Liberal media colludes with Axelrod to release an edited tape that they were forced to admit has 2 minutes missing after initial denials.

  The MSM joins in and spends the next 48 hours trashing Romney and finally declares Romney dead.

Unfortunately for the media, Gallup asked the voters and voila the race is still tied:  Obama-47 Romney-47

Oh well.

Why isn’t the top headline ‘bizarre administration behavior on mid-east crisis’.

-Susan Rice’s strange instance on every morning show that there was no premeditation in the attack on the consulate and every protest was tied to a video no one had seen.

-Every Jay Carney presser this week

-No answer on security arrangements

-No coverage in the US press about warnings of an attack

Could it be that they just spent a week celebrating Bin Laden’s death and printing up political bumper stickers to that effect and now they are caught in a retribution attack from Al Qaeda?

Also, since the administration refuses to sell their GM stock because the stock price is so low that the loss would exceed $25B and be an embarrassment that the new bumper sticker now reads:

“Al Qaeda is alive and GM is half-dead”

Heh!

President Obama is running a campaign stating that ‘If you’re interested in protecting religious freedom, I’m your man’. Every Catholic knows this is a bald lie. He is going to force Catholics to act againt their conscience in the health care law.

We Americans can believe that someone would hedge or prevaricate, but we can’t believe someone would flat out lie, we’re good natured.

Did you see the president’s campaign’s new version of the U.S. flag, with no stars but the Obama symbol in the top left corner?

As the Middle East is in danger of being taken over by radical Islamists (see the pope’s speeches in Lebanon for a road for hope), the Obama administration might go down in history as the one that lost the chance of the Arab spring for democracy to the radical Islamists, which led to a larger global conflict (see Whalid Fared on ‘World Over’, EWTN).

As a suggestion for a future show – there is currently going on a four part bipartisan discussion (four two-hour discussions with specialists, to be held in total prior to the first presidential debate) on solving the debt crisis. It’s sponsored by the CSIS among many other groups, and is the brainchild of Sam Nunn and Pete Domenici, both retired senators. It has been shown on cspan and the lectures are available on the cspan website. Speakers include everyone from Jim Baker, to former chiefs of staff, to Alan Simpson – with the determined focus to find a way forward to dealing with the federal debt crisis, and pushing congress to act to resolve it. It is a rare and clearly framed argument which cuts through much of the obfuscation of the debate. I feel if you could get one of the people involved in that onto your show, you would have a relevant hour for just about anyone in America.

-matt

I wish I had written these words, but I share them as they artfully express what I feel is the state of the Republican party today, and the hope I have that people are awakening:

The Republican disdain for ordinary working people is never more prominently on display than when they pander for our vote. No party that respected the voters could lie so glibly and with so little concern for the consequences that will inevitably befall the hapless dupes who buy their disingenuous nonsense.

There appears to be a glimmer of hope, manifest in the increasingly problematic and inept Romney campaign. People seem to be waking up to the fact that there is no place for them in a Republican future. This election will determine if ordinary people will take back their government, or if we will enter into a modern version of the Dark Ages.

Democrats are dishonest sometimes but republicans take it to a new level.Thanks to Fox News(Saudi Arabia is the second biggest stakeholder in News Corp) when Romney or Akin messes up they can comfortably go to Fox and Spin away there comments. Thanks to the fear of being called “liberal” the media has adopted the fake “Fair and Balance” He/she said. No matter the lie, the distortion, it will be presented as the other sides does it as well. Not only is this poor journalism because not all things are equal it enshrines corruption(since blame will be dismissed as partisan politics) 

I think onpoint should be aware that the guy who supposely point out the bigoted muslim video has connections to Pam Geller(listed as a hate group by the Sothern Poverty Law Center) who herself recently places bigoted ads on buses in CA. and soon to be NY. 

