Donald Trump Jr. claims that criticism of his father springs from an "atmosphere of hatred."

Courtesy of Newsweek: 

Donald Trump Jr. has sprung to the defense of his father, President Donad Trump, over his reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, critizing what he called an “atmosphere of hatred.” 

He said that criticism of Trump’s response to Charlottesville—after which the president said that "both sides," white nationalists and left-wing protesters, were to blame—was due to the spread of hatred by students on liberal university campuses and the left-wing media. 

Speaking at an annual fundraising event for Faulkner University, a private Christian institution in Alabama, Trump Jr. said: “He condemned...the white nationalists and the left-wingers. That should not have been controversial, but it was.”

He then took aim at left-wing protests where conservative figures have been scheduled to speak, and a culture at colleges that he said taught young Americans to “hate their country” and “hate their religion.” 

“‘Hate speech’ is that America is a good country... that we need borders... anything that comes out of the mouth of the president... the moral teaching of the Bible,” he said.

So to paraphrase apparently the only reason that people are criticizing Donald Trump is that left wing universities are teaching their students to hate America.

Or....it could be that better educated people simply see through Trump senior's bullshit and know a racist liar when they see one.

And if Junior really wants to see an "atmosphere of hatred" he should go back and watch tapes of his father's 2016 rallies.

Sarah Palin uses soldier suffering from PTSD to shame college students.

You guys might recognize that meme as it was fairly popular with the Right Wing several years ago.

However as Raw Story points out using it today demonstrates a complete lack of empathy toward that soldier, James Blake Miller, who suffers from PTSD:

Miller, now 32, received a medical discharge from the Marine Corps in 2005 after blacking out while assisting in Hurricane Katrina recovery due to post-traumatic stress issues related to his combat experience in Iraq.

So is Palin suggesting that college students should earn their chance at free college by first getting Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome? Because that seems especially harsh.

Of  course as we know Palin has a long history of using emotionally or mentally damaged military personnel to push her agenda.

And her history of attacking those seeking higher education is equally well known.

This time she just got to combine the two, into one giant insult directed at both.

This was posted on Facebook by Sarah Palin, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, without a hint of irony.

Source

I swear that kind of cognitive dissonance is enough to give one an aneurysm.

The irony of Sarah Palin attacking college students as being dismissive of facts almost breathtaking.

But this is a real indication of what we are up against when dealing with Trump supporters.

For them up is down, black is white, and truth is whatever tumbles out of Trump's orange tinted maw.

How does one engage in reasonable discourse with people who deny the existence of facts and label everything that disagrees with their point of view as "fake news?"

Here's a little Bernie Sanders to start your day off right.

Courtesy of Facebook

Here is a little more about Sanders "College for All Act:" 

Titled the “College for All Act,” the bill would eliminate the $70 billion dollar tuition costs at all 4-year public colleges and universities. 

Under the plan, the Federal Government would cover 67% — $47 billion dollars each year — of the costs. 

States would be required to produce the remaining 33% of the costs, or 23 billion dollars.

Damn that sounds good.

You know the only reason I did not finish my college education was that I simply could not afford it, and was terrified of accumulating debt that I would never be able to pay off. 

I would given anything to have a program like this available back then.

College student tells Jeb Bush: "Your brother created ISIS." Alright NOW we're talking!

Jeb Bush was concluding a town hall meeting in Reno, Nevada during whihc he attempted to blame the creation of ISIS on President Obama's "retreat from the Middle East."

Well 19 year old college student, Ivy Ziedrich, was having none of that shit.

Here was her response courtesy of the New York Times: 

“It was when 30,000 individuals who were part of the Iraqi military were forced out — they had no employment, they had no income, and they were left with access to all of the same arms and weapons,” Ms. Ziedrich said. 

She added: “Your brother created ISIS.” 

Mr. Bush interjected. “All right. Is that a question?” 

Ms. Ziedrich was not finished. “You don’t need to be pedantic to me, sir.” 

“Pedantic? Wow,” Mr. Bush replied.

Yes "pedantic" Mr. Bush. It's the kind of word that well educated, intelligent people, who would never vote for your loser ass, are prone to using. 

Ms. Ziedrich was not finished with Jebbei either: 

“Why are you saying that ISIS was created by us not having a presence in the Middle East when it’s pointless wars where we send young American men to die for the idea of American exceptionalism? Why are you spouting nationalist rhetoric to get us involved in more wars?”

