Day736 Monday 09/03/12

ran 3.2 miles

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 227.2

Here is what happened one year ago on Day371.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day5.

Day735 Sunday 09/02/12

ran 2.0 miles

Today ends week 105 of running against Obama. I ran 24.5 miles this week, averaging 3.50 miles per day.

I think this is supposed to be a sand sculpture of Barack Obama in front of the Democratic National Convention. The sculpture was ominously rained on a few days ago, making the case stronger that perhaps this was a bad idea to begin with. What comes to mind when you look at it? Shovel-ready jobs? Head in the sand?

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 224.0

Here is what happened one year ago on Day370.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day4.

Day734 Saturday 09/01/12

ran 3.4 miles

2,300 MILES!!!

Stats and polls from Rasmussen Reports:

• Romney 47%, Obama 44

• Barack Obama’s presidential index rating shows that 25% of American voters strongly approve of his performance while 41% strongly disapprove, giving Obama a presidential index rating of -16.

• Overall, 48% of voters at least somewhat approve of Obama’s performance while 52% at least somewhat disapprove.

• Only 28% say U.S. heading in right direction.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 222.0

Here is what happened one year ago on Day369.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day3.

Day733 Friday 08/31/12

ran 3.6 miles

(Check out interactive painting here)

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 218.6 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day368.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day2.

Day732 Thursday 08/30/12

2 YEARS!!!

ran 3.7 miles

It was on August 30, 2010, that I ran my first mile against Barack Obama. Today marks two years of achieving something I never expected to be capable of doing. I've run 2,295 miles against this man, averaging 3.14 miles per day, and every single step has been a demonstration and a protest against what he and his administration have done to undermine what I believe to be the defining characteristics of America, as it was intended to be.

Here is a look back at Day1 and the first mile run against President Obama:

"I just made my first run in my hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana. As you read further you will begin to understand that this is the first of many important runs I will have coming my way until November 6, 2012. This day will be a Tuesday and more importantly it will be Election Day for the next president of the United States of America. It will either be Barack Obama or someone else. To get right to the point of what this blog is about I am determined to help someone else win by personally running against Barack Obama for the next two years. I am going to run every single day regardless of what state or city I am in or what street I am running on. Weather will not stop me and illness will not deter me in any way from accomplishing this goal that I have.

I am running against Barack Obama because I am not a politician. I am running against him because I have an average job and no money to campaign with. I am running against him because this is the only thing I can think of to do to try to strengthen the point that there are millions upon millions of other people in this country that feel the way I do and that our united voice is constantly ignored on extremely important issues that our government keeps locked away in a suggestion box our leaders and representatives refuse to open.

Running and blogging are the tools I am going to use for this campaign and my platform is to get Obama out. I will attend no caucuses and my pundits will be few. Mudslinging will be self-inflicted from the heels of my shoes. The only primary I will participate in will be running myself into exhaustion everyday for the next two years and blogging about it.

It is out of belief and admiration in this country and all of the brave history I have read about it since its conception that I feel drawn to do this. It is from two years of talking with family and friends, eavesdropping on others at coffee shops and malls, listening to their discontentment in American politics, and generally feeling that so many others simply must feel the way I do…that so many things just seem wrong. Yet, what can you do to really make a difference? It is a helpless and desolate feeling, especially at this point in time with so much at stake. That is why I am doing this. If only a handful of people ever trip over this blog then I will be happy. I am tired of saying the same things over and over, hearing other people complain about the same stuff over and over, and nothing being done. There is one simple fact that our government cares as little about as the masses of people in this country fail to consider. We have numbers. We have an astronomical amount of numbers compared to what any government can successfully deceive or manipulate. But, like ants in a kicked over anthill, we all seem to run outside and make a fuss only to scurry right back into our homes and forget. This trait is one of our weakest contemporary shortcomings. We have grown to accept that politics are politics and that things are what they are. That is not how this country was founded and it is certainly not why you are so happy to be a citizen of it. We are different here compared to the rest of the world and things are not what they are.

Each day from this day forward I am going to run whatever formidable amount of mileage I can endure, regardless of weather or illness, until I reach or break my goal of 2,080 miles. I chose that number because it is the distance from my home in Lafayette, Louisiana to Washington, DC and back. Just to give you an idea of my daily quota for running, it will be a rough average of 2.62 miles a day everyday for over two years. And everyday that I run I am going to post on this blog. My reward is good health and a creative outlet in exchange for the frustrating and senseless governing our government has shut its people up with over the past two years. And as time will tell, it is not only Obama, or either of the two parties as a whole, that consume the political arena of senselessness. The emergence of tea parties across the American landscape was a huge message not only to our current president but also to the American Government in general. And this was a long inevitable process over the last few decades in American history, seeing what the American peoples’ breaking point was. Barack Obama just happens to be the proverbial straw that could possibly break America’s back. His ideas and motives are so radically life-changing in America for me as I interpret his direction, that another term would give him the opportunity to do what he really wants to do, without the consequence of having to earn another term by being only mildly as extreme as he is now.

