"Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results" - Rita Mae Brown. Sudden Death, (c) 1983.
Well, Americans have done it again. Voted for political party instead of for country. They have succeeded in re-electing a failed president who failed in his first term, and in his re-election campaign only divided the country further than he already had. Barack Obama, the Great Divider.
Failures:
economy: unemployment rate is higher than he promised it would be.
national debt: He promised to cut the debt in half and instead he has almost doubled it. Each American needs to pay in excess of $50,000 to pay it off, and taxing the very rich doesn't even put a dent in the debt.
social issues: Too many to list and too divisive for the country (democratic scare tactics on "women's issues" to name one).
foreign issues: the POTUS has no problem with drone attacks on unsuspecting people, with "collateral damage" to innocents, but watches in real time as Americans, on foreign soil, are murdered, even after hearing their repeated pleas for help. And then lies about the whole incident.
Hurricane Sandy: He and the federal government have left approximately 30-40000 people homeless and fending for themselves in sub-zero temperatures.
Violations of the US Constitution: 1) governing by Executive fiat - every time he doesn't get his way, he issues an Executive Order, usually infringing on the power of another branch, usually Congress, and does what he wants, Congress and the American people be damned. 2) creating a "hit list" upon which have been the names of American citizens. Without trial by jury, a Constitutional right, he decides whether they live and die, and after killing at least four American citizens this way, we the American people will pay the price as the ACLU has brought wrongful death actions against the government. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/18/us-citizens-drone-strike-deaths see also http://www.businessinsider.com/un-to-investigate-civilian-deaths-from-us-drone-strikes-2012-10
Once again, the President has no problem with killing American citizens without trial, but rescuing those under attack? He can't enter a foreign country's air space. Really? Does he think all Americans are that stupid?
Divider in Chief: Telling Americans to seek "revenge" upon other Americans is just appalling; slip of the tongue or not, it shows Obama's true feelings towards others. Instead of running on the accomplishments of his first term, he chose to tear apart and demonized Mitt Romney and his supporters, the truth be damned.
And for Americans to fall for this and vote for him again leaves me speechless. An America where the Constitution is violated in such ways, where Americans are left to die on foreign soil and on American soil after Hurricane Sandy, this is not my America. This is not my President.
To those that voted for Obama: You wish to destroy a country, go found your own and enjoy turning it into whatever you want. Don't destroy the United States of America.
Now, more than ever, God, please, help the United States of America.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
Misleading Hurricane Sandy approval rate
Recently, there have been references to polls of likely voters showing a positive Hurricane Sandy approval rating for the President and the federal government. Of course, the main street media have published these polls.
Don't be fooled - the polls and the results are inherently biased. You see, those of us who were actually impacted by Hurricane Sandy could not be contacted to respond to the polls, because we had no power, no heat, no water and NO PHONES! We could not comment on the President's and the federal government's response because we were totally cut off. So these polls just represent the main stream media asking people no where near the impacted areas to opine on the response based solely on the reporting they saw on the very same main stream media. How self-serving can one get?
Speaking as one who was impacted and freezing, I can tell you that there was neither hide nor hair of the President or FEMA visible in my neck of the woods. Had Connecticut been a swing state, I'm sure he would have been here parading around for photo ops like he did in NJ. However, instead of staging supplies like water, ice, food and gasoline in the areas forecasted to be impacted on Sunday afternoon, before Sandy hit, the government sat on its collective asses to watch the devastation (hmmmm, remind anyone of another deadly situation a few months ago?). I think the death toll is up to 29 now, from the storm. It's sure to rise with freezing temps and people living in uninhabitable homes BECAUSE THE POTUS AND FEMA HAVE DONE VIRTUALLY NOTHING.
Don't believe the politicians you see on TV congratulating themselves and other politicians for their hard work. They've done little to nothing. Local communities have done the bulk of the work looking after their neighbors. So many places have so much to do, and so little time as a second Nor'easter is forecast for this week. People can't stay warm because they can't get gas for their generators. They can't go to work because they can't get gas for their cars.
