[wanabidii] Revised: Eastwoodology Factor - Iowans Send Message to Obama......Not Professional....!!!

What To Watch For At The DNC By Amy Walter | ABC OTUS News – 9 hrs ago Enlarge Gallery A woman wears a hat in the Charlotte Labor Day Parade in Charlotte, North Carolina September 3, 2012. The Democratic National Convention opens in Charlotte this week. REUTERS/Eric Thayer (UNITED STATES - Tags: …more POLITICS ELECTIONS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)     Watch the 2012 Democratic National Convention Live on BarackObama.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7O_ADbgQ8k Published on Sep 3, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Watch it online. Get started here: http://OFA.BO/oxzaAj President Obama prepares for the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Don't miss the show—starts Thursday September 6th at 8:00 p.m. Eastern "4 years ago we were losing 750k jobs a month. Now we're not. We had 2 wars. Now we don't. We didn't know where Bin Laden was. Now we do. Health insurance rates were growing at a blistering pace. Now they're not. The DOW was at 6000. Now it's at 13,000. Are you better off now? You damn right you are" wtong891 hour ago 74 See? At least I know Obama isn't some boring robot. He also enjoy comedy. killerboyfoolz26 minutes ago 6 Dam good job, Mr President. Robin Frey32 minutes ago 4 Best president we have: Now with 100% more humor and in touch with the people! TheMabist34 minutes ago 4 Dude, that ad is totally smokin'! NotMuchNU41 minutes ago Now we just need Betty White and the election is in the bag. Jaden144342 minutes ago 5 Can't wait! RacerWife71 hour ago Awesome! I can't wait to watch it :) buickboy921 hour ago           President Obama on the Road to Charlotte - Des Moines, Iowa - Full Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_tkZ6Bx844 Published on Sep 1, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Follow the President on the Road to Charlotte: http://OFA.BO/FnGfmu As President Obama gears up to officially accept his presidential nomination at the 46th Democratic National Convention, he will kick-off the "Road to Charlotte" tour with grassroots events in Iowa, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio, and North Carolina On the "Road to Charlotte" tour, the President will continue to lay out what's at stake for the middle class in this election -- the choice between continuing to move forward to an economy built to last that's grounded in a strong middle class, and going back to the same "top-down" economic policies of the last decade that crashed our economy and punished the middle class. 18 minutes of Obama contains more policy details than 3 days of the RNC. Riley Wilson1 day ago 64 One of the BEST Presidents in American history. Mr. President I'm fired up and ready to go! timelless1 day ago 47         President Obama in Ames, Iowa - Iowa State University http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVt17_Zog0c Published on Aug 29, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Are you in? http://OFA.BO/mzR46z President Obama kicked off his two-day college tour with a grassroots event in the college town of Ames, Iowa—home of Iowa State University. The President discussed the choice for young voters in this election between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy, in part by ensuring that our future workers can afford to get a college degree. Investing in quality, affordable education is a top priority for President Obama -- it's critical to building the skilled workforce needed to drive America's economy, restoring the foundation that will help the middle class succeed and keeping our country competitive for generations to come. To help give college students and their families much-needed relief, President Obama established a college tax credit worth up to $10,000 over four years of college. He has also eliminated more than $60 billion in wasteful taxpayers subsidies to big banks acting as federal student loan middlemen and used those savings to double our investment in Pell Grant Scholarships. In Iowa: - The new college tax credit benefited an estimated 78,000 Iowa students in 2011 - Increased Funding for the Pell Grant Scholarship has benefited over 221,000 Iowa students in 2010, and 5,930 students at Iowa State University         Blueprint for an America Built to Last: President Obama's State of the Union Preview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM9ArTbJquk Uploaded by BarackObamadotcom on Jan 20, 2012 Missed the Osawatomie speech? Watch an overview here: https://my.barackobama.com/sotukansasvid Share this on Facebook: https://my.barackobama.com/presotupotusvid Be the first to tweet this: https://my.barackobama.com/presotupotustweetvid Watch it live here: https://my.barackobama.com/presotupotuswatchvid Attend an event: https://my.barackobama.com/presotupotuseventvid Hi, everybody. We're just a few days out from my third