Thursday, August 16, 2012

Dispatches from the Campaign Trail


Anybody else noticing how angry and shouty Obama and Biden have become?

Mitt Romney has:

"Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago," – Mitt Romney

Amen!

How do we know Obama has robbed $700 billion from Medicare to pay for Obamacare?

By listening to his own words. From a 2009 Jake Tapper interview:
TAPPER: One of the concerns about health care and how you pay for it — one third of the funding comes from cuts to Medicare.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA:  Right.
TAPPER: Are you willing to pledge that whatever cuts in Medicare are being made to fund health insurance, one third of it, that you will veto anything that tries to undo that?
OBAMA: Yes. I actually have said that it is important for us to make sure this thing is deficit neutral, without tricks. I said I wouldn’t sign a bill that didn’t meet that criteria. The full transcript of the interview can be read here. (ABC News)
Every Court Needs a Jester…

VP Biden continues to provide comic relief to an otherwise unfunny campaign, warning black folks about that slavery plank in the GOP platform.

When Hairy Reed said “He’s light-skinned and doesn’t speak with a negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” we had no idea he was talking about Biden.

Romney Rocks the Vote! or Live by the Change, Die by the Change...

John Zogby polling has Romney receiving a surprising 41% of the youth vote, bad news for Obama. Zogby concludes:

"They want change,"