It is our constitutional right to weigh our government on a scale and to write that weight down. And it is our government’s obligation to eat more, trim some fat or to continue its diet based on that number.

I ran 1.3 miles today. It was hot, humid and awesome to get this blog started. The idea of doing this occurred to me in July of 2010. Just as I was about to start stomping the pavement some unexpected travel came up with my job. Then my wife, Lindsey, and I took a small vacation when I got back. After a brief postponement of getting this thing started, the idea was ready to be taken out of the back of my mind and polished up. I discussed it with my wife and she agreed that someone else would indeed be the better candidate and that I should do this. After all, in order for someone else to win he or she will have to contradict most of the ideals that Obama believes in, so for the short term that has to be the indisputable option, at least for now."

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 215.0

Here is what happened one year ago on Day367.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day1.

Day731 Wednesday 08/29/12

ran 3.3 miles

“Ladies and gentlemen, thank you. Some of you may know, the last time I spoke at a convention, it turned out I was in the wrong place. So, Tampa, my fellow Republicans, thank you for welcoming me where I belong.”

Former Representative Artur Davis (D-AL) gave a nomination speech for President Obama at the DNC back in 2008. He is now a Republican living in Virginia who changed parties based on the direction Barack Obama is leading our nation.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 211.3

Here is what happened one year ago on Day366.

Day730 Tuesday 08/28/12

ran 3.6 miles

Short post tonight. Preparing for this hurricane. I'm in Lafayette, LA, which is about 2 and 1/2 hours northwest of New Orleans. Not expecting it to be too bad but always best to prepare for the worst. I'm not expecting many trees to fall over but any other objects that lack roots will be in a different spot by tomorrow morning if not moved tonight.

This is a video that caught my eye from the Republican National Convention. Mia Love. She is the current mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, and she is running for a spot in the House of Representatives in 2012. She is also aiming to earn the title of first black GOP congresswoman. Here is what she had to say.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 208.0

Here is what happened one year ago on Day365.

Day729 Monday 08/27/12

ran 4.9 miles

Feds: "Too few Americans turn to government for assistance."---our government took a poll and concluded that only 15% of Americans were turning to the federal government for help in tough times. This is another example of our government calling us stupid. Look around. If our government can get away with making such a foolish statement then what do they truly think of our intelligence?  The number of people who receive federal aid in some form is more like one in every four people you know.

“Given that only 15 percent of you turn to government assistance in tough times, we want to make sure you know about benefits that could help you."

USA.gov

Our government created a website to inform its voters of how unbelievably easy it is to get unearned tax dollars and to suck on that teat for as long as possible. Thank you, federal government. I hope that bodes well for you on November 6. 

These were their findings:

The question posed was, "What helps you the most during tough times?"

• Savings: 44%

• Family: 21%

• Credit cards/loans: 20%

• Government assistance: 15%

It's laughable, yet this is a page with "gov" at the end of its web address. So, by all means, peruse this site and find yourself a way to feel like a victim. Pick it up off the wireless shelf and plug it into the spot left vacant by every dream and ambition you once had.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 204.4

Here is what happened one year ago on Day364.

 

Day728 Sunday 08/26/12

ran 2.3 miles

Today ends week 104 of running against Obama. I ran 24.3 miles this week, averaging 3.47 miles per day.

I tried going to a 2:10 showing of "2016: Obama's America" but was told that the show was sold out. I went back at 4:45 and the theater had to have been at full capacity...and this is the third day since the documentary hit theaters. This film has shattered box office records in the genre of documentaries and is competitive in the arena of mainstream Hollywood films. It ranked fourth overall in ticket sales on its opening night.

Barack Hussein Obama and his presidency have disturbed and motivated me enough to run over three miles per day for nearly two years against him. It doesn't take much googling or common sense to realize how much of a threat this president is to what America was intended to be, but this documentary lays everything on the table and consolidates it with such an overwhelming, gut-wrenching succession of reasons why he is a threat that...to be quite honest, it almost makes you want to cry. I don't know if you have children or ever really think about how much longer you have to spend on Earth in the United States of America, but Barack Obama is no savior and he is no leader. 

