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2012 Oct 8, 10:54am   22,879 views  66 comments

by Honest Abe   ➕follow (1)   💰tip   ignore  

Just finished a 2,400 mile, 7 day road trip through California, Oregon and Washington. Saw overwhelming support for Romney on signs, placards and billboards throughout all three states.

None for obama. None. Not one sign, not one placard, not one billboard anywhere to be seen for obama...not a single one. Bumper stickers? 5 to 1 for Romney.

My favorite billboard? "VOTE FOR THE AMERICAN".

The emperor has no clothes (AKA - an empty chair).

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16   CL   2012 Oct 10, 4:23am  

edvard2 says

I assume intention=attention. But moving on, there is a big difference between positive and negative attention.

Also, a difference between negative and positive intention! :)

17   Tenpoundbass   2012 Oct 10, 4:26am  

edvard2 says

I assume intention=attention. But moving on, there is a big difference between positive and negative attention.

And the purpose of your post is?

19   American in Japan   2012 Oct 12, 8:06pm  

>It looks like normal people are outraged with the direction of the country and are not holding back their feelings.

The anger is again misdirected by the elite. I still haven't decided who I will vote for, but I don't want to jump on the "my team" bandwagon.

20   American in Japan   2012 Oct 12, 8:10pm  

I am curious, though how the Federal Reserve would change under Romney...

21   kentm   2012 Oct 13, 12:49am  

Start with the tax plan:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/romneys-tax-plan-had-a-bad-night/263541/

The 6 Studies Paul Ryan Cited Prove Mitt Romney's Tax Plan Is Impossible

22   Tenpoundbass   2012 Oct 13, 1:27am  

I think the better question would be who would best replace Ben Bernanke and what should that person do differently?

I think the best thing would be raising the interest rate.
While it can be argued that higher interest rates creates inflation. There's some real reason to believe that Interest rates can be too low.

I think that banks and investment brokerage should be split up.
Banks should give loans and pay savers, investment firms should have less regulation, and the public be more educated on the products they sale, for the risk that they are. If the Government can't understand the financial vehicles those firms create, then they have no right to legislate them. Though I'm sure if these people were made to at least explain them in writing better, to their consumer, then maybe they could hire someone to explain it to them in lay terms.

There's not a single person with a retirement plan that includes a cash savings plan of some sort. Everyone is tied up in companies in a time where the average lifespan of a company is 16 years tops. Those that do last loner, do so by mergers and selling the company.

We've been listening to those calling for the destruction of the dollar for to long. There's just not enough hard assets to go around
Gold, Real Estate, a few Monopolies spread out across all industry vertices.

It is small business and competition in every industry that creates value in the dollar. With out them, the dollar is worth less. With out savers making safe guaranteed reruns from saving. With the lack of willing lenders. The harder it is for small business to even happen.

The banks that focus more on investing, it is against their own self interest to give loans to competing entities, of the companies they are invested in.

23   Shaman   2012 Oct 13, 4:30am  

Thomas.Wong says, "vandalism of any Romney-Ryan signs are fairly common, pretty much across the nation."

Sort of gives you a pretty clear idea of the quality and nature of Obama's voter base.

24   bob2356   2012 Oct 13, 4:31am  

John Bailo says

I know it sounds impossible...but I recently saw an electoral map where Oregon had shifted from solid blue to light blue...or likely support.

Now if Oregon is questioning the Democrat orthodoxy just a wee bit...anything could happen...even a late break of Californians, who may see their interests aligning with Republicans again.

Both Oregon and Washington state are divided by the cascades into a lightly populated very red state conservative eastern half and a liberal blue state western half where the bulk of the people live. I can't see how Portland, Salem, Eugene which is where 80% of the population of Oregon lives, would have shifted to likely support light blue. These are some of the most liberal, granola eating, birkenstock wearing places in the country. Someone didn't do their homework when they drew the map.