Bush answered that he "respectfully disagreed" with the young lady and then accused her, accused HER I say, of "rewriting history."

(Hold on while I cough up this hypocrisy hairball.)

You know I have often said that I wished I had been a fly on the wall for certain exchanges over the years, but folks I would have mortgaged my house for the opportunity to sit in on this one!

And here's hoping that it is only the first of many such exchanges.

That awkward moment at a tailgate party where your supporters start yelling out misogynist comments aimed at your female opponent. Scott Brown's solution? Just keep on smiling as if nothing is happening.

(Video contains language NSFW.)

Courtesy of the Daily Kos:

In the video, Brown never stops smiling as several men in the crowd of tailgaters surrounding him shout things like "Fuck Jeanne Shaheen" and "Fuck Elizabeth Warren" and "Fuck her right in the pussy" and something about a "cunt." 

These were not a few stray catcalls, as you'll see on the video. They were constant and unmissable, but Brown just kept gladhanding his way through the crowd, obviously not bothered by the aggressive misogyny of his supporters. This tone is also nothing new to a Scott Brown campaign. Sexism was a constant undertone in his campaigns against Martha Coakley and Elizabeth Warren, with the candidate himself once offering a female reporter beer while saying "I’ve seen you in the bars before, don’t act like you’ve never been to a bar ... We’re gonna have her dancing in the back of the truck." 

According to tweets, Brown gave out beer to undergrads at the event, though his campaign denies it. Presumably the campaign's next move will be to deny that Brown heard anything resembling "Fuck Jeanne Shaheen," but it's going to be difficult to persuade anyone who's seen the video of that. This really isn't going to help Brown tighten the gender gap.

Look what was Brown supposed to do?

I mean should he have manned up, confronted these individuals and risked losing their support?

Or simply resorted to his strongest hand which is always to play dumb?

Well it's Scott Brown so that is really not a choice. (Besides don't we all think he secretly agrees with the frat guys?)

"It's billionaires vs students." Elizabeth Warren introduces new plan to tax the wealthy and use the revenue to help students with college loans.

Courtesy of Think Progress:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) laid out a new plan that would tax millionaires and use that revenue to help students refinance their student loans. 

Delivering the keynote address at the Higher Ed Not Debt Campaign launch event on Thursday at the Center For American Progress, Warren argued that America faces a choice: “Do we invest in students, or millionaires?” Warren plans to introduce a bill that would create an “America that invests in those who get an education” by revising the tax code and enacting the Buffet rule. 

The Buffet rule is named after billionaire Warren Buffet and would establish a minimum tax on income in excess of $1 million. The measure, which never got out of Congress, raises approximately $50 billion in revenue and ensures that millionaires do not pay lower tax rates than middle-class families. 

Congress acted to lower the federal unsubsidized student loan interest rate to 3.86 percent for the 2012-2013 academic school year. But unless it acts again, the rate will increase back to its original 6.8 percent for the next school year. 

Warren’s plan would maintain the 3.86 percent rate for the federal unsubsidized student loan. The cost of the change would be covered by a “dollar for dollar” effort where for “every dollar the Buffet rule brings in, we use that dollar to refinance student loan debt,” she explained. She estimated that recent graduates who borrowed the maximum in undergraduate loans could see their payments drop by $1,000 a year and total interest paid over the life of the loan could be cut nearly in half. Students with graduate loans or borrowers from private lenders would save even more, Warren projected.

You know sometimes it feels as if Elizabeth Warren is the last real liberal standing in this country. Or at least the last one who openly embraces the liberal ideals at every opportunity.

I am not one of those who think she will, or even should, run for President. But I have to say that if she did she would have the youth vote all tied up.

(Here is the video of Warren's remarks.)

Colorado does Obamacare right.

Bros need brosurance. #doyougotinsurance? http://t.co/5f0rwNKJKp pic.twitter.com/p8Ajg2q7S0
— CCHI (@COHealthAccess) October 22, 2013

Courtesy of Political Ticker:

Keg stands. That's one way to promote Obamacare, it seems. 

"Brosurance," reads a new web ad that shows a few bros having a good time. "Keg stands are crazy. Not having health insurance is crazier. Don't tap into your beer money to cover those medical bills. We got it covered." 

