

Private investigators have been hired to find Lasseter and nothing has turned up. Following the questionable death of Michael Cormier it seems Lasseter no longer has an address or any phone numbers and he is simply in hiding to avoid further involvement.

But I'm sure this is all just coincidence. 

171.4 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day253.

Day617 Monday 05/07/12

ran 3.8 miles 

Allen West is a twenty-first century pioneer exploring the forgotten terrain of what America truly is and was intended to be. There are very few others who can so simply articulate the Constitutional message he delivers and who possess the courage to stand up and do it in front of such a savage and destructive mainstream media and a nation run-a-muck with so many individuals who have forgotten what has been written in our history books, or simply don't care, regarding big government and the failure "nanny states" set the people they represent up for. 

Like children in a candy store who are told by the owner that everything they see is free and that they can take as much of it as they would like, some things are just too good to be true. The common sense alarm fails to blink for many people, though. Others who do see the folly in a trap like this call such ideas "utopian", which is another term, much like Obama's campaign slogan "forward", that has many communist undertones. 

175.4 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day252.

Day616 Sunday 05/06/12

1,900 miles!!!

ran 2.3 miles

Today ends week eighty-eight of running against Obama. I ran 24.1 miles this week, averaging 3.44 miles per day.

Our president's new campaign slogan is "Forward". Simple, to the point, no room for confusion...and filled with Communist history. The symbolism surrounding the political term "forward" is not hard to connect the dots on. Using the term "forward", not realizing the implications of the term, is not something Barack Obama or his campaign team would have overlooked. He is being quite blatant and setting an undeniable theme for America's future.

"Forward to Communism!"

"Forward to the Victory of Communism!"

"Mao's Great Leap Forward"

"Under Lenin's Banner, Forward to Victory!"

    "Forward For Our Brothers!"

(Source)

179.2 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day251.

Day615 Saturday 05/05/12

August 5, 1964-May 4, 2012

ran 3.6 miles

As we all get older there is one thing that becomes very clear. We each only have so many opportunities to grasp, harness, and drive whatever it is we are motivated to achieve. Many pass life choices off to procrastination, laziness, or even the delusion that something or someone else will pick up the tab for our own shortcomings later on. Many are simply satisfied with doing nothing but wondering and wandering aimlessly. But, many more give up on themselves way too early, becoming frustrated with what they do not have but feel they somehow deserve, which is in direct opposition to what some others do have and actually earned.

The death of Adam Yauch is a big one for me. I turn 34 this month and I have found that as I get older my own mortality becomes thicker and thicker of a realization as my childhood heroes slowly begin to pass away. Adam Yauch, among many other giants I have always looked up to and have been influenced by since I was eight-years-old was a pioneer in an industry and style that no one else has been able to replicate or even attempt to challenge in the last twenty-six years. The Beastie Boys are the Beastie Boys. You can't compare them. What the Beastie Boys accomplished was absolutely amazing. These three individuals defined themselves, lived their definitions, and committed to their meanings.

If you are wondering why I posted about Adam Yauch and the Beastie Boys on a blog that is determined to do everything it can to make Barack Hussein Obama a one-term president, the reason is simple. No government has ever painted a "Guernica", no government has ever written an "On the Road" or "Grapes of Wrath", no government has ever composed a symphony that brings tears to your eyes or even a theory of relativity. And no government has ever defined a culture and its time as boldly as the Beastie Boys did.

Our president discourages the success that adversity and determination have strengthened our country with over the last nearly 250 years. Adam Yauch did not co-found the Beastie Boys with a government handout or food stamps. This guy simply followed his dream regardless of the outcome, realizing that it is better to try and fail than to not try at all, and he succeeded. You have to respect that...or do you? I would venture to say that 50% of the people in this country do not respect hard work or determination, the likes of which Adam Yauch possessed, and that 50% of this country is unfortunately convinced that they vicariously deserve some of his beads of sweat, gritty tears, and weary blood that he worked so hard to bleed. 