State of the Union address. And I'm actually not done writing it yet, so there might be a few late nights between now and then. But I wanted to share with you some of what I'm planning to talk about on Tuesday night. In a lot of ways, my address on Tuesday will be a bookend to what I said in Kansas last month about the central mission we have as a country, and my central focus as President. And that's rebuilding an economy where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded -- and an America where everybody gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everybody plays by the same set of rules. I talked in Osawatomie about - this is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and folks trying to work their way into the middle class. Because we can go in two directions. One is towards less opportunity and less fairness. Or we can fight for where I think we need to go: building an economy that works for everyone, not just a wealthy few. On Tuesday night, I'm going to talk about how we'll get there. I'm going to lay out a blueprint for an economy that's built to last. American Manufacturing -- with more good jobs and more products stamped with Made in America. American Energy -- fueled by homegrown and alternative energy sources. Skills for American Workers -- getting people the education and training they need so they're ready to take on the jobs of today and tomorrow. And most importantly, a Return to American Values -- of fairness for all, and responsibility from all. They're big ideas, because we've got to meet this moment. And this speech is going to be about how we do it. I hope you'll watch, and I hope you'll use the opportunity to join other supporters of this campaign in your community as you do. People are gathering all across the country to watch the speech together, to talk about it, and to make plans for the next 10 months -- and I want you to join other folks in your neighborhood for it. You can find an event near you by going to www.BarackObama.com/StateOfTheUnion. Thanks, and see you Tuesday.         Senator Dick Durbin bought by Citibank A Must See Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAX-jbWlzN4 Published on Sep 3, 2012 by DPL8100 Senator Dick Durbin bought by Citibank A Must See Video.         Veterans Who Support President Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qznsnvdP1C8 Published on Aug 31, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Are you in? http://OFA.BO/magP4t Veterans share why they support President Obama and what the president has done to support Veterans and Military Families         President Obama Speaks on Preparing for Tropical Storm Isaac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CskduIgUSHk Published on Aug 28, 2012 by whitehouse President Obama discusses steps FEMA and other federal and local agencies are taking to keep Gulf Coast residents safe and minimize the damage from approaching Tropical Storm Isaac. August 28, 2012.         Folks,   Bad leadership, bad business of ethical ideas and principles are the cause and reason for world economic disorders, pain and sufferings in "Things Fall Apart" in the world Economic disorders. Dealing in shadow Trading deals of the global unscrupulous Corporate networking are the reason why, today, in the whole world, there is too much uncertainty, careless killings, turning human kind into meaty butchery; where prolonged human loses, pain and suffering including environmental degradation, pollution and nature destruction is prominent.   Respect for Humanity, human values and dignity for virtues have been thrown out of the window. There is no discipline or order. People are living a jungle lifestyle. The trend has become "survival for the fittest"........in most part is a reference to the world of Estwoodology mentality of Samuel Omwenga Mission Agent of one Coalition Government Leadership.   It is a wonder why in the wildest imagination, he thought it was the best business idea strategy to have the BANNER hoisted to intimidate so to gain hand-out and honor in the first place.   Omwenga is now contributing at another panel posing a question that "is America and the world is better off than four years ago"..........Dont you think it is a weird question to be asked at this point in time where it is obvious that things are better than they were 4 years ago when Bush left office; more specifically in both local and the Global region of the world. What Omwenga "Money in the mouth" for slunder has no value. He must get real and explain to the world why he did what he did……aaaand, he must stop his goonish behavior because, Kenya, Africa and the world dont need it. With President Obama on the steering driving Governance, we are safer than before; and things are better now than they were before. On the next face of President Obama's second term, things will get even better. Without failed mentality, we look forward to seal a success story people......... !!!   