Following Sandy, we voters are reminded of Romney’s desire to do away with FEMA and Ryan’s budget slashing FEMA by 43%. While returning some of the Fed. Government’s projects is good in the abstract, when a diaster hits it would mean help would cease. Plus, over the past few days, Romney has looked craven and has been proven a knowing liar with his auto ads. The man is without a moral core. I pray the American people are smarter than to vote for this man. We do so at our own risk.

Mr. Romney may be held hostage by the extreme right and by those who spent so much money on his campaign if he is elected. I wonder whether he will be able to control those two groups. And, of course, the people of America will be the ones to suffer from that hostage situation.

If willard gets in, the John Birch Society will be running America.

ANTI-CHRIST ROMNEY, SHOW ME THE CAR FACT OR YOUR PLAN OR CAR FOX

Did you vote for Barack Obama in 2008? A lot of people did – obviously.

What a time. There’s still room for improvement, but what a testimony to just how far we as a nation have come in terms of racial harmony, tolerance and diversity.

Only decades earlier a man like Barack Obama – a black man – couldn’t even drink from the same water fountain as a white man, let alone become president of the United States. A hundred years prior to that, and he may well have been counted another man’s property.

On Nov. 4, 2008, millions gathered at the ballot box to prove, once and for all, that, in large measure, we as a nation have healed from our disgraceful, self-inflicted wounds of racial abuse, bias and division.

That we could elect an African-American to lead the free world is indeed a very good thing.

We just happened to elect the wrong African-American.

In life, we sometimes find that the idea of a thing is far better than the thing itself. As a boy, I once ordered, from a comic book, a pair of X-ray glasses that promised to allow me to see the bones beneath my hand (my motives were a bit more ignoble). The two weeks it took for the glasses to arrive seemed like an eternity.

Once they did arrive, I ripped into the package and put them on, darting my head to-and-fro. It’s difficult to express my level of disappointment. As I quickly discovered, the glasses merely formed a halo effect around objects, creating the illusion of transparency. I felt embarrassed. I got took.

Barack Obama’s presidency has been a halo effect. Like I did so many years ago, in 2008 America fell victim to false advertising. As the past four years have demonstrated beyond any serious debate, the idea of President Obama was far better than the reality of President Obama. We were promised the world. We were promised transparency; but we were sold an illusion. We got took.

Indeed, during the 2008 campaign, a then-Sen. Barack Obama promised us that, if elected, we would look back upon the moment he took office and “tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.”

That was the idea of President Obama. That was what many good, well-meaning people voted for. That was the hope offered and the change promised.

That was not what we got.

Though it’s certainly not a comprehensive analysis, during the second presidential debate, Mitt Romney, in response to Mr. Obama’s attempts to gloss over his mounting leadership failures, summarized a few of the big ones. While addressing an audience member who, perhaps like you, voted for Obama in 2008, Romney observed, in part, the following:

I think you know better. I think you know that these last four years haven’t been so good as the president just described and that you don’t feel like you’re confident that the next four years are going to be much better either. …

He said that, by now, we’d have unemployment at 5.4 percent. The difference between where it is and 5.4 percent is 9 million Americans without work. …

He said he would have, by now, put forward a plan to reform Medicare and Social Security, because he pointed out they’re on the road to bankruptcy. He would reform them. He’d get that done. He hasn’t even made a proposal on either one.

He said in his first year he’d put out an immigration plan that would deal with our immigration challenges. Didn’t even file it.

This is a president who has not been able to do what he said he’d do. He said that he’d cut in half the deficit. He hasn’t done that either. In fact, he doubled it.

He said that by now middle-income families would have a reduction in their health insurance premiums by $2,500 a year. It’s gone up by $2,500 a year. And if Obamacare is … implemented fully, it’ll be another $2,500. …

The middle class is getting crushed under the policies of a president who has not understood what it takes to get the economy working again. … [T]he number of people who are still looking for work is still 23 million Americans.

There are more people in poverty, one out of six people in poverty.

How about food stamps? When he took office, 32 million people were on food stamps. Today, 47 million people are on food stamps. How about the growth of the economy? It’s growing more slowly this year than last year – and more slowly last year than the year before. …

The president has tried, but his policies haven’t worked.

Recently, my wife and I attended an outdoor festival in central Virginia. Although the event was not political, there were people from both the Obama and Romney camps handing out campaign stickers and other items. I suspect that if a poll were taken, liberals out-numbered conservatives by about two-to-one.

That’s why I was so taken aback. Although we saw dozens of people wearing Romney stickers, we only saw one man wearing an Obama sticker.

We walked up to a fellow with a gray pony tail, John Lennon glasses and Birkenstocks. He was wearing a Romney sticker.

“Mind if I ask why you’re voting for Mitt Romney?” I asked. “I assume you are.”

His reply – and these were his words, not mine – was short and to the point: “Because I refuse to be that stupid twice.”

Changing one’s mind doesn’t always reveal a tendency toward indecision. Sometimes, changing one’s mind reveals a tendency toward wisdom.

Have a nice day!

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency…Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.” – Czech Republic newspaper Prager Zeitung

No one can win the Presidency who embraces an extreme agenda either to the right or left. Obama couldn’t in 2008 and neither can Romney in 2012. Thus, Romney’s tacking to the center should not have been unexpected — in fact it should have been anticipated. The greatest mistake Obama made was spending all his effort to portray Romney in the most negative light possible instead of spending more time portraying himself as OPTIMISTIC about his plan for America.

