During the Ed Schultz show on Friday, Ed asked Col. Wilkerson was asked what he thought of Mr. Sununu’s comment and this was what a decorated Republican Col. Wilkerson had to say in a grand scheme of things:

My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people, not all of them, but most of them, who are still basing their positions on race. Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists, and the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin, and that’s despicable.

Yes, that’s despicable indeed but I have said my peace on these Republican feces who have forgotten how America has been built.

Oh well, as usual, the Teabaging Republican Party just keeps continuing to undressed themselves in so many ways for the worst and we will be around to take it to the bank.

…and then the contrast where in the Ad below President Obama speaks directly to Latinos in Spanish:

“En los jóvenes conocidos como los DREAMers, veo las mismas cualidades que Michelle y yo tratamos de inculcar en nuestras hijas. Respetan a sus padres. Estudian para superarse. Y quieren aportar al único país que conocen y aman. Como padre, me inspiran. Y como Presidente su valentía me han hecho recordar que ningún obstáculo es muy grande. Ningún camino muy largo.”

Translation…

“In youth known as DREAMers, I see the same qualities that Michelle and I try to instill in our daughters. Respect their parents. Studied to overcome. And they want to contribute to the only country they know and love. As a parent, I am inspired. And as President bravery have reminded me that no obstacle is too big. No long way. “

Mitt Romney obviously don’t get it but he will get it on November 6. Don’t Boo, VOTE!

Joe Biden clearly won the debate simply because he was sincere, had passion and conviction, he knew and lived most of what he was talking about and more than anything he was not artificial and aloof like his debating “friend” from the other side was.  The contrast couldn’t be any clearer on issue after issue as Joe Biden showed the difference between the look back and stay in the ditch plan of Romney/Ryan and the moving forward plan of the President.

Biden didn’t waste one minute going after Romney’s record from the get go. He started with dismantling the bogus assertion that Romney cares about 100% of America as he hammered Romney’s denigration that American people would never “take personal responsibility” exposing the behind close door billionaire and millionaire private meeting where Romney said,  he doesn’t worry about the 47% Americans” showing that the Romney/Ryan ticket is disconnected and don’t understand the middle class.

On Medicare, Biden clearly made Paul Ryan drink, drink and drink more water as he hammered the fact that the Romney plan is a plan to privatized medicare pointing out Ryan himself has called it a voucher program that will put seniors in the hole as per the analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that found the out-of-pocket costs to seniors would be $6,350 more than the traditional medicare as the Romney/Ryan plan favor premium support that will turn Medicare from a defined benefit into a defined contribution program.

Of course, Ryan tried to put fear in the minds of seniors claiming under the President’s plan, $716 billion is cut from medicare benefit –a claim that fact-checking watchdogs and others have called misleading. However, Vice President Biden was right there to debunk the lies in a very forceful manner talking to the camera asking seniors how their medicare plan has worked for them or if they have been denied any benefits and to judge for themselves while indirectly telling the American people the guy next to him is lying to them reminding them that the $716 billion cut will only effect Hospital reimbursement rates for hospitals and private health insurance companies by cutting the huge profit hospitals and insurance companies are making off of Medicare and that no benefit or service is cut from their plan. Biden also mentioned that seniors to check with one of the largest non-profit senior’s healthcare advocate, AARP, and what members of the AARP have to say on the matter in addition to looking at their existing plan and how ObamaCare has reduced their out of pocket expenses.

On taxes, Joe Biden kept on fact checking Paul Ryan on the spot nailing him for how  Romney’s plan  does not make mathematical sense cutting taxes across the board 20% for a total of $5 trillion and try to pay for it by cutting deductions.  When Paul Ryan was asked to provide explanation for what deductions they would cut to make up this made for the rich $5 trillion in tax cuts to only give a phony explanation of — oh well, we will have to work with congress to reach to that principle was all he has to say. However, Biden was right there explaining and hammering their true plan and how cutting deductions on the middle class would force tax increases on 95 percent of the population, while those making more than $200,000 would see a net tax cut.