The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative and ProgressNow Colorado Education launched the web ad, along with a series of other meme-like images that target young residents in Colorado, as well as Latino families–two demographics that tend to lack health insurance. 

The ads are modeled after the successful "Got Milk?" campaign, with each image saying, "Got Insurance?" 

Other ads feature mountain climbers, kayakers and cyclists. The health groups are trying to appeal to "our own Colorado twist," says Jenny Davies-Schley, of the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. 

The idea is to make the images go viral, and each ad is easily sharable through a number of different social media agents, like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Or blogs, don't forget blogs.

Can I just say that this marks the first time ever, that I have been jealous of Coloradans. 

Brilliant campaign, and it makes me really WANT to sign up for their health care.

Mike Huckabee in a panic because he has to see same sex couples on TV.

Courtesy of Right Wing Watch:

Mike Huckabee was joined by Concerned Women for America head Penny Nance yesterday to discuss CWA’s new campaign, Willing 2 Stand, designed to reach out to young people on their opposition to abortion rights and marriage equality. During most of the interview, Nance maintained that conservatives on college campuses were “bullied” and had trouble articulating their views on topics like gay rights. 

The former governor and presidential candidate said that “every fear that people had” about the consequences of legalizing same-sex marriage “has in fact come true,” arguing that people have lost “their rights” in states with marriage equality. 

Huckabee seemed especially sad that he now has to see “television commercials portraying same-sex couples” while textbooks are “forced” to mention gay marriage. 

"The very thing that many people and I know CWA was a part of this, saying, this is why the legalization of same-sex marriage is going to be a much bigger issue than just saying we let people love whoever they want to love, that’s not the issue. Will it force businesses—of course everyone will say, oh no people still have their rights, but they don’t. And every fear that people had has in fact come true, that this is being forced in textbooks on how marriage is depicted, we’re now even seeing television commercials portraying same-sex couples, that’s something I guess I didn’t expect to see anytime soon."

Yes what a shame that the family dynamic reinforced by 50's sitcoms, and which never ACTUALLY had any relation to how most households functioned, has been upended by a more realistic demonstration of American families in 2013.

By the way this program Willing 2 Stand, has a video that you really must see to believe.

As has been well documented I am not a religious person so forgive me for being obtuse, but I have to wonder just how Christians expect young people to participate in society, the "world" if you will, if they are taught that they are above it or should remain disconnected from it?

It appears to me that these kids are being militarized in anticipation for some great culture war, and that along with the Right Wing 2nd Amendment fetish does not exactly help me to sleep at night.

I have read the New Testament and this was NOT my take away from the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Did I miss something?

Rick Santorum claims that colleges are "indoctrinating" our youth.

Courtesy of Outside the Beltway:  

Rick Santorum said the nation’s colleges are promoting a “sea of antagonism toward Christianity” and “indoctrinating” its youth with ideals that support gay marriage, abortion and pornography. 

Santorum called in to Tony Perkins’ “Washington Watch” on Tuesday to talk about the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling. The conversation dealt not only with abortion but also included other “symptoms” that have changed the nation. 

Perkins spoke broadly, saying pro-choice Americans represent a troubled country that doesn’t choose life, meaning “That is to follow the principals, the teachings, the instructions of God … You see that as you’ve been in Washington, D.C. There is a rejection of this idea of truth, and that there is a foundation or morality, which needs to be upheld.” 

Santorum agreed, adding that less young people devote themselves to Christianity. “If you look at the popular culture and what comes out of Hollywood, if you go to our schools and particularly our colleges and universities, they are indoctrinated in a sea of relativism and a sea of antagonism towards Christianity.” 

“Abortion is a symptom. Marriage is a symptom. Pornography [is a symptom],” he continued. “All of these are symptoms to the fundamental issue that we’ve gotten away from the truth and the ‘Truth-Giver.’”

 You know Inigo Montoya is exactly right. I don't think that Rick Santorum understands what it really entails to successfully indoctrinate somebody.

Now look I am loathe to disagree with a man who single-handedly made the sweater vest the most mocked article of clothing in the entire 2012 election cycle, but I am afraid I am going to have to here.

In order to successfully indoctrinate somebody you do NOT start at an age when they are just starting college. No THAT is much too old.

By then they have most likely developed the ability to access a variety of information sources and learned something called "critical thinking." Critical thinking is to indoctrination what sunlight is to vampires. (And not those stupid Twilight vampires either. REAL. totally fictional movie vampires.)