Watch this: 1) The world is safer from global terrorism a FORWARD STRATEGY to achieve Social, Economic and Political Agenda for both long and short time in shared Mutual Partnership to pursue Progressive Development fair to all is made in Blue Print by President Obama.......Yes, America made History in the world and we are better off today than we were 4 years ago.......   2) Middle-class and the poor in Kenya and the whole of Africa have hope and are able to challenge Status Quo of the corrupt who must face Legal Justice for their corrupt unacceptable behaviors which will save and secure lives from the Industrial of human butchery, pain and suffering and hope for restoration of Peace and Unity in FORWARD Progressive Agenda is evident.......Yes, Hope strategy is eminent in Obama Strategy no matter who you are, or where you are in the world if you just try to work hard........   3) The Pioneers of outsourcing jobs, offshore banking and into the Swiss Banks robbed Global Governments huge sums of public resources; it is the reason why Chinese have spread their wings all over the world as Commission Agents for the Wealth Creators who promote exportation of their labor-force from China to Scramble to Africa is an acknowledgement that President Obama's Foreign Policy is making inroads and is working to clean Africa from Chinese bad and corrupt business practices that destroy environment and push the poor into deeper poverty because they avoid playing by the rule that benefit all. All jobs that have been taken and occupied by the Chinese labor force imported from China to Africa, is pushing locals out of jobs and with establishment of the Constitution for good governance, this behavior will change and reform will take shape.........Yes, Obama's Foreign Policy is making huge impacts and Pirating and Terrorism will soon be no more........and the process for change is making impact and criminals and thuggery is in the process of clean-up.......   All in all, things are getting better and we cannot afford to go back in Samwel Omwenga's idiologies of Eastwoodology theories which are of backward ideas factored the problem we have in the world.....the ways that failed the world, we will not go back ......   We must therefore remain positive for the goodness of mankind. In sharing, we will nurture good habits that harmonize peace we all care for. It is why Peace and Unity must be central an our goal post to secure LOVE for all in forward plan and with expectation that we all MUST Pray for President Obama and engage precisely to vote with our conscious for President Obama's second term in Office...........   People, President Obama is a good man. He cares for all and is ready to work with responsible people irrespective of Party affiliation but value and care for human rights and are ready to work for people in Public Service Delivery..........   I only challenge, assert and fight shadow and false idiologies of corruption that do not work and Samwel Omwenga must get some reality check; he needs to know that we are not asleep.........their mission is foolhardy and shall not float...........They are making a hard sale that shall not sell.......   Cheers everybody.......!!! Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com         --- On Mon, 9/3/12, okello emmanuel <oldiya@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: From: okello emmanuel <oldiya@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [uchunguzionline] Iowans Send Message to Obama......Not Professional....!!! To: "jbatec@yahoo.com" <jbatec@yahoo.com>, "jbatec@yahoo.com" <jbatec@yahoo.com> Date: Monday, September 3, 2012, 1:23 AM Judy,   Are you sure Kenyan public service salaries "come from abroad"? Just asking, I need to make sure I get my facts right. It's possible the 1trillion we're raising is being eaten, and we're paying salaries from diaspoora remittances and or loans? Make Hay While The Sun Shines. From: Judy Miriga <jbatec@yahoo.com>; To: Judy Miriga <jbatec@yahoo.com>; Subject: [uchunguzionline] Iowans Send Message to Obama......Not Professional....!!! Sent: Mon, Sep 3, 2012 12:19:05 AM No Maryann, you are wrong. Most definately I am not bitter but affirming facts of the matter, that I belong to the forum and that I am one of you in spirit or otherwise irrespective of distance. One, I am a Kenyan because I have friends and relatives in Kenya and my parents are Kenyans. Two I am passionate to stand firmly to protect our Constitutional liberty, three I am an African and Africa's survival is at stake. Four Samuel Omwenga is in a mission with GOP to play dirt and our ears are on the ground that he and others had the banner put up to slur our loving President. Also, I see no reason to appologize when I challenge a good cause to protect my constitutional freedom. To ask, if Kenya ni ya baba yako is no offense or is it an insult. It is only in your fathers house that you can chase intruders. So that is normal. These are