The Politics of Fear--the Right (as in correct) Robert Reich

Robert Reich in his article in Reader Supported News entitled "The Politics of Fear" hit many nails on many heads. Read here or below if you want an opinion on our current political volcanic milieu of a SMART former Secretary of Labor under Clinton who has a way with words!

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13891-focus-the-politics-of-fear

THE PRESIDENT IN SPANISH

Our president speaks to the Hispanic community in Spanish that is EXCELLENT!

Our president spoke it like it was his native language. Just another reason why the Hispanic community should vote for the president and it is why we should vote for him too. He is the BEST representative of diversity and will have the back of the poor, the disadvantaged, the disabled, seniors and immigrants who want to dream.

President Obama is the Dream we have been waiting for. He simply needs time to finish the difficult, difficult job with the worst opposition a sitting president has ever had to face.

Send this to whomever you think should see it. It made tears run down my face because it is not just a Spanish message it is a HUMAN message and who better than the president to deliver it?

RE-ELECT THE PRESIDENT AND ELIZABETH WARREN TO THE SENATE FROM MASSACHUSETTS!

Here or below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRCitjn7Ojs

Fire Under the Base

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/after-conventions-follow-the-bouncing-poll-numbers/

Nate Silver here or above is the BEST election pollster EVER!! I trust him the most even IF it comes out not as I personally desire. He is the BEST of the BEST of that I am quite sure. Was the debate loss a strategy? Could very well be. Will this light a fire under the Obama base? It DAMN well better!

The Gattling Gun

It is hard -- VERY VERY hard -- for me to believe that one debate of a superficial Gatling Gun rant and dance FILLED with lies, etch-a-sketching, indeed, reinventing an entirely new Romney done at break-neck speed would be enough to create a tsunami change of what was looking like a clear win for Obama. I STILL believe it will be a victory for the president because Romney has lied so extensively and so often flip flopping from one view to the next ready to change at a moment's notice to get Romney into the oval office. I believe it will NOT do the trick. I do not believe that an Etch-A-Sketch expert and quick-change-artist supreme will be voted to lead the most powerful nation on earth.

I refuse to believe the American people are that insane to want another Bush on steroids to return this country not only to a Great Recession but possibly another Great Depression, gutting health care and returning the sick to the ER for treatment just exactly what NO one wants most especially hospitals or those that depend on them for what should be primary physician care. I won't even go into detail mentioning a bomb which Romney seems to be itching to drop on Iran to start yet another war paid for how? More blood of this nation's youth and more treasure will be wasted measured in decades not in days.

A Romney victory WILL be a death knell for this country and I simply cannot imagine with the unbelievable success this president has had to get us out of a HUGE sinkhole made by Republicans while he finally got Bin Laden to boot that the American electorate would step on their own toes by voting a Mitt Romney into the most powerful office on this planet.

He may have sounded like a winner of the first debate to some even to most but to me he sounded like like death incarnate for a nation that has suffered so much under Republican politics of the 1% duping some that their message is about the 99% instead of what their message really is: of the very rich, by the very rich and for the very rich seeing to it that this nation will certainly perish from the earth if the 1% comes to power yet again.


YET AGAIN WHY THIS PRESIDENT MUST WITHOUT FAIL BE RE-ELECTED and the GREAT AND THE PRICE-ABOVE-RUBIES ELIZABETH WARREN ELECTED TO THE US SENATE FROM MASSACHUSETTS

A Felonious Fellow?

From: Justin Ruben, MoveOn.org Political Action [mailto:moveon-help@list.moveon.org]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 1:40 PM
To: Jean Laplante
Subject: Did Romney commit a felony?

 

Dear MoveOn member,

We all saw in the debate on Wednesday how Mitt Romney is trying to lie his way into the White House—but did you know that one of his lies may actually be criminal?

That's right—there's substantial evidence that Romney may have broken the law by lying to the American people about when he left Bain Capital on a legally required candidate disclosure form. This could be the straw that breaks the camel's back in his campaign of lies.

That's why, last week, MoveOn delivered a legal memo to the Department of Justice outlining the evidence and requesting a formal investigation into Romney's possible crime.

With Romney trying to win this election with lies, it's important that every American knows the truth as soon as possible. But much of the mainstream media has been scared to touch the story, saying "it's too hot to cover." So we need to get the word out ourselves through social media and email.

Can you share this memo outlining evidence of a possible crime committed by Romney with everyone you know?

