I swear this guy looks and sounds like the stereotypical nerd from Hollywood's central casting, but he also really sounds like he really knows what he is talking about, and fall right in line with similar forecasts from our friend Nate Silver. Here give him a listen.
And along with this good news we also have the Salt Lake Tribune, Mitt's hometown paper, deciding to endorse President Obama. Ouch, that has to hurt!
Here is brief snippet describing WHY the paper made that choice:
But it was Romney’s singular role in rescuing Utah’s organization of the 2002 Olympics from a cesspool of scandal, and his oversight of the most successful Winter Games on record, that make him the Beehive State’s favorite adopted son. After all, Romney managed to save the state from ignominy, turning the extravaganza into a showcase for the matchless landscapes, volunteerism and efficiency that told the world what is best and most beautiful about Utah and its people.
In short, this is the Mitt Romney we knew, or thought we knew, as one of us.
Sadly, it is not the only Romney, as his campaign for the White House has made abundantly clear, first in his servile courtship of the tea party in order to win the nomination, and now as the party’s shape-shifting nominee. From his embrace of the party’s radical right wing, to subsequent portrayals of himself as a moderate champion of the middle class, Romney has raised the most frequently asked question of the campaign: "Who is this guy, really, and what in the world does he truly believe?"
The evidence suggests no clear answer, or at least one that would survive Romney’s next speech or sound bite. Politicians routinely tailor their words to suit an audience. Romney, though, is shameless, lavishing vastly diverse audiences with words, any words, they would trade their votes to hear.
Sounds reasonable to me.
Romney didn't save the Olympics. Our billion and a half tax dollars did.
ReplyDeleteBINGO....not only that....Romney was a registered , active lobbyist, and ~~personally solicited~~ those $$$ BEFORE the Olympics to ensure it would make him look good on his path to POTUS.
DeleteMartha: You have that right! "to ensure it would make him look good on his path to POTUS."
DeleteRomney has been running for president for over a decade now.
Every move he's made has been crafted carefully to solidify his image as a 'successful businessman and politician' and it's all just a bunch of bunk. Bunk I tell you!
If you follow Nate Silver's blog, he watches several factors and has always had Obama ahead.
ReplyDeletehttp://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
Nate has serious cred and shows Obama starting to tick up again slightly and the latest numbers reflect the bump happening before the second Obama/Romney debate. If Obama does well in this last debate we should continue to see a slow steady creep back up since employment indicators continue with cautious good news.
DeleteSheesh
WooHoo! Let's VOTE. Obama/Biden needs every vote we can get!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting the video- I feel better now!
ReplyDeleteDear Sally in MI,
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing that the story of how Romney "saved" the Olympics with government support isn't more widely known.
Of course, there are so many parts of his story -- his legal residences, his tax returns, all the rest -- that get lost in the flurry of the campaigning.
I do hope the Salt Lake Tribune endorsement of Obama will be a huge, clarion call to voters everywhere. I'm sure the Boston Globe will endorse Obama,and that'll be dismissed as Blue State bias, but out in Utah, those who know Romney best don't like him. Although the Tribune is the non-Mormon paper there -- the Deseret News is owned by the religious leaders.
The media sucks and they're no longer doing their job, that's the issue. To me, what's worse is that the Oympics, before Romney took over, had an office supply deal with Office Depot. well, Romney didn't like that because he had money in Staples, so....guess what happened? He offered Office Depot $1 million to break the contract -- so that HIS company could benefit form OUR olympics. HOW IS THIS EVEN LEGAL? He also switched the lunch policy for meetings -- they went from free catered lunches to working lunches where pizza was served for $1 a slice. The pizza? Was from Domino's -- ANOTHER COMPANY THAT BAIN HAD MONEY IN.
DeleteAnd this shit about how Romney is a successful business man -- PUH-leeze!
Being in private equity is NOT the same as being a business man. He didn't have to bring a product to market and worry about meeting payroll. He didn't innovate anything except for how to cheat the system. He's not Bill Gates, he's Gordon Gekko. Who the eff thinks Gordon Gekko would make a good president and knows how to create jobs?
There's also the question about his IRA and how he got $100 million in it.
The media hasn't reported on ANY of this shit. And if they did, the election wouldn't even be close. They're so offing afraid of appearing to look like liberals that they're letting Romney get away with a lot of shit -- just like they never mentioned the Keating Five scandal in 2008. How the eff can you have a presidential candidate who was involved in one of the biggest corruption cases in American history and NOT ask him about it????? I don't care that it was twenty years ago and I don't care that McCain proposed campaign finance laws since then. It still matters. It goes to show that he had a willingness to bend the rules. I don't even understand how you could think taking money for trips from someone when you're a politician is okay, in the first place. GAHHHHH!