In 1984, Reagan was also in a similar spot to Obama. Huge record deficits, an economy that was still pulling out of a bad recession and a foreign policy that was questionable (guns for hostages in Iran, illegal funneling of arms to Iran and money to Contra rebels and support of a Guatemalan military dictatorship that employed death squads to kill its own people). Yet Reagan won 98% of the electoral college that year and 58% of the popular vote. How? He simply out shined Walter Mondale by being what he did best — an optimist. His most potent ad was one about “It is morning in America”. Google it and see. It paints a very optimistic view of America’s future.

We never saw anything very optimistic this campaign season. What we saw were very negative ads and reasons why we shouldn’t vote for the other guy. We heard little about how the stimulus bill helped, Obamacare will fix, changes in education have enhanced or the foreign policy efforts have improved things for the US. The positive aspects of what the Obama administration achieved and how it will improve things in the future was largely ignored when it should have been highlighted. The end result is Romney shifted to the Center and suddenly didn’t look so scary. Now those undecideds (who haven’t paid much attention to the political theater all year) think maybe Romney will do something different than Obama to improve the economy and the US. That error is what has made this election tight when Obama should be going away with an easy win next week.

I hope Obama with a successful election as I’m sure he will have, wipes that smirk off of Romney’s face

As a upper middle class white American, I just don’t understand anyone voting for a liar like Romney. The lies he tells are so blatant, this has got to be the most dishonest campaign I have ever seen in my lifetime. The hatred and racism coming from my old party the republican party has lost it mind and bearing. As an independent voter now the only honest choice in this election is the Obama administration. The nation can’t afford Romney and his agenda and bad policies. The bush people that advise Romney should scare every American in its self enough not to vote for him.

Mitt Romney is like Forest Gump ” Mitt is like a box Chocolate you never know what lie you are going to get

Optimism is a disease that will be cured by truth. One of the most pervasive cultural weaknesses of America is its optimism, which turns out to be a very fragile construct in changing time, as it creates DISSONANCE with truth, and, consequently, STRESS.
Waving the banner of one’s optimism at election time has, in conventional wisdom, always been deemed to be advantageous. The only problem with this is that conventional wisdom has not been working lately. AMERICA NEEDS A WINSTON CHURCHILL.

sure he will, he’ll just say, “I didn’t say that, you’re wrong” and the right media will say, “see, he never said that, it’s just more left lies” and it will be said over and over and over again with 20.1 millions dollars on air….

There are several things that I will never understand…one, how people can become so brainwashed and two, how they can behave like school children on a playground when throwing barbs at one another about each candidate. No one could expect a president to straighten out the mess that GW left in a couple of years, especially without the cooperation of Congress. It seems everyone ignores that fact. Also, when a candidate changes his stance on issues as frequently as a model changes clothes, how likely is he concrete on his ideals or is he simply saying what the voters want to hear in order to become elected and carry out the agenda of the Tea Party and the wealthy. If you are middle class, you had better think long and hard about these things, because if Mitt gets in office, you all will pay dearly. It will not be pretty.

Some of my wife’s ancestors went to “New Zion” in 1848 under the leadership od Elder Jones who was sent to escort the Saints from Mississippi to “New Zion”. This was the McKown/Lockhart families of her lineage plus many others. My wife’s GG Grandmother died in Wyoming Territory before crossing over into Utah and was buried on the Trail. Her husband, Francis McKown refused to follow the Elder opting instead to stay there with his wife’s grave until the following year. I guess he was dropped from membership for disobedience sine there is no record of his ever having been a member except for the notation as Brother McKown in the ledger of Elder Jones. However all of the Lockhart families are recorded. One of my wife’s ancestors , Haden Welles Church was baptized by Joseph smith and was one of the first Bishops. So – we are well acquainted with this Sect.
Bright side of the story – Francis McKown nad a son went on to California to seek for Gold. They were sucessful in their endeavor and took their gold on one of Vanderbilts ships down to Central America then across to the Atlantic and back to Mississippi very well-to-do and affluent Townsmen. Don’t know about those who lived in Utah.

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! Romney flip flops again-this time in less than 24 hrs. Last year in one of the primary debates, Romney strongly took the position that FEMA should be privatized and best be run by corporate interests. Yesterday, he was hounded by the media in Ohio if you still stands by that irresponsible assertion. Today, he finally came out and said as President, he would fully fund FEMA!!! Unbelievable! This man will say anything to anyone at anytime to get votes. I have studied politics for decades and this is the first presidential election, where I honestly have no idea what this filthy rich poor excuse of a candidate really believes in!!!! If the American people actually elect this guy, I will be totally dumbfounded!!!!

It literally does not matter what Mitt Romney says.. about anything.

His words–and I mean all of them–can be categorized thusly:

1) Whatever gets him a direct benefit

2) Whatever discredits his critics

3) Whatever helps him avoid facing the consequences of his actions

4) Whatever lets him take credit for others’ work.

America went on the auction block when the Supreme Court ruled anyone can donate asmuch as they want to political campaigns. We will end up with more “Bought and Paid” for politicians in Washington than any other time in history.

Look for elected oficials to have “Second” offices in Washington with their primary offices in the homes of the most wealthy; on Wall Street, in the Las Vegas casino and the guest homes of those who bought the persons way into Washington!

Lets hope there are enough Good and honorablecoters who hold our political process sacred who vote for the people!

Obama – Of the People for the People!
Romney- Of the Wealthy for the Wealthy!

rofl Libs melting down and going into an anti-speech frenzy.