Tag: 2012 Election

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First Lady launches voter initiative

First Lady Michelle Obama announces the launch of “It Takes One”.

“It Takes One” is a new effort that asks you to inspire one more person to join you every time you take an action to move this country forward. If you’re making phone calls or knocking on doors, take a friend along. If you’re registering to vote, make sure that a family member is registered as well. If you’re attending an event, bring one neighbor along. And if you’re voting early on election day, bring one new voter with you. You could inspire five, or ten, or 100 new people before November.

As the First Lady shares:

“That one new voter you register in your precinct. That one neighbor you help get to the polls on November 6th. That could make all the difference. That one conversation you have. That one volunteer you recruit. That could be the difference between waking up on November 7th and feeling the promise of four more years or asking yourself, ‘could I have done more?'”

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Romney surrogate: “I wish this president would learn how to be an American.”

The Romney campaign ratcheted up its language on Tuesday in a conference call on which former New Hampshire governor and White House chief of staff John Sununu said he wished President Obama “would learn how to be an American.”

“The president clearly demonstrated that he has absolutely no idea how the American economy functions. The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world — it is the American way,” Sununu said in his opening remarks of the conference call.

He added: “I wish this president would learn how to be an American.”

The first question to Sununu later in the call was about that comment, which exploded quickly on Twitter for its stark claim about Obama.

“What I thought I said, but I guess I didn’t say, is that the president has to learn the American formula for creating business,” he said. “If I didn’t give all that detail I apologize.”

The Obama campaign’s Lis Smith said that Sununu’s rhetoric represented that the Romney campaign had grown desperate.

“The Romney campaign has officially gone off the deep end,” she said. “The question is what else they’ll pull to avoid answering serious questions about Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital and investments in foreign tax havens and offshore accounts. This meltdown and over-the-top rhetoric won’t make things better — it only calls attention to how desperate they are to change the conversation.”

Regardless of the walk-back, the tone of the call was consistently negative — and harshly so — with Sununu and the four small businesspeople on the call ripping the president’s policies, background and campaign tactics.

More at MSNBC.com

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Romney campaign mad new ad points out Mitt’s hypocrisy

The Romney campaign has an unusual spin on this ad: they say President Obama is mocking “America the Beautiful.”

Every day, President Obama hits a new low. It is sad and shameful that President Obama would mock America The Beautiful. But sadly it’s not surprising for the man who launched his presidency with an apology tour. The ‘Uncle Jims’ of our country – as he condescendingly calls middle-class Americans – don’t believe in mocking America The Beautiful and don’t believe in apologizing for America. – Romney for President.

Watch the ad and share how you feel. I see the Obama campaign pointing out the irony of Mitt Romney singing about his love for a country as his Bain Capital “outsourcing” statistics scroll on the screen. Clearly an effective ad.

And clearly the President is not mocking “America the Beautiful.”

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Mitt Romney “retired retroactively” from Bain Capital

Mitt Romney adviser Ed Gillespie said Sunday that the candidate “retired retroactively” from his job at Bain Capital, which Romney maintains that he left in 1999 despite evidence suggesting he remained involved with the company until 2002.

Gillespie said Romney may have been listed as “part-time” after 1999, but that he had no role in the firm’s day-to-day affairs, a point the campaign has attempted to make repeatedly in order to separate him from Bain’s activity related to outsourcing during that period. Romney has said he left the company completely in 1999 when he started working to plan the 2002 Winter Olympics.

“There may have been a thought at the time that [Romney’s Bain work] could be part-time. It was not part-time. The Olympics was in a shambles,” Gillespie told Candy Crowley on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“He took a leave of absence and in fact, Candy, ended up not going back at all and retired retroactively to February 1999 as a result,” Gillespie said.

Romney’s involvement at Bain came under renewed scrutiny last week after additional reports surfaced revealing that he was listed as the CEO, president and chairman of the firm long after he had previously stated. He has insisted that he had nothing to do with Bain after 1999 in response to questions about its activities at the time, including investing in companies that sent jobs overseas.

Via Huffington Post

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President Obama – “Romney wants ME to apologize?”

Seriously, folks, Romney practically walked into his own pothole here.

He spends months making up lines like “Obama apologizes to our foes” when the President has never done such a thing, and now turns around and says “We should be talking about the issues.” SRSLY?

And now that major news sources are investigating whether Romney has lied about his tenure with Bain Capital, Romney wants the President to apologize? For Romney’s own misstatements?

SRSLY.

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Keeping his word: Equality for LGBT Americans

Remember folks. No president has done more for LGBT rights than President Obama.

While Romney supports a constitutional amendment banning marriage equality, and points to the economy and says it’s not improving fast enough and he could do better, please think about the facts:

1. After 8 years of bad policies we hit the biggest recession since the Great Depression.

2. You walk 8 miles into the forest, it’s 8 miles back out.

President Obama is doing what he said he’d do despite the opposition doing everything they can to slow the economy down in the hopes he won’t be elected.

In the meantime, while the economy IS slowing improving, President Obama kept his work to the LGBT community.

I now have a job AND my dignity with a President who believes I’m equal.

Yeah – I’m voting for President Obama 2012.

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On pride and dignity

Taken at a gay pride event and shared on the Obama twitter account

“The most sweepingly positive changes any president has ever made to address gay rights. How can we not vote for that? I may not have a job yet, but I have my dignity! OBAMA 2012”

I was reading on some of my favorite blogs and saw this comment on JoeMyGod. It was posted as a guest, but I wish I could attribute it to the author.

That sentiment resonates to my core.

While the terrible economy continues to slowly improve – in spite of the GOP obstruction in Congress to keep things from improving so President Obama might not be re-elected – I have to say the statement above says a lot about why and who supports President Obama.

No President has done more for lifitng the level of respect for LGBT Americans than President Barack Obama.

From repealing DADT (which he said he would do, and he did) to refusing to defend the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act, to supporting marriage equality for all Americans – NO President has done more to help us feel equal.

The conservative gays at GOProud love to rally ’round the GOP saying gays rights aren’t the only issue and “economic issues affect us all.” Yes – economics affect us all, but before you make money, have a job, raise children or even just get up in the morning we all need to feel our worth. Our dignity.

I’m not in campaign mode here, but Mitt Romney does not see some Americans as being as equal as others. He has said he would support a constitutional amendment banning marriage equality for millions of gay Americans. He did not support the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Thousands of American men and women, who put their lives on the line for our country every day,  that Mitt Romney does not feel should be able to serve their country.

Jobs are slowly coming back after the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. There’s a saying: “you walk seven miles into the forest, it’s seven miles back out.” It took eight years of bad decisions on behalf of the last administration to get us into the mess Obama inherited.  The worst recession in 80 years isn’t going to be resolved in three.

President Obama is doing his best despite a Republican party that stated that their number one goal was not to create jobs for Americans; it was to deny President Obama a second term. And it’s clear that’s what their focus has been on.

America’s future continues to improve. We are still the great country we always have been. AND the LGBT community has many reasons to support a President who sees us as equals. Who treats us with dignity.

I’m pretty sure that falls under the definition of the word “pride.”

Celebrate Pride kids.

Forward.  No fear.

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Gallup poll: President Obama leads Romney in swing states

In the first Gallup Swing States Poll since Romney became the presumptive GOP nominee, President Obama leads Romney 47%-45%.

Romney also seems to lag in the enthusiasm department: among who see themselves as “very” or “extremely” enthusiastic for their candidate, President Obama leads Romney 55%-46%.

The enthusiasm gap could be significant on election day in terms of “getting out the vote.”

We’ll see…