And Clinton had the opportunity to take out Bin Laden and chose not to.

Romney has already demonstrated at the Olympics his severe myopia regarding people he cannot control. I am sure our announced enemies are salivating at the thought of having this fool in power.

Remember when Ted Kennedy killed Mary Jo Kopkney and covered it up? I just thought since we were bringing up old business.

The attacks on the WTC by Osama bin-Laden and alQaeda was an atrocious tragedy, but the attack on America by Bush/Cheney in its aftermath was far more disastrous than anything bin-Laden and alQaeda could have contrived. Bush/Cheney were two of the worse home-grown, domestic terrorists America ever manufactured. They together nearly brought America to the depths of a severe economic depression, and ten years later, America and Americans are still suffering from that destruction. They try to blame President Obama for not being quick enough in four years for not bringing America out of the mess that Republicans has gotten us into since the Nixon era, but Romney himself has stated that it will take him atleast eight years to do what President Obama has done in three and a half years. Yet, if Romney gets into the White House with the company he’s carrying, they will continue what Bush/Cheney started. As strong and resilient as America is, she will not be able to sustain another hit like the one delivered by Bush/Cheney. America will sink.

Why would he act? He was a co-conspirator

That excuse about having talked about the U.S. military at the VFW meeting is nonsense. When candidates do multiple speeches on the same day, they re-use their speeches, changing only the, “It’s great to be here in Peoria!” line. Could it be that he just FORGOT to mention the people he’d send into Iran if he were to become President–God forbid? If I were the Democrats, I’d play up this omission big time. The American people love their military, and the American people need to be reminded that Romney forgot to thank the military for their sacrifices. Obama did way better. He not only thanked the military but he also said that they need to be taken care of when they return. . . . Is Romney planning to cut the budget for the VA? I wouldn’t be surprised.

Yes, Bob, but think about it. What the heck would he say? It was “awesome to be president and be powerful”? What a statement that would be, but Romney and his crew of adorers are basically sucking at the teat of their own worshippers.

What is disgusting about Romney is his total obliviousness to reality. He lives in a bubble that is occasionally given more O2 from Ms Ann who is as dumb as a rock. Excuse me, I know she has MS but guess what? She has no compassion for anyone but the wooden man who keeps her well esconced in her life style. Obviously he doesn’t even pretend to care what her interests are….even said he wouldn’t bother to see Rafalca compete. Wow! Is she stupid or what? So I guess we shouldn’t be surprised when a hurricane victim tells Mitt she just lost EVERYTHING, and he advises her to GO HOME and call 211! Hey, not my type of President.

The 9-11 attacks could have been prevented. No amount of “apologist” rhetoric coming from those who feel the Bush administration did no wrong on the economy 2000-2008, starting two unfunded wars, the mindless Katrina response, ignoring Wall Street abuses, farming out hundrds of billions to Cheny related companies, and a host of other malfeasances, can change the truth.

The Bush administration failed the American people at all levels for 8 years. And the American people are paying the price. And the Obama administration inherited the mess.

According to author Kurt Eichenwald, writer of “500 days: Secrets and Lies in the terror Wars” he recently wrote:

“In the aftermath of 9/11, Bush officials attempted to deflect criticism that they had ignored C.I.A. warnings by saying they had not been told when and where the attack would occur. That is true, as far as it goes, but it misses the point. Throughout that summer, there were events that might have exposed the plans, had the government been on high alert. Indeed, even as the Aug. 6 brief was being prepared, Mohamed al-Kahtani, a Saudi believed to have been assigned a role in the 9/11 attacks, was stopped at an airport in Orlando, Fla., by a suspicious customs agent and sent back overseas on Aug. 4. Two weeks later, another co-conspirator, Zacarias Moussaoui, was arrested on immigration charges in Minnesota after arousing suspicions at a flight school. But the dots were not connected, and Washington did not react.”