I could go on for hours, and I would like to, describing how ridiculous and deceitful this man's rise to power was but I will leave it at this: See the movie. If it's not in your city drive to a city it is in. I have run 2,279.5 miles against this guy over the last 728 days and I have spent a lot of time researching him and following his decisions and the disappointing outcomes he has derived---and this movie still managed to drop my jaw. 

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 199.5

Here is what happened one year ago on Day363.

Day727 Saturday 08/25/12

ran 0.2 miles

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 197.2

Here is what happened one year ago on Day362.

Day726 Friday 08/24/12

ran 4.1 miles

This is one of the most bizarre and backwards ads I've seen so far in this campaign. Its lunacy doesn't require much explanation, but I would like to point out how many other important issues there are concerning American women that the Obama campaign has little interest in addressing.

“If you’re a conservative woman, and you believe in small government, then Barack Obama is your candidate."

Really???

Here are a few other pressing issues, from an article by Meredith Jessup, women in America face, which have lost their importance to contraception and abortion:

• 17 million women are living in poverty today — up 800,000 since President Obama took office.

• 7.5 million women are living in “extreme” poverty.

• Women working in President Obama’s White House are paid 18% less than his male employees. 

• Women don’t want $4/gallon gasoline prices.

• Unemployment among women has gone up 15 percent since President Obama was inaugurated Women are gaining jobs at 1/4 the pace of men.

• Women want the nation’s economy to grow more than 1.5% annually.

• Women don’t want to pass on trillions of dollars in debt and deficits to their children.

• Women want to retire someday, hopefully before Social Security goes bankrupt.

• Women want stability in the housing market, not continuing record numbers of foreclosures and declining home values.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 197.0 

Here is what happened one year ago on Day361.

Day725 Thursday 08/23/12

ran 4.2 miles

Above is a 2012 electoral map predicted by Michael Berry and Ken Bickers. Who are they? They are Professors at the University of Colorado and they have a reason to be taken seriously. They have designed a state-to-state voter equation that has successfully predicted every presidential election since 1980.

Their latest electoral vote prediction:

Romney 320, Obama 218

(Here is how the model works)

This outcome seems perfectly logical to me but I am certainly not going to hold my breath. This is what I find interesting---Berry and Bickers have picked the past seven elections, a couple of which have been curve balls, and they have earned an elite degree of respect for the formula they use, but...Barack Hussein Obama and Chicago politics are a variable they have never had to define and spread across the board of fifty states. Barack Hussein Obama is an "X" factor and these two professors cannot possibly know what values to assign to him because America has not had a man like this in the Oval Office  since they began predicting presidential elections with Jimmy Carter in 1980. We have come full circle.

That being said, if we wake up on November 7 to a second Barack Hussein Obama term, a second term won by the skin of his teeth, it will be evident that he has found a loophole to 32 years of indisputable mathematical evidence that Michael Berry and Ken Bickers of the University of Colorado have used to successfully call elections. But, it would be no surprise.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 192.9

Here is what happened one year ago on Day360.

       

Day724 Wednesday 08/22/12

ran 4.3 miles

In case you didn't know, according to the IRS, 81,890,189 tax returns were filed in 2009 that reported taxable income. Let that number sink in. That means a lot of different things.

For starters, there are 314-something-million people in America. That means only one out of every four people you share this nation with even file income taxes. The other three pay nothing...and that was 2009.  It's obvious why Barack Obama has the unexplainable momentum he does---he has numbers on a side this nation did everything it could think of to prevent when its Constitution was written.

Second, the burden of our national debt has been expanded by our Oval Office Food Stamp King by $5,258,977,706,438.39.  What does that mean to you if you happen to pay taxes? You just inherited a $64,000.00 obligation for your nation. Add those fifteen digits to the fifteen digits of debt that Barack Obama swore his presidential oath on and we are at $15,885,854,755,351.47.  Now, if you happen to earn enough to pay taxes, your national debt burden is $193,000.

Lastly, here is a fresh perspective to interpret your tax dollars at work. If you work and pay taxes the way one in nearly four of us seem to do at a tax rate of, let's say, 20%, among the whole spectrum of local, state, and federal taxes, you are basically working for free from January 1 to March 15 of every single year. 

That stings...not because I have a problem with paying into the collective but because so many others do have a problem with it...and, they feel entitled to the collective they do so little to earn a piece of. This is not America.

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 188.7

Here is what happened one year ago on Day359.

Day723 Tuesday 08/21/12

ran 5.0 miles

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 184.4

Here is what happened one year ago on Day358.