25   zzyzzx   2012 Oct 14, 11:38pm  

American in Japan says

I am curious, though how the Federal Reserve would change under Romney...

Romney has alteady said that he wants to get rid of Berneke.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/economy/261823-romneys-plan-to-dump-bernanke-sparks-anxiety-on-wall-street

27   Honest Abe   2012 Oct 15, 4:31am  

God I hope so. France, as you may know, is proposing to ban the words "father" and "mother" to be replaced with Parent 1 and Parent 2.

That sounds warm, loving, and nurturing, right? Liberals (and socialists and communists) want to destroy the family. Nothing new here, same old slop.

28   Tenpoundbass   2012 Oct 15, 6:28am  

Honest Abe says

want to destroy the family.

With out a single doubt in my mind.

29   gbenson   2012 Oct 15, 7:02am  

I saw this title and thought it was referring to the number of outright lies told in the last debate.

Us libs don't have to beat our chests and put up signs. We are intelligent enough that we don't need to be TOLD who to vote for.

30   Tenpoundbass   2012 Oct 15, 7:10am  

gbenson says

Us libs don't have to beat our chests and put up signs.

Well actually you do, and it helps if you can get an American company to allow you to hijack their iconic brand Logo, to give it some hip cred to the young voters, that cast their votes based on the getting laid factor.

Face it having an Obama/Biden sticker on your Prius just doesn't have that "OOMPH" that it had 4 years ago. I'd wager most voters from 2008 would feel utterly ridiculous with it now.

31   Honest Abe   2012 Oct 15, 8:02am  

Utterly ridiculous...and betrayed.

32   DukeLaw   2012 Oct 15, 8:12am  

Quigley says

Thomas.Wong says, "vandalism of any Romney-Ryan signs are fairly common, pretty much across the nation."
Sort of gives you a pretty clear idea of the quality and nature of Obama's voter base

And I can easily make the assertion that Romney voters vandalize Obama signs. Sort of gives a pretty clear idea of the quality and the nature of the posts here when no one can back up their assertions accurately.

33   Honest Abe   2012 Oct 15, 9:37am  

I can accurately assert my friends car antenna was broken off and apparently used as a whip to hit a Ron Paul sticker on the side of his car because the indentation on the fender matched the shape of the broken antenna which was left behind.

Mertens v Wolfeboro Nat. Bank determined: "It is the duty of one who volunteers information to another not having equal knowledge, with the intention that he will act upon it, to exercise reasonable care to verify the truth of his statements before making them".

34   michaelsch   2012 Oct 16, 6:12am  

There is one overwhelming reason why no sane American should vote for Romney. Look at such polls. It clearly proves Romney is not running for American Presidency, but for Foreign interests.

http://www.jpost.com/USPresidentialrace/Article.aspx?id=287697

Voting for Romney means voting against America being an independent nation.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/u-s-elections-2012/adelson-american-jews-shouldn-t-trust-obama-on-israel-1.469644

Abe, today being honest means voting against Romney!

35   gbenson   2012 Oct 16, 7:00am  

Anyone voting for Romney, please come see me.. I have a bridge to sell you.

The gullibility of the American public, particularly ones with a republican bent, is astounding. And the fact that the press now stands there and lets people blatantly lie and not question it in fear that their advertising dollars will dry up. Who knew the movie Idiocracy will wind up being non-fiction.

36   Honest Abe   2012 Oct 16, 7:56am  

http://www.youtube.com/embed/SmRgaKfWMPA&feature=related

Obummer should do the honorable thing and withdraw from the election. Its that simple. Vote for the American.

37   gbenson   2012 Oct 16, 8:13am  

I am voting for the American (Obama). He much more closely represents the principles this country was founded upon. Republican's represent the oligarchy and theocracy the immigrants to this country thought they had left behind.

38   Honest Abe   2012 Oct 16, 9:41am  

Benson, right on, comrade! Obama represents nothing this country was founded upon...that's because he rejects the constitution, freedom, liberty, the rule of law, privacy, private property, personal responsibility, personal initiative, personal sovereignty, success, and sound money.

