Tag: election

Romney can’t just be the “not Obama” ballot choice – and win

Unfortunately for Romney, Krauthammer is correct.

Whomever Romney is listening to and following their advice, needs to be fired. The strategy is ineffective. Duplicating the Republican party nomination strategy is a game-LOSER. Romney made it to the top of the Republican ticket not because of his lofty ideas on policy but because the contestants in the race were worse than him for various reasons. He can not expect to win (and won’t) by simply being the “not O” ballot selection.

And he needs think about the possibility of his first term. Now is when platform is defined and the crucial first 100 days are shaped. Going in as “not O” will not position him or his administration for hitting the ground successfully.

Mitt – replace the voices in your head. America is in desperate need of top quality leadership which requires innovative and game-changing strategy.

Going into the debate scares me. He is not prepared for this. He does not have the year of solid preparation, principles and ideas formed to enter the debate. He is going in unprepared which with the MSM spinning and shaping the actual debate and then their commentary on its results —– he is all ready circling the drain.

Mitt – wake up! Step up!

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Distractions: Netanyahu

Pretty telling article that is supposed to be an endorsement of O’s administration. The implications of what is “said” however speak volumes against the administration and O himself. Being President of the USA the job is 24X7 or at least should be. And while understand delegation it is apparent that “punting” is the SOP and Netanyahu and Israel will just have to deal with it.

Definitely relegates Netanyahu to “noise”.

Emphasis added

Doug Mills/The New York Times

Tom Donilon helps monitor the world for the president.

WASHINGTON — When President Obama flies to New York on Monday afternoon for the United Nations General Assembly, he will dispense with the usual battery of one-on-one meetings with world leaders so he can tape an appearance on “The View” and return by midweek to the battleground state of Ohio. Left to help smooth over any ruffled feathers will be Tom Donilon.

Gray-suited, meticulous and little known to the public, Mr. Donilon is the president’s national security adviser and central figure in American foreign policy, “the most important person in the mix,” according to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. In this critical campaign season, he has also become the president’s geopolitical bodyguard, charged with keeping the world at bay for another 43 days.

Mr. Donilon is the one who wakes the president when an ambassador is killed in Libya, the one who tries to keep Israel from rupturing relations and Egypt from heading off track. Solutions to intractable problems like Iran’s nuclear program are for another day. For now, it is Mr. Donilon’s mission to manage problems and keep them from blowing up, so Mr. Obama can focus on Mitt Romney rather than Benjamin Netanyahu.

 

Whole article here

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More than Noise

It will be interesting to see how the next 24-48 hours unfold following the airing of O on 60 Minutes last night. I can not stomach watching him so I am relying on reporters and analysts about the show. Hopefully I will find a transcript of the interview.

Debka which is an Israeli independent news and intelligence website has an article tying O’s remarks as further proof that he will not cooperate with Netanyahu in reference to joint military action or even a definitive red-line.  The Weekly Standard has an article pointing out the O’s language about Israel mirrors Ahmadinejad’s remarks about Israel.

The election is too close to call and that apparently translates into putting Netanyahu at an arm’s length. Conversation over the phone will not produce a photo-op that can be shared, printed and appear as cooperation and alliance. Phone calls make it easier to be formal and distant. O and his election campaign managers and consultants apparently believe that they need to have Israel stand on point in the matter of Iranian nuclear production and proliferation. Iran knows that with the current USA administration that talking while working clandestinely is the best SOP because as long as nothing  is flagrant then USA military action will not occur.

For O if suddenly Iran produced a nuclear bomb it would merely be an intelligence failure. For Israel it may very well be an end of existence.

The imagery O uses referring to Netanyahu’s pleas for help as “noise” reflects O’s ignorance or ulterior motives. For example, a man is sitting on a bench waiting for a bus and reading a book. Coming from behind him he hears exclamations “Help! Fire! Call 911!” He sits up a bit, looks down the street for the bus and then resumes reading his book. “Please! My family is inside! Someone please help! Mister on the bench please get us help! Please call 911!” The gentleman furrows his brow determined to focus on reading his book. “Help! Please help!” The bus pulls up, he stands up and enters the bus. The driver asks him what is going on? “I don’t know I was trying to read but their was a lot of noise out there.”

