HELEN:
Margaret, I watched the debate and then I went to bed comforted by the fact that Barack Obama would be President for four more years. I dreamt of a Supreme Court that actually believes all Americans are created equal and corporations are entities not people. In my dream, we looked for ways to increase voter turnout and not suppress it. And then I woke up and made the mistake of turning on cable news. Evidently Obama had won the debate, but Romney had proven himself presidential. Really? The guy with the sweaty upper lip and the mood swings that matched his policy swings? That guy was presidential? Did anybody actually watch the debate with the sound on?
You could almost hear Romney’s heart break when he announced that we can’t “kill our way out of this”. As badly as he wants to start a few, there would be no wars for Romney. And a Republican without a war is like Sarah Palin without her early pregnancy test strip – a little scared and a lot in denial. It was hard for him, but even Romney realized that a debate about foreign policy really should focus at least a little bit on diplomacy and world peace. His fight with Russia, Iran, China, Egypt, Syria, and some place called Mali would all have to wait until after he got elected. Bush spoiled America’s appetite for preemptive wars and Romney looked like he was about to cry. In an attempt to mislead undecided voters, he even had to give up on his desire for a continued war in Afghanistan. Bless his heart, he had held on to that one until the bitter end.
Romney has been campaigning to become President for seven years. In that time, we have learned very little about the man except that he is damn good at telling people what they want to hear. He governed in Massachusetts, but even they don’t want him anymore. In this last debate, he finally admitted that people wanted to hear the truth. And the truth of the matter is, Romney thinks Obama really isn’t that bad. Yes, Mr. Romney, you weren’t going to be able to lie your way out of this one.
I’ve grown tired of pointing out that Romney is a liar. It took me awhile to put pen to paper on this one because I really didn’t want to just make another list of all his lies and flip-flops. Eventually I decided to go the other way – the truth about Obama. Here is why I am voting for a second term for Barack Obama. Pay attention because if you have been watching Fox News and buying the Republican bullshit you might not know some of this…
- The federal government has gotten smaller, not bigger, under President Barack Obama. We now have fewer federal employees than we did in 2009.
- Government spending under President Obama has been smaller than the previous nine presidents. That goes back all the way to Eisenhower, and I am pretty sure all of the savings haven’t come from a smaller navy. Those aircraft carriers are pretty damn expensive.
- Obama’s healthcare plan will save money and provide insurance for more Americans including millions of children.
- It is now the law of the land that women get equal pay for equal work. I still can’t believe it took until 2009 for that to happen.
- We no longer humiliate our brave soldiers because of who they love. Despite what we were told, that change didn’t weaken our military. But now that it’s done the odds of a Romney one day serving have increased to one in ten.
- Obama has actually put in place fewer regulations on businesses than George Bush did in his first term. Fewer regulations under Obama. I bet that’s a surprise. It appears that Mitt Romney, Donald Trump and the Koch Brothers can remain fabulously wealthy even if Obama remains President.
- We are now drilling more and producing more domestic oil than before. Even though Mitt seems to think every private citizen has an oil well in their garden, much of the increase has indeed been on public lands not just on private lands. Obama finally told oil companies to shit or get off the pot.
- President Obama has actually lowered taxes. He retained the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and has lowered taxes for the middle class as well. Don’t believe me? Romney’s tax rate is 33% lower than the percentage of Americans who are victims. (47-33=14)
- And while I am pretty sure Romney already knows this, China owns actually less than 10% of our national debt and almost any economic professor will tell you that’s actually a good thing.
Well, will you listen to me? I sound like one of those weekend news shows on PBS –factually more accurate but not nearly as entertaining as Bill O’Reilly. I hope I didn’t bore you too much.
My point is this. One candidate is talking about our future – green energy, improved schools, better roads and bridges, sustainable job and pay growth, diplomacy, allies around the world… The other candidate (the Republican) keeps going on and on about missile defense in Poland, war with Russia, mining for coal and the 1916 Navy. Somewhere, anywhere there is a wall that Romney is desperate to tear down. Poor dear. He’s about 25 years too late and Putin is no Gorbachev.
Too bad we don’t have Sarah Palin this year. She wore her crazy on her sleeve, but Romney is actually pretty good at misleading voters. Don’t let him mislead you. He may look Presidential while his is lying, but do we really want to make this about looks? If we did that we would have to include the wives and Michelle Obama is a knock out.
We have a President who cares about all 100% of us. And he’s good looking to boot. Let’s keep him. I mean it. Really.
MARGARET:
My nephew says to tell you that you are beating a dead horse with Palin. He says the line should be A Republican without a war is like a Kardashian without a sex tape. Maybe you can ask Matthew not to attach my name and picture to that one. Two more weeks, dear. Two more weeks and we can go back to working on the cookbook. Oh, and Helen, you heard it here first – Trump is an asshat.
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By: sidney18511 on October 27, 2012
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Margaret and Helen,
I voted yesterday for Barak Obama’s next four years and then took the grandkids to see him here in Denver. In spite of the insanity as we stagger toward election day, I feel very good about his chances. Here’s to victory!
By: Yvonne Montgomery on October 25, 2012
at 2:05 PM
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By: Terri in NY on October 25, 2012
at 8:01 AM
Thanks again, Miss Helen, for your thoughtful essay about the true and proven differences between the president and the wannabe.
