I am so proud of Gloria, my mother-in-law, she has come a long way. It has been extremely difficult to discuss politics with her over the years. She, like many others, would vote the party line instead of voting for a person.
She has stopped drinking the Cool-Aide and is now finally come around to understand that our current President has been a total failure. It is very clear to me, if men and women like Gloria are finally seeing the light, Mitt Romney will be the next President of this country and not any too soon.
As a senior citizen, she is no longer afraid that anything will be taken away from her. She recognizes that her grandchildren and great grandchild will be in serious trouble, if something isn’t done to stop this spending craze.
The email below is what she sent me, I thought I would share it with you:
I have for the past couple of nights watched and listened to Ann Romney talk about her husband. Was fascinated and finally so glad to find out just what kind of a person Mitt was. Surely was a revelation. Also heard from people to whom Romney has helped. I was getting to know him on a much higher plane than before and liked what I was being told about him.
I really do feel that Mitt will do for our country what he says he will. I believe he has deep compassion and integrity and can help lead us out of this horrible mess we are in. Stayed until the last balloon came down and listened carefully to all Mitt Romney had to say.
I found myself not only liking this man, but feeling a trust I do not feel for Obama. I do not know about this movie you mentioned on email, but I do know that Obama is ruining this country and putting us in the worst position we have ever been in. I know that after listening to all the past few nights one of the things Romney said besides other things, that resonated was, what happened to all those wonderful promises Obama made on election night.
I understand Obama is going to do a TV thing where we are supposed to know more about the man. I no longer care what he says, and like millions of others was thoroughly duped by Obama. I am amazed at how many people still believe in him and think he deserves another 4 years.
For the second time in my life I am going to vote Republican this presidential election. However, I want democrats in the house of representatives and in the senate and congress. There are many good people in the democratic party, and frankly I dislike the tea party ultra conservatives and how they think and so on. This is going to be a very close election and I worry for our country if Obama has another 4 years.
Joe Petrowsky, Right Trac Financial Group
It would be nice if some of you on the far right actually based your comments on facts. President Obama was a U.S. Senator for a few years. I would think that qualifies as work history. I am surprised at some of the statements on the blog. They have no basis in fact and are just repetitions of the fuzzy and sometimes bizarre statements of far right pundits, websites and talk show hosts. Those commenting often repeat the same comment (often verbatim) that they have posted on another thread.
Perfectly trained to repeat rhetoric, it's actually kind of facinating while very scary. If you watch Fauxnews or catch a retarded statement by Rush you'll see that within 24 hours the flock are repeating it verbatim as if it were indeed a fact. The right can say anything, they still have people believing that Obama has DEATH PANELS that are gonna get'ya. They are incapable of learning, history has been rewritten for them, it is like mass mind control on a grand scale, which was why fauxnews was created, not to stop the lies of the liberal media, to stop people from finding out truth. And it has worked and damaged America in more ways then we currently know or see. The movie that has started the riots in the ME is a prime example, I am sure that it will come to be that it was PAC money that funded it to create more propaganda, to keep the flames of hate alive, to seperate us. I have always found this a great analogy of our current situation ( contains language) but hysterical and very true. This is what the right is doing to the people of America: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqW-Fv1eLCU&list=FLJYB8sCeFFNRhY3bc0g8vYA&index=4&feature=plpp_video
Your choice.
how do we get the people they have suckered to see the truth?? many of them are unemployed or on disability but would allow and rejoice the return of Bush era policies and trickle down and an elimination of S/S and Medicare, programs they need and use as much as anyone else now that's astounding mind control!!!!!!!!!!
And why would anyone want to make a joke about the internment of our Japanese-American citizens? Is that a Rush Limbaugh tactic?
I have found many of these right wing snobby arrogant holier than thou smart asses to be the same people who were the snobs in high school, the ones who (typically the Buffy and Biff's) sat around making fun of people and putting them down to make themselves feel superior. Even their politicians and media people like McConnel, Boner, Rush, Hannity, are snobs, arrogant, full of themselves ...........basically jerks
I have been trying to figure it out, it is very strange how they are unable to see truth, even if you give them a document or show them a video that clearly proves the lies. We are living through some very bad times in terms of intellectual intelligence.
He stated he is sick of the repub BS and lies and that they cater to the rich and not to average businesses. So they are not all complete fools, some can see and think outside the box, but I think they are exremely rare.
You actually argued for trickle down. You did not realize that all what you said argued for trickle down until the offshore bank accounts. All the comments including fair and reasonable taxes argued for trickle down or the fact it does work. “Policies that support…” is usually translated as giving money or loopholes to these things so that the work will trickle down to the broader economy. Consider again those policies fall quickly into the realm of “Friends” meaning the connected get the benefit. Then you complain it is not your unconnected “friends”, I know you just don’t see the slippery slope.
You are equally guilty of fuzzy logic as I have shown repeatedly. I do keep track of my comments because your arguments are so often slightly reformulated comments. Do not throw stones while you are in a glass house. I am not saying it is right or wrong. It just is.
Another one of my favorite all-time movie lines was from that era as well. OK, who remembers, "220, 221, whatever it takes!" What movie and who said it?
Fair and reasonable taxes means a progressive tax structure. It means the wealthy do not hide their money in offshore accounts and the closing of unfair tax loopholes the wealthy use to increase their wealth. (The mortgage interest tax deduction on second homes was an example of an unfair tax loophole.) It does not mean a 90 percent top tax rate.
Supply-side economics is a school of macroeconomic thought that argues that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering barriers for people to produce (supply) goods and services, such as lowering income tax and capital gains tax rates, and by allowing greater flexibility by reducing regulation. Now we can spend time discussing incentives. So there is no alternative to trickle down. Please provide a theory that differs from trickle down. No one seems to be able to.