Wednesday, February 29, 2012

VIDEO : CNN : President Obama will Win in a Landslide with a lot of help from Latinos Says Charles Garcia ( Big Financier Banker, Rich Money Man ), Christine Romans, business correspondent and anchor for CNN

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This strange rich man is a "turncoat" from Strong Bush Republican to Strong Obama Supporter. Money Manager Charles Garcia is based in Florida, a friend of Jeb Bush and George W. Bush, he raised a lot of funds and moneys for the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush, Charles Garcia is considered one of the Top Hispanic Men in Business.

Charles Patrick GarcĂ­a (born 1961) had recently started Garcia Trujillo LLC, a consulting, merchant banking, and venture capital firm where he is the Chief Executive Officer. He also publishes many books on leadership, motivation and going into Business.

Obama could even lose Florida and Ohio and get reelected.

Arizona and Missouri could be flipped to Blue ( Democrat Party ) - These six states : Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and North Carolina are very possible for Obama.

Republican Candidates are pandering to extremists and Tea Party and will be rejected on general election time by Latinos.

President Obama Wins in a Landslide Because of Latinos Says Charles Garcia

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President Obama Wins in a Landslide Because of Latinos Says Charles Garcia




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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Low voter turnout reported in Michigan Republican primary - This looks like a bad omen for the Republican Party in November 6, 2012 - Low number of voters and little interest in the primaries are good predictors of low turnout in the General Election

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The GOP has a problem of low interest and lack of enthusiasm. Number of voters seem lower than in 2008, specially those that identify themselves as Republican.

Bets in INTRADE.COM for Presidential Election :

Barack Obama to be re-elected President in 2012 : 60.2%

Mitt Romney to be Republican Presidential Nominee in 2012 : 83.9%

Rick Santorum to be Republican Presidential Nominee in 2012 : 6.8%

If the Economy does not falter and unemployment is under 8% then it is a good bet that Obama will win reelection.

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"Tell Me With Whom You Walk and I Will Tell You Who You Are" : Mitt Romney walks today with the most anti-immigrant officials in America : Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio; hardliner Sheriff Paul Babeu; former California Gov. Pete Wilson; Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, and Gov. Jan Brewer

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Huffington Post
Tell Me With Whom You Walk and I Will Tell You Who You Are
Ruben Gallego and Anna Tovar
February 28, 2012

Tell Me With Whom You Walk and I Will Tell You Who You Are

Some excerpts :

Romney, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president, is actively courting the most divisive and extreme advocates on one of the critical issues our next president will decide.

His own anti-immigrant positions are alarming - not just for Latinos, but for all Americans who recognize that our diverse nation of immigrants is stronger when we stand united. President Obama believes strongly that our diversity is what makes America great, which is why he has fought hard for commonsense and comprehensive immigration reform and the DREAM Act.

Romney used to believe in these solutions, too. But now that he needs to pander to the Tea Party, he's severely changed his tune.

He once supported Sen. John McCain's and Sen. Ted Kennedy's comprehensive immigration reform bill, calling it "reasonable." Now he surrounds himself with these shameful advisors and derides sensible proposals as "magnets." He once said it didn't make sense to deport the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in this country. Now he wants to kick them all out, saying the inhumane policy of "self-deportation" is the answer for families who have lived here for generations and served their communities or in the military.

And Romney has promised to veto the DREAM Act for responsible young immigrants - and even called it a "handout," as though going to college or serving in the military is a free pass.
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Jennifer Granholm ( former governor of Michigan ) : Republicans are a gift to Democrats : They are now anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-Latino, anti-Muslim, anti-Europe (particularly the French and the Greeks), anti-labor, anti-poor, anti-99 percent and now anti-college graduate

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This New GOP rhetoric enables us to eagerly welcome your castoffs into the Democratic Party where inclusivity is celebrated and their contributions are welcome.


