2012 Election

[American Patriot]

hahahha

[American Patriot]

Obama campaign chief: ‘We got beat,' so ‘let's ‘fight like hell'


By Olivier Knox
June 8, 2012






President Barack Obama's reelection campaign manager bluntly urged the incumbent's supporters to "fight like hell and win this thing" after Mitt Romney out-fundraised the president in May.


"For the first time in this campaign, we got beat in fundraising," Jim Messina said in an email to Obama supporters, urging them to open their wallets after Romney and the Republicans hauled in $76.8 million, compared to $60 million for the president and the Democrats.


"We knew this moment would come when Romney secured the nomination. What happens next is up to you. Help close the gap right now — make a donation of $3 or more," Messina says in the message.




Campaign aides have told Yahoo News in the past that the dollar amount requested in fundraising emails is based on prior giving. Giving nothing, apparently, yields a request for three bucks. Both sides have been battling to show an edge in small donors. The Romney campaign said it raised $12 million in donations of $250 or less in May, and 93 percent of its individual donors overall gave $250 or less. The Obama campaign said its average donation was $54.94, and 98 percent of donations were under $250.


"I want to be clear: We'll always have more people pitching in," Messina said.


"From the beginning we've built this campaign together, from the bottom up. More people giving a little bit is the only way to compete with a few people giving a lot."

[Ryan Ruck]

Paul Ryan Being Vetted for VP

June 22, 2012

I’m reliably informed that Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the Budget Committee chairman, has submitted paperwork to the Romney campaign. Sources confirm that he is being vetted for the vice-presidential nomination.

Ryan, one of the GOP’s brightest young stars, is clearly a favorite of Romney allies. But some top Republican officials are wary of plucking him from the House, where he is the party’s most influential voice on fiscal issues.

Earlier this week, Romney campaigned with Ryan in Janesville, Wis., Ryan’s hometown. Ryan previously stumped for Romney in late March and early April, ahead of Wisconsin’s Republican presidential primary.

For their part, Ryan and his team remain mum on the issue, telling NRO: “Respecting their campaign’s internal process, we’re not going to comment.”

There are certainly worse choices.

I know Marco Rubio's name has been bandied about by a number of people but I am still on the fence about him. He's pretty conservative overall but is very soft on illegal immigration from what I'm seeing.

[American Patriot]

Lawmaker Berates Double Amputee

Jul 06, 2012
Agence France-Presse
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A non-partisan U.S. veterans group stepped up calls for a Republican congressman to resign Thursday after he openly berated his double-amputee political rival for talking up her Iraq War injuries.
Representative Joe Walsh of Illinois enraged veterans with comments about Tammy Duckworth, a decorated U.S. Army pilot who in 2004 lost both her legs and nearly died when the Blackhawk helicopter she was co-piloting was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents.
On Sunday, Walsh told a town hall meeting that he was "running against a woman who -- I mean, my God, that's all she talks about," he said, claiming his Democratic opponent played on her injuries to score political points in public.
"Our true heroes, the men and women who served us, that's the last thing in the world they talk about," he added.
Walsh, who reportedly has not served in the military, repeated his criticism on Wednesday.
"She is a hero, and that demands our respect, but it doesn't demand our vote," he told CNN. "All she does, guys, is talk about her service."


The series of comments led VoteVets.org, a political action committee which supports veterans issues, to demand Walsh step down.
"He needs to just resign and stop embarrassing his constituents," VoteVets chairman Jon Soltz, himself an Iraq War veteran, said on MSNBC on Thursday.
"The guy has no idea what it means to be in the military, what it means to serve," he said, adding that Duckworth continues to serve as a lieutenant colonel in the Illinois National Guard and does seek to gain from her injuries.
"The fact is she has no legs, and it's obviously very noticeable, and that's a huge part of who she is," Soltz said.
Duckworth has served as assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs under President Barack Obama. The Iraq veteran's congressional campaign said Walsh's comments "insult those who sacrificed to make this country free."
Duckworth said this week that her wounds "do inform my discussions with the constituents when I talk about health care," particularly in the debate over Obama's landmark health care reforms that are opposed by most Republicans.
In 2006, Duckworth lost her bid for a congressional seat by about 2.5 percent of the vote.