Point is, Adam Yauch (MCA) was one outstanding human being. He was talented, he worked hard for what he earned, and he by all means deserved it. He is a glowing example of how much can be achieved by simply pursuing your interests to no end and completely disregarding the news of the day and the government before you. 

181.5 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day250.

Day614 Friday 05/04/12

ran 4.0 miles 

Another perfect example of what we are up against in November. 

185.1 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day249.

Day613 Thursday 05/03/12

ran 3.2 miles 

“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” 

Ronald Reagan

189.1 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day248.

Day612 Wednesday 05/02/12

ran 3.5 miles

Here is the unapologetic American terrorist, Bill Ayers, best known for blowing up government buildings in the 1970s, best known for saying "I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end Capitalism", best known for being married to Bernadine Dohrn (his terrorist accomplice), best known for escaping imprisonment due to a technicality on the part of the FBI when gathering evidence against his crimes, and best known for launching Barack Obama's political career from the inside of his own home.

Here is a small sample of his wisdom:  

And in case you may have forgotten or had never seen this video of an FBI agent who infiltrated Bill Ayers' and Bernadine Dohrn's terrorist group in the 1970s, check out what he had to say of what actions he observed and the words he witnessed:  

All of this galavanting around our president is doing, ignoring the lack of accomplishments he has to tout, is a distraction of the past three years and a distortion of what his actual intentions are for the next four. Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, media that refuses to examine this president's past, sealed records and college transcripts, food stamp explosions, immensely unsuccessful investments in alternative energy, no to Keystone, his legacy piece of legislation (his health care act), which is currently awaiting a ruling on whether it is even constitutional or not while hundreds of millions of tax dollars have been pumped into propping the health care machine upright before it has even been deemed legal. This president has nothing in his first term worth bragging about that did not send our national debt exponentially skyrocketing through the roof. If he or his Democratic counterparts would have signed at least one single budget in his first term then perhaps we could have given him some credit for at least appearing to be fiscally responsible or looking as though he had a plan. But they did not. 

192.3 miles to go. 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day247.

Day611 Tuesday 05/01/12

ran 3.6 miles

Our president, or Campaigner in Chief, has reached some remarkable record-setting milestones on the campaign trail over the last few years. In a book by Brendan J. Doherty, "The Rise of the President's Permanent Campaign", set to be published this July, Doherty points out how determined Barack Obama is to be reelected, which consequently takes away from his appointed duties of actually serving as POTUS.  This president is exponentially more preoccupied and distracted with running for a second term than any other president in history.

From a DailyMail article written by Toby Harnden:

"Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined. Obama had held 104 fundraisers by March 6th this year, compared to 94 held by Presidents Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined. Since then, Obama has held another 20 fundraisers, bringing his total to 124. Carter held four re-election fundraisers in the 1980 campaign, Reagan zero in 1984, Bush Snr 19 in 1992, Clinton 14 in 1996 and Bush Jnr 57 in 2004."

Presidents do not behave in this desperate sort of way when they have a successful record and results to back themselves up with. Ronald Reagan did not hold one single fundraiser when he ran for reelection in 1984. His results and his success made it unnecessary to waste his time with such sideshows. It might be accurate to say that Barack Obama's indulgence in fundraising events, more than every other president since Nixon, combined, is directly proportionate to his being the worst president since Nixon.  Reagan was highly successful and did not hold one single fundraiser (he also happened to win 49 out of 50 states) in 1984. Obama has a country completely divided, a terrible record, and the only glimmer of hope he has is to distract, blame, and distort as much as the money he raises will allow him to do.

195.8 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day246.