Thanks for all you do.

–Justin, Emily, Steven, Lenore, and the rest of the team

Want to support our work? We're entirely funded by our 7 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.

SECOND GRADE NO LONGER!

For any who have commented and did not see your opinion for some reason I never got it but now just did in another way.  I don't know what happened.  To LHK, sorry, I am  not branding EVERYTHING racism but simply take a look at the signs on so many REpublican groups that stand in opposition to him.  Simply listen to code words and sometimes NOT so coded words and you can understand.  I suspect even though you would like to suppress it you have supported policy that kills. It kills Americans, it kills innocents and robs people of hope.  A patriot does not go along to get along, a patriot does NOT forget the poor in public policy, a patriot does not refuse citizens who cannot afford it health care, a patriot does not condone voter suppression of the black vote, a patriot does not deny endemic racism that exists in this culture for centuries, a patriot does not deny historial veracity and a patriot does NOT blindly obey when the obeying of policy is simply downright unjust. 

Are you that kind of patriot?  I doubt it.  If you fought, came back with injury then I truly am sorry for that.  Perhaps if the policy makers in Washington who do not send their OWN kids to war would make a better choice whom they do send into battle.  They don't. They choose as Eisenhower said himself the military industiral complex which matter more than life itself.

NOT YOUR SECOND GRADE GIRLFRIEND ANY MORE BUT GLAD TO SEE  YOU CANNOT RESIST MY BLOG! AND BTW I do get comments and publish those that are thoughtful and NOT rude.  Others I had in the system but did not even know they were there.  Whatever, it does not matter.  The enthusiasm is HUGELY for the president.  Yes, I love him.  Now I call that patriotism don't you?

Obama lost the first debate, but he will still win the election--Washington Post

Rethinking the "debate." This is a very good opinion in the Washington Post.

Obama lost the first debate, but he will still win the election

By James Downie

In case you had not heard yet, President Obama had a poor first debate on Wednesday night. From the start, the president looked tired, unfocused and unprepared. His answers were rambling, his personal anecdotes were few, and his effective punches were even fewer. He never mentioned the “47 percent” video, Bain Capital or any number of other attacks that have hurt Republican nominee Mitt Romney both across the country and in swing states. Aside from two sequences — Obama getting Romney to concede that his Medicare plan is essentially a voucher and asking if Romney was “keeping all [his] plans secret because they’re too good”— the president was certainly outclassed.

And yet, the president’s supporters would be wrong to wring their hands. Fundamentally, Obama’s loss will not matter. At most, Wednesday night was a case of “too little, too late” for Romney. Yes, the polls will probably move a point or two in Romney’s direction after the first debate. But all the evidence suggests that for Romney, whether or not you believe he should be president, closing the gap and beating Obama is a bridge too far.

Consider the task facing Romney going into Wednesday’s debate: Nationally, RealClearPolitics’s poll average had him down three points;Nate Silver’s model had him down four. He had held a lead in a major poll exactly once since the end of August. The electoral college looked even worse for him: RealClear’s map gave Obama 269 electoral votes safe or leaning to Romney’s 181 (with 88 in toss-up states); HuffPost Pollster gave Obama a 290-191 lead; and Nate Silver’s model had Obama winning an average of 319 electoral votes to Romney’s 218, a comfortable margin. Even Karl Rove had 277 votes safe or leaning to Obama, with another 70 as toss-ups.

“Ah,” you say, “that may be true, but surely the gap is small enough to close? And wouldn’t the first debate be enough to bring this race back to a dead heat?” In a word, no.

Let’s start with the second question. Incumbent presidents almost always have a poor first debate: George W. Bush lost to John Kerry in 2004, for example, and Walter Mondale beat Ronald Reagan so badly in 1984 that there was a spate of articles asking if the incumbent was too old for the presidency. Yet never has a challenger’s strong first debate performance closed as large a national polling gap as Romney faced going into last night’s debate. Furthermore, most post-debate polling bumps come from previously undecided voters, of which there is a historically small amount in this campaign, thus making it even less likely that Romney could exceed past norms. And Romney would need to outdo history by quite a distance — only Harry Truman has come back from a national deficit as large or larger than Romney’s at this point in the campaign.