[American Patriot]

When I ran for the school board many years back, there were three of us who had military experience. In fact, I was still serving in the Reserves.

Our bios went out mentioning the fact that we were all "veterans". Nothing more.

A few weeks later one of the others running (a liberal) attacked myself and Ernie West (a former Marine, and he was also in the Army Special Forces during the Vietnam war) as "wrapping ourselves in the US Flag" in a news paper article.

Neither of had mentioned ANYTHING about our military service anywhere except the bios!

So Liberals HATE military people.

[Ryan Ruck]

I was passing through an area of Cincinnati today called Avondale heading to a service call and saw this. Avondale is a predominantly black neighborhood that is pretty run down.

I thought this really demonstrated the state of Obama's America.



If you can't read it, it says "Hamilton County For Obama - Biden 2012".

Sad how brainwashed some people are.

[American Patriot]

Yes, the Democrats were the party of the KKK. The Democrats were the party of segregation. The Democrats were the party of Carpetbaggers. The Democrats were against the freeing of slaves. The Democrats were the party of lynchings, murders and hate.

The Democrats STILL ARE ALL THOSE THINGS.

[American Patriot]

Jul 09, 2012 Ron Paul's supporters stake last hopes on Nebraska





By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY
Updated 2h 10m ago



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By Ben Margot, AP

Supporters of Ron Paul are gearing up to make a strong showing in Nebraska this weekend, as the state's Republican Party gathers to pick delegates for the national convention.What's the big deal? If the Texas congressman can get a plurality of support, then he would qualify to get his name entered into nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
Paul stopped spending money to compete in primaries in May, but he has continued to amass presidential delegates and encouraged his supporters to have their voices heard at the convention. Mitt Romney clinched the 1,144 delegates needed for the GOP nomination in late May.
A post on The Daily Paul, a website devoted to the libertarian-thinking congressman, is urging people to show up at the Nebraska GOP meeting in Grand Island on July 14 and gives tips on how to make a difference on behalf of their candidate.
Under Rule 40, Section B in the Republican National Committee's rule book, a presidential candidate must demonstrate the support of a "plurality of the delegates from five or more states" to get his or her name entered for nomination at the convention.
Paul already has a plurality of delegates from Iowa, Maine, Minnesota and Louisiana. Nebraska is the last state that will hold its convention for delegates.
According to MSNBC's First Read blog, Nebraska's 32 delegates won't be required to match the outcome of the state's May 15 primary -- which was won by Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
Jesse Benton, Paul's national campaign chairman, declined to comment to USA TODAY about the Nebraska convention.
Nebraska Republican Party officials have, for the first time, hired security for the convention to ward off any disruptions that have occurred at state conventions such as the one in Arizona, where Paul supporters got into a shouting match with Romney supporters.

[Ryan Ruck]

Just saw on FNC that Obama's campaign spent more in June than it took in.

[American Patriot]

Good. I hope he goes broke. lol

[eversman]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/...a_pattern.html

July 16, 2012 Do Obama's Executive Orders Reveal A Pattern?

By Warren Beatty
President Barack Hussein "kill list" Obama has offered over 900 Executive Orders (EO), and he is not even through his first term. He is creating a wonderland of government controls covering everything imaginable, including a list of "Emergency Powers" and martial law EOs. And while Obama is busy issuing EOs to control everything inside the US, he has been issuing EOs to force us to submit to international regulations instead of our US Constitution.
And comments by North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue and former OMB director Peter Orszag only contribute to this pattern.
Is it now time to start connecting the dots? Obama signed EO 13603 on March 22, 2012. Then he signed EO 13617 on June 25, 2012, declaring a national emergency. Then he signed EO 13618 on July 6, 2012.
In EO 13603, entitled, "National Defense Resources Preparedness," Obama says (among other things) that [we must]:

be prepared, in the event of a potential threat to the security of the United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate resources and production capability, including services and critical technology, for national defense requirements;

