Billboards beginning to pop up with the same message. Obama has lost a good bit of his mo jo!
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I have no plan and if you re-elect me you have no brains! (See 1 below.)
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Mia Love is the changing face of the Republican Party. Black, brainy and unwilling to enslave herself to the bankrupt policies of progressives. Mia, Col. West and Arthur Davis get it. Maybe one day more of their race will as well. (See 2 below.)
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Everything about Obama's 'likability' is story book fiction orchestrated and created by his adoring and protective press and media.
Romney is reserved, but his wife said they have a real marriage and anyone who has worked with thousands in varying capacities and accomplished what Romney has, has demonstrated and proven leadership and likability characteristics.
As I have written time and again, the liberal pres and media self-anoint themselves as the final arbiter of defining the 'gravitas' hurdle. Obama was and remains an empty suit. Measured by his own words, promises and markers he is a failure. Yet, he met the press and media standards for gravitas because he was and remains their choice. What nonsense. Don;t buy it sucker!
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Dick
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1)Obama's Best Kept Secret
By Tara Servatius
How can a president presiding over the worst unemployment situation since the Great Depression have no jobs plan for his next term? And why is no one talking about this glaring hole in his campaign?
On the presidential campaign trail this week, the GOP once again pointed out President Obama's failure to create jobs. But to fail at creating jobs, Obama would first have had to try.
The president hasn't made a serious effort at that in a year. At present, he has no actionable jobs plan. Worse yet, his campaign platform for the next four years is completely devoid of a serious future jobs plan of any kind -- a stunning omission give the employment crisis in this country.
Will Obama actually be allowed to waltz back into office with no plan to combat unemployment? And if that happens, will he feel any obligation to ever address the unemployment situation again in his second term?
Mitt Romney's campaign needs to clearly, succinctly ask these questions.
More than anything, Americans want Obama to tackle unemployment. In 2010, they told Gallup it was the biggest problem facing the country. In a 2011 poll, nearly 90 percent of Americans told Gallup the same thing. In a 2012 Gallup poll, 92 percent ranked job creation as their top priority for the president.
In his podcast this week, Mitt Romney came maddeningly close to walloping Obama with the truth, accusing Obama of "giving up" on fighting unemployment. But Romney failed to deliver a knock-out punch on the issue by clearly explaining that Obama has no employment plan for his next term.
Given the dire political situation Obama now faces, it is shocking how devoid Obama's campaign is of any promise or even plan to improve the jobs situation in his next term -- an omission that would be unthinkable for any other politician.
Take Obama's campaign website for instance. Front and center is the Obama campaign's "Plan for the Economy." The five planks of this plan, which are the five main planks of his campaign, flash across the screen. They are: lead the world in college graduates by 2020, invest in clean energy made in America, spur innovation, rebuild American infrastructure, and reform the American tax code to tackle the deficit. Note the absence of the words "jobs" or "employment." To read it, you'd have no idea that what the vast majority of Americans care most about is jobs.
Dig deeper into the website, and jobs are mentioned on occasion, but only as part of Obama's supposed accomplishments. The problem with this is that the employment picture has gotten worse, not better, since these measures were first implemented.
While the word "jobs" does appear in the campaign's "vision" statement for his next term, it is not as part of a jobs plan, but as a byproduct of planned government infrastructure spending. His "vision" includes "strengthening our education system, more cleaner [sic] energy, leading through innovation, building job creating infrastructure and fair, simple tax reform."
It's a campaign platform that seems almost completely divorced from the economic reality regular Americans currently face.
More interesting still is the fact that the proposal Obama has spent the most time focusing on over the last year on the campaign trail, increasing taxes on wealthy Americans, comes in dead last when Gallup asks Americans to rank their priorities for the next president.
Given all this, you can draw only one conclusion. Americans who want private-sector jobs are utterly on their own if Obama wins.
It makes sense, of course, that the Obama campaign wouldn't want to focus the public's attention on unemployment or the economy in this election, given the dire state of both. What is harder to explain is why the employment issue is absent entirely from his top priorities.
The pass Obama is getting on his jobs record is staggering. Faced with this situation, most politicians would have proposed some kind of clearly labeled jobs plan and made it one of their top campaign priorities, if only to appear to be doing something.
Beyond bickering with the Republicans over how many jobs have been created since he took office, which he does regularly, Obama has been strikingly mum on exactly how he plans to create private-sector jobs in the future since the stimulus tanked early in his presidency.
The stimulus, the closest thing he's ever had to a jobs plan, was sold to the public as an economic stimulus, not a jobs stimulus. Although it came with employment promises that never materialized, the economy was its main focus. The stimulus passed in February of 2009, nearly three and a half years ago.
By May of 2011, with 70 percent of the stimulus funds spent, the unemployment rate was 9.1 percent, up from 8.1 percent the month the stimulus passed.
A second "jobs" stimulus with massive spending was rejected outright by leaders of Obama's own party in the Democrat-controlled Senate, who wouldn't even allow it to be voted on, in 2011. It failed to pass the GOP-controlled House as well. Since then, aside from blaming Congress for rejecting his legislation, Obama has dropped the issue almost entirely.