If Romney would have to pull off a miracle to close the gap in national polling, he has no shot at matching the president in the electoral college. As mentioned above, forecasters commonly predict that Obama already has a big lead of safe and leaning states. If we assume Romney will improve in the polls, there would be around nine “swing states”: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. There’s one problem here for Romney: He is trailing, and has been consistently trailing, in all but two — North Carolina, where he’s held a small lead, and Florida, this election’s closest thing to a 50-50 state. Romney doesn’t need to win two out of those nine; in almost every scenario, he will need six or seven out of those nine to win, including at least two or three states where he is behind by several points more than he is nationally.

All of which brings me to the final point: Given the state of the race before last night’s debate, even most Romney backers would agree that a Romney victory would require a flawless campaign the rest of the way from Romney and a blunder or two from Obama. After six years of both these men running for and/or being president of the United States, is there really anyone out there who thinks Mitt Romney can go a month without making a single mistake? Who thinks Barack Obama, who has been playing it safe for at least several months now, will suddenly make a reckless error, as opposed to a merely lackluster performance? (Or, if you’re Sean Hannity and co., do you believe the lamestream media will suddenly forget their liberal bias and stop protecting the president while assaulting Mitt Romney?)

Seriously, does anyone believe that?

The fact is that, come October, presidential elections cannot permanently change course over a few days or hours (unlike, say, media narratives). The majority of voters have already made their decision, and the debates won’t provide enough of a boost to alter the contest’s trajectory. Sadly for Romney, the path the race is stuck on ends with his defeat.

WHY WE NEED TO MAKE SURE OF THE RE-ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT!!!

Romney wins the all important BS Contest -- Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone Magazine and all around economic wonder boy does it again with this short summary of one of the worst "debates" in US history. Lincoln Douglas it was not of that one can be sure. Read here or below for the view of an ALWAYS entertaining and very smart writer!

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13830-focus-mitt-romney-wins-all-important-bs-contest

27 MYTHS in 38 MINUTES

27 MYTHS in 38 Minutes

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/13803-romney-told-27-myths-in-38-minutes

Liar-in-Chief

Yet another vile thing one should know about Mitt Romney's tenure in Massachusetts here or below before anyone decides to immorally place a check by his name.

This man will DO ANYTHING, SAY ANYTHING, BE ANYONE to put his rancid self into the White House. Spread the word do NOT let this unacceptable thing happen. Massachusetts knows he was a lousy governor, increased unemployment and worse lied on his qualification of residence in the state to run for governor. He lived in Massachusetts then like I lived at the North Pole although I am looking into a residence there if the worst thing on planet earth should happen to this nation and that is this flip-flopper liar-in chief get elected.


http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/13829-romney-helped-monsanto-poison-massachusetts

SOME GOOD NEWS

US JOBLESS RATE DIPS TO 7.8% AS ECONOMY ADDS 114,000 NEW JOBS

The lamestream media STILL will find fault although blathering endlessly it was over 8.0% THIS IS GOOD NEWS FOR THE PRESIDENT!
IT IS ANOTHER REASON AMONG MANY THE PRESIDENT WILL AND SHOULD BE RE-ELECTED!!

TELEPROMPTER MADNESS ON MORNING JOE

An opinion to Morning Joe:

Your show, NBC News, and even other newscasts are impossible to watch. YOU and they keep skewering the president's "performance" in the debate. He may have not been able to be on Broadway with it BUT he was right on substance. That is more than I could say about Romney even with his perfect dance. SURELY a walk down memory lane with George Bush one wonders how the guy lasted eight years even WITH a teleprompter.

You criticize the president for not being able to perform without a teleprompter? Are you kidding me? What would all the newscasters be like without a teleprompter? What would you, Mika and the rest of your cast be like without a teleprompter--mute perhaps?

All presidents use teleprompters now. George Bush could hardly speak WITHOUT a teleprompter. Romney has a good memory big deal and spent days rehearsing. Without the media beating an issue to death it would be a one event moment and not a game changer. The news and news shows are often insufferable to watch as they thrive on the endless sound bites CREATING the news instead of merely reporting it!

WHY WE MUST MUST REELECT THE PRESIDENT AND THE GREAT ELIZABETH WARREN TO US SENATE

A Valentine for Valentine

Sometimes I wonder if anything good can ever last. The Red Sox were on top of the world and it was so much fun. Then it seemed like the bottom fell out. Sports is such a difficult occupation because it relies on one's body to be 100%, injuries set in, tempers flair and each minute of the clock ticks away while the player understands his abilities are hitched to time. Time always sits on a player's shoulder. Beyond that as in any job multiple personalities have to engage ramping up the difficulty.