Obama has the power, through this EO, to "nationalize" (not seize) private assets in order to protect national interests. Further, the EO effectively states that he can:
1. "identify" requirements for emergencies
2. "assess" the capability of the country's industrial and technological base
3. "be prepared" to ensure the availability of critical resources in time of national threat
4. "improve the efficiency" of the industrial base to support national defense
5. "foster cooperation" between commercial and defense sectors
There are pundits that suggest that by signing EO 13603, Obama has given himself power to declare martial law and suspend elections.
The main problem with EO 13603 is that the words/phrases in quotes can be interpreted in many ways, including ways that favor Obama and Democrats. Wait, we can have our Supreme Court decide what they mean. But that won't work since we know four of them to be Democrat hacks, and one justice can be influenced by the MSM.
In EO 13617, entitled "Blocking Property of the Government of the Russian Federation Relating to the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted From Nuclear Weapons," Obama says (among other things)that"

the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation continues to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

Obama, by signing this EO, actually declared a national emergency. I guess that President Theodore Roosevelt's famous saying, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," can't apply in this case because we don't want to offend the Russians by having them honor treaties they signed (the "HEU" Agreement). But what's more important is that Obama can now "justify" any action he wants to take by citing EO 13617 since it declares a national emergency.
Then, in EO 13618, entitled, "Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions," Obama states (among other things) that:

The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sensitive missions. ... Such communications must be possible under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies, and improve national resilience.

Obama cites "national security" in this EO. I guess Obama sees ANY excuse for declaring a national security emergency will appear better than taking over the nation's communications assets by force
Want more examples of what Obama is doing?

• EO 10990 allows the Government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
• EO 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels, and minerals.
• EO 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision
• EO 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.
• EO 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
• EO 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate and establish new locations for populations.
• EO 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities.

Are we beginning to see a pattern here? We're being prepared for a national emergency. Then there's taking control. I personally think that what Obama is doing goes way beyond being prepared.
North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue (Democrat), on September 28, 2011, suggested that perhaps elections should be suspended for two years by canceling, until the economy recovers, the 2012 elections. After that remark got the reception it deserved, Pardue's staff tried to pass it off as a joke.
Former White House director of the Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag, who, on September 14, 2011, in a The New Republic article entitled "Too Much of a Good Thing: Why we need less democracy," said that we are that we are hampered by too much democracy, that the constitutional system (not really a democracy) is too slow to react, and the deliberations and negotiations are simply too cumbersome. Orszag suggests that the constitutional rules of limiting government offers impediments to autocratic, dictatorial actions, and are just too great.
That North Carolina governor Perdue would even joke (if it was a joke) about canceling an election is frightening enough, but that Orszag, a former official in Obama's administration, believes that doing away with the US Constitution is a viable solution should cause every AT reader to quake.
I'm never comfortable with laws that give the government broad reaching powers in the event of a "national emergency," especially when there is no clear, set, unchangeable definition of what actually constitutes a "national emergency."
Circumvention of the US Constitution by any means possible is the ultimate goal of Democrats and the Obama administration because the 2012 election is shaping up to be a repeat of the 2010 election.
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but these three latest EOs and previous EOs Obama signed, coupled with Perdue's and Orszag's comments, suggest that something besides coincidence is going on.
Dr. Beatty earned a Ph.D. in quantitative management and statistics from Florida State University. He was a (very conservative) professor of quantitative management specializing in using statistics to assist/support decision making. He has been a consultant to many small businesses and is now retired. Dr. Beatty is a veteran who served in the U.S. Army for 22 years. He blogs at: rwno.limewebs.com.



Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/...#ixzz21TC0hwna

[American Patriot]

The sad part is that the Left has used this "President so and so wrote an EO to control this or that" so many times in the past that this is nothing more than an article that will be ignored by most.

Even though you can trace the actual EOs folks think it is all conspiracy theory now.

[American Patriot]

Dunno if anyone knew this, but Diane Feinstein has accused the White House of leaking most of that classified data.

FNC covering some of that shortly.

[American Patriot]

Yup, she did that today.
She's a democrat, she's the chair for the Senate intelligence committee.

