if there are anyone out there that dont know that mitt lies every time he opens his mouth, proves that they dont keep up with the news.

It appears that somewhere in the GOP Manifesto, encripted in small print, there is a requirement that to be a member of the club, you must vow to never, ever tell the honest truth. Mitt Romney seems to have fully and completely embraced this doctrine!

Romney is now asserting that Solyandra’s failure is the failure of the Obama Administration, while the HONEST TRUTH is that CHINA has so seriously subsidized their producers of SOLAR PANELS that not a single producer of solar panels has been able to remain financialy viable throughout the world!

If the GOP is so evangelical and religous why can they not tell the truth?????????????????

It speaks volumes about the character of a man when telling the truth is an accident! Perhaps he has told so many lies, he forgot what is true, and what is a lie, and just said something to hear himself speak.

Does this admission, by Romney of the truth (which the facts will back up) about what the opponents of President Obama have been lying about in trying to convince the voters that everything Obama has done since in the Office has been wrong, change the opponents’ objectives of causing President Obama’s failure? How can they “overcome” the admission to all of the lying and misinformation “tactics” they have been “throwing out” to divide the voters?

“There are not any perfect solutions for “fixing” all of the unfinished crisis issues/conditions that this Republic was in before President Obama was elected in November 2008, but there are people who wanted President Obama to “fix” all the crisis issues on his first day in office as if fixing the conditions would be easy. Now we hear from the opponents of Obama that YES, the “Country was in a mess but President Obama made it worse.” There is not anyone person who can “fix” the “wrongs” confronting this Republic and when there is the opposition being directed against the Obama administration from accomplishing any recovery of the 2007 deep depression, it makes the recovery nearly impossible. What were the voters thinking of when they created a “stalemate” condition in the US House in 2010 Election by putting the Republican (Tea Party) candidates in the Majority? Were the voters aware of how close this Republic was to falling into another great depression? They should have known and voted for everybody working together, but they voted to prevent the recovery and dividing the people, making it impossible or at the least prolonging the stabilizing and the recovery from the 2007 deep recession.

The fascists are everywhere….as Henry Wallace … FDR’s VP pointed out in the NY Times in 1944….

An article in the New York Times, April 9, 1944.
From Henry A. Wallace, Democracy Reborn (New York, 1944), edited by Russell Lord, p. 259.

On returning from my trip to the West in February, I received a request from The New York Times to write a piece answering the following questions:

What is a fascist?
How many fascists have we?
How dangerous are they?

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. The supreme god of a fascist, to which his ends are directed, may be money or power; may be a race or a class; may be a military, clique or an economic group; or may be a culture, religion, or a political party.

The perfect type of fascist throughout recent centuries has been the Prussian Junker, who developed such hatred for other races and such allegiance to a military clique as to make him willing at all times to engage in any degree of deceit and violence necessary to place his culture and race astride the world. In every big nation of the world are at least a few people who have the fascist temperament. Every Jew-baiter, every Catholic hater, is a fascist at heart. The hoodlums who have been desecrating churches, cathedrals and synagogues in some of our larger cities are ripe material for fascist leadership.

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.

The really dangerous American fascists are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those who stand for the K.K.K. type of demagoguery.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America. The effect of the war has been to raise the cost of living in most Latin American countries much faster than the wages of labor.

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

Following this war, technology will have reached such a point that it will be possible for Germans, using South America as a base, to cause us much more difficulty in World War III than they did in World War II.

The military and landowning cliques in many South American countries will find it attractive financially to work with German fascist concerns as well as expedient from the standpoint of temporary power politics.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion.

American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after “the present unpleasantness” ceases.

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances.

But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so; they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

Likewise, many people whose patriotism is their proudest boast play Hitler’s game by retailing distrust of our Allies and by giving currency to snide suspicions without foundation in fact.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism.

They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.

They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

Several leaders of industry in this country who have gained a new vision of the meaning of opportunity through co-operation with government have warned the public openly that there are some selfish groups in industry who are willing to jeopardize the structure of American liberty to gain some temporary advantage.

We all know the part that the cartels played in bringing Hitler to power, and the rule the giant German trusts have played in Nazi conquests.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate.

The choice is up to us. The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. It was Mussolini’s vaunted claim that he “made the trains run on time.”

In the end, however, he brought to the Italian people impoverishment and defeat.

It was Hitler’s claim that he eliminated all unemployment in Germany. Neither is there unemployment in a prison camp.