touchy matters and I needed to asscert my point and drive the message at home. President Obama helped Kenya gain the Constitutional through the fiercely challenged Referendum which the corrupt thievers maintained a NO stand. This is the biggest benefit to Kenya and Kenyans and I will not watch as Samwel Omwenga a goon commission agent want to spoil. I was waiting giving him time to expose himself by poping his head out. I was ready for him.......Now that you are shocked about his comment, I am waiting for his comments. It is no wonder I ran down those factual points to drive my message home and to defend my case from your claim of dissassociating me with the topic in point. To de-link me from PK is like you are treated me like an outcast.. the way the GOP and Mitt Romney are treating President Obama. So I did not expect you discriminating on me. The world is a Global village marketplace and online social network has made is so easy for us to interruct. Why not take these modern technology and make ourselves available to each other and relating more intimately ....... we need each other, correct what is wrong and move on......It is the reason why I thought I am more at home even though I am in America. As children we dissagree but we still remain friends....... Cheers Maryann ..... Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com --- On Sun, 9/2/12, Maryann Wanjiru <cirumariga2007@gmail.com> wrote: From: Maryann Wanjiru <cirumariga2007@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PK] Iowans Send Message to Obama......Not Professional....!!! To: progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com Cc: wanakenya@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, September 2, 2012, 4:05 PM Samwel Omwenga, Ni nini tena? what is it now? On 2 September 2012 22:02, Samuel Omwenga <somwenga@gmail.com> wrote: Tom, For all we know about Maryanne, she's a heavy hitter when it comes things matusi na kadhalika I am sure she can also take same albeit barely this one because she's being described as "selfish, narrow-minded and backward." My sense on just instincts and deduction by analogy is this Maryann is actually not selfish at all; at least not any more than your average person--it's just sometimes she gets carried away and comes across as such and worse. Meanwhile, I am seriously thinking about doing a 30-year High School Reunion in Thika cum Christmas Party later this year featuring my GF then, her husband, children and grandchildren, if I can so persuade the First Lady of this household and may just invite this Maryann and other "enemies" to come join us and other friends/school mates from the time. Going by recent invitations that have been avoided as the plague, though, I doubt she'll be game. Papa L are you game? You know the grandma I am talking about, don't you? BTW, talking about grandmas, one flamboyant Senator from Wisconsin by the name Alan Simpson said on occasion of someone's birthday some years ago it never occurred to him before that he would one day have sex with a 70-year old woman but he was looking forward to doing just that later that day. The occasion was his wife's 70th birthday. Peace, Unity and Truth Omwenga On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:23 PM, <tomoreje@gmail.com> wrote: This is why I love wars. Sample this: "9) If you understand the meaning of Diaspora, you would not have opened your mouth; it just shows how goofy you are" Hehehe! Hohoho! Cheers. From: Mohamed Oman <yasabu_yasabu@yahoo.com> Sender: progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:15:25 +0300 To: progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com<progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com> ReplyTo: progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com Cc: VuguVuguMashinani@yahoogroups.com<VuguVuguMashinani@yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: [PK] Iowans Send Message to Obama......Not Professional....!!! Judy I think many of us share the same sentiments with our sister wanjiru, kindly share with us information which will add value to our life, but it's unfortunate when you start talking about lowan people or SUX city, it's alien word and your are confusing poor Kenyans like us. We quite know where the delete key is, but we thought it was just judgement error and the post was heading to the people concern, but if you insist then we will be left with no option. Surely was it a must to drag someone dad in such scenario? I think you owe this forum apology, you can't just wake up start abusing our parents just because you are exercising your freedom and right. Judy you must behave like Kenyan woman, have respect Sent from my iPad On 2012-09-02, at 8.39.MD, Judy Miriga <jbatec@yahoo.com> wrote: Thank you for your concern which I think is very narrow, selfish and backward. I am excercising my freedom and rights........I dont work under your authority and you will not dictate to me........ 1) We are living in a global village if you are limited, then I am not......and why does it bother you yet you have a DELETE key you can use...... 2) Forums are social meeting places to make friends, share information, exchange ideas and make informed choices for progressive interraction and development. Many people share in education exchange, business, and just like the same reason why people enjoy local and international news through newspapers, radio and TV; Online Network Forum is in the same way a Social gathering for exchanges......why havent you complained why Kenya's news network are writing International news or information? 