The Bush national security team, Condoleza Rice et al, never reacted with the urgency required. They simply ignored the evidence, and now we celebrate 911 because of it.

Pathetic that it took over 3000 lives and the destruction of the Bill of Rights via The Patriot Act to make us realize this.

Now—what are we going to do with the “surveillance state” that has been set up in the aftermath of 911? Anyone see the Will Smith/GeneHackman movie “Enemy of the State?”

IT’s happening now….our government thinks we are all “enemies of the state” until proven otherwise.

Bring on the drone flights. And don’t forget—-when you look up—smile for the cameras!

Why does that surprise anyone? We know that the Tea Party, G. Bush and his minions, walk the world with blinders on. They believe what they choose to believe, period. They would follow those beliefs over a cliff without thinking about it and if they happen to survive would swear they did the right thing and that their survival proves it. Romney is like that only double because he is a rich kid who feels he is entitled and has watched his counter parts (Bush, Cheney, Rice etc) succeed at getting what they wanted. So he uses the people who help them achieve their goals. These people swear they love this Country, but the truth is they love themselves and the money they have hidden overseas more. What is it to them if New Orleans is flooded and people are trapped in a big arena with nothing to eat; what do they care if one of their homes is destroyed; they have others to live in. You have to ask yourself, do they really care if the US goes broke, how badly could it hurt them when their money is in other Countries. The Republican Party use to be one to respect, but that Party no longer exists. Today’s Republican Party is one of charlatans, the uninformed and people dazed by religious beliefs. Their Candidates reflect that.

DISTRACTIONS….. DISTRACTIONS…. DISTRACTIONS……

Even on this day, we cannot be distracted away from the real issue at hand: Obozo the failure in chief.

When It Comes to the Jobless Numbers, President Obama Isn’t Talking Straight

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 9, 2012 on Forbes dot com.

“This morning we learned that our businesses created 172,000 new jobs in the month of July,” President Obama bragged regarding last Friday’s jobs report. “That means we’ve now created 4.5 million over the last 29 months and 1.1 million new jobs this year.”

You should have learned by now on your own that you can’t believe a word the man says. If it is not outright false, it is cast out of context to deliberately mislead. Obama’s statement is like a pediatrician who brags to you that under his care your 16 year old son has grown to 4 feet, 5 inches. At the same point during the Reagan recovery, the economy had created more than 9.5 million new jobs.

Moreover, in just one month during the Reagan economic recovery boom, September, 1983, the economy created 1.1 million new jobs. That’s a real recovery.

But Obama’s statement is even more misleading. Because during his entire Administration, the economy has created less than zero jobs. Investors Business Daily replied on August 4 to Obama’s statement, “But ‘we’ haven’t created any jobs. As a matter of fact, since Obama has entered office, some 1.1 million payroll jobs have disappeared.” Former Bush Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors Edward Lazear added in the Wall Street Journal on July 30, “there hasn’t been one day during the entire Obama Presidency when as many Americans were working as on the day President Bush left office.”

Moreover, “since Obama stepped into office, 7.5 million people have left the workforce,” IBD added. Almost all of those folks are still out there without a job.

Obama also neglected to add that the Labor Department’s household survey, which determines the unemployment rate, found that the number of jobs plummeted last month by 195,000. That is why the U3 unemployment rate rose again, to 8.3%. It was the establishment survey of businesses that claimed the economy created 163,000, not 172,000, net new jobs last month. But that number is heavily influenced by seasonal adjustments that can be outdated, and by estimates not counts of jobs created by new businesses. It is inconsistent with the fact the Labor Dept. also reported on Friday that 150,000 left the workforce last month.

That makes a postwar record 42 months of unemployment over 8%, the longest period of unemployment that high since the Great Depression. While Obama promised us when he wanted to pass his nearly $1 trillion wasteful government spending stimulus that unemployment would never climb above 8% if we did, it has never fallen below 8% during his entire, mistaken Presidency.