Oct. 18, 2012 If the Romney’s can’t win legally, they’ll take over Ohio’s electronic voting machines through investments, a direct conflict of interest in a contentious state in this election.
ReplyDeleteThe new owners of Ohio’s voting machines under the brand name HART Intercivic is none other than Tagg Romney the son of one of the candidates Mitt Romney. In recent weeks Tagg has taken a more “active role in his father’s campaign management” but when you look further, he also has a major problem with that role.
By virtue of conflict of interest alone, this role should be investigated by the DOJ preferably involving the addition of the FBI, Homeland Security and the CIA to ensure this connection will not endanger the vote in Ohio and other states.
After all isn’t the security of an election both state and federal authorities responsibility to ensure the election is not stolen, tampered, or results altered?
Tagg Romney and Hart InterCivic Voting Machines -Oct 18/2012
Tagg Romney the heir to the Romney fortunes (through Vulture Capitalism) is a chip off the old block and his dad scored big destroying American jobs through leveraging profitable US companies. Unfortunately for the employees of these companies they lost their jobs to cheaper labor in China sweat factories.
In 2008, after Romney lost the 2008 bid for President, it was all clear for Mitt Romney’s son Tagg Romney to invest in a company called Solamere Capital which is a direct subsidiary of Allen Stanford’s Bank and investment companies.
Solamere Capital
Allen Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in jail for one of the biggest 8 billion dollar ponzi scheme. The funds were never recovered for investors, and the SEC has never said Tagg Romney was not under investigation for his investments thereafter.
Tagg Romney tapped into Mitt Romney’s Rolodex of wealthy associates, political donors, wealthy investors and in particular Mitt Romney’s campaign fundraiser: Spencer Zwick.
Think Progress- Romney Family Investment -Ponzi Schemer Allen Stanford
The 10 million seed funds funds were said to have come from one of Ann Romney’s Blind Family Trust accounts which aren’t so blind after all. That seed money was also in the name of Mitt Romney and profits were made through this investment when Mitt partnered with his number one son.
Read more: http://www.politicolnews.com/tagg-romney-invested-in-ohio-electronic-voting-machines/#ixzz29qb1zMff
Has Fox News reported any of this??
Delete“The widespread use of electronic voting machines from ES&S, and of Diebold software maintained by Triad, allowed Blackwell to electronically flip a 4% Kerry lead to a 2% Bush victory in the dead of election night.
ReplyDeleteES&S, Diebold and Triad were all owned or operated by Republican partisans.
In election 2004, the shift of more than 300,000 votes after 12:20 am election night was a virtual statistical impossibility. It was engineered by Michael Connell, an IT specialist long affiliated with the Bush Family. Blackwell gave Connell’s Ohio-based GovTech the contract to count Ohio’s votes, which was done on servers housed in the Old Pioneer Bank Building in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Thus the Ohio vote tally was done on servers that also carried the e-mail for Karl Rove and the national Republican Party. Connell died in a mysterious plane crash in December, 2008, after being subpoenaed in the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit focused on how the 2004 election was decided (disclosure: we were attorney and plaintiff in that suit).
HART INTERCIVIC MACHINES ARE KNOWN FOR GLITCHES, FAILURES AND COUNTING ERRORS:
The fact that the State of Ohio is now run by Republicans, the voting machines by republican operatives and keenly related to the Romney Family spells out: A Department of Justice Investigation now, not after the election.
All voting machines should be securely monitored because they are really easy to hack into by anyone including the parties that have a big stake in winning on November 6, 2012.
Read more: http://www.politicolnews.com/tagg-romney-invested-in-ohio-electronic-voting-machines/#ixzz29qcCekAY
Actor/comedian Richard Belzer also thinks that it is the media who has conjured up this as a horse race. He says they did it in 2008 as well. Probably to keep people tuning in for "breaking news" and to garner more ad revenue. He says that it will be a landslide for Obama. (Fingers crossed/please vote everyone.)
ReplyDeleteI found it very telling that the Salt Lake Tribune endorsed Obama. RMoney must have really pissed them off somewhere along the way.
I agree with Belzer in that when you look at the networks and cable stations, so many more became 'political' 24/7. They used to reports 'news' from within the borders and outside. That's been absent. You can just look t the time between the night Obama won in 2008 to now -- they've continued 24/7 political with the breaking news being an explosion or a hurricane. You wouldn't know there was a world outside the borders of the U.S. You can attach some of the blame to the media for the Tea Party in that by their continued attention, reporting and having the mouthpieces on the shows spewing their crap, they allowed them to gain credibility. Not the cred that is good -- but that they 'arrived'.
DeleteI hope to hell he is right.The thought of an R/R ticket in the white house scares the shit out of me.If they win invest in companies that make body bags because he will surely get us involved in another war or two.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome!