Pleas for help when action is needed is not noise unless you are one who does not want to act.

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Admission Yet Lacking Honesty & Transparency

In today’s NYT there are two stories (1 and 2) that focus on the TERRORIST ATTACK on the US Mission in Benghazi. O’s pathetic administration while finally admitting it was a terrorist attack is not willing to completely let go of their attempted spin of the events. Read carefully Carney’s comments in response to 9/11 in the second article. As the writers point out in the article, O and his administration insist on downplaying the actual events that transpired that day. I believe that it will undoubtedly trickle down to what the administration will say that the FBI’s findings will be. Justifiably some members of Congress are infuriated by the shenanigans of O and his administration in reference to the events in Benghazi.

Who actually wants a president of their country to be so unethical?
How can you really trust them with the big and little things that come across their desk?
You – as a voter – as a citizen of the USA, what do you hope to gain from such a president?

These are the questions each voter needs to ask themselves and then answer themselves honestly.
Problem is many of the voters are unethical and they will simply keep lying to themselves and others.

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2 cents

Mr. Krauthammer’s most recent column once again points out the non-sense that is O’s SOP in the Iran nuclear issue. As I see it either O has a diabolical motive or he really is ignorant. In either case if he was a manager of my business he would be fired. I don’t see a logical argument for him being retained.

He doesn’t represent me or my best interests or – more importantly – our nation’s best interest. By his own admission the white middle class he has written off which means he is targeting representation of the black (96% voted for him – but that is not racism), Hispanic, Asian and lower class white and upper class white/aka celebrities. MSM is trying to spin Romney’s recently released comments as he is class warrior but that is not what he said. I agree that he could have put it a little more elegantly but the essence of what he is saying is true. It is in a lot of ways no different that O’s comments last Oct/Nov.

Ladies and gentlemen, our country is really screwed up. I am serious. We have a serious problem in the way a lot, and maybe even the majority, think and expect. Politics has always been brutal, just read the books about our founding fathers and the early times that originally shaped our nation. Note – I wrote – originally. Because for just about all purposes we are not THAT nation any longer. We have a nation that is spiritually ignorant and morally absent. Our nation is one of “receiving and getting” and demanding even more “stuff” and “programs”. On the whole our society is dependent on the government (federal and state) for their livelihood. That is NOT the nation of the original intent. Redistribution of wealth (as O beliefs and wants to practice) was foreign to our ancestors.

We need systemic change to occur and for many people because of their level of dependency on the government it will be a VERY painful change but it still needs to occur. For most if not all addictions/dependency, abstaining is the best solution. It will also mean and necessitate the development of willpower/volition on many/most citizens. It will require daily decisions to do one’s best so as not to “slip” and embrace dependency once again.

 

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Diagnosis and prescription

Krauthammer’s article this week is about the growing Iran nuclear issue and the current SOP followed by the CES and the other nations wearily looking on.

I agree with the fourth (added) option which is the president of the USA securing authorization to use the military against Iran if a well defined list of objectives are not met by the Iranian government. However the unfortunate truth of the matter is that our government has ceased to be a working government whose purpose is the well-being of the citizens of the country to that of partisan politicking full-time in hopes of life-long careers in so-called public/civil service. I will refocus the quote and focus of the Joker to repeat that “our national government is in dire need of an enema”. 

Because of the current state of our government, it is in my opinion that any attempt to work with Congress now will produce posing and grand-standing to puff up our current president and that simply can not be allowed to happen. To make him artificially appear a better man than he is – will not do! To last minute create a public persona of strength and values is hogwash and an insult to all the people who are actually ethically moral principle based people.  That man needs to flushed out of our nation’s policy making, removed from the captain’s wheel and ejected from the cockpit (violently if need be). Once that objective is secured THEN approaching Congress in meaningful, real talks to make the legitimate, legal and permanent line in the sand which to hold Iran’s leadership to can be identified and made. Only then will Israel believe that their nation and people’s existence is protected. 

So – let’s get things moving and get the CES out of office so we can begin the necessary CHANGE that our country desperately needs.

 

CES = chief empty suit = current president of the USA

 

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