Here are some bumper stickers of obama constituents:

Dependents for O'Bamma
Socialists 4 obama
Non-taxpayers for ooBama
Freelunchers support obomma
Slackers for obama
Both my daddy's support Hussain Obama
Communists for obummer
alternative universe crowd 4 obama
Robin Hood types for obama
Prius owners of America support obama
Bed-wetters for Obama
Reverse Racists for obama
Obama-phoney's for obama
New Black Panthers support Barry Hussain Obama
Marxists support obama, for the collective good
Equality of results cult members in support ob-ama
Those in favor of "the current truth" support Osama Obamma
Thought Police 4 OHbamma.
$8 per gallon gas nuts for obama
Victims for obama
Welfare reciepients for obama
Freedom haters love obama
Statists for O-bamaa
Radical liberals 4 obama
Pathological dependents for Obamma
Redistributionists support obama

Don't vote for the muslim in the White House, vote for the real American.

39   leo707   2012 Oct 16, 10:02am  

Honest Abe says

Here are some bumper stickers of obama constituents:

Funny.

Here are some bumper stickers of Romney constituents (several seem to fit either candidate):

Dependents for Romney
Socialists 4 Romney
Non-taxpayers for Romney
Free-lunchers support Romneeeey
Trust-funders for Romney
Both my bosses support Mittens Romney
Fascists for Romney
Alternative universe crowd 4 Romney
Prince John and Sherriff of Nottingham types for Romney
Nascar team owners of America support Romney
Bed-wetters for Romney
Racists for Romney
Obama-phoney's for Romney
White supremacist support Mitt “Mittens” Romney
Fools support Romney, for the .01% good
Cult members in support Rom-ney
Those in favor of an etch-a-sketch candidate support Mittens Romney
Thought Police 4 Romney
Nuts for Romney
Victims for Romney
Corporate welfare recipients for Romney
Freedom haters love Romney
Statists for Rom-ney
Radicals 4 Romney
Pathological dependents for Rommney
Redistributionists support Romney

Oh, and one more...

Patrick.net trolls for Romney

41   thomaswong.1986   2012 Oct 16, 10:23am  

gbenson says

Republican's represent the oligarchy and theocracy the immigrants to this country thought they had left behind.

strange that so so many pick being republican than democrat when they become citizens.

come down to Little Saigon in San Jose...

42   joshuatrio   2012 Oct 16, 10:25am  

Saw a Hillary Clinton bumper sticker today.... (true story)

43   gbenson   2012 Oct 16, 1:15pm  

Abe, I'd debate you on this, but your premise and 'examples' are just asinine. I frankly don't want to waste that much time correcting all the idiotic things you said.

No wonder you Republicfags like Romey. You're all a bunch of fucking lairs.

What color is the sky in your world anyway?

44   FortWayne   2012 Oct 16, 1:16pm  

Obama 47, Romney 0

But don't take my word for it, those are Romney's words.

45   Bigsby   2012 Oct 16, 2:05pm  

Wrinkled4skin says

getting rid of our defenses, basically making us a weak asss country!

Yep, because your country only spent $711bn in 2011, whereas the second biggest spender, China, forked out a whopping $143bn. Tremble in fear.

46   gbenson   2012 Oct 16, 3:22pm  

Wrinkled4skin, except everything you said is utterly and totally false. In fact the opposite of everything you said is true.

God you Republican's just don't have any freaking clue on how to separate fact from fiction do you? You live in opposite land or something.

Lets go point by point shall we.

