The Hot Corner: The choice: Obama
Written by Don Burnard | | opinion@toledofreepress.comHere is my last appeal before the election, my appeal for sanity and for the best interests of our country. Our country has never faced a more divergent choice between two paths than it faces now.
On one hand, we have President Barack Obama, who I believe has done a credible job under as extenuating circumstances as have faced a president in our lifetime, and on the other, Mitt Romney, a man backed by incredibly rich and powerful interests, who will do or say anything to become president.
The interests backing him are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to further their interests, not ours. Twenty years ago, any candidate of either party who said the things that Romney has said, as well as refused to say, would have never been seriously considered to become the most powerful man in the world.
Romney, his running mate Paul Ryan and the shadowy groups hoping to hijack the government have shown no hesitation to rewrite history, twist or ignore facts and lie to reach their ends. Romney has changed positions so many times on so many subjects, it’s hard to believe he has any true beliefs. He makes up things Obama supposedly said, like how Obama promised to create 9 million jobs with his stimulus. Fact-checkers have never been able to find any such statement. The closest they could come was when Obama was a candidate and promised to create 2.5 million jobs by 2011, which in fact, he exceeded.
Romney claims Obama has doubled the deficit with four straight years of $1 trillion deficits. But the 2009 deficit of $1.2 trillion dollars was George W. Bush’s last budget, not Obama’s first budget. In fact, spending growth under Obama is at the lowest rate in 60 years.
One lie that is on every other commercial on every channel is that Jeep is moving its production to China. This ad was specifically made for the Toledo area, to try to scare voters into thinking that Romney will prevent that from happening. The head of Chrysler’s American operations issued a statement that completely refuted that notion. Instead of “My bad” or some such statement, Romney did what he’s done throughout the campaign; he doubled down instead of pulling the ads.
If you’re a woman, you should be really concerned. To get the backing of the more extreme elements of his party, Romney has adopted the policies of the most radical old white men who profess to know what’s better for you than you do.
If Romney is so wonderful, why did The Boston Globe, the paper of record in Massachusetts where he was governor, and the Salt Lake Tribune, the Mormon-owned paper of record in Utah, both endorse Obama?
Obama, on the other hand, has accomplished more in four years than Bush accomplished in eight years for the good of working Americans and the middle class. Financial recessions take longer to recover from than normal recessions, and this one was a doozy. Despite getting no help from the scorched-earth policies of the GOP legislators, Obama has managed to create 5.2 million new jobs, shrink the size of the federal government, reduce the deficit by $2 trillion and get health care reform enacted that will provide health care for tens of millions more people, help small businesses provide affordable care to their employees, get rid of bias against pre-existing conditions, allow kids to stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26 and will not take $716 million from Medicare.
Obama got significant Wall Street reforms passed. He saved the auto industry and got the loans paid back with interest. He got the Lilly Ledbetter reforms instituted for equal pay for women, got Osama bin Laden, ended the war in Iraq, has instituted an end to the war in Afghanistan, got Moammar Gadhafi out with no troops, repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell,” got the BP oil spill cleaned up with no taxpayer money, unified the world against Iran with crippling sanctions and saved the global economy from collapse.
With the GOP support he got, this was like having one hand tied behind his back. If you want to see the difference, watch the news. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is extolling the virtues of the president’s response to Hurricane Sandy. Romney is collecting canned goods on the campaign trail while previously promising to gut FEMA. Who’s in it for the right reasons?
The choice is Barack Obama.
Tags: Barack Obama, Don Burnard, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, The Hot Corner
Al Gore-Dim-was one of the recipients of the wasted $6 TRILLION graft, Obammy and the Dims, stole from tax payers.
Al Gore-has 14 Green Energy Projects, that were funded with this MASSIVE WEALTH THEFT , to the tune of $2.85 BILLION !
All of the $2.85 BILLION is in DEFAULT !!!!
Anyone with a brain knew all along that Obozo & the Dims spending was nothing more than rewarding liberal friends, donors, unions, Wall Street bankers, European banks invested in Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, and Cities & States ruined by D destruction.
Not the apocryphal author of this piece though…he’s bought and sold like all D-chattel are.
Added to that-$21 TRILLION of real American’s, net worth has vaporized in the 3.75 years of totalitarianism of the Obozo regime .
Nothing in all of World History, compares to that wealth destruction…..NOTHING !!
Vote Mitt-be a Real American, not an Indonesian Royal Family Member !
This comment was posted on November 1st, 2012 at 3:35 pmInstead of using disrespectful nicknames and slurs, I’d like to stick with the facts:
Romney’s budget proposals do not add up. He promises the moon, but those promises are mathematically impossible. When asked to explain, he says, “It’s complicated, but it all works out.” Danger, Will Robinson!
Democrats bequeathed a budget surplus to Republicans in 2000. A Republican administration decimated that surplus and handed off the worst economy since the Great Depression to President Obama. Now Romney has the gall to ridicule President Obama for not fixing this fiscal disaster in 4 years. Then Romney says if he’s elected, he’ll fix the economy in 8-10 years. What?!
