On Thursday night, President Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention and proclaimed to the nation and the world, that he accepted the party’s nomination for the presidency. And with that out-of-the-way, the 44th President of the United States picked up where earlier speakers left off.
In his address to the nation, Mr. President outlined some of his successes and where he plans to take the country if given another chance. He also mentioned the inexperience Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan saying, “my opinion and his running mate are… new to foreign policy.” At one point Mr. Obama reminded the audience ( and those trying to take is job) that he is “the President.”
Republicans are doing all they can to suppress and in some cases, take away the voting rights of ordinary Americans. Their latest efforts includes requiring voters IDs and a new low in Ohio, where a Republican led assault is on the way to reduce the amount of time voters in Democratic districts have to cast their ballots.
In some of these cases, the courts have ruled that these forms of suppression – or “maintaining the integrity of the voting process” as the Republicans have called it – are illegal and should not happen on American soil.
But now another voice considered highly favored in the Republican circle is trying to change the rules. Ann Coulter wants to increase the voting age.
According to a recent interview on Fox News, Mrs. Coulter said, “I think we ought to raise the voting age. You can’t drink until you’re 21. We don’t have a draft anymore. Why are we letting infants vote? Their brains aren’t fully formed.”
It’s just amazing that before Barack Obama won the 2008 election, there was no need to change anything. After 2008 however, Republicans have manufactured every conceivable reason to change the process in their favor.
Imagine two runners competing in a race and after the winner crosses the finish line, the loser claims victory because during the race he (the loser or today’s Republican party) decided that the last person to cross the finish line wins.
Side-note: Barack Obama overwhelmingly won the youth vote in 2008.
If you haven’t seen or heard about this one yet, then have no fear! We have the video below.
Chris Mathews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball sat down with the hosts of Morning Joe and Republican Chairman Reince Preibus for a ‘friendly’ conversation. But anyone who’ve seen Chris Mathews’ show knows that when he gets going, there’s almost no stopping him. And having the Republican Chairman just a few feet away was enough to get Mr. Mathews going.
The ‘friendly’ discussion started with Mathews asking Preibus about some of the “questionable” ads the Romney campaign has run. Ads that many independent sources have called misleading or straight out lies. But what really got Chris going was a recent statement by Mitt Romney at a recent campaign event, where Romney said that no one had to ask for his birth certificate because everyone knows he was born here. To Chris and many others (including me), this statement from Romney was not “just a joke” as Romney and his supporters are calling it. Mr. Mathews saw Romney’s statement and the racial undertones it carried.
The conversation that started out fairly calm ended with the word “garbage” being thrown around, and in once instance, garbage was used to describe the Republican Chairman.
PrioritiesUSA, the SuperPac supporting President Obama has created another video. We all remember how Republicans and Mitt Romney got up-in-arms over the SuperPac’s video about Joe Soptic – a factory steel worker fired when Romney’s Bain Capital closed the company that employed him. Joe’s wife later died of cancer because the unemployed couple had no health insurance.
In their new video, PrioritiesUSA is highlighting the Budget framed by Romney’s VP choice Paul Ryan. Did you know that under Ryan’s plan people in Mitt Romney‘s income bracket would only pay a rate of 1%? And for Mr. Romney, that 1% might actually be a rate increase. Word on the street is that he’s paid zero taxes in earlier years. Of course no one has come forward with concrete evidence to prove this claim, but this is what we’re hearing and Mitt Romney is too scared to release his taxes to prove us wrong.
After being anointed as Mitt Romney’s chosen one for Vice President, Paul Ryan went out today to do a solo act in Iowa. But like you’ll see from the video below, the American people have done their homework on Paul Ryan, and they know all about his proposals to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid for the poor, at the same time he’s giving trillions in tax cuts to rich people.
What is Mitt Romney hiding, and why can’t he come clean with the American people about his taxes? Well maybe one reason is because he was involved in a tax scheme worth over $70 million dollars, something CNN called “fictional tax losses.”
Yea, if I had cheated the government out of $70 million dollars in fictional tax losses, I too would want to keep that a secret. Makes you wonder what else is he hiding?