3) Kenyan's bad politics and problems is influenced from special interest abroad and the corrupt politicians in Kenya are messing Kenya because of hand-outs they network and get from abroad why corruption is deadly in Kenya. It is a more reason why I feel compelled to share with the local network. 4) Kenya Army, Government personnel and education salaries come from abroad and it is important that people share political information that affect affect their country so to improve global way of doing things that benefit all. 5) Information is power and my sharing in diverse including local Kenyan forums is for information and sharing so we are able to improve our destiny 6) Time for global thievers where African have been turned to slaughter houses pain and sufferings to benefit thievers must end........Congo is on fire, Somalia is on fire....... 7) Africans including Kenyans need to know genesis of their problems and it is why countries like Portuguese and Greece are falling apart. The scramble to Africa from the west to invade and overtake (re-colonize) is on high roads. 8) You behave like you own Kenya, have you been sent???? 9) If you understand the meaning of Diaspora, you would not have openned your mouth; it just shows how goofy you are 10) Constitutionally, it is my freedom to share and communicate in all and I am not limited to whose network I should use.......It is my obligated right and many people enjoy my contents......I am not about to stop anytime soon. 11) More to clear smokescreen from your head, you should question why people use facebook....... My sister, change is here just like a pregnant woman about to give birth, no amount of power you might acquire to help you change the course the world is going.......you DONT have to care........and you DONT need to care..... It is here with us........You like it, read it; you dont like it, use DELETE key.... Get some reality..........Kenya sio ya baba yako....... Cheers Marryann Wanjiru....... Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com --- On Sun, 9/2/12, Maryann Wanjiru <cirumariga2007@gmail.com> wrote: From: Maryann Wanjiru <cirumariga2007@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Iowans Send Message to Obama......Not Professional....!!! To: wanakenya@googlegroups.com, progressive-kenyans@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, September 2, 2012, 11:51 AM Judy Miriga my sister, first let me hope you are having a nice weekend. two have you considered joining an American Forum? this is what many people in these forums have been fearing to tell you in a very very long time........ we are not in America, so we honestly DONT care whether Romney is green or blue, we have enough problems of our own hapa Kenya. Asante as I anticipate reading more useful posts from you that will help us Kenyans sio hayo mengine. On 2 September 2012 16:55, Judy Miriga <jbatec@yahoo.com> wrote: People, Iowans with the rest of Americans are good people......they don't believe in the hand-painted banner draped across the top of an airplane hangar that reads, "Obama Welcome to SUX - We Did Build This." "SUX" is the airport code for Sioux City a (Scarecrow tactics of EastwoodShare)......... No, this will not stop President Obama from reaching out across the country to real voters passionate for the Reform Change from those who dragged the country into the economic mess we are into.......If they are REAL men, they ought to have helped the President to fix things and not stay on the Obstructionism and blocking the President from implementing public service, the needed jobs to improve the economy......a mess they created from their selfish greediness....... Only hooligans and sycophants with no focus have this kind of mentality attitude…….. This behavior is drifting and dividing people apart on ethnicity biasness and on racial overtones that must not be encouraged. People, it is not the negative useless writings with invisible people sitting on chairs that are able to give us good leadership……..are some crazy people trying to reduce America to sycophancy and goons that have failed the third world…….are these people trying to compare a Super America to the third world……..Aint this crazy……??? People, engage and vote with your conscious, we all do not deserve this kind of behavior, not in America……..this clearly shows they are out of objectiveness from professional challenging materials………seems, they have no more ideas…..but, sanity must stay upstage people……. America is too important and significantly the most powerful on the face of the world to be drugged into such a messy lack of principles, discipline with less ideologies.......These are amateurs lacking the skills of a professional aptitudeness who needed training (for preparedness) before being sent out to a mission.......... Are we beginning to employ the madfobia with corrupt uncalled behaviors of the failed world dictatorships into American politics.....??? God forbid, we can do better......... Cheers !!! Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com Fiery Obama embarks on march to the Dem convention By BEN FELLER and DAVID ESPO | Associated Press – 8 hrs agoAssociated Press/Nati Harnik - President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama lampooned the just-completed Republican National Convention as better-suited to an era of black-and-white TV and " trickle-down, you're on your own" economics Saturday, and declared that Mitt Romney "did not offer a single new idea" to fix the economy. "There was a lot of talk about hard truths and bold choices, but no one actually told you what they were," Obama said in Iowa, chuckling, as he set out on a three-day tour of battleground states in the run-up to his own convention. Later, Obama said, the Republican gathering was so rooted in the past, there should have been a rabbit-ears antenna on the convention hall. Yet even the site of Obama's convention, Charlotte, N.C., served as an unwelcome reminder to the Democrats of an economy so weak that it threatens his chances for re-election. The president carried North Carolina in 2008, but the state's unemployment rate is pegged at 9.6 percent, well higher than the nation's 8.3 percent and tied with next-door South Carolina for fifth from the bottom. Obama's convention opens Tuesday at the Time Warner Cable arena with evening speeches by first lady Michelle Obama and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, the keynote speaker. The president will be nominated for a new term on Wednesday, when former President Bill Clinton also will speak. Vice President Joe Biden delivers his own acceptance speech the same evening. Obama's prime-time acceptance speech, to be delivered at the outdoor Bank of America Stadium, caps the convention on Thursday night. Aides predict a capacity crowd will hear the speech at the site, which has a capacity of nearly 74,000 for football. Democrats are taking their turn in the convention spotlight just days after the Republicans met in Tampa, Fla., to nominate former Massachusetts Gov. Romney for the White House and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be vice president. A parade of speakers in Tampa excoriated Obama's handling of the economy, which is struggling in the weakest recession recovery of the post-World War II era. The economy has been the top-rated issue in opinion polls all year, and the president is eager to turn the focus onto Romney on that subject. Republicans "will take us backwards," Obama said, to the age of "trickle-down, you're on your own" economics that begin with tax cuts for the rich but tax increases for the middle class. The president made a brief detour to foreign policy in his speech. "Gov. Romney had nothing to say about Afghanistan this week or the plans for the 33,000 troops who will have come home from the war by the end of this month," he said. The Republican challenger "said ending the war in Iraq was tragic. I said we'd end that war and we did," Obama said. Romney said late last year, in a veterans roundtable, "The precipitous withdrawal is unfortunate. It's more than unfortunate, I think it's tragic. It puts at risk many of the victories that were hard won by the men and women who served there." Obama, pointing to successes, declared, "I said we'd take out bin Laden and we did." His audience cheered the mention of the demise of the architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, who was killed in his hideout in Pakistan by U.S. Navy SEALs last year. Obama ordered the raid, and even Republicans credit him for the decision. Romney campaigned in Ohio during the day — the opening of the college football season — and proclaimed it was time the country had a winning season after years of a sluggish economy and high unemployment. Referring to the number of jobless in the country, Romney told his own cheering crowd, "If you have a coach that's zero and 23 million, you say it's time to get a new coach." He also pledged to cut the federal deficit and "get us on track for a balanced budget." Yet Romney has yet to produce a budget for public inspection. Nor did he mention that, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan wrote a plan projecting the deficit would decline each year from 2013 through 2017 but then begin an inexorable