Center Right Republican Supports Obama for Re-election

In 2008, I bought into the GOP/Conservative pundits koolaid about Obama which as I have learned over the past four years was mostly lies and spin.  I held my nose and supported John McCain in 2008 even though I didn't think had the temperament to be President but I believed what I was told about Obama not being American, being hard left, apologizing for America -- the whole nine yards.  Then I began to slowly see the truth as I did the research for articles on here.  
When reading sources that ObamaCare was based on Healthcare Reform of the Republicans in the 90's and RomneyCare, I started to get a glimmer the GOP was not telling the whole truth.  The more I read and researched, I slowly  began to realize that I might be wrong about Obama, but I refused to believe a Party I had belonged to my whole whole adult life could be lying to the Country.  My defining moment was when the GOP overwhelmingly took the House in 2010 and made the Senate numbers closer for the GOP.  Slowly I began to realize that Republicans in the House and Senate were the problems when it came to the recession we were in by doing everything they could to obstruct Obama on issues they normally would have supported.
The more research I did for this blog in the last two years, the more I saw a pattern that if Obama proposed anything, Republicans were against the plan but would spin and lie about what was happening.  Then the primary season started where I couldn't believe Romney was running again as he could not beat McCain in 2008.  What I didn't count on was his run had been in the works for sometime as Romney had the big donors lined up to support him.  The Citizens United ruling finally tipped me over the edge even faster when I realized this was a Mecca for Rove and big donors to try and buy this election for Romney.  
RNC Chair Priebus with his changing rules in the states and orchestrating obvious leaning Romney debates led to candidate after candidate not getting a fair shake as the bully Romney took over the debates.  Anyone with compassion for those less fortunate like Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry, think TX Dream Act, got tossed under the bus.  That left us with Gingrich, Santorum, Paul, and of course, Romney.  The nasty attack ads and verbal attacks by Romney left me totally disgusted with him, Rove, and the RNC.  His attacks were so over the top in the primary in FL with lies against Gingrich that I started to look at Obama and do the research.
Finding lie after lie that had come from Republicans about Obama started made me search even more for the truth.  The final nail for Romney and Republicans was when I discovered that a group of House and Senate members including my Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn had met on the night of the inauguration to plot how to make Obama a one-term President.  That did it for me so I started answering the call by donating $8 at a time, then $10 to support Obama in race against the most flawed candidate I can ever remember who has lied over and over again even after being fact checked.  Fact Check doesn't matter to Romney or the GOP in this election.  As we have witnessed with voter suppression and the outright lies, this group of hard right led by Romney will lie, cheat, and steal to win.  They have a good teacher in Karl Rove. 
In the first debate, Romney showed what an arrogant bully he was catching Obama off guard when he changed his stances completely.  In the second debate, Obama was ready for Romney and was willing to take him on and came out the winner especially when Romney lied about Libya.  Obama was masterful in that debate.  Then came the foreign policy debate where Romney went spineless and became me too, me too. When Obama corrected Romney, the hard right got up in arms that he was picking on poor Mitt.  That was laughable after the jerk Romney was in the first debate.
Most amazing thing is to see ads by Obama that look like they come from Republican ad makers who make some very professional ads versus the nasty ads from Romney which mirror the nastiest ads I have ever seen -- think LBJ.  This video from Obama shows the ordinary Americans who support him and why he needs four more years to finish the job of bringing America all the way back.  Without the GOP obstructionist, our economy would be much farther along and more people back to work like veterans where the House GOP stalled the veterans jobs bill.  This ad emboldens my belief of who Obama truly is -- someone who cares about America and its people deeply no matter who they are.  He represents the best of America and is a representative that the American dream is alive and well.
I fully support Obama for reelection on November 6th.  If the GOP continues to obstruct like they have especially the last two years, I will get out and work for Democrats to defeat the GOP at all levels in 2014.   Some of these State House GOP members already need defeated with their hard right agenda and voter suppression bills they passed.

A clueless presidency adrift in a sea of confusion: Barack Obama sinks again at the polls

The title of the article sums up our feelings about this President -- 'A clueless presidency adrift in a sea of confusion' is just how Obama comes across to a majority of Americans and that number is growing every day.