Mitt Flip Romney took a trip today, apparently got lost and found himself in-front of an unfamiliar audience, the NAACP – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Okay, maybe he didn’t get lost and we all know his trip was planned, but the audience was still unfamiliar to Mr. Romney and his awkward speech and frequent booing from the audience highlighted this unfamiliarity.
One part of Romney’s speech to the group that is getting a lot of play right now was when Romney told the audience, “I’m going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program I can find. That includes Obamacare, ” – the President’s signature policy that has growing support among the American people and the poor and middle class in general.
But what was strange and what got a lot of attention was not so much the booing, it was Romney’s expression as the booing was happening. As if relishing the moment, Romney stood on the stage with a sly smile on his face for an extended period, nodding his head ever so slightly as if to say, “yes, boo me. Boo me!”
The whole scene looked as if it was a message for another audience, like his Republican base maybe. It seemed as if Mitt Romney wanted his Republican supporters to see him as a man who is serious about “repealing Obamacare,” – a law they have voted to repeal 33 times since it was sworn into law in 2010. It seemed as if Romney wanted his base to know that he was willing to go in-front of an audience who supports the law and tell them he will repeal it.
Other areas of his speech got chuckles and giggles mixed with some more boos from the audience. One of those areas was when Romney told the audience that he would be a better president for them than President Obama is.
No, we are not saying that President Barack Obama (he is black you know) is the only candidate to represent the black community. The black community has voted religiously for white politicians for decades. What caused the chuckles in the audience I believe, was Romney’s words – reminiscent of other things Romney has said, like “I love American cars,” and “the trees are the right height here” while talking to a Detroit audience. Or when he said, “I am learning to say y’all and I like grits, and things,” while talking to a Mississippi audience earlier this year.
This particular NAACP audience knew that Romney was being Romney, so they giggled, they chuckled and some even booed. This audience knew Romney was pandering to them for votes.
A Conservative website is highlighting Mitt Romney, in video from a March 2006 press conference unearthed by American Bridge, delivering a ringing endorsement of the individual mandate … and claiming credit for having proposed it in the first place.
With regards to the mandate, the individual responsibility program which I proposed, I was very pleased to see that the compromise from the two houses includes the personal responsibility principle, that is essential for bringing health care costs down for everyone, and for getting everybody the health insurance they deserve and need. So I was very pleased with that development.
So you want to know about Mitt Romney’s economic plan for America? Well in addition to listening to Romney himself, another good place to look would be in Massachusetts. But wait, you say you can’t really find any information on Romney because he purchased all the computers used during his tenure and destroyed their harddrives? Okay, then it seems old Mittens has something to hide.
Thank goodness though, Romney couldn’t destroy all the evidence of his failed term as governor. There are still People around – those souls who served under his administration are still around and guess what? They know how to talk!
Listen to some of the stories from the people who knew and worked with Mitt.
With all the publicity given to some pastors who jumped in front the television cameras to voice their opinion on President Obama’s support for gay marriage, there is another pastor who is taking the President’s side. Needless to say, he is not on any popular talk show voicing his comments on the matter, but in the video below, he is seen preaching a very moving sermon explaining to his congregation that President Obama is not “Pastor of the United States, he is President of the United States.” And as President, Mr. Obama’s job is to uphold the Constitution and the rights that the Constitution provides to all Americans.
His name is Senior Pastor Frederick Haynes III, and part of his sermon is below.
We thought Mitt Romney had no convictions. We thought he was a flip-flopper whose position on any issue depends on the group of people he’s talking to at that moment. We thought Mitt Romney did not stand by anything and is capable of changing his mind on a dime. But we were wrong.
As it turns out, there is something Mitt Romney stands by. Something he is known for and he apparently will not change and that is, Mitt Romney is a liar who continues to lie even after the truth is point out to him. Fact-checking means nothing to Mr. Romney, as he just brushes off the facts and continues lying anyway.
When he lose the election in 2012, Mitt Romney will do well as a political pundit at Fox News.
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