Moreover, the U3 unemployment rate doesn’t count the millions who have fled the work force under the oppression of Obamanomics. If labor force participation had just remained the same as when Obama entered office, unemployment would be still stuck for months now at 11%, which would be a postwar record, the highest since the Great Depression.

U.S. News and World Report Chairman Mort Zuckerman elaborated in the Wall Street Journal on July 24, that if you add “the number of discouraged workers who have dropped out of the labor market since the recession began in early 2008 – approximately eight million – the [unemployment] rate would be an alarming 12%. Fifty percent of the jobs created since the recession hit have been part time, with no benefits and a wage that’s inadequate to enter the middle class.” Discouraged workers who have left the work force, and those working part time only because they can’t find a full time job, are counted in the Labor Dept.’s U6 unemployment rate, which rose last month to a depression level 15%. If you count the long term discouraged workers that the government stopped counting in 1994, the Shadow Government Statistics website reports that unemployment would be at the deep depression level of 22.9%.

The recession was scored by the National Bureau of Economic Research as ending in June, 2009, more than three years ago, because that is when GDP stopped declining and started growing again. That still made it the longest recession since the Great Depression at 18 months. As Jeffrey Anderson observed in IBD on August 6, “it’s not convincing for Obama to suggest – as he routinely does – that he should be evaluated on the basis of whether the recovery has been better than the recession. Recoveries, by definition, are better than recessions.”

Anderson rightly recognized that the comparable standard of measurement for Obama’s performance in office is: “How does the Obama recovery compare to other recoveries from similar downturns across the decades?”

Anderson noted that over the past 65 years, since World War II, America has experienced 10 previous recessions and 10 previous recoveries. He reports that average real GDP growth in the first three years after those recessions was 4.6%. In sharp contrast,

“During the Obama recovery…, average real GDP growth has been just 2.2% — less than half the historical norm. Of the past 11 recoveries, the Obama recovery has been the worst. The 10 stronger recoveries involved Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush — in other words, every other postwar President.”
Clearly, President Obama has been doing something wrong.

President Obama says out on the campaign trail, “We knew when I started in this job that this was going to take some time. We haven’t had to come back from an economic crisis this deep or this painful since the 1930s.” But Obama and his apologists cannot say that the recovery is so bad because the recession was so bad, because “the historical record shows that the pattern is generally as follows: the worse the recession, the stronger the recovery,” as Anderson proves. If we examine the 5 longest and worst recessions over the past 65 years, each lasting at least 11 months, “During the four pre-Obama recoveries from such recessions, average real GDP growth in the first three years was a whopping 5.9% — dwarfing the 2.2% figure under Obama.”

Anderson calculates what this Obama subpar performance has cost the American people. The difference between 5.9% and 2.2% real growth, a 3.7% per year shortfall, “equals about $555 billion per year, or $1.6 trillion over three years. If you divide that equally among the roughly 300 million Americans, it works out to a shortfall of more than $5,000 per person – or more than $20,000 for a family of four.”

Moreover, as Anderson reports, if the Obama recovery had rebounded as fast as the recoveries from the others of the worst 5 recessions since World War II, America would be enjoying 10 million more jobs now, with 10 million more workers contributing to the economy and paying taxes, rather than drawing taxpayer funded benefits.

And it is not getting any better, as Anderson also explains: “Over the first two years of the Obama recovery, average real GDP growth was 2.2%. During the third year, it remained at 2.2%. So far in 2012, it has been 1.8% annualized. In the most recent quarter, it was 1.5% annualized.”