No in order to successfully indoctrinate somebody you have to start when they are quite young. Say around five, six or seven years old.

And you take them to a place where they can be put in a room together and have fantastical stories drilled into their heads until they ACTUALLY begin to believe they are true. And hell at this age you can make up just about anything, they are really are quite naive and trusting.

I'm just spit balling but perhaps you could tell them a story about a man who walked on water. Or about snakes that talk. Or perhaps you could weave a tale about a man swallowed by a whale who emerges unharmed three days later. Or, if you are feeling truly lucky, you might even convince these impressionable children that a woman gave birth to a child while still a virgin.

Let's see, you could probably gather this group of children together say once a week, when there was no school. Perhaps on a Sunday for instance.

Hey, you could even call it Sunday School!

You could even use a colorful felt board to illustrate your stories, and use apple juice and graham cracker snacks to dull the children's senses and make them more susceptible to the indoctrination into a belief system based totally on ancient Hebrew fables and allegories.

You know, for example.

If you wanted to expand on that theme you could also build a faux museum which refutes virtually EVERYTHING that science has learned about this planet, and even put together a colorful and purposefully duplicitous slide show and present it to the very young children as revealed truth in order to inoculate them from accepting fact based information later in their lives.

In fact if you do it right it , or some portion of it, will likely last their entire lives. Then you can use trigger words like "tradition," or "values," or "morality" to manipulate them into making choices that are not in their best interest and may in fact be damaging to them and their families in the long run.

You see THAT is how to indoctrinate people Rick Santorum. If anything, and I know this may be very hard to accept for somebody with your limited intellectual faculties, colleges may actually serve as a place where young men and women are freed from their PREVIOUS indoctrination. A place where they might learn that the world, and the universe around it, are in fact MUCH more amazing and complex than they were led to believe it was as children.

Or perhaps that is really what you are talking about here? Not indoctrination, but the deprogramming of those who were already successfully indoctrinated? Could that be the case?

Well no wonder you see college as an evil entity, the last thing a Republican politician, who identifies himself as a Christian, wants is people thinking for themselves. After all how long will the Republican party last if they do?

Proof that Concealed Carry permit holders live in a dream world.

Courtesy of the YouTube site:

The controlled study documented in these videos show that concealed carry permit holders are fooling themselves if they think they will be able to react effectively to armed aggressors. Most CCW holders won't even be able to un-holster their gun. They will more likely be killed themselves or kill innocent bystanders than stop the aggressor. For more details, see "Unintended Consequences: Pro-Handgun Experts Prove That Handguns Are a Dangerous Choice for Self-Defense.

This is longish, coming in at a little less than ten minutes (And this is just part one), but it is well worth your time and something that you can Facebook and tweet to all of your pro-gun relatives and friends that might just give them a few facts to chew on for a change.

University Republicans invite Ann Coulter to speak. University President and others speak out in oppostion. Coulter summarily uninvited. Could this be a trend?

So apparently the College Republican club invited Coulter to come for a Q and A with their members. However this did not go down well with many of the other University students, nor with the President of the University, Father Joseph McShane, who wrote the following:

The College Republicans, a student club at Fordham University, has invited Ann Coulter to speak on campus on November 29. The event is funded through student activity fees and is not open to the public nor the media. Student groups are allowed, and encouraged, to invite speakers who represent diverse, and sometimes unpopular, points of view, in keeping with the canons of academic freedom. Accordingly, the University will not block the College Republicans from hosting their speaker of choice on campus. 

To say that I am disappointed with the judgment and maturity of the College Republicans, however, would be a tremendous understatement. There are many people who can speak to the conservative point of view with integrity and conviction, but Ms. Coulter is not among them. Her rhetoric is often hateful and needlessly provocative — more heat than light — and her message is aimed squarely at the darker side of our nature. 

As members of a Jesuit institution, we are called upon to deal with one another with civility and compassion, not to sling mud and impugn the motives of those with whom we disagree or to engage in racial or social stereotyping. In the wake of several bias incidents last spring, I told the University community that I hold out great contempt for anyone who would intentionally inflict pain on another human being because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or creed. 

“Disgust” was the word I used to sum up my feelings about those incidents. Hate speech, name-calling, and incivility are completely at odds with the Jesuit ideals that have always guided and animated Fordham. 