Romney brags about his achievements as Governor of Massachusetts. Why is Massachusetts voting overwhelmingly against him per every Presidential poll?
The advances seen by women in the last 100 years could be reversed by President Romney in one term. If elected, he could appoint two Supreme Court justices to a court already leaning to the right. Abortion will be outlawed along with in-vitro fertilization if recommended personhood legislation is approved. Romney will end funding for Planned Parenthood. He brags that he allowed his women workers to flex hours so they could get home in time to cook and clean. Not to mention Republican comments about “legitimate rape” and God willing it. Hello, 1950!
The Romney campaign is funded mostly by multimillionaires who intend to keep their tax cuts at a lower rate than yours and mine. Romney is out of touch with the middle class. He touts his plan to help us by cutting the tax rate on our investments. This is a real boon to those of us with no savings left to invest.
As CEO of Bain Capital, Romney outsourced jobs to China, made huge profits for himself that he hid in tax shelters all over the world. He will turn Medicare into a voucher system and God knows what will become of Social Security. His survival of the fittest philosophy will deeply affect the 47% he openly disdains including veterans, the poor, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and seniors.
Republicans in Congress blocked President Obama from fixing the economy at every turn in order to secure the election of their preferred candidate in 2012. Their blockade caused a lowering of the U.S. credit rating for the first time in history. A vote for Mitt Romney validates these traitorous tactics.
This comment was posted on November 1st, 2012 at 5:38 pmJust a quick response to ErieEagle…what rock did you crawl out from, and how quickly can you crawl back in? You are woefully uneducated, and seriously mislead by the Republican rhetoric. Please read a non partisan publication and educate yourself before throwing away your vote on a worthless candidate. That’s called being a real American.
This comment was posted on November 1st, 2012 at 7:37 pm$21 TRILLION of real American’s net worth VAPORIZED in 3.75 short years of Obozoism, and two TPS GED’s, haven’t noticed yet ?!
My, my,you two weirdo’s need to wake up !
Meanwhile: Energy inspectors have found $5 BILLION of the “Winter Weatherization Waste Law”, in one union contractors work alone?!
The “Recovery Board”, said that the union work was of “poor quality ” and could not defend approval of other loans to the company!
Obama’s Green Pork, ain’t working out to well for the recipients.
However, it is working out GREAT for D-union contractors !
Provided, they do not get caught !!!
Try harder next time kids, a whole lot harder !!
This comment was posted on November 2nd, 2012 at 12:46 pmOh, by the bye, Clinton stated that “I can see Federal deficits for as far as the eye can see “, in 1994!!!
Two years later in a 100% Republican controlled Congress, which passes ALL LAWS, including taxation.
The adult & responsible R’s, balanced the budget for the next 6 years !
Clinton-had NOTHING to do with it nor do Presidents have control over Law-making.
You oddballs government class F grades , are showing !!
Next lie to be SMASHED into bits ….
This comment was posted on November 2nd, 2012 at 12:52 pmThe “President”, is primarily the Commander In Chief, if nitwits ever bothered reading the U.S. Constitution, they would know that.
So, as Libyan Ambassador Chris Stephens ,begs for additional security 213 times since he arrived there, he received NONE !
And, as he then BEGS for more security on the day he was MURDERED, Obozo, goes to Vegas for a fund raiser ?!
No rapid response team was called, no additional security was called up, NOTHING !!!
So, as your Chicken In Chief, funds raises in Vegas, 4 real Americans, were left to fend for themselves against Al-Qaeda !!!
And zeroes are actually going to vote for this chicken in chief !?
No wonder Toledo, is a spiraling toilet of D destruction, never, ever, to attain what it once was !
This comment was posted on November 2nd, 2012 at 2:10 pmErieEagle do us all a favor, turn off your AM radio!
This comment was posted on November 4th, 2012 at 10:46 pm“Financial recessions take longer to recover from than normal recessions,…”
Huh?
I’ll admit, I’m biased. I don’t agree with your politics; not even close. Notwithstanding, how in the world do you continue to be afforded the opportunity to write a column?
There is a lot about the Toledo Free Press that I find impressive. Your regurgitated left-wing arguments, complimented by the shallowest of insight, are not on the top of that list.
This comment was posted on November 5th, 2012 at 4:43 pmwolfman do us a favor and gently remove the tin foil hat from your head and start taking your meds again.
This comment was posted on November 6th, 2012 at 1:03 am@ Get Real, I assume you meant that comment for ErieEagle, who is apparently off his meds, and not wolfman.
This comment was posted on November 6th, 2012 at 1:27 pmFinancial recessions are recessions caused by the acts of the financial companies actions rather than outside forces over which the markets have little or no control.For the record, your lack of coherent argument doesn’t put you even on my list.
This comment was posted on November 8th, 2012 at 10:17 pm