The Sox now bring back fond memories of those days in the 50's and 60's where one player would shine like Yastremski or Malzone but the rest of the team were less than, well, perfect and the Sox saw the cellar or close to it for most of my childhood life. Still my father, a crazed Red Sox fan, stuck it out always faithful and so was I. The Red Sox were a part of our DNA.

Now that we have seen the mountain top it is hard to climb back down but we do because we have no choice, hoping like in life, a better day will be around the corner.

I do not follow sports now except minimally but the Red Sox will always hold a place in my heart for the next great season just around the corner. I liked Bobby Valentine and felt sorry for him as I could only imagine the emotional difficulty. I wanted, like the lovely Elizabeth Warren said, to give him one more chance. But business is business and sports is NOT a humane and understanding endeavor. What is? I do not know what really happened as we never do unless we are involved in it directly. I am sure Valentine tried, wanted the best for the team and him but it was not to be. I love second chances but sometimes things are simply over. Good luck, Bobby, this is one fan that has empathy for you and wishes you the best.

Final Thought on the Debate

ROMNEY DEMONSTRABLY ON TAPE AND PROVABLY LIED!  BIG SURPRISE.

Did Romney Win the Debate ?-- ANOTHER VIEW PLEASE READ

I have learned the hard way that it is VERY bad to make snap judgments. Read this article by Robert Parry, Consortium News in "Reader Supported News" for what I think is a very interesting and cogent opinion stating who he thought the winner of the debate was and guess what? It is NOT Mitt Romney! The reasons he posts for that are ones which I sometimes consciously and sometimes subconsciously thought, for example, Romney's eyes blinked a million times faster than the president. It means something when someone exhibits this uncontrollable reaction. It often means their nervous, scared or SURPRISE -- LYING. Moreover, Romney's smile seemed plastered on his face. This author says it far better than I so I will simply paste it here and below for you to review. 

Maybe my emigration from this country might still NOT be necessary as it may be that Barack Obama WILL, in fact, in the end, remain president when Romney's lies and nasty temperament are discussed by the all knowing pundits! 

WHY THE PRESIDENT WILL BE RE-ELECTED IN NOVEMBER PLEASE WORK FOR THE ELECTION OF ELIZABETH WARREN TO THE US SENATE FROM MASSACHUSETTS

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13795-focus-did-romney-win-the-debate

Scam

Okay so now after one debate the media is going ballistic and calling it emphatically and nearly universally that the president lost and did so badly. If the American people fall for the Republican Party of lies then, as they did during the Bush years, they get the disaster they deserve. Do not come whining when NOTHING comes trickling down from the top, when the 1% go yachting and when they CREATE no jobs, nada, zilch for middle America. They WILL ship jobs overseas and we will continue to see everything on planet earth made in China. Big government bad, federal government bad are good sound bites BUT it IS JUST a sound bite. We are a HUGE country and each state on the big issues cannot be going its own way. Federalism DOES work as one can historically see from the Great Depression years of FDR.

The flaw I saw and the nearly universal flaw about which the media is blathering is that the president did not verbally chop the deception that is Romney's whole policy head off. Appeal Obamacare? Really? And replace it with what, vouchers and then what? 30 more million in ER's as Romney suggested on the stump? BAD VERY BAD and the sooner the American public gets it, IF they ever do, the better. Why did the president not get more done? Lay that at Republican obstructionist feet.

The Republican Party is NOT about you and it never will be unless you are part of the 1% wealthiest. Romney has nice hair and permanent TAX CUTS FOR THE VERY rich? WHY? So they can go to the Cayman Islands with their off shore tax free accounts, have a great time and still call themselves American? WAKE UP AMERICA YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED!

The Verdict Reworked -- a better opinion of the Brown/Warren Debate

My previous summary opinion of the Brown/Warren debate was done too hastily and at a late hour. Please forgive the less-than-well-formulated opinion. For my own pacification I reworked the following updated and more cogent (I hope!) reply.

Brown, always the bully, showed his condescending and rude character as he told Warren she was "not his professor." Moreover, he is still stuck in Cherokee nation, to which a polled electorate clearly shows it does not care about that. Elizabeth answered as completely as possible. At this point who the heck cares what part of her DNA imprint is Cherokee and which box she checked? Why doesn't Brown simply ask for a genetic sample!