Art Laffer explained in the Wall Street Journal on Monday why Obama’s recovery has been so awful – he relied on old-fashioned Keynesian “stimulus,” rather than the pro-growth incentives of the more modern supply side economics. Laffer explains,

“[S]timulus spending doesn’t really make much sense. In essence, it’s when government takes additional resources beyond what it would otherwise take from one group of people (usually the people who produced the resources) and then gives those resources to another group of people (often to non-workers and non-producers). Often as not, the qualification for receiving stimulus funds is the absence of work or income – such as banks and companies that fail, solar energy companies that can’t make it on their own, unemployment benefits and the like. Quite simply, government taxing people more who work and then giving more money to people who don’t work is a surefire recipe for less work, less output and more unemployment.” (emphasis added).
Laffer then explained the fundamental fallacy of Keynesian economics:

“Without ever thinking where the money comes from, politicians and many economists believe additional government spending adds to aggregate demand. You’d think that single-entry accounting were the God’s truth and that, for the government at least, every check written has no offsetting debit. [But] for every additional government dollar spent there is an additional private dollar taken. All the stimulus to the spending recipients is matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis every minute of every day by a depressant placed on the people who pay for these transfers. Or as a student of the dismal science might say, the total income effects of additional government spending always sum to zero.”
But Laffer added that Keynesian stimulus spending is actually a net drag on the economy because the incentive effects of that spending encourage the recipients of the taxpayer largesse to reduce work and other productive activities, while the incentive effects of the increased taxes on producers to finance those benefits encourage them as well to reduce work and other productive activities. Hence the woefully below average Obama recovery. Yet, Obama is campaigning for hundreds of billions in additional, Keynesian, stimulus spending, which will only drive the economy down further, and further increase unemployment.

Laffer might have added that the central concern of Keynesian economics that inadequate demand can cause economic downturns is also wholly fallacious. In a market economy, if demand for a product or service is inadequate, then its price will fall until demand equals supply. So in a market economy, demand can never be inadequate.

Laffer proved out his analysis in the Journal commentary with a table of data showing that in the 34 Organization for Economic Development countries, greater Keynesian stimulus spending was followed by lower growth rates. Laffer concluded that Keynesian “Stimulus advocates have a lot of explaining to do. Their massive spending programs have hurt the economy and left us with huge bills to pay.”

But under Obama, the worst is yet to come. Under current law enacted under Obama, on January 1 the top tax rates of virtually every major federal tax are scheduled to soar, except for the federal corporate income tax, which under Obama is already the highest in the industrialized world. With Obama’s regulatory costs building to a crescendo then, government spending, deficits and debt already accelerating, and the Fed flooding the market with cheapened currency, the result will be one big, bad, whopping recession next year. Unemployment would then soar back into double digits, the deficit would rocket to over $2 trillion for the first time in world history, real wages and family incomes would fall further, and poverty would explode. If Obama is reelected, the American people would have achieved these results the old-fashioned way: they will have earned them.

Too many Americans are not getting what is happening with the economy and the election because they are relying too much on the so-called mainstream media. They don’t understand that ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, etc., are not reporting on the election. They are participating in it.

Have a nice day!

“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.” – Thomas Jefferson

oh brother….not these right wing clowns again….

TO: MUSTOGOOBOZOMUSTGO…and QUASM

You are clearly one of those “apologist” with a hidden agenda. Quasm is sent here to distract us. Neither of you have any sense of FACTUAL history for past 60 years. So–that means you have no ability to remember clear facts. You guise your political “agenda” with untruths, lies, distortions et al trying to be “factual.” You guys sound like Paul Ryan the liar. Can’t get his marathon results right either…same with Teaparty.

To both of you—What are your real names? With whom are you both affliated with? Karl Rove? Koch brothers? Paid by Romney campaign to visit websites with various users names afraid to use your own?

Once again, contrary to the poison posted, the 9-11 attacks could have been prevented. No amount of “apologist” rhetoric coming from those like MUSTOGOOBOZOMUSTGO…and QUASM who feel the Bush administration did no wrong on the economy 2000-2008, starting two unfunded wars, the mindless Katrina response, ignoring Wall Street abuses, farming out hundrds of billions to Cheny related companies, and a host of other malfeasances, can change the truth.