Pollsters, please go to Staten Island, New York, the south shores of Long Island and Connecticut, and the Jersey Shore, walk the debris filled areas that were once communities and ask the people shivering there what they think of the President and FEMA. Open your eyes and get the REAL answer from the people who matter most - the people who are not being served by the government.
Don't be fooled - the polls and the results are inherently biased. You see, those of us who were actually impacted by Hurricane Sandy could not be contacted to respond to the polls, because we had no power, no heat, no water and NO PHONES! We could not comment on the President's and the federal government's response because we were totally cut off. So these polls just represent the main stream media asking people no where near the impacted areas to opine on the response based solely on the reporting they saw on the very same main stream media. How self-serving can one get?
Speaking as one who was impacted and freezing, I can tell you that there was neither hide nor hair of the President or FEMA visible in my neck of the woods. Had Connecticut been a swing state, I'm sure he would have been here parading around for photo ops like he did in NJ. However, instead of staging supplies like water, ice, food and gasoline in the areas forecasted to be impacted on Sunday afternoon, before Sandy hit, the government sat on its collective asses to watch the devastation (hmmmm, remind anyone of another deadly situation a few months ago?). I think the death toll is up to 29 now, from the storm. It's sure to rise with freezing temps and people living in uninhabitable homes BECAUSE THE POTUS AND FEMA HAVE DONE VIRTUALLY NOTHING.
Don't believe the politicians you see on TV congratulating themselves and other politicians for their hard work. They've done little to nothing. Local communities have done the bulk of the work looking after their neighbors. So many places have so much to do, and so little time as a second Nor'easter is forecast for this week. People can't stay warm because they can't get gas for their generators. They can't go to work because they can't get gas for their cars.
Pollsters, please go to Staten Island, New York, the south shores of Long Island and Connecticut, and the Jersey Shore, walk the debris filled areas that were once communities and ask the people shivering there what they think of the President and FEMA. Open your eyes and get the REAL answer from the people who matter most - the people who are not being served by the government.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
The meaning of the word "Presidential"
The past few days, we had the meaning of the word "Presidential" presented to us.
President Obama said "vote for revenge". Revenge against whom? What fellow Americans are you seeking revenge against, Mr. President? Why are you encouraging Americans to seek "revenge" on fellow Americans? Do you really think such language unifies the country? I thought, in 2008, you ran claiming you would unify the country? Yet another promise broken.
On the other hand, Mitt Romney: "vote for love of country". So simple, so elegant, and so right. This is unifying, not divisive language. This is language of which Abraham Lincoln would be proud.
Seriously, how can anyone think there is an actual decision to be made? You have the emperor, who doesn't have old clothes, never mind new clothes, who couldn't accomplish anything in the past four years, who has run a campaign of negativity, and who refused to work in a bipartisan fashion, versus a man with a proven track record in business and government, who has a history of many charitable acts, and who is ready to work, not waste countless precious years blaming his predecessor, and who has a record of actually working in a bipartisan fashion.
Vote for Romney. We can't afford another four years of the "constitutional scholar" so fixed upon divisiveness and revenge, that he has ordered the execution of American citizens without trial. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/18/us-citizens-drone-strike-deaths
President Obama said "vote for revenge". Revenge against whom? What fellow Americans are you seeking revenge against, Mr. President? Why are you encouraging Americans to seek "revenge" on fellow Americans? Do you really think such language unifies the country? I thought, in 2008, you ran claiming you would unify the country? Yet another promise broken.
On the other hand, Mitt Romney: "vote for love of country". So simple, so elegant, and so right. This is unifying, not divisive language. This is language of which Abraham Lincoln would be proud.
Seriously, how can anyone think there is an actual decision to be made? You have the emperor, who doesn't have old clothes, never mind new clothes, who couldn't accomplish anything in the past four years, who has run a campaign of negativity, and who refused to work in a bipartisan fashion, versus a man with a proven track record in business and government, who has a history of many charitable acts, and who is ready to work, not waste countless precious years blaming his predecessor, and who has a record of actually working in a bipartisan fashion.
Vote for Romney. We can't afford another four years of the "constitutional scholar" so fixed upon divisiveness and revenge, that he has ordered the execution of American citizens without trial. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/18/us-citizens-drone-strike-deaths
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