On foreign policy, specifically on Iran, Paul Ryan implied that the Obama Administration  opposed imposing sanctions on Iran accusing Biden and Obama of ignoring Netanyahu in the process giving Iran the time to building a nuclear weapon while even the Israelis with so much stake have acknowledged and praised what President Obama is doing is more than anyone in the past regarding their security. Low and behold, Joe Biden was on point dismissing Ryan’s assertion as “a bunch of stuff”. He went on explaining to Ryan about the sanction and its effectiveness like a parent teaches their children on how to add one plus one pointing a laundry list of the effects of the sanction like how Iran’s currency is in the downfall and how their economy is suffering, and to claim that the Iran policy is “unraveling before our eyes” as Ryan suggested was being dishonest and just a “bunch of stuff”.  Biden called him out on it saying, “these are the most crippling sanctions in the history of sanctions, period”. The funny part of all this is when asked if a military attack on Iran would be effective, Ryan didn’t answer while it’s clear that attack on Iran would give Iran reason to justify to its people why they need a nuclear program. When asked what Romney/Ryan would do differently, Ryan pretty much said, we would do what the Obama administration has been doing. Go figure!

On Afghanistan, since the beginning of the campaign, the Romney/Ryan campaign has criticized the administration’s foreign policy including Afghanistan policy that will withdraw troops by 2014 while offering no specifics alternatives and at the debate there was nothing new from Paul Ryan except criticize the administration’s policy while saying “we don’t want to stay” in Afghanistan only to endorse the President’s Afghanistan timeline to withdraw by 2014.

On Syria, the non-stop criticism and hypocrisy to politicize every foreign event was very obvious not to mention the preemptive criticism on Libya that was disgraceful and an embarrassment to Mitt Romney. Doubling down during the debate, Paul Ryan said, “What we are witnessing, as we turn on our television screens [FOX News Network -- can't help laughing] these days, is the absolute unraveling of the Obama foreign policy.” When asked what the Romney/Ryan ticket will do different about Syria, Ryan actually said, “we agree with the same red line [as the Obama Administration does] on chemical weapons, but not putting American troops in, other than to secure those chemical weapons. They’re right about that”.  So, what is that Ryan witnessing or what is unraveling that is so bad that the Romney/Ryan camp does not have any new ideas about how they will do things differently than the President if they agree with all of what the Obama Administration is doing? The hypocrisy was very obvious when Biden continue to press Ryan for new policy or ideas the Romney team has to ensure that President Obama will not blow it when it comes to U.S. national security. Of course, no new ideas from Romney/Ryan camp.

On Abortions, while Biden made it clear that his religious beliefs about when life began should not be something that has to be forced onto others who did not share the same religious beliefs he has, Paul Ryan made it clear that because of his religious beliefs his ticket will work to prevent women from having the right to choose to have an abortion if a woman wanted one. Paul Ryan also continued lying about abortion funding accusing Democrats of supporting abortion “without restriction and with taxpayer funding” which has not been the case for three decade since 1977 as per the Hyde Amendment that restricts federal funding for abortion. What Joe Biden did here was that he believe in separation of Churches and State is something fundamental that we can’t impose religious views on other. A message that is accepted widely as a winner.

On the Stimulus, Paul Ryan was shameless calling it a failed policy as if he was not advocating for it during the Bush administration in 2002 arguing that spending creates jobs. Not only was the Stimulus a key to reviving the economy that was in the tank but according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), it has helped create as many as 3.3 million jobs to the economy. However, Joe Biden was right there slapping Ryan like a school boy with his hand on a cookie jar exposing the truth about the letters Ryan had sent to the Vice President’s office requesting for stimulus funds for his district. If it was such a failure, then why ask?

On the Auto Bailout, Joe Biden was proud and passionate about the accomplishment of the Administration on the revival of the Auto industry that saved over a million jobs and growing today while slamming Romney’s “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” op-ed, to only hear from Paul Ryan the usual dishonest misinformation of denial claiming “Mitt Romney’s a car guy” and “they keep misquoting him” as if the America people are blind to see the evidence where Romney had doubled down confirming his position that he would let Detroit go Bankrupt.

Overall, it was a night that Joe Biden should be happy about and where Democrats should be proud of. One thing for sure is that according to an instant poll taken by CBS News, uncommitted voters saw Vice President Joe Biden as the winner over Paul Ryan in the Vice Presidential debate. More voters by 85 to 75 percent margin thought Biden was knowledgeable about the issues and by a 56 to 48 percent margin thought Biden would be an effective President. Joe Biden was indeed smirking, snorting and laughing at Paul Ryan because that stuff coming out of Ryan was indeed a joke and we should all laugh at a bunch of “malarkey” that can not be taken seriously.