POLITICO.COM
Thanks, GOP candidates, for move to far right
February 27, 2012


By Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm is the former governor of Michigan. She is now the host of “The War Room” on Current TV. She is also a visiting public policy and law professor at the University of California — Berkeley.


Thanks, GOP candidates, for move to far right


Some excerpts :

To appeal to the Republican base voter these days, GOP candidates are earnestly discussing ways to dismantle government — whether it’s the Energy Department, Education Department or … whatever the third one is. The far right is focused on shrinking government so small that it drowns in a bathtub — but reappears in state-mandated vaginal ultrasound probes.

Attacking the massive deficits that “harm our children’s future” by proposing tax cuts that add a whopping $5 trillion to the deficit. Skewering the rescue of the auto industry in one commercial while boasting about being pro-manufacturing in the next.

Indeed, the long primary will mean that the newly invigorated far right has ensured that the so-called traditional conservatives — like my dad’s generation, the save-your-money, make-prudent-but-conservative-investments kind of conservatives, the pragmatists who are uneasy with the cultural battles — well, they’re obviously disposable.

Dad couldn’t care less about legislating access to women’s contraception or ordering vaginal ultrasound probes — the very subjects make him uncomfortable. He cares about rational economic policy. But his party has left him, gone to tea.

It’s a trend that would have caused former Michigan Gov. George Romney to grimace. Mitt Romney’s Detroit bashing stands in painful contrast to his father’s compassionate, moderate legacy. Where did the pragmatic Mitt Romney of Massachusetts go? The one who thought it was important to offer access to health care to all his citizens? He, too, has gone to tea.

We’ve all watched Romney straining against his genes and his history, contorting himself into a human pretzel, twisting into an anti-immigrant frenzy, an unlikely chameleon of the severe far right.
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In their zeal to “let Detroit go bankrupt,” what’s left unsaid is the fact that the tea-steeped Republican presidential candidates are bankrupt of new ideas for moving this country forward in an aggressive global economy, bankrupt of compassion for those who are less fortunate and bankrupt of compromise with those who view the issues differently than they do.
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Monday, February 27, 2012

HuffPost : Michigan's Republicans rammed a bill creating this statewide primary through the legislature to the cost of $10,000,000 paid by Taxpayers. Democrats can make mischief and maybe deliver a mortal wound to the Romney campaign

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To all Democrats in Michigan : Cast your vote for Santorum for maximum effect and maximum havoc. ..... Savor the opportunity to cause problems to GOP. After all you ( the taxpayer ) are paying for it.



Huffington Post
Michigan Dems, Independents Should Vote for Santorum in Michigan Primary
By Joe DiSano
Long-time veteran of Michigan politics
February 24, 2012


Michigan Dems, Independents Should Vote for Santorum in Michigan Primary


Some excerpts :

Let's be clear though -- chances are good Mitt Romney will be the GOP nominee regardless of what happens in Michigan. But we can assist in making it as costly for Romney and his corporate supporters as possible. It is in every Democrats best interest for this process to continue right up until the GOP convention.
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I would wager the American public would render any political party with a brokered convention as unfit to run the government. We can help create that out come this Tuesday.

Now some will say that we could actually help deliver the nomination to Santorum and we may regret that outcome.

Don't be distracted by the sideshow. Santorum matters little on Tuesday. He is only a convenient vessel to embarrass Romney on the national stage. The Romney people have set the bar so high in Michigan through their massive spending Romney needs to win a resounding victory in Michigan of at least 10 percent to beat expectations and quell the demands for a stronger nominee. The national press is ready to tell the story that Romney got beat on his home turf. You can help make that happen.
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To vote in the Republican primary a voter simply needs to request to do so. You don't need to say that you are a Republican, and you would still be able to vote in the Michigan Democratic Party May 5 caucuses, and to re-elect President Obama in November.
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Sunday, February 26, 2012

For President Obama, whose reelection bid depends on high support from women voters, the Arizona Republican Debate was gold. Even better was when the candidates discussed immigration : Mitt Romney endorsed the Arizona anti-immigration law as a model for the nation

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"Newt Gingrich supported a massive wall on the border, Ron Paul doubled-down on the myth that undocumented immigrants “use up” public resources".