Incredibly, the only concrete move Obama has made on unemployment since his original stimulus passed, the appointment of his jobs council, has fallen by the wayside, Politico recently reported:
President Barack Obama's Jobs Council hasn't met publicly for six months, even as the issue of job creation dominates the 2012 election. At this point, the hiatus - which reached the half-year mark Tuesday - might be less awkward than an official meeting, given the hornet's nest of issues that could sting Obama and the council members if the private-sector panel gets together.
The Obama administration's excuse for not meeting with the CEOs and others on his jobs council in a year when 92 percent of Americans ranked jobs as their highest priority issue for the president?
"He's simply been too busy, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told Politico in July, explaining that "the president has obviously got a lot on his plate."
One thing is for sure. For Obama and for Washington's liberal political elites, this election will answer one all-important question. How much joblessness will Americans tolerate in pursuit of their agenda?
If the dust settles on Election Day with Obama still standing, Washington's political class will know that going forward, there will be few consequences at the polls if their increasingly radical social policies depress the job market. That fear has been one of the few restraints left on their agenda.
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Let me tell you about the America I know. My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity. Through hard work and great sacrifice, they achieved success. So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.
Watching my father work odd jobs in order to provide for us and maintain his independence taught me valuable lessons in personal responsibility. When tough times came, he didn’t look to Washington, he looked within. Because the America he knew was centered on self-reliance. The America I know is founded in the freedom self-reliance always brings.
What makes America great is the idea that when government is limited, people are free — free to work, free to live, free to choose, free to fail and free to achieve. The America I know provides everyone an equal opportunity to be as unequaled as they choose to be.
The America I know gives back. Americans, regardless of financial status, are the most giving people on the planet. On their own, without government requirement, our people give their money, their time and their attention to causes, communities and people in need whether it is across the street or around the world.
The America I know makes tough choices. As the mayor of a small town in Utah facing its own fiscal cliff, we put limited government, fiscal discipline and personal responsibility first in order to create an amazing community that could last. I have also seen that facing challenging choices head-on inspires our citizens to get involved, engage in meaningful dialogue, rally around shared values, do things differently and change the way government works.
Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true — you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn’t make excuses.
The America I know is grounded in the gritty determination found in patriots, pioneers and struggling parents, in small business owners with big ideas, in the farmers who work in the beauty of our landscapes and the artists who paint them, in our heroic military and our inspiring Olympic athletes, and in every child who looks at the seemingly impossible and says, “I can do that.”
The America I know is great — not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things. That is the America I know!
Unfortunately President Obama doesn’t seem to live in or believe in the America I have come to know.
His America is a divided one. He has taken class warfare to a new low. In an effort to distract our nation from his failed economic and social policies, he has attempted to pit us against each other based on the color of our skin, our gender, income level, age and social status.
For President Obama, job one has always been to keep his one job. His commitment to cling to power through division has put our nation and our future at risk. He obviously hasn’t learned the math of America — whenever you divide, you diminish.
The truth is that the president’s policies have made minorities and the most vulnerable in society more desperate and dependent on government, less self-reliant, less upwardly mobile and ultimately less free. His America is an ever-expanding nanny state that is simply unsustainable and unhealthy for our people, our economy and our future.
The president’s America is one where big-government Washington bureaucrats make healthcare choices, pick winners and losers in the marketplace and redistribute wealth. Whenever he faces a challenge, his answer is to create another federal agency, add a new czar and pile on more stifling and more intrusive regulation.
The America President Obama knows looks more and more like Europe and less and less like the America we know and love.
I am in this fight not just as a candidate for Congress, but more importantly, as a mother, spouse and concerned citizen. President Obama had a chance to unite and lead this nation — and failed. We are not better off than we were four years ago and no rhetoric, bumper sticker or Hollywood ad campaign can distract us from the dreadful direction he is taking our country.
Americans know better and deserve more. Mr. President, the American people are awake and we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.
You see, the America I know deserves a leader who will respect and serve the people not because of their race, gender or economic status but because they are Americans! We need a leader who will unite the country around the principles that have made us great and will make us great again.
The America I know deserves a leader who believes this country is exceptional. We need a leader who believes our best and brightest days as a nation are still to come.
The America I know deserves a leader who trusts the people and will tell them the hard truth about where we are and what we need to do in order to preserve our future. We need a leader who is prepared to engage in a dialogue about realities, priorities and solving America’s problems.
The America I know deserves a president who actually knows how to balance a budget, create real jobs and unleash America’s entrepreneurial spirit.
The America I know deserves and needs that kind of leader. I am convinced that leader is Governor Mitt Romney.
The America I know isn’t just my story and it isn’t just your story. It is our story. It is a story of endless possibilities, human struggle, standing up and striving for more. Our story has been told for well over 200 years, punctuated by small steps and giant leaps; from a woman on a bus to a man with a dream; from the bravery of the greatest generation to the explorers, entrepreneurs, reformers and innovators of today. This is our story. This is the America we know — because we built it.
With Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan leading the way, I believe we can restore the greatness of this nation and ensure that the America we know is the America our children will know and the America our grandchildren will possess for years to come!
We must fight to keep the America we know as that shining city on a hill — truly the last, best hope on earth.
Mia Love is the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, and a conservative candidate for Utah’s Fourth Congressional District.
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