NPR had a great interview with Doug Saunder on his book ”
Debunking The ‘Myth Of The Muslim Tide” in it 

“In his new book, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Saunders says an increasingly influential group of writers and activists believes immigration and high birth rates will make Muslims a majority in Europe in coming decades — and that their hostility to Western values makes them a threat to Western culture, democracy and security.
Saunders argues that these fears are based on inaccurate assertions of fact, and he says the fear of Muslim immigration in the U.S. is similar to past chapters in American history about other immigrant groups.”
Also a interesting piece of info came out as well

Not Qualified: Exposing the Deception Behind America’s Top 25 Pseudo Experts on Islam,” was released by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a Muslim-American advocacy group. 

http://www.mpac.org/publications/policy-papers/not-qualified-exposing-pseudo-experts-on-islam.php 

This is the unspinnable, condescending slur that Mitt Romney hurled at 47% of Americans:

“These are people who pay no income tax…. [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” 

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/19/161401917/weekly-standard-what-romney-meant 

On top of the contempt and the promise to only represent the wealthiest half of the country, what makes this so unforgiveable is the fact that Mitt knew it was a lie because his own father’s life proved it wasn’t true.

Listen to Mitt’s mother explain that George Romney spent 4 years on welfare before rising to become the CEO of American Motors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DgB3WASwXA

That’s right. Mitt Romney himself was the product of the government “entitlements” he  derides and wants to deny to those in need, as his Dad once was.

He really was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.

Justifiably a lot of the attention has been focused on the remarks made by Mitt Romney in that video of him speaking before a select group of very wealthy donors to his campaign—Mitt being who he really is and feeling free to speak his mind before his sort of people—that concerned how the 47% of Americans who pay no income tax are dependent on government handouts and so will only vote for Obama.  So less attention has been focused on other things Romney had to say like:

Romney speaking of those who say the he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, “‘Oh, you were born with a silver spoon,’ you know, ‘You never had to earn anything,’ and so forth. And, and frankly, I was born with a silver spoon, which is the greatest gift you could have, which is to get born in America. I’ll tell ya, there is — 95 percent of life is set up for you if you’re born in this country.”

Well Mitt you are correct that you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth and 95% of your success can be traced to that.  But that silver spoon was not being born in America.  It was being born to a wealthy father that paid for your primary education at an elite boarding school, paid for your undergraduate college education and graduate study at Harvard Business School, and paid for your family’s first house.  That’s a silver spoon very few Americans are born with.  It does explain Mitt why you can make such clueless statements as suggesting students who wish to attend college should “just borrow the money from their parents.”  Your whole life has been one of privilege with your only exposure to middle and lower class Americans being as your employees that you love to fire if another can be found that will work for less, and whether or not they are paid enough to afford food, shelter, and health care for their families is not something you feel you should be expected to worry about.

I also have to comment on the Republicans attempts to use a supposedly newly uncovered video clip of Obama (recorded 14 years ago and already used in 2008 by the McCain campaign)  as a counter to try and do damage control for Romney.  This is the complete “redistribution of wealth” comment in full:

“As we think about the policy research surrounding the issues that I just named — policy research for the working poor, broadly defined — I think that what we’re gonna have to do is somehow  resuscitate the notion that government action can be effective at all. There has been a systematic, I don’t think it’s too strong to call it a propaganda campaign, against the possibility of government action and its efficacy. And I think some of it has been deserved. Chicago Housing Authority has not been a model of good policy making. And neither necessarily have been the Chicago public schools. What that means then is that as we try to resuscitate this notion that we’re all in this thing together, leave nobody behind, we do have to be innovative in thinking how, what are the delivery systems that are actually effective and meet people where they live, and my suggestion I guess would be that the trick, and this is one of the few areas where I think there have to be technical issues that have to be dealt with as opposed to  just political issues, how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody’s got a shot. How do we pool resources at the same time as we decentralize delivery systems in ways that both foster competition, can work in the marketplace, and can foster innovation at the local level and can be tailored to particular communities.”

Judge for yourself if Obama is saying government should be a thieving Robin Hood stealing from hard working people to give to people who don’t want to provide for themselves.

Notice how F&F the Republicans go batsh@t crazy yet when the U.S. tortures, spies on it’s citizens, curve the first amendment, due-process free assassination(even teens) and expanding the White House powers to lock up american citizens without charge their rarely nowhere to be found besides joyfully voting for these violations.   

P.S.

The White House DOJ is pissed that it’s expansion of the NDAA is being held up in court .

Wonderful analysis of the current Republicans, including Romney, in this piece by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/opinion/krugman-disdain-for-workers.html

Humor me as I lay out a brief hypothetical.