She said the White House has leaks coming from it's ranks.

[American Patriot]

Now she regrets her remarks. LOL

[American Patriot]

Who here actually remembers the elections that brought Reagan to the forefront against Carter? Anyone remember the things they said about Reagan? He's destroy the world, he'd cause a nuclear holocaust? All those things?

Not quite as bad, but this is all about Romney now. LOL

Mitt Romney to rekindle cold war spirit with speech in Poland attacking Russia

After gaffe-strewn UK visit and controversial remarks in Israel, US presidential hopeful turns to symbol of anti-Soviet triumph

• Ian Traynor, Europe editor
  
  
• guardian.co.uk, Monday 30 July 2012 11.58 EDT

Mitt Romney, right, with Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and founder of Solidarity. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

Mitt Romney is to round off his campaign to boost his presidential foreign policy credentials by returning to a cold war symbol of anti-Soviet triumph and western-backed liberty in Poland.


Following a gaffe-strewn visit to Britain, where he queried the Olympic host's fitness to stage the Games, and after stirring controversy in Israel by calling Jerusalem the Israeli capital and seeming to back unilateral Israeli strikes against Iran, the Republican White House contender arrived on Monday in Poland, where he is to deliver a setpiece speech on democracy and freedom.


The speech on the "values of liberty" at Warsaw University on Tuesday is expected to seek to rekindle the flames of US cold war righteousness by featuring a strong attack on Russia and President Vladimir Putin's rollback of democratic gains, while also criticising the US president, Barack Obama, for allegedly sacrificing the interests and security of central European democracy in favour of realpolitik with the Kremlin.


Romney has previously described Russia as America's "No 1 geopolitical foe", in contrast with Obama, who has sought to press "the reset button" in relations with Moscow.


Romney arrived on Monday in Gdansk, Solidarity's birthplace, where Soviet communism was punctured 32 years ago. The Republican contender was invited by Lech Walesa, the ex-shipyard electrician, former Solidarity leader and unsuccessful post-communist Polish president. In Gdansk, where affection for US Republican cold warriors is strong and which is home to a Ronald Reagan park featuring a statue of the ex-president, Romney also met the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, a native of the port city.


Romney is expected to seek to use the visit to Gdansk and Warsaw to canvass for the votes of the big Polish diaspora in the US and more broadly for the support of those of east European origin in the US.


Despite the emphasis on the west's cold war victory and Poland and Solidarity's pivotal roles in the revolutions of 1989, Romney will find himself in a country that is quickly moving on, less receptive to US rhetoric, seeing its key alliances in the European Union, and dismayed that its traditional attachment to American values and outlook are taken for granted in Washington.


The only country in the EU to escape recession since the financial and then the euro crises erupted in 2008, Poland is thriving at a time of universal European gloom, using a new-found confidence to build European alliances to encourage democratic reforms in neighbouring Ukraine and Belarus and to contest Putin's proprietorial policies towards parts of the former Soviet Union.


Romney is to see the Polish foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, a previously Americanophile politician who increasingly sees the Polish national interest best served by new European security structures.


"The aim of Sikorski's meeting will be to get to know Mitt Romney's position on US foreign policy. Global and regional challenges of key global importance in the near future will also be discussed," said the Polish foreign ministry.


An Oxford graduate married to an American and previously employed at a neo-conservative US thinktank, Sikorski's earlier ardent anglophilia and pro-Americanism have been tempered by disappointment with the Obama administration over the US visa waiver policy for Poles, under-appreciation of Polish military contributions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the dilution of US missile defence plans in central Europe, and US policy towards Putin.


The disenchantment with Washington is unlikely to be reversed by a charm offensive and a more hawkish line from Romney. Instead, the Poles are keener to boost European foreign and security policy capacities, using their EU presidency last year to try to push common EU defence policies and running into a British brick wall.


With Sweden, Italy and Spain, the Poles have just launched a new initiative for a more robust European foreign policy.