ReplyDeletehttp://twitter.com/search?q=%23OFAgroundgame&src=hash
Mitt Romney's Easy Five-Step Approach to Foreign Policy
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-jY7ZkRqb4
Following this guy keeps me calm and assured.
ReplyDeletehttp://twitter.com/JeffersonObama
Rules for commenting on Saturday Morning:
ReplyDelete1. Read the Title to the Post.
2. Watch the Video and Listen.
3. Read the article.
4. Write snarky comment.
5. Think before I hit SEND for shitty comment.
6. Go to Starbucks and Get a Tall Pumpkin Spice Latte. Cute barista tells me that I'd enjoy flavor, and she checks with me a few minutes later to see if I like it-- then says she will replace it if I don't like it. Shocked, I tip her a buck on the way out for the service.
7. Drink Coffee while talking to real human beings who say I still look sleepy.
8. Read title of blog article again and realize words matter and they're ALL there for a reason.
9. Delete smart-ass comment implying that Gryphen posts video without watching first or writes his titles AFTER he's passed out drunk.
10. Hit tip jar for G b/c he's not totally crazy today (yet), at least not in the manner my original pre-coffee comment implied.
11. Watch video again for feel-good moment to re-boot my day.
You're a jewel :)
Delete(and hilariously snarky, too)
+1
DeleteI agree, nothing (especially Starbucks) should be "pumpkin" flavored, except for pie.
I was pleasantly surprised. I love the smell, but never thought the taste would be good. I eat pumpkin pie maybe once a year at Thanksgiving and maybe again at Christmas, and that's it. I can see drinking the pumpkin spice latte a few times while it's cold but not like an everyday Americana.
DeleteSpent time last evening on twitter reading and posting about the stupidity of Darrell Issa and and Jason Chaffetz on their releasing security documentation that did not redact the names of operatives in Libya that helped the US -- all in the aim of the witch hunt of President Obama. It took years for document release info on Bush/Cheney for 9/11, 3000 deaths at the WTC. So long that it allowed them to be re-elected. But in Issa & the Rethugs minds, 6 weeks is too long to solve Benghazi/Libya as they proceed with their witchhunt.
ReplyDeleteWhile doing this, some of the messages I read -- man we do have mentally challenged citizens within our borders -- which you already know!!
Here's a few of the tweets I read --
"I can say this Romney will be handed the WORST mess any President has ever been handed, BUT he is the man to clean it up"
(someone's response to the above)
"I agree, it might take him awhile but he'll get us straight again"
Sounds like person willing to give more time than 4 years -- hmmm. What's good for the goose is not good for the gander as Obama didn't fix it fast enough. But then, you know by reading between the lines -- what they truly mean. Amazing what I got called last night for pushing fact that President Obama is actually 1/2 WHITE American!! OOps - that was a fact. Can't have those!!
Here's another which makes me think we need more buildings -- to house the mentally challenged as we have been overrun with them. Amazingly there were a number who were posting these types of messages to Jeb Bush -- yes, the real Jeb Bush -- WTF???:
@jebbush you need to study this some more. It's proved Iraq had WMD and moved them to Syria
@jebbush the WMD were moved to Syria, where they still are today. It's been proved that they were there
I only took a little sampling because truthfully, there is not enough space for me to have saved all the stupidity! And again, we all know from the PeePond the conspiracy like the above. The 'illegal aliens' are not from Mexico -- they're from space and they invaded the brains of people who posted those tweets!!!!
Izza's new threat on Friday to issue subpoenas for Obamacare documents. He's an idiot. Who votes for morons like these.
These are the ones that keep me sane:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.predictwise.com/politics/2012presidentindividual
http://electoral-vote.com/
http://pollyvote.forecastingprinciples.com/index.php/pollyvote-2012/models.html
Never wrong in 12 years!
http://www.7-eleven.com/7-Election/NationalResults.aspx
I don't know -- I'm worried about Ohio. I'm worried about the Diebold machines! Obama needs to win VA and/or FL and keep the smaller value swing states, like IA and CO if he loses OH. I know that he's up -- a LOT in the polls in OH -- but remember, in 2004, the exit polls had Kerry winning by four points and he ended up losing by two. I'm assuming he wash't really winning by four, but still, that's a swing that seems like it's greater than the standard deviation. Right now, Obama is NOT winning in FL and VA. It's conceivable that we could win the popular vote and lose the election -- AGAIN. Nate Silver has this as a slim chance -- but that's because he's a nice person and he's assuming there isn't going to be any magic vote-switching Diebold machines.
ReplyDeleteHe may be the "nerd" from central casting, but he's spot on in his assessment. What I like is he graphed the included the aggregate polls and graphed them over time. People are focusing on each poll individually, when they were meant to sample a segment of the population at a certain point in time, stepping back and looking at the big picture, just like President Obama has done all along, may quell people's anxiety.
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