And then, here we have where the Republican leadership and institution have said so many things that pretty much confirms the real Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney is not worthy of being a President and voters must know the kind of pathological “liar” he is as Newt Gingrich notes it in the video below. The argument that must be made is when you have a person with so many character flaws and dishonest behavior, how could anyone trust him as a commander-in-chief. What will he be lying about next?

Here are things you must continue to do:

1. Vote early if you can.
2. Help get out the vote for President Obama
3. Donate here for the Obama Campaign
4. Know your voting right and help educate others about voter suppression/intimidation efforts
5. Help transport others on election day.
6. Get involved. Get involved. Get involved.

Jim Messina, Obama’s campaign manager, reported in an email communication to supporters that the total number of donations effort “surpassed 10 million donations so far in 2012″, with 567,044 were first time donors in September, contributing an average donation of $53. In total, about 98% of the donations were under $250. This is a huge success story for the Obama Administration.

However, if you think this money is enough to battle what Romney’s super PACs have stored in the next few weeks, let me remind you about the money that Romney surrogates  have already spent. Since this presidential campaign began, independent groups/Super PACs have spent as of October 6, 2012, at least $309 million on television advertisements.  A breakdown of who these PACs are can be found here. About 82% ($255 Million) of this money was raised by Republican PACs and has been spent attacking President Obama 100%. If you ask where this money is coming from, it certainly is not from the 10 million middle class American. The Romney campaign has been financed by corporations and those at the top 1% of America and they have been battering President Obama with so many misinformation and lies in favor of their candidate, Mitt Romney.

When I heard someone say that it would be a big mistake to write off Mitt Romney, I chuckle silently with amusement about how in the world anyone would think Mitt Romney can win this election with so many of his flip flop positions and lies. In fact, I am silently planning my election watch party at my house where I plan to invite a lot of friends and passionate supporters who have worked hard to celebrate four more years of President Obama just like I did in Nov 2008.

…and then, I started asking can this flawed candidate becomes President lying through one of the most scrutinized election in the world,  If he does win, I must say he sure is the most talented con-artist ever. Here is the thing though, we haven’t cast one vote yet but we have seen bazillions of obituaries from many pundits where they have pretty much characterized this election as already been decided for President Obama in the moment of many disastrous moves by Romney’s utterly failed campaign until just the last debate where he lied through it all to appear he has substance. Low and behold, the American people who are not engaged bought that dishonest performance.

When someone lies and hold a flip flopping positions faster than a bullet and continue to lie about their flip flopped position consistently as Romney had during and prior to the debate, you have to ask about the character of the person and the kind of ethical standard one would bring into the oval office. The refusal to show his tax return, his many flip flopping positions, the empty chair action thriller by Eastwood at the RNC, the “dazzling, deceitful, and distracting” Ryan’s speech, the disastrous substanceless Republicans convention, the London gaffe, the politicization of Americans death in Libya, the I don’t give a damn about the 47% hidden agenda and the  brown face appeal to Latino voters and more deep rooted hidden positions should immediately disqualify Mitt Romney as the most untrustworthy dishonest man for the position of Presidency. All these thing have indeed tipped this election’s momentum in favor of President Obama with 75.2 percent chance of winning the Electoral College until the lackluster debate performance of President Obama last Wednesday.

The truth is I never bought into the notion that this election is over when more than half of the country is not informed about candidate’s political positions.  I don’t think it would be off the mark to say that the same pundits who had been dumping on Mitt Romney will not hesitate dumping on the President if they are given an opening since of course their memory as usual does tricks on them.

The point is the next 29 days are the most important campaign days where as grassroots supporters we have to press hard to get out the votes, make calls, contribute and do what we can because the stakes are too high and too important for our generation and the next to get caught sleeping. Liars will get busted one way or another but I don’t want to wait seating around for someone else to bust them crack open. It is our responsibility to do our part. Don’t mind the debate because I thought in the 2004 election John Kerry had the 2004 election in the bag after the first debate that made George Bush look like delusional. One friend put it well when she said,

Only a rich white guy can get on a stage and rattle off a lie per minute and be declared a winner. Sickening and disturbing. I will say that President Obama missed some opportunities — no doubt about that, but O’s missed opps does not make sociopath Romney a “winner” by any stretch of the imagination.

The lying game has been going on full force for quite some time and if we are going to win this election, we have to go to work hard in the next 29 days by speaking the truth against those who want to buy their way into the Whitehouse. Let’s go to work.

Obama/Biden 2012!