Day610 Monday 04/30/12

20 Months Of Running Against Obama!!! 

ran 3.9 miles

Our president is on the campaign trail "spiking the football" once again for reaching Osama Bin Laden's end zone around this time last year.  He is claiming that Mitt Romney would not have "pulled the trigger" on Osama.  I really didn't feel like wasting the energy to examine what exactly it was that he had said or in what context he had put it in because the fact that this is the direction he is going with his campaign at this point reflects how desperate and incapable of utilizing his record is for reelection.  Of all the legislation that has passed and out of all the events that have transpired over his presidential term, which is getting closer and closer to four entire years, the best idea Barack Obama has at this point is to remind us all that Osama Bin Laden was killed during his presidency and to merely speculate that, hypothetically, Mitt Romney would not have given the order.  I don't see the objective but I do see the desperation.

Coincidentally, here is a list of nine more things Herman Cain itemized yesterday that Barack Obama did, which Mitt Romney would also not have done:

• Mitt Romney would never have thrown $862 billion down a rat hole, claiming it to be “economic stimulus” that would keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent. Then, three years later when unemployment was still struggling to get back down below 8 percent, he would never be so brazen as to claim such a move had actually been successful.

• Mitt Romney would never have signed Obamacare into law. I know some think otherwise because the plan he implemented as governor of Massachusetts had some similar elements. But Obamacare was sold to the public with blatantly dishonest numbers and hidden taxes, and rammed through Congress via a series of political giveaways that would embarrass the most shameless of con artists. Whatever your disagreements with the structure of Masscare, Romney would never have done any of that. And if an Obamacare repeal reaches Romney’s desk, he will sign it.

• Mitt Romney would never have exploded the deficit to more than $1 trillion a year, then allowed his Treasury secretary to tell the chairman of the House Budget Committee, regarding plans to fix the problem, “We don’t have a definitive solution, but we know we don’t like yours.”

• Mitt Romney would not be running around claiming that businesses need to pay more in taxes. He would not try to tell CEOs what to do with their cash reserves (although he could do so much more competently than Obama, since unlike the president he actually knows a lot about business), because he knows that is not the president’s job. He understands that businesses are the ones who create jobs, and the last thing we need when the economy is struggling to create jobs is to increase the tax burden on businesses.

• Mitt Romney would not attack people for being successful. He would not encourage the middle class to resent successful people, but instead would encourage them to learn from those who have been successful and to seek opportunities from them.

• Mitt Romney would never have promised the Russians he would give them what they want on missile defense as soon as he didn’t have to worry about those pesky voters anymore.

• Mitt Romney would never have stonewalled efforts to make crucial energy supplies available to Americans, as Obama has done on everything from the Keystone XL pipeline to the opening of domestic oil supplies in offshore locations and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

• Mitt Romney would never have let Congress get away with not passing a budget at all for three years, while running up the nation’s credit card at unprecedented levels through a series of continuing resolutions that escape the light of public scrutiny.

• Mitt Romney would never have blamed someone else for the continued impact of problems he was elected to fix – as Obama does endlessly.

199.4 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day245.

 

Day609 Sunday 04/29/12

ran 0.1 miles

Today ends week eighty-seven of running against Obama.  I ran 19.0 miles this week, averaging 2.71 miles per day.

Our president making jokes about eating dog while growing up in Indonesia and completely missing the most impressionable years of his life not in America.  This guy is doing everything but campaigning on his record and the results they have failed to produce.  Every maneuver he makes stinks of desperation and it is absolutely bewildering that half of this country backs him up.  There is a lot of "conspiracy theory" out there suggesting that our president does not have America's best interest at hand.  I would ask you to take inventory of the last four years and to see where this country is now and where it was four years ago.  Right now, America is divided right up the middle.  Barack Obama has this country at odds with itself and that is exactly what he wants.  

Let's put that number into perspective.  That means, regardless of what side of the fence you stand on, one out of every two people you know or cross in the street,  fundamentally disagrees with you.  They disapprove of the way you think and the way you function.  This is not healthy for a nation and our president injected this ailment into our collective vein.

203.3 miles to go.

Here is what happened one year ago on Day244.