The Bush administration failed the American people at all levels for 8 years. And the American people are paying the price. And the Obama administration inherited the mess.

According to author Kurt Eichenwald, writer of “500 days: Secrets and Lies in the terror Wars” he recently wrote:

“In the aftermath of 9/11, Bush officials attempted to deflect criticism that they had ignored C.I.A. warnings by saying they had not been told when and where the attack would occur. That is true, as far as it goes, but it misses the point. Throughout that summer, there were events that might have exposed the plans, had the government been on high alert. Indeed, even as the Aug. 6 brief was being prepared, Mohamed al-Kahtani, a Saudi believed to have been assigned a role in the 9/11 attacks, was stopped at an airport in Orlando, Fla., by a suspicious customs agent and sent back overseas on Aug. 4. Two weeks later, another co-conspirator, Zacarias Moussaoui, was arrested on immigration charges in Minnesota after arousing suspicions at a flight school. But the dots were not connected, and Washington did not react.”

The Bush national security team, Condoleza Rice et al, never reacted with the urgency required. They simply ignored the evidence, and now we celebrate 911 because of it.

Pathetic that it took over 3000 lives and the destruction of the Bill of Rights via The Patriot Act to make us realize this.

Now—what are we going to do with the “surveillance state” that has been set up in the aftermath of 911? Anyone see the Will Smith/GeneHackman movie “Enemy of the State?”

IT’s happening now….our government thinks we are all “enemies of the state” until proven otherwise.

Bring on the drone flights. And don’t forget—-when you look up—smile for the cameras!

MUSTOGOOBOZOMUSTGO…and QUASM — simply disclose who you guys really are. Quit hiding.

Like it fu*king matters dumb*ss

Why do you think Bush is so quietly “enjoying” his retirement – or hiding out of public view. Wouldn’t you, if you were responsible for 9/11, considering he was forwarned and even told the attackers were already in the country and bringing down passenger jets was already an unvovered al-Qaeda plot. The Romni/Ryan stooges would be a god send to Al-Qaeda.

I recall that day like it was yesterday. I was in northern Nevada drinking coffee and watching CNN. What I saw before me looked like a staged action and not reality. It still did not register until I was on my way to the field to count leks when I was called back to the federal office due to an attack on the US.

I recall the report by the 9/11 Commission that Bush II, Cheney and Rice all ignored the warnings put forth by our Intelligence Agencies on several occasions. After the fact Bush claimed that Saddam had WMD’s and we needed to declare war on Iraq without giving thought to why his father had not marched on during Desert Storm and take out Saddam Hussein.

Bush II and Cheney then used the fear tactic on the American public during their second election campaign to scare the voters into voting to them. To this day I am appalled and will never support a GOP candidate no matter how bad our DNC candidate may be. Being lied to and then to find out that administration ignored and proved to be negligent in stopping an attack on our soil not to mention the thousands of people who died on their watch on OUR soil. Are we still fool enough to vote for a draft dodging Mormon not to mention other unsavory deeds committed by this loser?

I noticed that the coward GW didn’t look one bit surprised when he was informed of the attack.

Should read – at no time did the name of Osama Bin Laden get mentioned and how true the extent that all intelligence agencies had been gutted was not conveyed either.

futher s/b further lies

who….kept us safe…BUSH !…..please ?…..that man couldnt find his head out of his ass if he tried hard enough….nothing more to say there…

Everyone in America is far less safe on every level because of Bush, his policies and administration. Bush is a text book case of how destructive cognitive dissonance and the comfirmation bias that justifies it can be. His faith was just another way of saying he was pretending to know what he didn’t know and we are living with the results. Any leader that claims they have been annointed by God to lead should be dismissed out of hand. Their pretending will only lead to similar disasters like the Bush and his administration.

Is Bush running again? I thought you could only hold two terms. I thought Mitt Romney was running. I am not infromed like manyt blacks that support Obama…who when asked what they thought about Obama’s VP choice Sarah Palin and responded; “I think she will be good for the people”. You can’t make this sh*t up!

