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Daily Archives: July 27th, 2014

Like Whoever You Want!


 

The item below is indicative of the problems we have as voters. We all want everything to be solved by the government yet we do not support the government by voting out non functioning legislators who promise the world and give us nothing but promises and more election slogans. We can blame the president (whoever it is) but Congress likes it this way so they can act s saviors when the only saving they are doing is their own “a**es” and staying in office . There is nothing wrong with not liking a candidate for any reason but to after think is a waste of time when the problem has been in front of us all of the time and that problem is “535” folks who serve no one but themselves and once they retire (on our dime) they join forces with big donors to further undermine the legislative process with tons of money and donations.
Americans really wish they had elected Mitt Romney instead of Obama
Alex Wong / Getty Images
Alex Wong / Getty Images

Mitt Romney 2014?

Americans are so down on President Obama at the moment that, if they could do the 2012 election all over again, they’d overwhelmingly back the former Massachusetts governor’s bid. That’s just one finding in a brutal CNN poll, released Sunday, which shows Romney topping Obama in a re-election rematch by a whopping nine-point margin, 53 percent to 44 percent. That’s an even larger spread than CNN found in November, when a survey had Romney winning a redo 49 percent to 45 percent.

Two years ago, Obama won re-election with about 51 percent of the vote.

Of course, the poll should be taken with a grain of salt. While Obama is actually taking on the tough task of leading the nation, Romney is sitting comfortably on the sidelines. Still, the finding comes as foreign and domestic crises have sent Obama’s approval rating tumbling back to 40 percent, per Gallup.

Also in the CNN survey, a record-low 46 percent say Obama “shares [their] values,” while only 49 percent say he is “sincere in what he says,” also a record-low.

– – Jon Terbush

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My Disappointment


My  disappointment is in out Government. Specifically, my issue is the quality of the people we have elected for so many years. Since about  the mid 60’s through the early 80’s we have been on a downhill run as far as the capable  legislators we rely on to run our government. Too many of us never realize that Newly minted legislators and Presidents can never get their projected agendas completed. Washington D.C. is an entity that absorbs and reconfigure people like a walk in model maker. The nature of the beast is it has people in place who actually decide for us (whether we want to believe it or not) what moves forward or dies in limbo. These  “deciders” are the lobbyists and former legislators who work for special interests and non special interests to create and enact laws that may or may not be in the best interest of the country and the populace (us). Think about the last 20 years of elections- the internet and instant media coverage have posted and covered any spoken words from any and all candidates in an instant. This instant coverage is sometime erroneous and not easily corrected. This instant coverage has allowed the worst of us (and our innate fears) to be  used against candidates for office. These campaigns are worse than any physical shooting wars as they are essentially character assassinations. Ones family should never be a subject of scrutiny in an election. The measure of a candidate should be what she or He can bring to the table in spite of the “DC” box they are going into. We as voters owe the candidate of our choice and their opposition the courtesy of listening to their message and deciding if they can do the job as well as they can in spite of Washington. My disappointment is that too many of us are too caught up in hype to seek the real truth of what candidates are about and who their big money backers are, along with the agendas of those wealthy backers.

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