Still, to prohibit Ms. Coulter from speaking at Fordham would be to do greater violence to the academy, and to the Jesuit tradition of fearless and robust engagement. Preventing Ms. Coulter from speaking would counter one wrong with another. The old saw goes that the answer to bad speech is more speech. This is especially true at a university, and I fully expect our students, faculty, alumni, parents, and staff to voice their opposition, civilly and respectfully, and forcefully. 

The College Republicans have unwittingly provided Fordham with a test of its character: do we abandon our ideals in the face of repugnant speech and seek to stifle Ms. Coulter’s (and the student organizers’) opinions, or do we use her appearance as an opportunity to prove that our ideas are better and our faith in the academy — and one another — stronger? We have chosen the latter course, confident in our community and in the power of decency and reason to overcome hatred and prejudice. 

Joseph M. McShane, S.J., President

Wow, that is a pretty powerful and well reasoned statement.

The letter from Father McShane was posted just yesterday at Salon, and by that evening the College Republicans had decided that Coulter was NOT the sort of conservative representative that they wanted to be associated with, and took back their invitation, while also issuing THIS statement:

The College Republicans regret the controversy surrounding our planned lecture featuring Ann Coulter. The size and severity of opposition to this event have caught us by surprise and caused us to question our decision to welcome her to Rose Hill. Looking at the concerns raised about Ms. Coulter, many of them reasonable, we have determined that some of her comments do not represent the ideals of the College Republicans and are inconsistent with both our organization’s mission and the University’s. We regret that we failed to thoroughly research her before announcing; that is our error and we do not excuse ourselves for it. Consistent with our strong disagreement with certain comments by Ms. Coulter, we have chosen to cancel the event and rescind Ms. Coulter’s invitation to speak at Fordham. We made this choice freely before Father McShane’s email was sent out and we became aware of his feelings – had the President simply reached out to us before releasing his statement, he would have learned that the event was being cancelled. We hope the University community will forgive the College Republicans for our error and continue to allow us to serve as its main voice of the sensible, compassionate, and conservative political movement that we strive to be. We fell short of that standard this time, and we offer our sincere apologies. 

Ted Conrad, President 
Emily Harman, Vice President 
Joe Campagna, Treasurer 
John Mantia, Secretary

Personally I was stuck by the civility demonstrated by both sides in this matter, which of course goes to illustrate just how poor of a choice it would have been to introduce the hateful rhetoric of Ann Coulter onto their campus.

It also gave me a little hope that perhaps this 2012 election may result in a beneficial side effect that impacts our political discourse moving forward.

As identified by David Frum yesterday, and of course pointed out by jubilant progressive pundits every day since the election, the conservatives have allowed themselves to be so completely cut off from information which contradicts their rigid point of view that, despite binders full of information to the contrary, they had convinced themselves that Mitt Romney was going to win Tuesday's election in a landslide.

When that did not happen they tried to attack the media, the Obama campaign, and essentially reality itself for denying them the victory they simply KNEW was coming their way.

And it was people like Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Dick Morris, and Rush Limbaugh that told them those lies, and tricked them into looking like idiots.

So maybe, just maybe, (After exhausting every possible conspiracy theory of course) the Republicans will start to move away from the conservative spinmeisters, and bullshit artists, employed by Fox news and Right Wing radio and start to actually pay attention to something we progressives call "facts." I know it helps progressives to win elections when these people are all hopped up on stupid, but it DOESN'T help us to move this country forward. And in the end isn't THAT far more important then  simply putting numbers on the scoreboard?

NCAA drops hammer on Penn State in response to horrific charges of child abuse at the hands of Jerry Sandusky.

Workers remove Joe Paterno statue.

Courtesy of the New York Times:

The N.C.A.A. announced significant penalties against Penn State and its football program Monday, including a $60 million fine and a four-year postseason ban, in the wake of the child sexual abuse scandal involving the former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. 

The punishment also included the loss of some scholarships and the vacating of all of the team’s victories from 1998 to 2011, but stopped short of forcing the university to shut down the football team for a season or more, the so-called death penalty. Still, the penalties are serious enough that it is expected to take Penn State’s football program, one of the most successful in the country, years before it will be able to return to the sport’s top echelon. 

The postseason ban and the scholarship restrictions essentially prevent the program from fielding a team that can be competitive in the Big Ten. The N.C.A.A. will also allow Penn State players to transfer to another university where they could play immediately, inviting the possibility of a mass exodus. 