  • more regulations - actually Obama has eliminated more regs than created new
  • high gas prices - aside from the fact that the president has NOTHING to do with gas prices, they were higher under Bush in inflation adjusted dollars or as a percent of cost of living
  • high un employement - has been going down under Obama, was going up under a Republican administration. And is currently going down even while Republican's have done everything in their power to actually block jobs programs. Factor out all the Republican state government cuts (teachers, firefighters, police) and unemployment would be another 2% lower.
  • Huge debt - compared to Bush who hid the wars 'off the books'? Besides any fucktard who completed Econ 101 knows the only proven way to stimulate an economy in a tailspin is government spending. Should I even mention that a Republican led Congress, not the president currently controls the budget, or were you too busy sticking your thumb up your ass in high school social studies to understand even the most basic concept of how our govt actually functions?
  • Illegal aliens pouring in - Obama has deported more illegals than Bush
  • Getting rid of our defenses - How so, you are just making stupid shit up. The programs they are trying to cut are ones that the MILITARY (the guys wearing the uniforms) say they don't need or want. Congress won't cut them though and is wasting BILLIONS of dollars. Romney has promised to increase spending and buy them MORE of the things they don't need or want.
  • He drops to his knees to the 3rd world leaders - Just pull more shit out of your ass why don't you. It's the Republican's who want to turn the US into Mexico with no unions and cheap labor.
  • I swear, you guys are just morons.

    47   thomaswong.1986   2012 Oct 16, 3:34pm  

    gbenson says

    Illegal aliens pouring in - Obama has deported more illegals than Bush

    i dont think you will find that in dispute.. not what the Dems cheer too much about.

    48   thomaswong.1986   2012 Oct 16, 3:42pm  

    gbenson says

    more regulations - actually Obama has elimited more regs than created new
    high gas prices - aside from the fact that the president has NOTHING to do with gas prices, they were higher under Bush in inflation adjusted dollars or as a percent of cost of living

    sadly we have several blends of gas in this country ( around 11) ... which contribute to higher prices. Not Obama's fault but should be reviewed and reduced which would reduce price volatility.

    its Oktoberfest .. your car drinks a different blend...

    Special Gasoline Blends Reduce Emissions and Improve Air Quality, but Complicate Supply and Contribute to Higher Prices
    GAO-05-421, Jun 17, 2005

    http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-05-421

    50   REpro   2012 Oct 17, 3:59am  

    Watch the movie “ETHOS” in your spare time to understand better what you actually vote for.
    Available on Netflix, instant stream.

    51   gbenson   2012 Oct 17, 4:07am  

    Abe, as usual you have no point, or rather are grasping at straws (which I realize republican's must do in order to try and make their points). Hannity and Savage, and other right wingnut 'stars' regularly imply that Obama should be strung up, doctors should be killed, etc. They go as close to the line as the law will allow to rile up their base.

    Republican's are crazy enough to actually act on their lizard brain impulses. From 5 days ago:
    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/13/shot-denver-campaign-obama/1631125/

    52   gbenson   2012 Oct 17, 4:18am  

    Hmm, after writing the post above I got to thinking about the people making threats against Romney. They actually have a point.

    Since Ronmey's plan (what little of it he will reveal) is eerily similar to Bush'era policy, there is a very real chance (a high probability in fact) that a Romney presidency would result in a return to the economic death spiral Bush got us into.

    So the prospect of a Ronmey presidency means you will lose your job, and with the social safety net gutted, starvation and death due to lack of health care are very real possibilities. Sounds like pre-meditated self defense.

  • Disclaimer: this post is in jest against republican stupidity. I do not, nor have I ever advocated violence against anyone, and have never even been in so much as a fist fight in my 40'some odd years on this planet.
  • 53   Honest Abe   2012 Oct 17, 9:11am  

    Freedom: I built that.

    Serfdom: You didn't build that.

    54   Honest Abe   2012 Oct 18, 3:11am  

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/18/welfare-spending-jumps-32-percent-four-years/

    A smashing victory for obama...just what he wanted - more government dependent's.

    55   zzyzzx   2012 Oct 18, 11:30pm  

    Bigsby says

    Yep, because your country only spent $711bn in 2011, whereas the second biggest spender, China, forked out a whopping $143bn. Tremble in fear.

    For what things cost in China, they probably spent the equivalent of more money.

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