President Obama is right with his comments about Kamala Harris--everyone else, get over it!

This is why I like President Obama:

"You have to be careful to, first of all, say she is brilliant and she is dedicated and she is tough, and she is exactly what you'd want in anybody who is administering the law, and making sure that everybody is getting a fair shake," Obama said.

He added: "She also happens to be by far the best-looking attorney general in the country -- Kamala Harris is here. It's true. Come on. And she is a great friend and has just been a great supporter for many, many years."

So the left is outrages.

I'm a leftist. I'm a liberal.

And there is nothing wrong with what he said.

He was not wrong--he made someone very happy and the attorney general actually glows from his compliments.

And he apologized--and I do not understand that at all because everyone wants to be told what he told Kamala Harris--and you know it's true--even you men: if someone said that about your wife and she was next to you, you would turn into a rooster.

By the way, Michelle is knock dead gorgeous--and I'm never going to apologize for that statement.

Paul Ryan and How He Subverts Our Nation

Below are two emails I received about Paul Ryan. Make up your own mind, but I know you know my mind is already made up:

BREAKING Washington Post: Paul Ryan will propose “sharp new cuts to federal health and retirement programs”


Paul Ryan’s new budget proposal hands tax breaks to the Republicans’ largest corporate backers and billionaire CEO funders, and makes crippling cuts to Medicare to pay for it.

John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and Paul Ryan would rather protect tax loopholes so their oil-tycoon financiers can buy yachts and private jets than provide health care for the elderly.

Denounce Paul Ryan’s appalling budget immediately! Demand Republicans stop handing tax breaks to their billionaire financiers while the elderly suffer the consequences.

House Republicans will do anything to buy loyalty from the largest corporations and moneyed special interests. They’re even willing to throw seniors and the middle class under the bus so that their billionaire financiers can enjoy tax breaks.

Thanks for your support,

Guy Cecil
AND

Paul Ryan, in an effort to downplay the severity of the House budget he’ll be presenting next week, says not to "expect any big surprises." What a relief -- no big surprises?!?

Actually, word is we can expect a few big surprises in Ryan's budget.

Reports say that Paul Ryan will call for ending Medicare as we know it for America’s seniors.

According to sources, Ryan’s budget includes a plan to VOUCHERIZE Medicare for seniors younger than 55.

Finally, Ryan wants to squeeze 30 years of vicious cuts into only a decade. That would be brutal.

Ryan’s Tea Party budget would do more than “surprise” the millions of Americans who are counting on Medicare. We can’t let that happen.

Help us reach 200,000 strong calling out Paul Ryan and House Republicans:

http://dccc.org/Protect-Medicare

Thanks,

Kelly Ward
DCCC Executive Director

Shame on the Republicans

Victory! The House has finally passed the Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act, by a vote of 286 to 138 — with all 138 votes against the bill coming from Republicans.


Now we need to make it clear to those Republicans that their continued stance against this domestic violence prevention bill — even after it was clearly going to pass — is wrong and shameful.

Healing Viet Nam--Thanks President Obama

This is why I support the President:


http://projectagentorange.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=181.msg2917#msg2917

and

http://projectagentorange.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=181.msg2918#msg2918

Why the Republicans Lost

We took down Allen West and some of his best Tea Party friends.

 Over a year ago, we decided to create CREDO SuperPAC in order to take down some of the most odious and extreme Tea Party Republicans in the House. People like Allen West who were just too crazy to serve in Congress and who set a new low for what is acceptable from Republicans in public life.

 On Tuesday we did just that. We took down Allen West. And Joe Walsh. And Chip Cravaack. And Frank Guinta. Dan Lungren is trailing his opponent as final provisional and absentee ballots are being counted. And Michele Bachmann got the biggest scare of her political career — she retained her seat by a shockingly small margin of just over 4,000 votes.

 To put in perspective just how difficult it was to pull off this feat, you need to know that 98% of incumbents win re-election. It is against those astonishing odds that we defeated five Tea Party Republicans who not only enjoyed the deep coffers of being a sitting member of Congress but who also were backed by tens of millions of dollars in rightwing super PAC ads which flooded the airwaves with negative television advertising attacking Democratic challengers.