The N.C.A.A.'s penalty, announced by the organization’s president, Mark Emmert, is the latest action to stem from the scandal involving Sandusky, who was convicted last month of being a serial pedophile. The release of a grand jury report detailing Sandusky’s actions last November led to the firing of the legendary coach Joe Paterno; the removal of the university’s president, Graham B. Spanier; and charges against two other top university officials.

I have to say that there is no lack of victims here.

My heart of course goes out to the young victims of Jerry Sandusky's predation, but I also feel badly for the athletes who played for the Penn State football team, as well as the students that attended classes there, as they will now have to look back on their time in that school with a sense of remorse, if not shame.

Personally I think the NCAA did the right thing, perhaps they could have implemented their version of a  "death penalty" but I am not sure if that was a necessary step considering how much damage this scandal, and the penalties already handed down, have already done to Penn State's reputation, and ability to conduct a successful football program. 

So what do you think? Was this adequate or should the program have been completely dismantled?

More clueless comments from Camp Romney.

The other day while Mitt was showing solidarity with the college kids by helping them catch up on some much needed sleep he also let slip this.

This kind of decisiveness, this attack of success, is very different than what we’ve seen in our country’s history. We’ve always encouraged young people: Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.

Yeas what is it with these college kids anyhow, taking out government loans when their fat cat parents are sitting on piles of cash? Do they like spending the nest twenty five years of their lives paying back hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt?

Romney is EXACTLY the kind pf leader these kids need to emulate. One that avoided the war to hang out in France and push his religion on others, who had his dad purchase him the best education money could buy, who made his own money by taking over companies and sending their jobs overseas or liquidating them and divvying up the profits with the wealthy shareholders.

Clearly Romney's rallying cry to energize these young people will be, "Yes, I can...take what is yours and make a profit off it while destroying your way of life."

And look Mittens is not the ONLY Romney showing a connection to the peons..sad fucks....every day people of this country.

"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Or wealthy. Or a stuck up over-privileged bitch."

Anny Romney also demonstrated her incredible lack of compassion by saying THIS to her fellow lady people:

Romney alluded to the fact that not all women can stay at home saying, “I love the fact that there are women out there who don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. And sometimes life isn’t easy for any of us.”

Yes, Ann Romney LOVES the fact that there are women who don't have obscenely wealthy husbands and HAVE to work for a living. If not for them WHO would she have hired to clean her house, raise her children, and give her her weekly beauty treatments?

Oh the Romneys!  They are so much like all of us that seeing them is almost like looking into a mirror.

A very, very expensive, jewel encrusted golden mirror.

In other news Mitt Romney talked to college students today, just like President Obama. See if you can spot the difference.

"Oh God make it stop! Please can somebody drag me back to class? I can't feel my legs anymore!"

Wonkette even has a portion of the riveting speech:

What we found was they were spending a lot more than I thought on copy paper and toner and supplies and software and so forth.

Zzzzzzz.

New Republican ad attacks President for not doing the job they are preventing him from doing. Wait, what?

Okay first off, this looks to me like another pro-Obama ad.  And adding text to try and get the younger voters to turn on him does nothing to make the President look anything but incredibly cool.

Just my opinion.

As for the text itself:

"1 in 2 recent college grads are jobless or underemployed." That may be true but the President has been desperately trying to rectify that, ONLY to have the Republicans sabotaging him at every turn.

"85% moving back in with their parents." As a parent of one of those twenty somethings I have to say that I prefer having my little girl here as opposed to having my daughter trying to scrape by in an economy virtually destroyed by George W. Bush, and one that the Republicans are actively working to prevent from improving so that they can use it as an issue to attack President Obama.

"Student loan debt exceeds one trillion dollars." Yes, and the President has been working to ease the financial burden on these students for over six months. What have the Republicans been doing?

Oh that's right, fighting against it and trying to introduce their own bill that would undermine the Affordable Care Act.

So essentially the ONLY things Republicans have to attack the President with are the very things that THEY are keeping him from improving. Good luck in 2012 GOP!

By the way, GREAT video!  I now want to vote for the President EVEN MORE!

There has been so much negative news today, that I just won't be able to sleep without leaving all of you with a little positivity.

President Obama speaking at Florida Atlantic University.

Ahh, that's better!

(H/T to The Obama Diary.)