I just came across this today and want to share it. Check this out:
“Harvesting’ Companies: Another Video of Mitt Showing The Real ‘Mr. Profit’ Romney”
There ya go. In his own words in 1985, Romney explains his successful business strategy that pocketed him hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten profits over the years, including at Bain Capital:
“Bain Capital is an investment partnership which was formed to invest in start-up companies and ongoing companies….then to take an active hand in managing them and hopefully, five to eight years later, to harvest them at a significant profit…”
“to harvest them”…. Yeah, it’s just business, ya know….. He’s contemptuous, callous, and condescending in his “harvesting profits”. He blandly explains how he and Bain maximized profits (cutting benefits, firing loyal employees, shutting down the companies, throwing the workers to the wolves) with the overriding intention simply to return money to the investors, as he and others became millionaires in the process. It’s just business, ya know…. people’s lives aren’t important in any of that…. loyal workers, their pensions, their financial futures aren’t important…. it’s all about profits to the investors.
Romney has NOTHING to do with “creating jobs”!
By: elsie09 on October 25, 2012
at 7:56 AM
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By: No One's Puppet on October 25, 2012
at 12:31 AM
Hi Congenial Gang,
Yeah, it was about time for Trump to trot out and to put in an appearance, bringing the other “birthers” crawling out from under their rocks in a last ditch desperate effort to scrape the bottom of their bag of tricks to discredit President Obama.
Got another fascinating book to recommend to you. It is “DNA USA – A Genetic Portrait of America” by Bryan Sykes. He is a British Geneticist and author of a number of books including “The Seven Daughters of Eve.” It does get technical of course but it is not at all pedantic. It is actually quite entertaining and readable as he and his son and later, his wife travel across the U.S. taking saliva swab samples of DNA. It is a delightful account of many of the people he met. For any of you genealogy buffs, it is a MUST READ!
There are a few surprising results. In many ways, DNA obliterates the common definition of race. When it comes to racial and ethnic issues, there has been plenty of hanky panky and fraternizing with the “enemy”. It sorta reminds me of the days when I dyed my hair for 25 years to try to maintain the illusion of my image as the ravishing brunette of my youth. Who was I trying to fool? I was only kidding myself! The hair color product I used had a TV commercial that went, “Only her hairdresser knows for sure!” So when it comes to lineage all the way back to Eve, “Only my geneticist knows for sure!”
Sykes concluding paragraph in the book merits being quoted in its entirety verbatim:
“As you leave the gallery my hope is that you will come away with the feeling that you have glimpsed another world. A world that mocks the artificial divisions we have created for ourselves. A world made up of the corpuscles of DNA that each of us has inherited over millennia from our myriad ancestors, every one of them a resourceful survivor from earlier times. We are their privileged custodians in this world for a few short years, messengers through time to generations not yet born. Let us enjoy this honor while we may.”
Aloha!
Namaste. Shalom. Saalam. Peace.
Auntie Jean
By: waialeale on October 24, 2012
at 10:30 PM
Finally have a working VCR so pulled out an old movie – Thirteen Days. I realize it is fact and fiction. I lived in West Palm Beach at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was 20 more interested in whether I had a date for Saturday night and what to wear then I was in world affairs. But the tension and anxiety among the adults was noticeable and a extremely stressful time. There were military convoys clogging the roads, supply trains passing and aircraft touching down at the old air force base.
It was a bit of time before I realized this is the exact time but 50 years later. If it were to happen today which man would I want making the decisions Obama or Romney? I am not totally sure how Obama would have handled it. But I believe Romney would have allowed the military to have their way and the world would be a very, very, very different place today. Scary!
Peace.
By: Cynthia on October 24, 2012
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uaw, I watched that video. Who are these supposed people that say they’re going to riot if Obama isn’t re-elected? I’ve heard this before on coast to coast radio (some reicht winger guest was hyping it up), but would really like to know who is really behind this rumored event. don’t accept that there’s some organized effort out there promoting such an event, at least not coming from the left. I think this is something some republican front group is cooking up. I could see the right creating a scenario like this, very easily, and then blaming the liberals or some group they will try and affiliate with the Democratic party. I think this kind of rumor needs to be squelched before those who are promoting it get a self fulfilling prophecy, even if they have to be the ones doing the rioting. I hope the FBI is investigating these claims coming from the republicans, because the only people I’ve heard such things coming from, are those republican hacks promoting it.
By: Robert on October 24, 2012
at 8:32 PM
UAW, the credit for the Libyan attack came from a Facebook post. Do you think the US government should make their plans for retaliation based on something posted on a free social networking site? That would hardly be an intelligent way to proceed, it seems to me. ANYone, including you, could have posted something similar.
By: Karen in Ohio on October 24, 2012
at 8:22 PM
and the other typ stuff….
The FBI is joining an investigation into bogus letters sent to many Florida residents, including the Republican Party of Florida chairman, that raise questions about their eligibility to vote.
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Florida-Republican-Party-leader-receives-hoax-letter-FBI-investigates/-/1637132/17117694/-/acss1ez/-/index.html
any local gossip Greytdog…..
By: uawtradesman on October 24, 2012
at 8:01 PM
yep….
Obama’s accomplishments…..
Libya cover-up…..
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By: uawtradesman on October 24, 2012
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Exactly! We were sucked in by the opposition into almost believing Obama had been sitting on his hands for 4 yrs. I did realize he was being stymied by the “JUST SAY NO!” Republicans who wanted him to be a one term president. It’s so refreshing to see all his accomplishments and to have hope that he will be given a chance to finish the job we elected him to do four years ago. We will need more Democrats in Congress to enable him to do that. When I think of Akin here in Missouri and Mourdock in Indiana having any credibility with female voters I’m wondering what planet I’m living on.
By: Terry Waggle on October 24, 2012
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