Isn’t it fascinating how quickly these supposed “allies” turn the minute that the women or people of color don’t do it their way?? Even if their way is wrong???  ~ Nancy Heitzeg

I feel a conviction to share this article because it speaks volume about the mind set of some White Man even from the left who feel they know everything as if they have this supernatural power to tell other what is right or wrong. Let’s face it, President Obama’s performance was not his “A” game last Wednesday. Does that give people like Chris Matthew, Ed Schultz, etc., the right to ridicule our President as if he hasn’t been prosecuted by racists teabagging Republican party the last four years? I find the behavior of those on the left who can’t see their flaws fascinating indeed as Nancy notes but most importantly these are the kinds of people who will sink the Democratic Party be it out of ignorance or entitlement of White Privilege. We all have a responsibility to stop this premature ejaculation so let’s step up and tell these people to chill the fuck out.

Full version of this post is located at criticalmassprogress.com – Sunshine Patriots and Fair Weather White Guys by nancy a heitzeg. 

by nancy a heitzeg

Where were the Great White Liberal WhalesPundits following Mitt Romney’s sweaty serial lie-fest of last Wednesday??

Were they busily fact-checking his lie a minute “performance”??

Were they bemoaning his bullying tactics? Questioning his cheat-sheet?? Speculating – a’la Jack Welch – that he seemed higher than rigged BLS job numbers??

Were they decrying the disgusting deployment of a very vicious  “Father Knows Best” Patriarchy that will cut off your Big Bird kids to save literal pennies for writing his rich friends a tax cut??

Were they, great fair weather fighters of racism, asking (as Chris Rock did) if Mitt Romney just called the President a “boy”??

Oh No..

Confusing a Presidential Debate with a hockey game, they were outraged!! outraged!! that the President did not leave Romney’s blood on the ice.

Unable to escape the lure of patriarchal show of force metaphors, they uniformly abdicated any claim to either journalism or liberalism and defaulted to tantrums.

White Man 101.

A “stunned” and red-faced Ed Schultz foamed at the mouth and metaphorically broke shit.

Chris Matthews was in full melt-down, fantasizing that Hardball is somehow the equivalent of Kill Bill I and II. “We have our knives out!!!!”

Read the full version at criticalmassprogress.

The point is the fight has been going on for a while and we don’t fold in the forth quarter because of snowflakes.

Here are things you must continue to do:

1. Vote early if you can.
2. Help get out the vote for President Obama
3. Donate here for the Obama Campaign
4. Know your voting right and help educate others about voter suppression/intimidation efforts
5. Help transport others on election day.
6. Get involved. Get involved. Get involved.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!

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Speaking to the top 1% of Americans behind closed doors in a private fundraiser, Mitt Romney characterized the majority of President Obama supporters as people who are parasites who are “dependent on government”. He sure didn’t hold back nothing but pore out everything on the table about what he really believes about half of America. In a video captured by Mother Jones Magazine, Romney said:

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.

Apparently this short video is just an excerpt of a whole full hour speech captured by an attendee of the fund raiser who wants to stay unanimous but who has now provided the full hour worth of speech to Mother Jones’ David Corn.

For someone who does seem to want to win those who voted for President Obama, Mitt Romney clearly has shown how much he cares for all Americans while stating his “job is not to worry about those people” claiming that he “will never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives“. So, all along he believes for a lack of a better word, as Newt Gingrich often refers to the President, that President Obama is a “food stamp President” for helping all Americans that are struggling in this hard economy since most of these people being helped are irresponsible Democrats and don’t care for their lives.

In response to the hidden camera content, Mitt Romney’s campaign did not apologize for such a mean spirited characterization of the middle class he does not understand but released a statement online Monday evening:

Mitt Romney wants to help all Americans struggling in the Obama economy. As the governor has made clear all year, he is concerned about the growing number of people who are dependent on the federal government, including the record number of people who are on food stamps, nearly one in six Americans in poverty, and the 23 million Americans who are struggling to find work. Mitt Romney’s plan creates 12 million new jobs in four years, grows the economy and moves Americans off of government dependency and into jobs.

All I have to say is show me the plan.

Considering the line of attack from Romney that President Obama voters depend on Government checks, that the country is going socialist under President Obama, that President Barack Obama is interested in creating an “entitlement society”, or the lies he continue to tell that President Obama is giving a state-by-state welfare waivers to “shore up his base”, are we to believe anything this man says anymore.

Be aware of who you are voting for America!