1.  Mitt Romney loses the election by 5 points.

2.  Resentful conservatives blame Romney for the defeat.  They rage about him being a RINO.

3.  The republican party moves even further to the right.

Could it go down this way?

Mitt, you want people to like paying taxes?  I guess  you’ll be first in line.

Say it in short sentences in terms that the average person can understand – people who “don’t pay taxes” are people who get tax refunds. Yes, they’re paying taxes.  Say it in terms people understand.  

How did this current caller get through?  She is completely ridiculous.

I bet she got government loans and grants to go to college.

The Republicans could win this election easily.  Drop the tax cuts for the wealthy.  Americans know that the wealthy have made out much better over the last 30 years as designed by the wealthy through political control.  NAFTA, trade liberalization with China and a strong dollar policy pushed by Clinton and the Republican Congress have severally hurt the American middle class.   Reform is needed of welfare programs, but giving tax cuts to the wealthy will do nothing to create jobs.  Bill Gates would have started Microsoft whether he made 50 billion or 100 million.

What does Romney’s apparent incompetence on the campaign trail say about his supposed experience as a business executive? What sort of company could succeed if it were run like this campaign? I think it shows that success in business does not a good politician make. 

As for the 47%. I am a medical student. I don’t pay federal income taxes. I receive help from the government in the form of subsidized loans. I have every intention of contributing to this country and this economy in a meaningful way and I find Mr. Romney’s words offensive, not just to me but to every person out there working toward a career, looking for a hard-to-find job, or reaping the benefits of years paying into the system. 

Romney is going to cut tax rates but pay for it by getting
rid of loopholes. HELLOOOOOOO Mitt. Do the arithmetic. If you increase
the taxable income and drop the rates NOTHING CHANGES.

 And based on the comments just made by Jack, I am incorrect. Something changes, the rich pay less and the not rich pay more.

Yep, he is looking out for 100% of the citizens of the USA.

The 47% comments are, for me, not about the facts of who does or doesn’t pay what tax or when in their life time, but what it says about how Romney perceives people who are unlike him and his idea about how gov’t works and what its role should be in society. He is disdainful of people not born into his class and doesn’t believe that gov’t should play a role to support people in society. His business has received plenty of financial support from the gov’t, so his comments show he’s a hypocrite and a liar.

Jack, if you’re going to comment on the week in politics, you really need to keep current. In the swing states that will decide this election, Republicans no longer have an edge on Democrats in enthusiasm:

Democratic Enthusiasm Swells in the Swing States, Nationally

Overall, 59% of swing-state voters now highly enthusiastic, up from 46% in June

whereas equal percentages of Democrats and Republicans were enthusiastic in June, Democrats are now significantly more enthusiastic than Republicans, 73% vs. 64%. 

http://www.gallup.com/poll/157547/democratic-enthusiasm-swells-swing-states-nationally.aspx

I’ve stopped counting the number of posts from the parrots screaming “WHERE ARE THE 2 MINUTES!.” 

Each time I read one, I think of a parrot screaming “2 minutes BAWWK!  EDITTED BAWWWK!”

Please please tell us what could POSSIBLY be contained in the BAWWWK 2 Minutes BAWWK portion of the recording that could put Mr. Romney’s words into a better light.

Please.

So Romney attacked Obama for saying ” You can’t change government from the inside”

Guess who else said ” You can’t change goverment from the inside?

Romney.

Mr. Romney’s job creation plan:

1. Say stupid crass disdainful stuff, giving endless new opportunities for unemployed joke writers, cartoonists, comedians and satirists.

2. Continue to make comments that contradict the comments he just made, giving new opportunities to anatomists and physiologists to research how many sides Mr. Romney’s mouth actually has

Did everyone see that the Obama Administration is running apology comercials in Packastan stating that the US doesn’t support the offensive video with your tax payer dollars!

Hey, did you see Lord Etchasketch released an “executive summary” of his tax returns?

“Romney’s campaign now claims the lowest effective rate he ever paid was 13.66 percent and that the average across the 20 year period 20.20 percent.”

OMG! The right runs around like chicken little screaming that the sky will fall if we don’t fix the big bad deficit, and they are totally unconcerned with an oligarch paying 20%!!!