rise again. Additionally, the federal debt is projected to rise each year, from a current level of nearly $16 trillion to an estimated $25 trillion at the end of 2022. Obama made Iowa his first stop on what his campaign billed as "The Road to Charlotte." Obama spoke in Urbandale, outside Des Moines, on a sprawling 500-acre property. With barns, American flags and Obama banners all around, the late summer scene offered him the quintessential heartland backdrop. He later spoke at a rally in Sioux City. He told the crowd Iowa was first on his schedule "because it was you, Iowa, who kept us going when the pundits were writing us off." There was another reason, as well. Polls make the state one of eight or so battlegrounds where the election is most likely to be decided. The president carried Iowa in 2008, and in an indication of the struggle he now faces, he has been lavishing time on it in recent weeks. He spent three days in August on a bus tour that traversed the state from west to east. Following two stops in Iowa, Obama was flying to Colorado for a Sunday appearance before college students at the University of Colorado. Obama's schedule for Monday includes an appearance in Toledo, Ohio, yet another battleground state, before a trip to Louisiana to inspect damage from Hurricane Isaac. Romney visited Louisiana on Friday. Television ratings for the final night of the Republican convention were lower than four years ago. The Nielsen Co. said an estimated 30.3 million viewers watched Thursday night's coverage of Romney's acceptance speech. That was down by one-fourth from 2008, when John McCain spoke on the final night of the Republican gathering in St. Paul., Minn. ___ Feller reported from Urbandale and Sioux City, Iowa. Associated Press writers Kasie Hunt in Cincinnati, Beth Fouhy in Charlotte and Steve Peoples in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report. Iowans Send Message to Obama By Devin Dwyer | ABC OTUS News – 13 hrs agoABC OTUS News - Iowans Send Message to Obama (ABC News) SIOUX CITY, Iowa - President Obama received a less than warm welcome and a warning upon arrival at the airport here on the second stop of his Iowa visit, which was aimed at recapturing some of the magic the state gave his run to the White House in 2008. Greeting Air Force One as it touched down under sunny skies and sultry heat was a hand-painted banner draped across the top of an airplane hangar that reads, "Obama Welcome to SUX - We Did Build This." "SUX" is the airport code for Sioux City. The message appeared to be a response President Obama's "you didn't build that" remark from a July campaign rally, when he was trying to explain that government - not businesses - constructed public infrastructure on which the economy relies. Republicans have used the four words to attack Obama as out of touch with the realities of owning and operating a small business. The banner is a reminder that this part of the state remains hotly contested turf for both Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney, just as the campaign enters the home stretch. Sioux City, which sits on the border with Nebraska in the northwest corner of the state, is territory Obama lost in 2008 to Sen. John McCain, even though he won the state overall. Obama won 49 percent of the vote here to McCain's 50 percent, a difference of just 500 votes. Obama also won the Iowa caucuses, an early confirmation that his message was resonating with Democrats. This time around, the president's campaign believes it can turn the Sioux City region blue by appealing to middle class values and highlighting the administration's record of tax cuts for small businesses and families. Polls show Iowa, which Obama won handily four years ago carrying 54 percent of the vote, is up for grabs in November. Obama and Romney have been locked in a dead heat since early this year. "Iowa, this is our first stop on the road to our convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. But there was a reason for me to begin the journey right here in Iowa, where it first began more than four years ago," Obama told a crowd of 10,000 in Urbandale, Iowa, earlier in the day. "Because it was you, Iowa, who kept us going when the pundits were writing us off. It was in your living rooms and backyards and VFW halls and diners where our movement for change began," he said. "And it will be you, Iowa, who choose the path we take from here." A campaign spokeswoman said the banner was not visible from the presidential motorcade. There were no identifying markers on the hangar or the banner to suggest who made it, and a call to the Woodbury County GOP was not immediately returned. The president is on the first of a four-day tour through battleground states, leading up to his formal nomination for the presidency at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. He spends Sunday rallying supporters in Boulder, Colo

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