Brown is NOT the Independent he says he is. He is a Republican and he does NOT vote an even Democratic and Republican split. He would vote Mitch McConnell in as leader if Republicans were to win the Senate and most probably lied when he muddied his response to that question. Not only would McConnell, for whom the unseating of the president was his only goal in a country yearning for compromise but many Republican enemies of science would be chairing committees that hold the fate of the nation’s health in their hands.

When asked who his favorite Supreme Court Justice is his poorest response and one which Brown blew a hole as wide as the ocean in his candidacy was Scalia. He squirmed and figured this was NOT the right answer or it was the "right" answer in an electorate that is not rightwingnut so he then went to Kennedy and finally to Sotomayer! From Scalia to Sotomayer — two justices who could not be more philosophically further apart! Scalia is so right wing he falls off the rightwing side of the fence. The audience booed and then laughed at Brown’s preposterously ridiculous retort. The answer to THIS question, as I see it, marks Brown's loss certainly of this debate and perhaps of the election as well. It pegged him as one of the dumbest senators posing as someone who is supposed to be smart. He isn't. He is a bully who happens to throw his weight around and knows how to be a politician.

Elizabeth Warren was superb and, as usual, brilliant. Her response to that question she zinged over the plate with a pitch of about 100 MPH. She answered easily and smiling as she probably knew Brown's all-over-the-map response could be his death knell said simply: Kagan. Yes, she got an "A+." I believe this is Scott Brown's Waterloo answer to a question that was simple. This floundering flub of a thug politician could not have answered it worse and it was an accurate reflection of his poor intellectual ability. This proof of his lack of cerebral acumen could not have happened to a more significant BULLY. He should and, hopefully, will be unseated in November.

Verdict!

The Supreme Court favorite question asked by David Gregory is the one that Brown blew by his answer a hole as wide as the ocean!!! He chose Scalia and then when he squirmed and figured this was NOT the right answer or it was the "right" answer in an electorate that is not rightwingnut so he went to Kennedy and then to Sotomayer! The audience had first a boo and then a laugh at this preposterous answer. THIS is the question that marks Brown's loss and pegs him as one of the DUMBEST senators posing as someone who is supposed to be smart. He isn't. He is a bully who happens to throw his weight around and knows how to be a politician.

Elizabeth Warren was SUPERB, utterly brilliant and her answer to that question she zinged over the plate with a pitch of about 100 MPH. She said simply and smiling as she KNEW this was Brown's death blow as she said: Kagan. Yep she got an "A++" This is Scott Brown's Waterloo answer to a question that was simple and it could not have happened to a more significant BULLY and all around JERK!
EXACTLY WHY WE NEED TO ELECT ELIZABETH WARREN TO THE US SENATE FROM MASSACHUSETTS WITHOUT FAIL!

Good Luck

Good luck to the lovely, dignified and brilliant Elizabeth Warren. She is our Song of Solomon, a virtuous woman whose price is far above rubies!!

Not So Fine with Me

I encourage you to read this attached article by Jonathan Chait in Reader Supported News entitled "The Poetic Justice of Romney’s Self Immolation" here or below.

 

This is a perfect article and right on the money (pardon the pun.)  No surprises from Mitt Romney here.

 

The American political right now residing in the Republican Party is mean, racist, and presently MOST unethical as we can now see by the Republican voter suppression tactics in all the major so called swing states.  There is something, I believe, about my liberal compatriots that says we would never deprive anyone in our nation of that which makes us us - the ability to cast a vote.  It is for most of us the only power we have.  But the right does NOT care.  If anything they want to remove even from life itself those who think a nation has the duty to provide those who cannot help themselves the basics - food, clothing, shelter and health care. 

 

Romney and his Republican Party of charlatans and those know nothings who do not know enough to figure out Romney does not give a damn about anyone but himself and those of his own class.  His class does not include most Tea Baggers who erroneously think Romney cares about them.  He doesn’t.

 

If one thinks back to the picnic table campaign lunch Romney had with middle class people one can read his body language to see how ill at ease he was with the regular folks of Bethel Park, Pittsburgh.  He even insulted their freely-provided cookies.  But when he was attending the infamous 47% comment Florida dinner of those millionaires and billionaires whom he counted on for cash he felt just fine.  One can see it.

 

He did not fool me for a minute.  He and his Republican Party surely are not and never have been fine with me!

 

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/13737-the-poetic-justice-of-romneys-self-immolation

 

Why we MUST UNEQUIVOCALLY support the re-election of our president and of course elect the GREAT Elizabeth Warren to the US Senate from Massachusetts!