Even if Republicans were trying to make themselves a hard sell for women and Latinos, they couldn't have done a better job. The Obama campaign must be thrilled.


The American Prospect
And the Winner Is: Barack Obama
By Jamelle Bouie
February 22, 2012


And the Winner Is: Barack Obama


Some excerpts :

Without question, the winner of Wednesday’s Republican debate was Barack Obama. This wasn’t apparent at the beginning; during the first forty minutes, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul argued about earmarks, and made the usual promise to cut taxes, cut spending, and magically balance the budget. But by the end of the event, the candidates had revealed their hostility toward women and Latinos, and further ensured that they would stay on Obama’s side into the fall.

It wasn’t actually until after the first commercial break that moderator John King asked the candidates about the elephant in the room—birth control. After Gingrich went through the usual motion of insulting King for posing the question, the candidates embarked on a fantastic voyage of obfuscation, dishonesty, and outright attacks on women’s health.
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VIDEO, Evangelical Christian Pastor Eric Holmberg is a fan of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, this minister has always voted Republican and dislikes Obama and the Democrats. But he will never vote for Mitt Romney

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This very patriotic man voted for George W. Bush and does not love Al Gore, but he will never vote for Mitt Romney. He gives his Biblical and Theological Reasons to reject the anti-Christian and unChristian Mormonism, which for him is a cult.

Pastor Eric Holmberg says : "A Big Warning to the Republican Aristocracy in Washington". He implies that many Honest and Decent Christian Conservatives won't vote for Mitt Romney".



Pastor Eric Holmberg asks us not to consider him as a bigot !


Mitt Romney, Mormonism and the 2012 Election

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There are several DVDs offered here that factually examine the Mormon cult from a number of angles:


Mitt Romney, Mormonism and the 2012 Election





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Saturday, February 25, 2012

VIDEO, "Morning Joe" Joe Scarborough, Car Czar Steve Rattner Completely Debunks Romney Detroit Auto "Managed Bankruptcy" Fantasy and Nonsense, without the huge government bailout nobody would have saved the auto industry

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From Wikipedia :

In February 2009, with both General Motors and Chrysler on the brink of insolvency, Rattner was appointed Counselor to the United States Secretary of the Treasury and lead auto adviser. He quickly assembled a team that grew to 14 professionals to address this key element of the national economic crisis.

Reporting to both Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers, the head of the National Economic Council, Rattner and his auto task force developed a plan to save both the two manufacturers and related suppliers and finance companies. The plan involved a total government investment of $82 billion in the sector, coupled with controlled bankruptcies for the two auto companies, as well as new management for both . 

Controversially, in order to get the bond holders on board with the bailout, Rattner threatened the reputation of them. Rattner later wrote in his book Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Auto Rescue that the toughest decision for President Obama was whether to save Chrysler. There was no disagreement, he later wrote, about asking GM CEO Richard Wagoner to step aside.

By July 2009, both automakers had emerged from bankruptcy, had new management and were on their way to renewed profitability. At that time, Rattner left Washington and returned to private life in New York.


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Clip from February 24, 2012, MSNBC Morning Joe, where Car Czar, Steve Rattner, completely debunks Mitt Romney's nonsense, fantasy claim that his suggested "managed bankruptcy" for the Detroit auto companies without the huge government bailout would have saved the auto industry. Rattner correctly points out that, since no one was willing/able to lend the huge sums of money necessary for the auto companies to survive, that it was either take the government money and survive or not take it and liquidate.


