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Betty White and Mitt Romney – Eastwooding
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Speaking of invisible – The Tea Party at the RNC
Did anyone notice that there were no mentions of the Tea Party movement during the prime time speeches at the Republican National convention this week? Remember when Tea Party was everyone’s favorite phrase?
Not a single one of the 38 speakers during the convention’s key prime time hours has even mentioned the phrase, according to an examination of their transcripts — a sign both of Romney’s own distance from the movement and that polls have suggested that voters view the movement negatively.
At the very least, I expected Tea Party favorite Senator Rand Paul to give a shout out. Nothing.
Things that make you go “hmm…”
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New York Times calls out Romney/Ryan lies and distortions
In an Op/Ed piece in the New York Times, the paper ran an editorial calling out many lies and distortions put out by the Romney/Ryan campaign. And I, for one, am glad.
Run on your record, run on your truth. But don’t lie and distort to make yourself look better.
A few of the issues the New York Times highlights:
Deficit Commission: While Ryan spoke of the Simpson-Bowles commission, what he didn’t mention was that HE was a part of that panel. AND he voted against the commission’s recommendations.
Credit Rating: Ryan talked about the down-grading of the US credit rating blaming the President. What he didn’t mention was that the credit rating was down-graded because the GOP fought raising the debt ceiling for spending that had already happened and had been approved by Congress.
Medicare: Ryan tried to portray the President as “raiding” the Medicare fund of $716 billion dollars. The problem with that is HE himself had already recommended cutting the same amount from Medicare. However, the President’s savings would come not from trimming benefits for current recipients, but from cutting the projected growth in reimbursements to hospitals and insurers over the next decade.
Head over the the New York Times article and take a read.
President Obama supports me as an equal
Yes. This is MY President.
This is why I can’t possibly vote for Mitt Romney and his anti-gay platform.
“Out of many, we are one.” President Obama supports me, and I support him.
Federal judge restores early voting days in Ohio
The Obama campaign has sued the state of Ohio in federal court – to restore the three day early voting period that Republicans in the state legislature eliminated – and won.
A federal judge in Ohio on Friday restored early voting rights in the three days before the election, ruling in favor of the Obama campaign.
U.S. District judge Peter C. Economus ruled that “restoring in-person early voting to all Ohio voters through the Monday before Election Day does not deprive UOCAVA (Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act) voters from early voting.”
“Instead, and more importantly, it places all Ohio voters on equal standing,” Economus ruled. He said the state “fails to articulate a precise, compelling interest in establishing the 6 p.m. Friday deadline as applied to non-UOCAVA voters and has failed to evidence any commitment to the ‘exception’ it rhetorically extended to UOCAVA voters.”
Mitt Romney earlier had falsely tried to rewrite the issue: “President Obama’s lawsuit claiming it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period is an outrage,” Romney said in a statement.
Actually, the Obama campaign’s lawsuit, filed by the campaign in mid-July, explicitly asks a federal court to restore in-person early voting rights to ALL eligible Ohio voters on the three days preceding Election Day.
“This lawsuit seeks to treat all Ohio citizens equally under the law,” Obama for America attorney Bob Bauer said in a statement. “We want to restore the right of all to vote before Election Day.”
Under the Obama administration, the Justice Department has filed 10 lawsuits and reached nine settlements with various states to protect military voters under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA).
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Fact checking the Paul Ryan speech at RNC Comvention
President Obama responds to Clint Eastwood
Parents – which guys do you like?
Log Cabin Republicans: “Our party dropped the hammer harder because we were there”
Log Cabin Republicans have long said that their presence in the GOP helps to further the fight for equality for the LGBT community. In fact, they were allowed to sit in on the drafting of the national party’s platform.
But looking back at a platform that is very anti-gay, Log Cabin Republicans now feel their presence possibly made the platform even more hostile to gays and lesbians.
From NPR interview:
“When you back someone into a corner, they fight back twice as hard,” said Casey Pick of the Log Cabin Republicans, a national organization representing the interests of gays and lesbians.
“The platform is ugly and harmful,” she said during a Wednesday gathering of same-sex marriage supporters at a law firm just across the Hillsborough River from the site of this week’s Republican convention in Tampa, Fla.
Pick, the Log Cabin’s program director and an evangelical Christian, characterized the tone of the party’s discussions about same-sex marriage in meetings of the Constitution subcommittee as largely “hostile.” “We lost,” she said. “And you could say the social conservatives in our party dropped the hammer harder because we were there.”
Mitt Romney – “The Do Over”
New from the Obama campaign.
Love the dramatic flair.