 To defend the most extreme band of Republicans in federal office in history, outside groups spent hundreds of millions of dollars, mainly on broadcast television ads. The response of the Democratic establishment and some of the biggest liberal groups in Washington DC was to fight fire with fire, launching big money ad campaigns and millions in direct mail.

 We went a different way. We fought fire with water.

 Instead of raising and spending millions in anonymous contributions, we built our campaign with the donations of nearly 70,000 CREDO activists and customers, giving one $20 bill at a time.

 Instead of spending millions on huge ad buys in the districts, we empowered over 3,000 local volunteers to get involved and hold their extremist representatives accountable, deploying proven voter contact methods in the most cost-effective ways.

 Our campaign shaped these races, and put our progressive values squarely in the local and national conversations in this election. We hired progressive organizers and opened local storefront offices that quickly became community gathering places for activists working on our campaign. We held protests in their districts, we packed their town hall meetings, we got local and national journalists to cover the Tea Party Ten's extreme statements and actions.

 And then of course we knocked on over 120,000 doors. And made over a million phone calls. And had the volunteer-to-voter conversations which are the single most effective way to move voters. Thanks to this work, and in the wake of the defeat of Allen West and the other Tea Party Ten members, all Republicans are now on notice: If you continue your attacks on women, Medicare, minorities and the middle class there will be a high price to pay.
In the districts of the Tea Party Ten and Michele Bachmann, we were up against nearly $30 million in spending by conservative super PACs. We won five races but we didn't win them all. We fought valiant efforts to defeat Tea Party Republicans Mike Coffman (CO-6), Mike Fitzpatrick (PA-8), Sean Duffy (WI-7), Jim Renacci (OH-16) and Steve King (IA-4) but Republicans prevailed.

 We didn't pick any of these races because they were easy; we picked them because they were hard, close, competitive contests. Many of them we chose at the end of last year, knowing a lot would change but wanting to get started building this campaign, because we know that volunteer-driven field campaigns cannot be built overnight.

 We're proud of the work we've done, and so thankful to the donors, volunteers and activists who got involved and worked to make it happen. We look forward to continuing the fight together as we move forward.

 We learned in 2008 that election night is not the end of our work but the beginning. And now that we've built CREDO SuperPAC we're not about to hang it up on the shelf.

 Of course, there were a few other things decided on Tuesday as well.

 We're pleased to see our friend Elizabeth Warren will represent Massachusetts in the Senate, and that Tammy Baldwin will become the first openly gay Senator in American history. We also cheered the defeat of some of the most appallingly anti-woman Senate candidates like Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana.

 And of course, it's difficult to see Mitt Romney's defeat as anything other than a resounding referendum on his ideology, and a great disaster averted for our country. We will now continue to push President Obama not to deal away Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits and to show at long last the real leadership we so desperately need to fight the urgent threat of climate change.

 There is much to do. But Tuesday's defeat of Allen West and his Tea Party compatriots from the House was a clear victory for grassroots activism and a clear defeat for the Tea Party ideology that has gridlocked Congress and worked to move us backwards.

We are grateful to everyone who has stood with us through this — CREDO's biggest electoral effort ever — in the past year, and for your continued efforts to fight for the progressive values we all share. Thank you so much for everything you have done.

Becky Bond and Michael Kieschnick
CREDO Action from Working Assets

Now Let's Really Change History

President Obama made a name for himself in Chicago. His first term was very much like the first term of Mayor Harold Washington. Harold Washington changed the whole fabric of Chicago during both terms, but the second term--well, he was just too great..

So, Mr. President, please live up to the legacy of Harold Washington--and do whatever has to be done.

Yes!

Yes!

The Sierra Club Endorses the President

Obama has made historic progress growing our clean energy economy, lowering our oil dependence, cutting climate-disrupting emissions, and slashing toxic pollution from coal-fired power plants. Romney named an oil executive and a coal lobbyist as his top energy advisers and released a plan to give Big Oil billions in tax giveaways while they drill on public lands.

--Sierra Club

Why Would A Woman Vote Republican?