Car Czar, Steve Rattner, Completely Debunks Romney Detroit Auto "Managed Bankruptcy" Fantasy




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Friday, February 24, 2012

Protestant Theologian Jerry Johnson against Mitt Romney : "Name one time Israel had a pagan King sitting on her throne and God just poured out blessing upon the people and the country. Please my friend, read the book of Judges again"

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I am an atheist that enjoys and feels pleasure with theologians Catholic or Protestant.

This Theologian, pastor or minister Jerry Johnson seems to be sincere and not the usual exploiter of fools and freeloader parasite of the weak. Read his Forums and watch his videos in this page. In the forum many people are perturbed or angry, they are usually extremely conservative ( not me ! ).

Jerry Johnson is an important Protestant Christian Historian and Intellectual - He gives extreme importance to the Epistles of apostle Paul and to the Nicene Council and Nicene Creed that unified Christians and defined the doctrine.

"The sacred and inspired Scriptures
are sufficient to declare the truth."
--Athanasius, Defender of orthodoxy,
Council of Nicaea A.D. 325

Nicene Council

Jerry Johnson is extremely worried about the possibility of Mitt Romney being president of the USA, because he finds that Mitt's faith totally contradicts the Christian Faith as defined by his beloved Nicene Council that took place in Nicaea in 325 after Jesus Christ.

According to his interpretation and knowledge of the Bible Moralism is not enough to support a politician. Even if you prove that Mitt Romney is a moral man, that is not enough, if Mitt's Theology is anti-Christian.

Apostle Paul would have not supported for civil office those Jews that contradicted and opposed Christianity.






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Paul Krugman : Mitt Romney is a closet Keynesian : a gaffe is when a politician accidently tells the truth. That happened to Mitt Romney on Tuesday, when in a very rare moment of candor he gave away the game. Mitt is the champion of insincerity and verbal dishonesty

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Mitt Romney said : “If you just cut, if all you’re thinking about doing is cutting spending, as you cut spending you’ll slow down the economy.”


The New York Times
Romney’s Economic Closet
By PAUL KRUGMAN
February 23, 2012

Romney’s Economic Closet

Some excerpts :

Speaking in Michigan, Mr. Romney was asked about deficit reduction, and he absent-mindedly said something completely reasonable: “If you just cut, if all you’re thinking about doing is cutting spending, as you cut spending you’ll slow down the economy.” A-ha. So he believes that cutting government spending hurts growth, other things equal.
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Mr. Romney is not a stupid man. And while his grasp of world affairs does sometimes seem shaky, he has to be aware of the havoc austerity policies are wreaking in Greece, Ireland and elsewhere.

Beyond that, we know who he turns to for economic advice; heading the list are Glenn Hubbard of Columbia University and N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard. While both men are loyal Republican spear-carriers — each served for a time as chairman of George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers — both also have long track records as professional economists. And what these track records suggest is that neither of them believes any of the propositions that have become litmus tests for would-be G.O.P. presidential candidates.

Consider Mr. Mankiw, in particular. Modern Republicans detest Keynes; Mr. Mankiw is the editor of a collection of papers titled “New Keynesian Economics.” In an early edition of his best-selling textbook, he dismissed supply-side economics — the doctrine embraced by the sainted Ronald Reagan — as the creation of “charlatans and cranks.” And, in 2009, he called for higher inflation as a solution to the economic crisis, a position anathema to Republicans like Representative Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, who warn ominously about the evil of “debasing” our currency.

Given his advisers, then, it seems safe to assume that what Mr. Romney blurted out Tuesday reflected his real economic beliefs — as opposed to the nonsense he pretends to believe, because it’s what the Republican base wants to hear.
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As I see it, it comes down to the cynicism underlying the whole enterprise. Once you’ve decided to hide your beliefs and say whatever you think will get you the nomination, to pretend to agree with people you privately believe are fools, why worry at all about truth?

What this diagnosis implies, of course, is that the many people on the right who don’t trust Mr. Romney, who don’t believe that he’s truly committed to their political faith, are correct in their suspicions. He’s playing a role, and it’s anyone’s guess what lies beneath the mask.
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