This is a wonderful ad for President Obama. Please take the time to watch it and pass it on to your friends!
Completely Right
Colin Powell
- REPUBLICAN
- FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER GEORGE BUSH
- FOUR STAR ARMY GENERAL
has endorsed President Obama. Listen to his rationale in the following clip….his message is something that everyone needs to hear to counteract the crap being thrown around by the Romney campaign!
This is really good news and what do we do when we have good news around here? We celebrate….
I don’t know if you have heard this song or not. It was originally done by a group called Rare Earth that was on Motown Records back in the 1970s. Here is a cover version of the song by David Ruffin, former lead singer for the Temptations. I will see if I can find the original…..
Way to go President Obama!
********************************************
The third and final presidential debate was President Obama’s best moment in the campaign so far. He was prepared on every issue and knew Mitt Romney’s record of past statements just as well.
Obama succeeded because he conveyed his unique view of the world from the Oval Office. For undecided voters watching, all they probably heard was that he’s the commander-in-chief. And that’s what Team Obama wanted.
For the most part, Romney made an effort to look presidential by not attacking. He was exceedingly careful and desperately tried not to make a mistake. In fact, despite his rhetoric for the last two years, he now apparently agrees with most of the Obama administration’s foreign policy.
As a result, Romney’s biggest opponent was not the president, it was his own words. Obama did a brilliant job of bringing up past Romney statements — on Iraq, on the nation’s biggest adversary, on Afghanistan, on Osama bin Laden — to make him look unprepared for the presidency.
As the debate went on, Romney tried many times to move the international affairs discussion back to the economy where he was more comfortable. It was as if he had only 30 minutes of foreign policy talking points for a 90 minute debate. As a result he seemed to string together random thoughts which often made him sound incoherent.
Obama won the debate hands down.
Bob Schieffer started off doing a good job as moderator, framing questions but still letting the candidates engage each other. But he lost control of the debate as both Romney and Obama often preferred to talk about the economy. It’s clear that both candidates know that most voters don’t care much about foreign policy.
Article from politicalwire.com. Headline from Huffington Post.
President Barack Obama mocked Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Monday for his repeated attack over the size of the Navy, which he has said proves the president doesn’t prioritize national defense.
“You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets,” Obama said during the final presidential debate. “We have these things called aircraft carriers and planes land on them. We have ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.”
“It’s not a game of battleship where we’re counting ships, it’s ‘What are our priorities?'” he said.
He said his administration sits down with the military forces, including heads of the Navy, to discuss what resources they need.
Headline and article above from Huffington Post.
Wow – this is the best stump speech that I have heard President Obama deliver this whole campaign and what a great way making fun of Mitt’s flip flops and talking about Obamacare. Maybe….the dream is still alive! Listen up…..
I think this whole Romnesia thing has legs…..check out these videos that are springing up all over the net.
Thank God for Bill Clinton. As President Obama said ex-President Clinton is the Secretary of Explaining Stuff.
For shared prosperity over trickle down
For we are all in this together over you are on your own
For cooperation over conflict
For arithmetic over illusion
Absolutely awesome!!!!!
Bruce Springsteen is making appearances with Bill Clinton this week at rallies for President Obama.
Here is part of Bruce’s performance from one of those appearances today. It is a great acoustic version of Blood Brothers. See what you think.
No retreat, baby no surrender! Thanks for supporting the cause Bruce!
Headline from Huffington Post…the details are provided below (if you are interested) but let’s celebrate first!
I can’t get enough of this song! This clip is from the Midnight Special TV show in 1973.
Here is the story from the Huffington Post…
WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are neck and neck in opinion polls, but there is one area in which the incumbent appears to have a big advantage: those who have already cast their ballots.
Obama leads Romney by 59 percent to 31 percent among early voters, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling data compiled in recent weeks.
The sample size of early voters is relatively small, but the Democrat’s margin is still well above the poll’s credibility interval – a measurement of polls’ accuracy – of 10 percentage points. (full graphic: http://bit.ly/RmeEen)
With the Nov. 6 election just more than three weeks away, 7 percent of those surveyed said they had already voted either in person or by mail (full graphic: http://bit.ly/SWm5YR).
The online poll is another sign that early voting is likely to play a bigger role this year than in 2008, when roughly one in three voters cast a ballot before Election Day. Voting is already under way in some form in at least 40 states.
Both the Obama and Romney teams are urging supporters to vote as soon as possible so the campaigns can focus their door-knocking and phone-calling operations on those who are still undecided or need more prodding to get to the polls.
Early voting was a big part of Obama’s victory over Republican John McCain in 2008, and his campaign aims to repeat its success this year.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll indicates the campaign’s efforts appear to be paying off, although its advantage could erode as Election Day approaches.
The Obama campaign says it is leading among early voters in Iowa and Ohio, and trailing by a smaller margin than 2008 in several other swing states. It expects its early voting efforts will help the campaign weather a blitz of negative ads expected to saturate the airwaves in battleground states in the final weeks before Nov. 6.
“We’ve made early investments in battleground states – where we’ve been registering folks and keeping an open conversation going with undecided voters for months – to build a historic grass-roots organization that will pay off when the votes are counted,” spokesman Adam Fetcher said.
ROMNEY CAMPAIGN CITES POST-DEBATE ENTHUSIASM
The Romney campaign says it is leading or even with Obama among early voters in several closely fought battleground states, including Florida, North Carolina, Colorado, Nevada and New Hampshire. The campaign says it has seen a spike in volunteering and voter enthusiasm among Republicans since Romney’s strong debate performance against Obama on Oct. 3.
“Not only are we keeping pace with the vaunted Obama machine, but we believe our ground game will put us over the finish line on Election Day,” said Rich Beeson, the Romney campaign’s political director.
George Mason University professor Michael McDonald, an expert on early voting, said it was difficult to tell how the results so far could affect the outcome of the race.
In North Carolina and Maine, Democrats seem to be voting in higher numbers than 2008, while Republicans seem to be voting in slightly lower numbers than four years ago, he said.
In Ohio, where voters do not register by party, early voting appears to be higher than normal in both Republican and Democratic areas, McDonald said.
In Iowa, about twice as many registered Democrats as Republicans have voted by now – a potential warning sign for the Romney campaign, he said.
“Romney needs a change here. The good news for Romney is day to day, incrementally, the numbers shift in his direction, so he may be able to catch up,” McDonald said.
The accuracy of Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. For the 6,704 people who were asked whether they had voted yet, the credibility interval was 1.3 points. For the 361 people who replied that they had already cast their ballots, the credibility interval was 10 points.
I honestly thought I was the only one that noticed this resemblance…..Paul Ryan is Eddie Munster!
Stay tuned tomorrow when I will show you why this resemblance makes perfect sense…..I will give you a hint: A rotten apple never falls far from the family tree.
I apologize to Eddie Munster for making this comparison!
Enough Said! Thanks to Morgan Freeman for narrating this video…
thebestmusicyouhaveneverheard 