Check these links out:

http://adaysencounter.com/wordpress/?p=1465

http://adaysencounter.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/republican-candidates-on-the-issue-of-rape-and-violence-towards-women/

Romney's Bain Capital Against Minority Voters

Apparently, media giant Clear Channel thinks its a-okay to use its billboards to intimidate voters in an effort to keep people of color from voting.

Last week, an anonymous group started plastering Black and Latino neighborhoods in Ohio and Wisconsin with billboards implying that people can be prosecuted for trying to vote. Despite widespread protests, Clear Channel has refused to take the billboards down, claiming that they aren’t responsible for the content.

Of course, Clear Channel has refused to put up political billboards before -- in fact, just a few months ago, they refused to let us put up a billboard denouncing the climate change-denying Heartland Institute, with the reasoning “you can’t criticize a corporation.”

Tell Clear Channel to stop profiting from voter intimidation -- take the billboards down NOW!.

We’ve seen unprecedented attempts to suppress voting in communities of color over the last year. State governments have tried to purge voter rolls, made registering to vote more difficult, and curbed early and absentee voting -- often at the behest of corporate-friendly lobbying groups like ALEC. Rightwing politicians say that these measures are meant to curb voter fraud, but so far, no one has found a single instance of voter fraud that these policies would have stopped. The real point of these laws is to make voting harder for poor people, students, and people of color.

Now Clear Channel -- which, surprise, surprise, is owned by Bain Capital -- is getting in on the action. We might not have much influence over the state governments of Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Wisconin, but Clear Channel, which is also the U.S.’s largest radio company, had better listen to us.

If Clear Channel is going to stop SumOfUs.org members from denounce big corporations for financing climate deniers, you can bet we’re not going to let them tell people not to vote.

Tell Clear Channel to take down these intimidating billboards.

Thanks

Kaytee, Rob, and the team at SumOfUs.org

Keeping Another Promise

By Mary Bruce


The President said:

“After losing about 800,000 jobs a month when I took office, our businesses have now added 5.2 million new jobs over the past two and a half years, and on Friday, we learned that the unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since I took office. More Americans are entering the work force. More Americans are getting jobs.

“Too many of our friends and neighbors are still looking for work or struggling to pay the bills – many of them since long before this crisis hit. We owe it to them to keep moving forward. We’ve come too far to turn back now. And we’ve made too much progress to return to the policies that got us into this mess in the first place.

“But for some reason, some Republicans in Congress are still waging an all-out battle to delay, defund and dismantle these common-sense new rules. Why? Do they think undoing rules that protect families from the worst practices of credit card companies and mortgage lenders will make the middle class stronger? Do they think getting rid of rules to prevent another crisis on Wall Street will make Main Street any safer?

“Republicans in Congress need to stop trying to refight the battles of the past few years, and finally start doing something to actually help the middle class get ahead.

“If we’re going to keep this economy moving forward, there’s no time for political games. Even in a political season. Everyone needs to do their part.”

So Maybe Monsanto Will Be The Real President If We Vote For Romney

Romney's first project with Bain in 1977: Help propel Monsanto
by S. D. Wells

(NaturalNews) One year before Mitt Romney began working on the Bain & Company project to rebuild "Monsanto" and cast their new image and focus on agriculture biotechnology, Congress passed a bill banning PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl), an odorless, tasteless, clear liquid known to cause cancer that was the "bread and butter" of Monsanto's profits. Monsanto was already branded and plagued with the label of having created the "Agent Orange" contaminated dioxins used in Vietnam. Now Monsanto would need a big save, financially and reputation-wise, so they could fool the public with their new image and a new "frontier," while secretly polluting and genetically modifying American agriculture with the new faceless poison known as Roundup.