[American Patriot]

Ron Paul's Mass. Supporters Ousted as Delegates

Monday, 30 Jul 2012 09:27 AM
By Greg McDonald


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Sixteen Ron Paul supporters from Massachusetts are challenging a decision by state party leaders to disqualify them as delegates to the national convention in Tampa next month.

According to the Boston Globe, the sixteen have filed a formal complaint with the Republican National Committee (RNC) claiming they were unfairly cut from the Massachusetts delegation because of concerns they would not be loyal to presumed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

The delegates, all of whom were original supporters of Paul’s presidential bid, insist they were fairly elected to their delegate slots at the state party caucuses in April, where they defeated Romney’s own chosen delegates, the Globe reported.

In a letter to the RNC challenging their disqualification, the delegates accused the state party of changing the rules to award the slots to Romney’s delegates.

They also argued that the affidavits they were asked to sign pledging their allegiance to Romney at the convention were not part of state or national party requirements and they received them “less than one week before an arbitrary deadline” for returning them.

According to the Globe, some actually did sign the affidavit and return it on time, while others either missed the deadline or sent in a different version that did not actually pledge their support to Romney.

Asked about the complaint, Massachusetts Republican Party spokesman Tim Buckley, told the Globe, “This matter is currently before the RNC and we await their decision.”



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[American Patriot]

Just came in email... lol

As the 2012 presidential election season heats up, we want to remind you about limitations placed on Federal employees with regard to partisan political activities. The Hatch Act restricts "political activity" by Federal employees and it is enforced by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC). In addition, military regulations apply similar restrictions to service members.

The Hatch Act defines “political activity” as activity directed toward the success or failure of a political party, candidate for partisan political office, or partisan political group. Federal employees covered by the Hatch Act are prohibited from, among other things, using their official authority or influence to affect the result of an election by, for example, using their official title while engaging in political activity. In addition, Federal employees may not engage in political activity while on duty or in a Federal building or knowingly solicit, accept, or receive political contributions. Recently, OSC issued guidance that prohibits wearing or displaying partisan political buttons, t-shirts, posters or political cartoons while on duty or in a Federal building, including the cafeteria, break rooms, lobby or on-site gym, because they constitute prohibited political activity. Employees may not use government email accounts to send, forward, retransmit, or share email messages directed toward the success or failure of a candidate. Displaying a campaign logo as a screensaver on a federal computer is also prohibited.

Under the Hatch Act, the general rule is pictures of candidates who are seeking election to political office may not be displayed in any place in any federal workplace during the election season. There are very few exceptions to this rule. An official photograph of President Obama may be continued to be displayed in the workplace by an employee, if originally displayed prior to the President’s declaration as a candidate for reelection in April 2011. An unofficial picture of a candidate may only be displayed in a federal workplace during an election campaign if: (1) it was displayed prior to the campaign; (2) the employee has a personal relationship with the candidate; (3) the photograph is taken at a personal event or function (e.g., wedding) which is not a political function; and (4) the purpose of displaying the photograph is not to promote or oppose a candidate for office. Other official or unofficial photographs, and other depictions of candidates for elected office, including cartoons, drawings, t-shirt images, posters, calendars, and coffee mugs, that are displayed, posted, or shown in any location in a federal workplace during an election campaign period constitute Hatch Act violations, regardless of the motive, reason or purpose for which they are displayed, posted, or shown.

MDA Directive 4120.01 prohibits the posting of items that are political, discriminatory, or objectionable in nature. Posting of disparaging or embarrassing comments, cartoons, or other message directed toward the President, other elected officials, and candidates for political office is prohibited. This applies to all personnel in MDA facilities, including contractors.

Hatch Act violations are prosecuted by the OSC. If a Federal employee is found to have violated the Hatch Act, the presumptive penalty is removal from employment. The penalty may be reduced to a suspension of not less than 30 days without pay, if sufficient mitigating circumstances exist. There is no option for a suspension of less than 30 days or a written warning.

[Malsua]

You mean you can't put up a picture of your hero Obama?

[American Patriot]

Well, his picture is all over the building as a matter of fact, along with Panetta and a couple of others.

They always post the images of the current President in military installations lol

I think I should go tell them to take it down