At the core of the presidency’s declining fortunes is Barack Obama’s lack of leadership, both at home and abroad. The president’s widely criticised dithering over Libya has reinforced the impression of a White House adrift in a sea of confusion, as the world’s only superpower seems incapable of projecting decisiveness on the world stage, while failing at the same time to confront the nation’s biggest economic crisis in decades in the shape of towering debts and European-levels of unemployment. The Quinnipiac poll should be a wake-up call for a president deeply out of touch with an increasingly disillusioned electorate. But unfortunately there is little sign he is listening.

Jimmy Carter lost Iran while President with his actions and lack of backbone to stand up and defend one of our best allies in the Middle East because he wanted democracy for the Iranian so he agreed the Shah should go. Instead Iran saw a return by the ayatollahs who have been behind the repressive regimes and Iranian people are no closer to freedom today. This should have been a perfect example of why the United States should never meddle in the affairs of Middle Eastern countries. Maybe the heads of state in the Middle East run their governments like they do for a reason. The Iranian people had it much better under the Shah. The crackdown on their dissidents by the Iranian Government brought little reaction out of Obama when these dissidents were not Al Qaeda. WHY?

Today the world is faced with Obama losing more than one country in the Middle East to Islamic fundamentalists.  The Middle Eastern people were full of praise when Obama was elected as he was considered one of them.  Wonder what they think now as even in Egypt that has been a pretty stable country for years, the Islamic fundamentalists are looking to seize power as they won the election on changes to the governing of Egypt.  Like the people in Iran who wished for the Shah to return after a few years, we suspect that the real dissidents in Egypt will be wishing for a return of Murbarak some day because their lives are about to change for the worse from all accounts.

More and more of the American people are finally understanding that Obama who had little to no experience has been a horrible President from overspending the US Treasury while taking over large chunks of industries by the Government, to his inept foreign policy where he tried to tell the world that America was nothing special.  He dissed our allies while play up to our enemies.  From Day One he set out to drastically change America with the appointment of the Czars to run Government not the cabinet secretaries who had to have Senate confirmation.  All of Obama's socialist agenda, ineptness, laziness, and no real experience has led to where we are today.  Now he wants to run for reelection? 

If you ask most Americans if they are better off today than they were before Obama took office, they would give you a resounding NO.  If the Democrats were honest in DC, they would give the same answer.  It has been stated that Obama will kick off his re-election bid shortly.  When did he stop campaigning?

This article by one of our favorite British reporters brings you the facts of what polling is saying about Obama.  Due to the nature of some of the pollsters leaning left, we think the numbers on Obama are even worse.  Now all Republicans have to do is nominate an experiened person who can win.  No one who ran in 2008, quitters, and candidates with little to no experience governing or leading a company need to apply. 
How Newt Gingrich can even think of running is beyond us as he had to resign as Speaker and left the House in a Mess.  His affair caused him to quit in disgrace because he had been going after Clinton for having an affair and lying about it at the same time he was having an affair.   Yet he thinks Republicans have short memories I guess.

A clueless presidency adrift in a sea of confusion: Barack Obama sinks again at the polls

By Nile Gardiner
Last updated: April 1st, 2011

This week’s Quinnipiac University national poll should be devastating reading for the White House, against a background of mounting confusion over Libya, paralysis in the face of a massive national debt and deep-seated economic problems, and a possible shutdown of Congress. Liberal hopes of an Obama recovery in the first half of 2012 following disastrous midterm elections in November are proving short-lived. According to the Quinnipiac survey, Obama is now at the lowest approval level of his presidency, with his weakest reelect score ever:

American voters disapprove 48 – 42 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing and say 50 – 41 percent he does not deserve to be re-elected in 2012, both all-time lows, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. This compares to a 46 – 46 percent job approval rating and a 45 – 47 percent split on the President’s re-election in a March 3 survey by the independent Quinnipiac University. In a hypothetical 2012 matchup, President Obama gets 36 percent of the vote to 37 percent for an unnamed Republican challenger.

President Obama receives strong negativity ratings for his handling of virtually all key issues, including the economy, budget deficit, health care, foreign policy and energy policy. According to Quinnipiac, on the economy 60 percent of Americans disapprove of his performance, including more than a quarter of Democrats. That figure rises to 64 percent on the budget deficit. On health care, less than 40 percent of Americans back the president, with 55 percent opposing. On foreign policy, 47 percent disapprove of his handling, compared to just 41 percent in favour, with only two in five Americans approving of his leadership of the Libya issue.

Excerpt: Read More at the London Telegraph