Romney knew his first job at Bain was to propel an evil company that was on the brink of failure. He knew Monsanto's previous reputation and about all the litigation. Romney also knew he would be rewarded financially in the biggest way if he could pull the whole thing off, and he did. Romney changed Monsanto's image over the years, from a scandal ridden chemical giant to a seemingly "prestigious" Agri-business firm. (http://dprogram.net)

Fresh out of Harvard in 1977, Romney basically lead Monsanto down an unethical but highly lucrative path, helping sweep the PCB and dioxin scandals under the rug, since that negative public perception was crippling the company. Romney and Bain recommended to Monsanto that they focus the business on genetically engineered crops and RoundUp, the massively profitable weed killer. Monsanto finished developing and patenting the glyphosate molecule and has marketed Roundup ever since. (http://naturalsociety.com)

But it wasn't a "pretty" road to this infamous success for Romney. Monsanto was still bombarded with an onslaught of litigation throughout Romney's years at Bain, including a $180 million settlement covering the claims of over 50,000 troops that got cancer from hiking over and through Agent Orange in the burned up jungles of Vietnam. Agent Orange is on record to have contaminated a total of 10 million Vietnamese and American people, including children and babies. This was by far the largest chemical warfare operation in human history up until now, when Monsanto's RoundUp laced GMO vegetables like corn and soy have begun a cancer inducing genocide which could easily surpass the damage done in the Vietnam jungles just 50 years ago. (http://naturalsociety.com)

Romney would later use his Monsanto "payback money" and power to become the "private equity king," mowing down companies and robbing workers of their retirement savings. (http://dprogram.net) This is how Romney created jobs back then, and GMO is how he will create jobs and promote disease if he wins the presidency of the United States. Big Pharma, of course, is behind it all, because when people eat GM vegetables and get cancer, Big Pharma and the chemo scam make billions, if not trillions.

Romney has already chosen his biotech partners in crime

One of Mitt's advisory co-chairs was a key speaker at the 'Biotechnology Industry Organization' and said, "It is vital for the United States and other countries to support science-based standards and systems that will bring agricultural biotechnology products to the market to meet this demand." It's not hard to guess who will make up Romney's cabinet if he wins.

Do We Want Bain Capital to be President?

Romney was a huge Monsanto pusher when he worked for Bain! (Yep, they're both--Romney and Bain--Monsanto sellouts... is anyone surprised?

--NaturalNews Insider Alert

I Didn't Know the Koch Brothers Were Running for President

Big polluters like the Koch brothers are spending millions and millions of dollars in this election. In August alone, the Koch group Americans for Prosperity spent $25 million1 on attack ads targeting President Obama. And that's just one group, in one month, in one race. So far this year, there's been more than $150 million spent on ads promoting dirty-energy policies.2

Flooding the airwaves with misleading ads is all big polluters can do, because in their fight to tear down our clean-air and water protections, they know they don't have the facts on their side.

Now you can help your friends and family see through the fog of attack ads and soundbites... and get the facts about what's really at stake. The Sierra Club's new online Voter Guide puts that power in your hands.

Check out candidates running for office in your state with the Sierra Club's new Voter Guide, then share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter:  http://content.sierraclub.org/voterguide/

To your friends, family, and neighbors, your opinion is worth a whole lot more than any 30-second ad paid for by polluters. That's why the best way to cut through the noise and the clutter of the election season is to simply talk to your friends and family. With our new online Voter Guide, we're giving you a powerful tool to arm them with the facts on some of the key races nationwide.

You can give them information on everything from how to register and where to vote, to where the candidates stand on key issues like:

Clean energy jobs
Clean air & water
America's wild legacy
Women's health
Climate disruption

Find your own slate of Sierra Club-endorsed candidates, and share our Voter Guide so your friends and family can get the facts too: http://content.sierraclub.org/voterguide/

Big polluters will do, say, or spend anything to put their profits before the future of our planet and the health of American families. This election, they've launched a full-scale assault on the safeguards that protect our kids from soot and mercury, and they're taking aim at the strong, new fuel-efficiency standards and clean-energy jobs that threaten their profits. And they've only just begun.

But we've got two things they don't have: people and facts. Find your candidates and go to  http://content.sierraclub.org/voterguide/ and email it, tweet it, share it, post it, pin it -- whatever you can do. Help your friends and family get the facts so they can stand up against the big polluters in this election.

