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louis c's Journal"A True Test of A Man's Character is What He Does When No One's Watching"....John Wooden
John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach of UCLA said it best, or to paraphrase, "A true test of a man's character is what he does when (he thinks) no one's watching".
Mitt Romney's true character was reveled in that hidden tape, as he spoke to his wealthy peers in Boca Raton, when he believed no one was watching. His true character was not captured when he spoke before live TV cameras to 70 million people, with comments that were prepared for him after hundreds of hours of preparation.
He really does believe that America is divided (nearly evenly) between "takers and makers". He really does believe that seniors who have contributed all of their lives through hard work, are a hindrance on his version of a society when they retire on Social Security. He really does believe that a single mother, working 30 hours a week for $400 should be contributing something in taxes, while the very wealthy have every right to look for tax shelters, even if they are over seas. Mitt Romney truly believes that others should fight wars that he supports, even when he or his sons are able bodied. Mitt Romney does believe that those fighting men and women should not be given a "hand out", even if they come home from war wounded or broken.
To take John Wooden's very insightful observation a step further, let's look at the tax returns Mitt Romney did disclose, and those he didn't. His tax return from 1997 through 2007 are the significant ones. You see, those are the returns that he prepared "when no one was looking". Those are his returns that he thought no one would ever see, or get to see. 2010 and 2011 are not important, because, to paraphrase John Wooden once again, Mitt knew those were the returns that would be important, because those were the ones that would actually be seen.
Mitt's Father said essentially the same thing when he released 12 years of returns when he ran for the Republican nomination for President in 1968.
Mitt Romney is a fraud. I live in Massachusetts. I remember his unsuccessful Senate run against Kennedy. I remember his successful run for Governor against Shannon O'Brien. I have worked on issues in the Massachusetts legislature that he opposed when he was Governor here.
President Obama should be using this line from John Wooden in the next debate, and make that point. Mitt Romney can say all the right things when he knows the red light is lit on top of the camera pointed at him, but Mitt Romney's true beliefs, those in his heart, are truly revealed when he thinks no one's watching
I Love Obama, but..................
I could have made a more convincing argument for his policies than he did. It's been like that throughout his term of office.
He has a lot to brag about. When they opened with jobs, where was his statement that he saved the Auto industry, while his opponent wanted them to go bankrupt. Ohio started with an unemployment rate 2 points above the national average (or about 11%). Other than Michigan, they rely on the auto industry the most out of any other state. 1 in 8 Ohio jobs are connected directly to the Auto industry. Now, the unemployment rate in Ohio is one point below the national average, around 7%. That's a 4 point improvement in a state that relies on manufacturing to employ it's citizens. When I came into office, the country was reeling as we were losing 850,000 jobs a month. Let me say that again, slowly, because my opponent criticizes a plus 100,000 monthly job report. When I came into office, as a result of the Republican economic policies, we were LOSING 850,000 jobs a month. The fourth quarter GDP in 2008 was revised to minus 9%. Let me repeat that number, MINUS 9%. As bad as the economic crisis looked exactly 4 years ago, it was found out to be worse than we thought. Now, we have had 44 months of positive job growth in the private sector. The stock market, which was teetering on the brink of collapse, is now at a 5 year high, and the Dow Jones has doubled in the 3 and half years I've been in office. That's not insignificant. Many of the viewers have their retirement in 401(k)'s, and the value of that benefit has doubled. We are recovering, and we are moving forward. And we are moving forward without the help of Mr. Romney's party. We have lost 650,000 public sector jobs, which has slowed this recovery, and those job loses are as a direct result of the obstruction of the Republicans in Congress. When Ronald Reagan moved the country into growth, the Democratic Congress assisted him to the tune of over a million additional public sector jobs in 1983. This recovery could be broader, deeper and stronger, if the party you represent would put the American people ahead of partisan politics.
RCP Has National Polls All Blue and 269 Electoral Votes for President Obama
Real Clear Politics has every national poll with President Obama leading. In addition, they have moved Ohio and New Hampshire into the lean Obama category, there-by putting him just one electoral vote away from being re-elected. Iowa, Virginia, Nevada, Florida and Colorado are all still considered toss-ups. Any one of those states could put him over the top. North Carolina has an RCP average for Romney of less than a point, and Missouri has moved into the toss-up category.
I know it's not over, but the momentum continues to be with us. The sub-contractor for the Republicans has committed election fraud, so the Republicans have ceased registering voters, even though they have a week to ten days to do so in a number of key battle ground states. A Pennsylvania judge has rejected the law requiring voter ID in that state, and the Republican message is confused and incoherent.
We have them on the run, let's work all the harder and let's turn this victory, up and down the ballot, into a rout.
Link to RCP:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
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