Democracy to crush fascism internally must demonstrate its capacity to “make the trains run on time.” It must develop the ability to keep people fully employed and at the same time balance the budget.

It must put human beings first and dollars second. It must appeal to reason and decency and not to violence and deceit.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

As long as scientific research and inventive ingenuity outran our ability to devise social mechanisms to raise the living standards of the people, we may expect the liberal potential of the United States to increase.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase.

The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

The worldwide, age long struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
Democracy can win the peace only if it does two things:

-Speeds up the rate of political and economic inventions so that both production and, especially, distribution can match in their power and practical effect on the daily life of the common man the immense and growing volume of scientific research, mechanical invention and management technique.

-Vivifies with the greatest intensity the spiritual processes, which are both the foundation and the very essence of democracy.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

Fascism in the postwar inevitably will push steadily for Anglo-Saxon imperialism and eventually for war with Russia. Already American fascists are talking and writing about this conflict and using it as an excuse for their internal hatreds and intolerances toward certain races, creeds and classes.
It should also be evident that exhibitions of the native brand of fascism are not confined to any single section, class or religion.

Happily, it can be said that as yet fascism has not captured a predominant place in the outlook of any American section, class or religion.

It may be encountered in Wall Street, Main Street or Tobacco Road. Some even suspect that they can detect incipient traces of it along the Potomac.

It is an infectious disease, and we must all be on our guard against intolerance, bigotry and the pretension of invidious distinction.

But if we put our trust in the common sense of common men and “with malice toward none and charity for all” go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

Willard is just the latest to manifest in our land.

What is very sad the Republicans are planning to stall the economy because the Bush tax cuts for the rich is about to expire. As you can really see they do not care about the people in this country anymore it is just either your rich or poor. What is really sad is that you are giving billions of dollars to Pakistan and we need that money here to help stabilize the economy. When are we going put this new oil that has been found in Harper County,Kansas on the market so that it can ease these gas prices we are experiencing?

Colin N I totally agree with you; you have taken the idea right out of my mind. It is too bad that alot of our American collegues do’nt see this or just do not want to see this. Keep speaking the facts in your comments.

Sincerely,
mentcond@yahoo.com

How anyone can believe cutting the income of 99% of the tax payers while giving the very richest Americans big tax breaks will help the economy is beyond common sense. There is no way that 1% of the population can support this economy. If they could you would think that the economy would be booming. After all, in the last decade, the richest have grown richer while everyone else has gotten poorer. I say the slow recovery is in part due to the continued renewal the Bush tax cut for the rich and shrinking income for everyone else. Cutting the benefits that the 99% has earned by paying their payroll taxes will only make it worse, since that means less money left over for food, rent and many time no money for eating out, going to movies or just buying something for fun for a very large percentage of our population. The truth is Republicans push a reverse Robin Hood mentality (robbing from the poor to give to the rich), that is dangerous for our Country’s stability and unethical. The sad thing is, as the article states, they know it and do not care. The Republican Party is no long the Party of Lincoln – it is the Party for the very rich and those unthinking enough to believe what they say.

The conserves are saying let bussinessrun regulated free it seem that Jp Morgan and others bankers don’t have spiritual insight nor moral fortitude to run without regulations.Their actions will effect every American

This writing is very amateurish!…. not even worth reading…. glossing over was difficult enough! A story about our “Entertainer in Chief” might be more amusing!

sad and true that most republicans don’t care what is done as long as it is NOT done with a black President. that is ALL this is about. a black man in their whiteehouse. hope he’s there for four more years! Obama 2012.

So Mitt will say nothing that displeases the GOP! To do so is to forfeit the election!
Yep! That says it all! Either big money buys him in or he loses out!
LOOL!

“dumber than a box of Palins” the Greatest that I have heard to date!!!

No Romney 2010!!!!

Willard is looking forward to the hot summer months so he can wear his FLIP FLOPS.

uncertainty is gripping the market. banks. the world. the socialist europe is going over the cliff and if we keep spending we will follow. romney put in romnecare in mass. and it keeps going up….breaking the bank there. he did what obama wants to do. one of them should have learned from the other. lesson learned. break the bank and spend spend spend. you see how well it worked for bush. we independents will pick the new president. i dont care who it is as long as ”fiscal responsibility” is the theme. i wonder if romney ever smoked pot or used cocaine and chugged beer?