How hard is it to see that their real agenda is redistribution upward?

In yet more romney humor, did you see that some campaign aides received bonuses? Apparently no matter where he goes, the financial con culture will follow. For him to be a real financier, tho, he’ll have to keep rewarding them with even more goodies when he loses the election

While we are wringing our hands over the percentage of people who pay Federal income tax, a few facts are critical. Prior to the Great Recession of 2008, the percentage was about 40% (that and above through the Bush years up to the end of his tenure).

The  recession and the consequent greater unemployment took nearly 600,000 people per month (the average job losses of late 2008 and early mid 2009) off the tax rolls. And there was another expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, increases to which  had historically caused spikes in the number not paying Federal Income taxes for obvious reasons and as many have noted Republicans have traditionally liked the EITC and its apparent track record in getting people into work even if while they are paying other taxes are not paying Federal.

And when Clinton ran budget surpluses before the 2001 (and subsequent 2009) EITC expansion, the percent paying Federal taxes was about 35%.

Thus, if we were to get back to Clinton era surpluses it is not going to be necessary to have much more than the percent we will likely get back to when this recession is truly over (probably low to mid 40% range) to accomplish that end.

Steve Nelson

The release of the 2011 tax information (not actually filed yet) was a sad desperate attempt to change the conversation from the 47% video.

I want to know what Romney is going to do to get some of those “47%” back to work.

1) Will he renegotiate out “free trade” agreements to convert them to fair trade?
2) Will he do ANYTHING to stop outsourcing? The Trade Deficit?
3) Will he REALLY do about the 7-8 million illegals who hold jobs here?
4) Will he end/modify the H1B visa program that has destroyed the careers of many STEM workers.

Nah, business as usual. Soon it will be 57%…

The White House’s initial narrative on the terrorist attacks has come completely unraveled. Masked men using military tactics is not an organic protest gone wild. Then the President went on Univision and lied. It’s embarrassing. We are spending tax payer money to run ads apologizing to our killers. It’s despicable. Obama is either an incompetent liar or he is the enemy. I honestly don’t know.

Mr. & Mrs. Romney’s 2011 tax returns can be viewed/downoaded at Romney’s website, here:

http://www.mittromney.com/disclosure/mitt/tax-return/2011/wmr-adr-return

Glad he finally got around to releasing this return.  Too bad it still presents massive problems to his campaign.

Just a few tidbits from the 379 page tax return:

1.  More than half of the return involves the patriotic Romneys’ foreign holdings.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

2.  The Romneys did not claim all available charitable deductions, foregoing $1,770,000 of legitimate deductions.

Why would they do this?  Why overpay the hated Federal government by HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS?  Only to conform to an August campaign statement that Romney never paid an effective tax rate of less than 13 percent of his income!

The Romneys’ financial trustee, R. Bradford Malt, said “The Romneys’ generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor’s statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13% in income taxes in each of the last 10 years.”

(source: Romney’s website  http://www.mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-view/2012/09/note-trustee-brad-malt )

3.  Of the deductions claimed, some of the non-cash contributions were of shares of stock in Sensata Technologies. Sensata is owned by Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney, and is currently in the process of outsoucing 170 jobs to China.  Workers at their Illinois plant have to train their Chinese replacements.

More to come from the 379 pages, no doubt.

Mike Card, I am replying up here because I want everyone to see this. You claimed Romney enjoyed firing people. I guess you thought I never heard or thought about the quote but I gave you the chance to reread it before you doubled down on the meaning. I asked you to do so. Here is the quote directly from your accurate link: “I like being able to fire people.” You ignored the words “being able”. He did not say, “I like firing people”. 

So, what is the alternative? Obviously it would be: “I don’t like being able to fire people”. Have you ever been an employer? What if you could not fire crackheads, slackers or incompetence? What if you could only hire but could not fire? Is that good business?

Next time Harry Reid whines about someones taxes he  should be asked how a lifelong bureaucrat became a multimillionaire and maybe he should show his tax returns.

Harry Reid owes Romney an apology.

Here’s a whopper from Obama’s Letterman appearance. 

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/24/obamateurism-of-the-day-832/