Thanks for all you do to protect our environment,

Cathy Duvall
Sierra Club Political Director

P.S. Another great way to get the word out is to simply send a copy of this message to your friends and family

AND

Their fringe ideology completely ignores scientific fact. Instead, they take orders from Big Oil financiers like the Koch brothers, who have spent more than $100 million in attempts to defeat President Obama at every turn and completely take over Washington.

Sincerely,

Al Gore

Please Do Not Let Us Elect A Scientific Idiot

Romney said: "When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no — and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem. So it's very dangerous."

Did he not finish college? Does he not understand "pressurized?" How can you vote for someone who doesn't even understand the simple concept of gravity, atmosphere, being dragged out of the window because of the difference in pressure between the outside of an airplane and the inside?

I'm voting for the candidate who has brains and ability--Obama.

Romney: “Let Detroit go bankrupt.”

Remember Mitt Romney’s solution to an auto industry teetering on the brink? “Let Detroit go bankrupt.”

I watched as he kicked autoworkers when they were down. You watched as he told us his “job isn’t to worry about” 47% of Americans.

But we can’t just watch any longer—with just 42 days left, polls are within the margin of error. If you want to elect President Obama and a Democratic majority — I need your support immediately.

Let’s win this.

Jennifer Granholm    


This is from me: Obama saved the Amercian auto industry after Bush tried his hardest (in my opinion) to destroy it--remember that.

Tea Party or Democarcy--the Choice is Obvious: We must support President Obama

What if Congress could protect thousands of American jobs just by passing a bill that has widespread support from across the nation and across the political spectrum? Seems like a no-brainer, right?

But right now, a bill to protect American jobs in the growing wind industry isn't going anywhere, because Speaker of the House John Boehner -- who sets the calendar for the House of Representatives -- doesn't want to schedule it for an up-or-down vote.

Under fierce pressure from the obstructionist Tea Party to let the wind industry wither and die, Boehner and the House leaders are playing a game of chicken with the economy and with thousands of Americans' livelihoods. Congress will keep heading toward disaster until we've put as much pressure on Boehner as the Tea Party has.

Rather than stand up for American workers and their families, Boehner is running out the clock on the wind industry. It's our job to make sure he understands that America knows exactly what's going on, and that we know who's responsible for keeping the Production Tax Credit bottled up in the House.

The wind industry employs 75,000 Americans in manufacturing, installation, and maintenance. These are good-paying jobs for skilled workers, and they're helping the country move beyond the wasteful and outdated energy technologies of the 19th century. And they're disappearing while Boehner delays action. What's he waiting for?

Layoffs have already begun as manufacturing and installation jobs are put on hold. According to news reports, more than 2,000 jobs have already been lost this year.1

The Production Tax Credit needs to be renewed, and it needs to happen now. The longer John Boehner waits to take action, the more jobs will be lost. It's that simple.

Thanks for all you do to protect the environment,

Mary Anne Hitt

Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign Director

Romney keeps relearning history's lessons

Romney keeps relearning history's gaffe lessons
By CONNIE CASS

WASHINGTON (AP) - Who says Mitt Romney doesn't worry much about the very poor? That he believes corporations are people, too? That his wife drives two Cadillacs?

Romney himself, that's who. When it comes to portraying the Republican nominee as an uncaring, out-of-touch rich guy, he's his own worst enemy, offering up a bonanza for Democratic attack ads.

Romney hit the trifecta this time by saying that 47 percent of Americans believe they are victims, think "government has a responsibility to care for them" and are unwilling to step up and support themselves.

Another Reason to Vote for President Obama

Go to this link:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/president-obama-gives-iowa-couple-huge-wedding-surprise-170605502.html

Romney and the People in Need

How can we let Romney win?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/18/us-usa-campaign-romney-video-idINBRE88G1H320120918

http://www.theday.com/article/20120918/NWS13/120919684/1047 :

Romney plans no apology for stating that nearly half of Americans "believe that they are victims." 

Today we learned that Mitt Romney said this about Obama supporters to fellow millionaires at a closed-door fundraiser: "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 aredependent 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 ... "My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." The man who spoke these words -- who demonstrates such disgust and disdain for half of our fellow Americans -- is the other side's choice for president of the United States. He wants to lead our country.