Just google United nations Small Arms Treaty and you will see Hillary Clinton’s brand on it. In fact the Obama administration proposed it so I suppose he must have known something about it…if not….WTF is he doing up there? Also, Eric Holder’s blunder; “Fast & Furious” was an attemt to persuade Americans that the Mexican drug cartels couldn’t operate without guns coming from the U.S. Really, a multi-billion dollar operation and if more guns were taken from law abbiding U.S. citizens, then the drug wars would stop and no one would be killed anymore. Does anybody seriously believe that would stop these cartel killers? Check out the “United Nations Programme Against Small Arms as well Hillary has her “stamp” on this as well with the blessing of Mr. Obama.

What happened to our air defense system? Any airplane that strayed from its destination was intercepted by fighter jets. Remember the movie star’s private plane that the fighter jets were following until it ran out of gas and crashed. Part of the missile defense system to defend this country, someone knows the answer.

Te liberals helped make the attacks happen. They want this country destroyed.

Seems to me that the NYT and other liberal “news” sources are coming up so empty to have anything of substance to say ab0ut Obama, that they realize the best chance they have on national security issues is to go back in time 11 years to Bush bash. 11 years ago — different people. Romney is not Bush any more than Obama is Carter. How about we talk about the actual folks we have to decide between for leadership rather than people of the past and figments of our imagination?

Besides, who was warned in the past week about an impending attack on 9/11 on US embassies and chose to disarm Marines? Hmmm…. And that wasn’t 11 years ago. It wasn’t even 11 days ago. Who after 11 years of war didn’t even think to issue an alert on the anniversary 0f 9/11 to exposed State Department staff that they might want to watch over their shoulders on that day?

You want to talk about incompetence, then do so, in a context of time that truly matters to today.

Whatever the americans have paid in terms of dollars, anti-americanism, lives etc. , there should be no room for the war mongers in the coming election.

bush is involved an aeroplane cant make a building collapse in itself like that that was a bomb if you go on youtube and search house demolition you get the answer! if it really was a plane the top bit would have came off! Plus the plane was coming from america how did they know the “terrorists” were from iran/iraq? and wow there was petrol too. I mean seriously man im not fool!

You know have you ever thought about when you are deciding to vote for someone and it seems that they have all the answers. and every thing sounds good and we get all excited. about what they say they can do. There is one important factor that I wondered about for years, you hollering and screaming for votes. Give me at least one example of how can you get us out Dept, Lowering the unemployment rate. More money for schools lower tuition
control crime in hour neighborhoods. Let that thought marinate for awhile . I know it’s gonna take more than four years to clean this mess up. That they are blaming President Obama for. He might have made couple mistakes but he is on the right track. And Michele Obama is such a graceful lovely woman I thank her for love and knowledge.

On the other hand, Bush was surprised with the biggest inside attack you could think of. It was so sudden and surprised us all. He went after them alright, and it was a good thing. Yes, it cost USA a whole lot of money and heartache, but imagine if he did not go after them? he just could not sit and wait for the next attack. He did well and we must not forget the facts. I am not even supporting him, but i feel the truth must be said.

The neo-cons Project New American Century required a catastrophic unifying event such as “a second pearl Harbour” for them to implement their programme, so why would they act to prevent it from happening?

Little wonder George W Bush, then president who swore under oath to protect America, refused to give evidence under oath, and only appeared provided no notes were taken and Dick Cheney was there to hold his hand.

the republican party was so politcally predatory during the Clinton years they could focus on nothing else but the democratic scourge in the White House. Clinton was seen as public enemy #1 hence the silly impeachment exercise and total distraction from our true threat to our national security. Bush’s reaction in the classroom to the attack on 9/11 showed just how bad it really was. he was caught with his pants down and his pecker was caught in the zipper. the taking of innocent lives can never be truly justified as an act of war. On that day God became a victim.